RESTAURANTS

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“Razze is a second-generation, stained glass and lamping (torching) artist who also does watercolor, acrylic and mixed media work. Her focus is on nature. Many of her stained glass works incorporated shells and feathers to honor the first inhabitants of our Island area. Her watercolor and mixedmedia works tend to focus on local marine life and birds. She believes living in this area is pure pleasure and creates an atmosphere any artist would love. She still uses many of the tools that belonged to her father. The customized church windows for the Cortez Road Baptist Church in Cortez are a great example of her work,” according to the press release.

Michael Whitty will perform the live music. Whitty is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and arranger who has performed with various Grammy award-winning artists in a wide range of styles and genres throughout the United States and Canada, the release states.

The Anna Maria Historical Museum is at 402 Pine Ave. For more information, call 941-778-0492.

JANET RAZZE | SUBMITTED ANGIE PRINDLE | SUBMITTED Janet Razze’s stained glass art will be on display Friday evening and Angie Prindle’s artwork will be featured at the museum event.

ART WALK: Showcases local talent

FROM PAGE 15 Beach Shop, Original Sand Dollar, The Scavenger Market and Island Gallery West. Businesses that normally close earlier stay open for this event, which now is scheduled for the second Friday of every month after being shut down for more than a year due to COVID-19.

“We’re starting to see some good crowds,” said Karen Beach, a member artist at Island Gallery West. “We have a wide variety of artists here, we have modern art, we have still life, we have sculptures and jewelry. There’s so much, it will really surprise you if you come here.”

A few hundred yards away from Island Gallery West is The Artists’ Guild Gallery, which has a beautiful selection of local art that has something for everyone. Featured artist Donna Slawsky showed off her unique works made of cut stained glass and fine china that is broken, then reassembled in a mosaic fashion for something truly unique and beautiful. Both galleries offered wine and lite bites to visitors who could not only view the art but purchase it, as everything in both galleries is available to buy.

“I sold this painting of sheep laying down in a pasture to a sheep farmer who was visiting the Island from England,” said Island Gallery West’s featured artist, Darryl Goldman. “She said it reminds her of the sheep laying down early in the morning on her farm.”

The next Art Walk is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 11 at the Island Shopping Center and S&S Plaza.

JASON SCHAFFER | SUN This oil painting by Island Gallery West’s January featured artist, Darryl Goldman, was sold to a sheep farmer from England vacationing on the Island.

Please make us your choice again this year

The Anna Maria Island Privateers have run short on rum, so they decided a pub crawl was the only logical solution. The pub crawl is in advance of the upcoming Gasparilla Parade on Jan. 29 in Tampa. The event will take place Saturday, Jan. 22 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and will begin at Compass Margaritaville Hotel. The crawl will leave Compass at 11 a.m. and head to the following stops:

Stop #2 - Loaded Cannon 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Stop #3 - Peggy’s Corral 2-3:30 p.m.

Stop #4 - Corks/Downtown Main Street 4-6:30 p.m.

Stop #5 - Oasis 7-8:30 p.m.

Return to port between 8:30-9 p.m.

The cost is $40 and more information is available at www.amiprivateers. memberlodge.org. The Privateers are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has raised more than $300,000 in scholarships for area youth.