Alliance for the Arts

From Sarasota to Marco Island and Venice and Sanibel to Arcadia and LaBelle, Southwest Florida is home to more than a dozen art centers. Most host visual art exhibitions showcasing member, regional and nationally renowned artists that change every month. In February, there are 25 shows at these venues, underscoring the importance of the arts in our part of the country.

Between 1982 and 2005, August Wilson wrote ten plays that are now known as his Century Cycle series. Before leaving the Alliance for the Arts, Bill Taylor and Theatre Conspiracy produced six of these plays. Now, they’re collaborating with the Laboratory Theater of Florida for a seventh.

Theater returns to the Alliance for the Arts in February with Reginald Rose’s courtroom drama “12 Angry Jurors.” The play will be presented in the round inside the main gallery opening Feb. 13 and running through Feb. 22.

Popular local artist Barbara Yeomans died on January 17th. The artist, art instructor and arts supporter was 92.

The Alliance for the Arts is holding a new Arts & Culture Town Hall on January 29. This one will take place at the FGCU Bower School of Music & the Arts.

Alliance's "Emphasis" mural project features a varied display of representational, abstract, and non-objective works created by 13 artists from all over the country

In January, there are 35 shows at Southwest Florida art centers, underscoring the importance of the arts in our part of the country.

The Foulds Theatre Gallery at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers is showcasing an exhibition of works by Southwest Florida-based artist and painting instructor Terry Lynn Spry. We talk with the artist about works in the exhibition, her creative process, and approach to arts education.

“Compositions” is on view in the Theatre Gallery at the the Alliance for the Arts. It features paintings and prose by Latino artist Julio Gonzalez Batista. He goes by Julio Julio.

The mixed media paintings in Alex Lago’s “Liquid Forest” series are a reaction to the constant din of everyday life. They attempt to carve out stillness and presence amid this turbulence by probing unseen connections to nature and the universe.