Free Second Sundays at SAM are the Second Sunday of every month. Be sure to RSVP for lunch after.
Let's meet at the Sarasota Museum Bistro at 10:50 and grab a coffee if you like, then we will walk around and visit the exhibits: https://www.sarasotaartmuseum.org/visit/ - after, we will enjoy lunch to discuss the exhibit. Sign up for lunch separately. No need to attend exhibit to join us for lunch or vice versa.
Please note: this is the same exhibit if you perused last month. Some may want to walk through again, while others joining might be new, having never seen this. It is a colorful collection of fun art!
Sarasota Art Museum
Ringling College Museum Campus
1001 South Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34236
Exhibits include:
## Lillian Blades: Through the Veil
June 1–October 26, 2025
Blades invites visitors to enter, wander through, and lose themselves within an immersive maze of mixed-media “veils.” These radiant tapestries suspended from the ceiling shimmer with reflective surfaces, activating the space with bouncing light and color.
## Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press
May 4–August 10, 2025
Featuring works by 17 artists, this nationally traveling exhibition celebrates African American artists who are reshaping the contemporary art world, including Martin Puryear, Kerry James Marshall, and the Gee’s Bend Quilters.
## Chris Friday: Where We Never Grow Old
May 4–August 10, 2025
Multidisciplinary artist Chris Friday invites visitors into imagined sanctuaries in her first solo museum exhibition. Best known for her large-scale, yet intimate, figurative chalk drawings, Friday explores the literal and metaphorical safe havens we create for self-preservation in her new site-specific installation.
## Jillian MayerSlumpies
May 4, 2025–August 19, 2026
Mayer explores the impact of technology on the human body through this interactive sculpture series. Slumpies invites viewers to sit and slump on these sculptures, much like furniture, and find a place of comfort while using their technological devices.
About Sarasota Art Museum: 15,000 square feet of dedicated exhibition gallery space spread across three floors along with the popular Bistro and Shop for visitors to spread out and enjoy all the Museum has to offer. Take in our outdoor sculpture and site-responsive installations in the Museum’s Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza and the Great Lawn.
### The Vision
In 2003, a group of 13 forward-thinking Sarasotans came together to further their goal of enhancing Sarasota’s rich cultural landscape with a contemporary art museum. After a two-year dialogue with area arts, educational, and community leaders, the Sarasota Art Museum partnered with Ringling College of Art and Design to transform the historic Sarasota High School into an art museum and visual arts educational center.
As the region’s first museum dedicated to contemporary art, the Museum offers visitors a place to see thought-provoking, boundary-pushing exhibitions and participate in dynamic educational programming with global thought leaders. The facility is a resource for learning about global art discourse and deepening appreciation for 20th and 21st century art and artists through exhibition gallery spaces, an auditorium, an outdoor sculpture garden, a bistro, retail store, and extensive grounds for performance, happenings, sculpture, site-specific and site-responsive installations, movement classes, and gatherings. Sarasota Art Museum is an ideal “third space” for friends and family from the community, the region, and around the world to gather, learn, be inspired, and experience the power of art to transform society.
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No deposit for this event as it is free. Out of respect for your fellow attendees who will be waiting for you, keep your RSVP current.
