Tom Hall

Printmaking is an art form that has been around since the Renaissance. To ensure that it continues to flourish, some fine art printing presses regularly invite painters, sculptors and mixed media artists to come in and work with a master printer to produce fine art prints. Paulson Fontaine in Berkeley, California has done this for 25 years and through August 10, the Sarasota Art Museum is hosting a traveling exhibit of some of their prints.

This week, one show opens, four shows close, four continue their runs and there are five limited engagements at Southwest Florida equity and community theaters.

The Alliance for the Arts will close the month of September for renovations that will include upgrades focused on safety, efficiency and enhancing the visitor experience.

On exhibit at the Sarasota Art Museum is a body of work that examines memory, childhood and the notion of archive through large-scale chalk drawings and handmade ceramic sculptures. Titled “Where We Never Grow Old,” it features work by Chris Friday. Executive Director Virginia Shearer says that Friday is an artist whose career is ascending.

Three of the biggest stars of Broadway Palm’s “Annie” are making their theatrical debuts. Their names are Casey, Gritty and Teegan and they take turns playing the stray Annie rescues after she escapes from the orphanage.

“Vice & Virtue” fills all four galleries at Art Center Sarasota with two and 3D pieces that delve into the dualities of the human condition. Some shock. Some bemuse. All challenge viewers to reassess the shifting boundaries between moral, amoral and immoral in contemporary society.

The Edison and Ford Winter Estates has achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums. Of the nation’s estimated 33,000 museums, a little more than 1,100 are currently accredited. The Edison Ford Winter Estates is one of just 60 museums accredited in Florida and, locally, joins the Baker Museum of Art, which received AAM accreditation in February.

This October, the Alliance for the Arts will transform the Foulds Theatre into a terrifying maze of disorienting corridors filled with twisted clowns and theatrical carnage. To bring this terrifying vision to life, the Alliance is holding open auditions for a variety of roles, including performers for a horror-filled one-act play, iconic villain cosplay appearances, and a charismatic emcee to guide guests through nightly "frightivities" that will take place over 13 consecutive nights.

This week, two shows close, eight continue their runs and there are six limited engagements at Southwest Florida equity and community theaters.

From 6 p.m. until midnight on Friday, a team of silk aerialists from Fit to Fly will be performing poses, inverts, drops and partner routines in the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center grand atrium. It’s part of “A Midsummer Night Dreamstate of Jams, Dance and Alternative Circus.” Jenna Algeo will be one of those performers.