visual art

In July Artis-Naples announced full plans for the coming 2023-24 visual and performing arts season. The unifying theme this year is “Artistic Senses – See, Hear, Taste,” and seeks to transcend the boundaries between artistic disciples in a way that engages the senses on multiple levels.

A retrospective exhibition of works by Naples-based artist Carmelo Blandino comes to the Wasmer Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University Jan. 17 – March 2. We talk with the artist himself along with co-curators of the exhibition, FGCU Art Gallery Director John Loscuito and founding Director of “Method and Concept” Chad Jensen.

The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery is exhibiting a film installation titled “The Exquisite Moving Corpse” through Dec. 10. The project is a collaboration of more than 60 internationally renowned artists, sequentially contributing one minute of film, but only having the final frame of the previous artist’s film to respond to. We’ll take a closer look with Gallery Director Jade Dellinger and initiating and contributing artist Jack Massing.

The Baker Museum at Artis-Naples has emerged from challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and damage from Hurricane Irma with new exhibitions “True Likeness,” and “Recent Acquisitions: 2019 – Present.”“True Likeness” invites viewers to re-examines why we are so mesmerized by our own faces and the ones we encounter as we re-emerge from our homes in the wake of the pandemic.“Recent Acquisitions” includes 50 works that have been added to the museum’s permanent collection since 2019, most of which are now available for public view for the first time.

Naples Art is seeking artist and designer concept submissions for the 6th Annual “Scene to Be Seen” Runway Art Show, taking place January 2023. "Scene to be Seen" is Naples Art’s signature annual gala and runway show featuring unique creations that boldly embody the concept of “wearable art.” Go behind the scenes of this year’s event with WGCU’s Tara Calligan.

We speak with the namesakes of the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples, Jay and Patty Baker, about complimentary exhibitions currently featured that include remarkable items from Jay’s collection of Yankees baseball memorabilia and including fine art from the Baker’s private collection covering the most significant art historical movements of the past 150 years.

An exhibition titled “Fast Forward,” is now on display at Big Arts on Sanibel. The multimedia exhibit, which runs through July 31, challenges the artists whose work is included to “imagine the future from the vantage point of our historically turbulent and uncertain time.”

The Baker Museum at Artis-Naples in Collier County recently hired award-winning curator, art historian, museum leader, lecturer and writer Courtney McNeil as its new Museum Director and Chief Curator. McNeil joins us to explore her professional background, her passion for helping people connect art with different perspectives and new ideas, and her vision for the Baker Museum going forward.

Acclaimed Sanibel Island artist, social activist and WGCU Maker, Myra Roberts, joins us as we explore works in her newest exhibition, “Dream Peace,” which…