On Friday, February 8 a new exhibit opens at the Alliance for the Arts that is a first of its kind at the nonprofit arts organization. For the Art of the Book exhibit the Alliance Exhibition Committee challenged artists to create new pieces of “Altered Book Art” for this innovative show. What they’ve created covers everything from scrapbook-style assemblages to sculptures literally carved from the pages of hardbound books, and much in between. This juried exhibition opened on February …

Rumors is an hilarious farce by Neil Simon. He is one of the most popular of today’s playwrights and has written some of the most produced plays in this country, including the TONY Award winning The Odd Couple.

Rumors is about four couples which attend a dinner party celebrating their hosts’ tenth wedding anniversary. However, something is not quite right when the first couple arrives. The hosts are missing, the help is missing and no food has been prepared. They soon discover that t…

SPEND THE DAY IN MATLACHA!

January 22^nd, Tour 9AM, Paint @ 11AM or 230PM

Tour Matlacha then paint on the eclectic dock in Leoma Lovegrove’s famous garden of painted treasures! Sip on delicious wine and live the Matlacha life while enjoying step by step instruction from fun and friendly local artists!

$50 per paint session includes all materials, 1 (one) 12X16 canvas & wine!

Register @ www.vinospicasso.com/calendar or call Vino’s Picasso @ 239.288.6953

10% goes to support the Matlacha …

Legendary supercar-maker Bugatti and French artist Bernar Venet, come together to create a work of art that combines an artist’s vision and passions with Bugatti’s celebrated Grand Sport. Through a congenial synthesis of artistic concept and technical possibilities, Venet has created an object that integrates the symbol of speed with a fascinating, painterly exterior and an interior that alludes to haute couture. This one-of-a-kind sculptural work was on view at the Rubell Family Collect…

Photographer Dennis Church’s show Florida Moments will open at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center on Friday, January 4, during Art Walk. The photographs were all made in Florida but are not just about the place. They are also about a state of mind and heart. The historic Davis Art Center evokes nostalgia for treasured moments in the past and provides the perfect setting for Church’s exhibit.*

Dennis Church believes that the “fountain of youth” for which everyone searches is actually…

The Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers offers a wide variety of classes throughout the year for adults and children.  A new show called “Artistic Collaborations” opens Friday, January 4 in its Member Gallery featuring artwork created in a variety of mediums by Alliance instructors and their students.  The public is invited to view the work during an opening reception from 5:00-7:30PM.  “Artistic Collaborations” runs during the featured solo exhibit in the Alliance Main Gallery, …

Tiitè Baquero and Beth Carter Bell will be launching a global art movement on Friday, December 7, at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. Data-A, founded by Mr. Baquero, is a movement that blows open the boundaries between art and life to coalesce into a single aesthetic about life. YOLO Mundi, “You Only Live Once, World,” will open at 6 p.m., during December’s Art Walk, and continue through December 21. The Davis Art Center is located at 2301 First Street, in the downtown Fort Myers River Dist…

The Alliance for the Arts announces its major 2012-2013 fundraiser URBAN DECAYDENCE Void to Vision: A Night of Revelry Celebrating the Power of Art on Saturday, September 22nd, 7:00PM SHARP.

Partnering to increase awareness of the art community’s social and economic value and impact, UNIT A Contemporary Art Space in downtown Fort Myers is hosting the unique event. This exclusive experience will capture the impact art has on society. Drawing from Marcus Jansen’s works, this one of a kin…

The Laboratory Theater of Florida starts its new season off with funnyman Steve Martin’s smart and uproarious comedy, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.”

This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniu…

The Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center is proud to present the art of several designers from their Art Walks the Runway fashion shows. The shows will take place on September 7 and 8, starting at 6:00 p.m., but the art will be on display throughout the month of September. The exhibit will include works by designer/artists Helen Gerro, Leoma Lovegrove, Lily Hatchett, and Dedo Cristina. On September 6 and 7, there will be sculptures by Kosmas Ballis on the loggia of the Art Center. The Davis is loca…