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Bruce Rodgers has strived to make Hermitage Artist Reteat a place where artists would have the comforts of home but none of the distractions. KLINT LOWRY | A+E EDITOR
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executive director of the Hermitage Artist
veryone dreams about getting away
Retreat, a position he’s held since it opened
from it all — surprisingly, even Bruce
in 2004. In those 15 years, he took it from a
Rodgers. What’s surprising about
collection of once-abandoned structures
that? For most, the dream is to chuck the
off Manasota Key’s Blind Pass Beach to a
workday world to go live by the beach and
creative wellspring from which art enters
become an artist. Rodgers is leaving a place
the world and enriches the community with
artists go to get away from it all. As 2019
a steady infusion of world-class talent.
comes to a close, so will Rodgers’ run as the
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Above: The 112-yearold Hermitage House doesn’t just say “Old Florida.” It is Old Florida. Top Right: The Tom Dignam Beach Cottage was the last building to be restored at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. But with its original cedar panel interior, it’s a beauty. Below Right: Before restoration, the cottage not only needed extensive work but also had to be moved away from the beach several feet.
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“I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished here,” Rodgers says. “I’ve had the privilege of a lifetime to create and establish an organization in the community that hadn’t existed before.” He says it with equal parts conviction and serenity — he is a man who is appealingly at ease. Certainly, the Hermitage Artist Retreat has a lot of Rodgers in it. His connection to it goes back to 2001, when it was little more than a dream of then-Sarasota County Arts Council Executive Director Patricia Caswell, today the retreat’s program director.
Rodgers, an accomplished playwright, was with the Asolo Repertory Theatre when he agreed to be on the steering committee for the proposed artist retreat, to contribute an artist’s perspective. He had also done some consulting and written a book about how to instill creativity in the workplace. When the retreat became a reality and needed an executive director, Rodgers says he realized “this would be an opportunity for me to kind of have my own show.” One of the most elemental factors to having a successful retreat, Rodgers believes, is its physical environment. In that regard, Hermitage Artist Retreat is naturally gifted. The term “Old Florida” is
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often used to describe the section of Manasota Key in which it resides. It’s like a land that time decided was too nice to mess with. Then there is the lovingly restored cluster of structures that make up the retreat and are the reason the property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The oldest, the Hermitage House, dates back to 1907. Three years ago, the retreat began working on a landscaping project to, as Rodgers puts it, “make sure that the natural world interacts in a positive way with the manmade.” Today, the grounds are museum-quality Old Florida. It’s a quiet setting. Not just quiet; it’s still, and it breeds stillness.
The abundance of tranquility is also in part the result of how the retreat operates. The goal is to accommodate the artists, Rodgers says. “It’s about creating an environment where they feel like there are no obstacles between them and their work. Our job is to facilitate that, remove obstacles, make it an inspiring environment and give them the freedom to do the work that they need to do.” SMALL SIZE, LARGE STATURE
Hermitage Artist Retreat was developed based on three interwoven principles, Rodgers says. The first: Keep it small. The retreat can only host five or six artists at a time. Rodgers
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wouldn’t increase it even if he could. There are advantages to being small, he says. It ensures an intimate environment. The artists interact with one another but don’t get the cliques and factions and other drama that can form at larger retreats. Being small also allows the kind of individualized accommodation the artists appreciate. An important element of that is giving the artists the flexibility not only in how they spend their time but also in when. “We learned early on that a mid-career artist is not going to be able to step away from their lives for six weeks,” Rodgers says. At Hermitage, artists can split their six weeks however they want over two years, a valuable option when your target clientele is established artists. That leads to Rodgers’ second principle: to create a reputation for Hermitage being “the coolest place you can’t get into.” What makes something valuable? That’s simple, Rodgers says. Make it hard to get or, in or in the retreat’s case, hard to get into. “We eliminated the application process right at the beginning,” Rodgers says. Hermitage residencies are by invitation only, awarded based on nominations by members of a national Curatorial Council. “They’e all eminent folks,” Rodgers says. “They’re prominent people in their field, and their job is to know who’s doing the work in their field.” This process bestows prestige on the residencies. The vetting process also considers whether an artist would benefit from and be a good fit for a residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Old Florida isn’t for everyone. The council also plays a part in
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Rodgers admits such cultural largesse has a practical side. “We have an organization that, unlike every other cultural institution in the community, has no ticket price, no admission price, no earned income,” he says. How do you ask a community for support unless you’re holding up your end of the community partnership without offering something of value in return? A REFRESHING CHANGE
Bruce Rodgers uses a salvaged desk to emphasize how cramped the small room inside the Hermitage House that served as his first office at the retreat was.
Rodgers’ third principle: You’re known by the company you keep. When people see all these respected names attached to Hermitage Artist Retreat, it serves as an endorsement. Rodgers is a strong believer in the value of relationships. In a sense, the retreat began on something of a partnership when Caswell struck a $1 per year lease deal with the county, which owns the land the retreat is on. “The county commissioners said, ‘What are you going to do for us?’” Rodgers recalls. The deal has proven to be one of the retreat’s most important assets. Every artist who accepts a residency is required to partici-
pate in some kind of local event — a performance or exhibition or presentation or lecture. “We really have partnered with every cultural organization in the community and also brought artists to every institution of higher learning in the community” Rodgers said. The retreat also hosts events, such as its popular sunset beach presentations. “The community brings the beach chairs and their wine and cheese, we do an hour before sunset, and it’s just the most civilized hour of the week,” Rodgers says. It’s incredibly satisfying to be responsible for bringing these things to the community, but
Sometimes the hardest part of the creative process is to know when the work is done, when it’s time to move on to the next project. The Hermitage Artist Retreat will always be a work in progress, but Rodgers is feeling no hesitation about stepping away. “It is really the right time for the organization, and it’s the right time for me,” he says. Rodgers is the only director Hermitage Artist Retreat has ever had. His successor, Andy Sandberg, is ready to step in, and it will be a time to take a fresh look at things. It’s important for an organization to do that now and then, Rodgers says. It’s good for people, too. Rodgers has some writing projects that have been calling his name, and he’s looking forward to doing some traveling. Mostly, though, he’s simply excited about the open possibilities that come with a new chapter. And you never really leave it all behind, he says. The best parts come with you — the experience, the memories, the friends and the satisfaction of knowing how much art is out there that is traceable to the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Besides, he says, he’s pretty sure no one will mind if he decides to stop in for a visit.
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BRUCE RODGERS’ SUCCESSOR On Dec. 4, the Hermitage Artist Retreat Board announced Andy Sandberg as the retreat’s new artistic director and executive executive officer. “We’re very excited to have Andy shepherd in a new wave of leadership for the Hermitage,” Hermitage Board President Leslie Edwards says in a news release. Sandberg, who won a Tony Award in 2009, when he was just 25, is a graduate of Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in English and theater studies. “Throughout my career, I have been an advocate for new work,” says Sandberg. “And the Hermitage provides artists an invaluable opportunity to nurture bold ideas while planting the seeds for great works of art to sprout up around the country and throughout the world.”
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IF YOU GO SUPER STRINGS & ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL When: 7 p.m. Dec. 28 Where: USF SarasotaManatee Performance Tent Tickets: $10
Who doesn’t want to come to Sarasota, South Florida in the winter?” The residency is no day at the beach, however. It’s a concentrated 17 days of rehearsal and recitals that lead up to a concert finale. “It’s such an intensive professional training program that students can get as much as six months of work done in that time period,” Power says. Every year, PMP/Suncoast essentially takes over the University of South Florida, SarasotaManatee campus over its winter break. It sets up a large performance tent where most of the activities take place. This year’s program will offer more than 20 viewing oppor-
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in the name of fun as they put a new spin — and tumble and flip — on the traditional carol with their new show, “The 12 Days after Christmas,” Dec. 27-30. Known as “The Greatest ‘Little’ Show on Earth,” the Sailor Circus Academy teaches students ages 8-18 more than 30 disciplines of circus arts. Sailor Circus Creative Director Jared Walker created the concept of the show, which examines the unwritten traditions of winter break, from playing with those new toys to taking trips with the family, celebrating the New Year and finally the realization that it’s almost time to go back to school. Walker and the Sailor Circus coaching staff came up with a lineup of circus acts to represent the activities in each of the 12 days. “They’ve been working on the show since September,” Walker
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says. That’s about typical. Sailor Circus Academy puts on two big shows a year, one in the spring and one for the holiday season. The shows have all the trappings of a traditional circus. The 12 days are broken into groups, Walker says. The first three days are about “undecorating,” starting with taking the angel off the Christmas tree, represented by the Roman rings. Similar to the rings used in men’s gymnastics, this is a demanding piece of apparatus, and the girls who will be performing on it are getting an early Christmas present of being trained by circus legend Dolly Jacobs, who is considered one of the greatest aerialists of all time. The Roman rings routine was one of her specialties. “It’s all upper body strength,” she says. “What’s nice about it is having freedom as opposed to apparatus, where everything is attached.” But the trick, she adds, is that “you have more freedom, so you need greater control. It’s a solo, one-person act, and it’s all you.” Day two of the 12 days is the removal the ornaments from three huge Christmas trees, which morphs into a juggling act. Day three continues the “undecorating,” as silks hung like bunting are released for another aerial act. The second three days are what Walker calls the “toy section.” This includes the Rola Bola adagio, a balancing act with a board rolling on a cylinder, with two performers stopping in stationary poses. Then several “troll dolls” spin on “the web” with aerial stunts on a swinging rope. The toy section concludes with unicyclists and the five-high bike. “It’s one person riding a bicy-
cle, and the girls jump on,” Walker explains, until five are on a bike. Days six and seven are New Year’s Eve, represented by the slack rope, and New Year’s Day, which consists of acrobatics, the teeter board and the cradle, in which instead of a trapeze, aerialists swing from one another. Days eight and nine represent vacations, with a Disney-themed double triple trap, a set of six trapezes, and with trick skating, representing holiday skating in New York’s Rockefeller Center. “Days 10 and 11, we’re calling hullabaloo days,” Walker says. “It’s the final days before you go back to school. Those days start with contortionists and conclude with the flying trapeze. “Day 12 is a party before we all have to go back to school,” Walker says. Time for curtain calls. When these kids go back to school, if they’re asked to write about what they did over winter break, they’ve got it made.
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The Roskamp Institute and director Eric Gordon invite you to the Sarasota premiere of:
WHEN ALL THAT’S
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