ARTISTS OF THE HERMITAGE

The Artists of the Hermitage Retreat

The Hermitage Artist Retreat on Manasota Key in southern Sarasota County nurtures creativity in select artists of our time. In 2010, the Ringling Museum entered into a collaborative partnership with the Hermitage to create the Gulf Coast Community Foundation Ringling/ Hermitage Artist in Residence and to present a series of public programs in which these artists share insights into their works-in-progress.

Sanford Biggers

Each year, the Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat is awarded as a commission “to bring into the world works of art that will have a significant impact on the broader or artistic culture.” In 2010 that award was given to Sanford Biggers, and on Friday, March 30, 2012 the new work will be unveiled in the galleries of the Ringling Museum of Art.

Sanford Biggers’ installations, videos, and performances have appeared in venues worldwide, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, as well as institutions around the world.

Sanford has been included in several notable shows such as Prospect 1/ New Orleans Biennial and Illuminations at Tate Modern, and Performa 07. He has also had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, New York, Berkeley, Kansas City and in Europe and the Far East.

The Artists of the Hermitage Retreat Artists share their work and themselves in these programs held in the Historic Asolo Theater

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• February 2: Tony Award-winning playwright Arthur Kopit reads from new work and shares his life in the theater.

• February 16: Musician and experimental composer Bora Yoon presents her new soundwork and works from her forthcoming recording, Sunken Cathedral

• March 15: The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rand screens his latest opera, Vincent, based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.

The 2012 Gulf Coast Community Foundation Ringling/ Hermitage Artist in Residence

The experimental multiinstrumentalist, composer and performer, Bora Yoon will be in residence at the Ringling Cottage February and March of 2012. Yoon—who’s been featured in WIRED magazine and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations—creates architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices, and voice. Using a sound designer’s approach to performance composition that is steered by a penchant for a song, she creates music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies, with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.

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