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“My whole life has been involved in art — teaching art, making art, being an artist,” Eleanor Merritt says. “It’s my life, and that’s just the way it’s been.”

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The group formed because, in those days, women weren’t well represented in exhibitions. Although that’s not as true these days, group members still find importance in their mission of exhibiting women’s work.

Today, the group is known for its prestigious and selective nature. There are only 20 Petticoat Painters at a time, and members can only join by invitation. In addition, the only way the group invites new members is if one the current members retires or dies. This way, the work represented in the group’s one big exhibition a year is always of a high caliber.

Contemporary artist Eleanor Merritt joined the exclusive group in 1996. Merritt has two pieces featured in the annual exhibition opening May 9, at Selby Gallery, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design. She, like the rest of the artists in the group, is showing new work in the exhibit.

On a Tuesday morning 10 days before the exhibit opens, Merritt works to finish her second piece.

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// ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT The piece she’s working on today is full of blue hues and bright pink ink without any fabric or paper — working solely with ink is unusual for her.

You can see an abstract expressionist influence in her brush strokes. In college, her teachers were famed abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, and James Ernst at Brooklyn College (CUNY).

Merritt usually works in the mornings in her tiled-floor studio with great natural light. The white walls are covered with family portraits. One whole wall is full of her granddaughter, Amara Merritt’s art. Where there’s room, Merritt’s own paintings are on display. They span from throughout her career.

The pieces from her early days in Sarasota are vastly different from the piece she’s working on now. Her early work used earthy colors and clean lines. It’s less abstract.

But her work has always been bold. These days, it’s usually mixed media typically involving ink or acrylic, paper and fabrics. Sometimes there are African themes. Most times there’s a subtlety referenced matriarchal figure or three; three is the lucky number.

Throughout time as Merritt has aged, her work has become more experimental. For instance, you have to look for the figure to find it inside the piece.

She focuses much more on texture, color and movement than her early days. Her work stands

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out. She has always stood out.

In elementary school, her teacher called Merritt’s mother in for a meeting. The teacher was unhappy with her constant “disruptive” doodling, despite Merritt’s best efforts to keep her doodling out of detection under her desk.

“But she’s still getting A’s on her report card,” Merritt’s mother said to the teacher. “So, you must not be giving her enough work.”

Some teachers were more conducive to her special talent, and had her use it to draw maps for the rest of the class. But by high school, she was admitted into an arts school with likeminded creative brains — the High School for Music and Art. It’s the school on which they based “Fame.”

She lived in New York where she taught art and practiced it on the side for 30 years. In 1983, Merritt moved from her native New York City to Sarasota.

She showed her contemporary work here for the first time at Art Center Sarasota. Her piece starkly contrasted the birds, palm trees and traditional Florida landscape paintings featured there. Her piece hung away from others near the bathroom — it didn’t fit.

In the center of that work is an orange figure. Once you’ve found her, you realize she’s accompanied by two other female figures in warm blue and purple hues — the three goddesses. It’s spiritual in nature. It has the kind of restless energy one might get on a hot Sarasota summer night just

as the sun sets.

The images come from me, Merritt says, pointing to her heart.

“Women of my family have always been my symbol of strength, so I guess a lot of women and females are all the time emerging (in my work),” she says.

Merritt says although that piece seemed misplaced nearly two decades ago, she found that as the arts scene began to develop, more Sarasota artists started taking risks with their work. It became more sophisticated. Merritt points to 1987 when Sarasota Ballet was founded. Arts Center Sarasota grew and expanded beginning in the late ’90s. Around this same time, Sarasota Orchestra (then the Florida West Coast

Symphony) became a fully paid professional orchestra. In 2000, Florida State University began stewarding The Ringling.

“Things started happening here culturally,” she says.

It was in the late ’90s that Merritt was invited to join the Petticoat Painters. Petticoat Painters might draw thoughts of little old ladies who lunch and drink tea — but that’s not the case. They’re ages 55 to 85, all as bold as Merritt in their own special ways.

She says every artist involved is an individual doing the same work she’s been doing her whole career. Some are more traditional. Others more experimental, like Merritt.

“I think a lot of the work is very provocative,” she says. “It’s always a good show.”

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John Wesolowski is the guy donning a clipboard and walkie-talkie whenever Sarasota Orchestra sets up for a concert. As the director of operations, his job is to oversee everything and everyone involved in the production, from setup and teardown to sound and lighting. He’s the go-to man for making sure everything is done according to plan.

When Wesolowski started working here in October, one of his first responsibilities was planning the final Pops series concert — Spirit of America. The Saturday, May 10, concert is special, because for the first time in Sarasota Orchestra’s 65-year history it Courtesy photos will perform at Ed Smith Stadium.

John The concert is part of Wesolowski the Orioles’ inaugural art and entertainment, family-friendly series, “Arts in the Ballpark.”

“We think that we’re going to be the highlight of their series this year,” Wesolowski says.

Like the other Pops concerts, Maestro Andrew Lane will direct the orchestra in recognizable popular music such as, “Colors of the Wind” from “Pocahontas,” the “Star Wars” theme and works from “West Side Story.” The guest artist of the concert is bluegrass singer Molly Cherryholmes — she’s been nominated for five Grammys.

It’s the same high-quality musicianship you’d expect at any orchestra performance, but, unlike traditional concerts, it has the added bonus of a beer and a hotdog, and it features a fireworks display for the finale.

Wesolowski says they expect the event to sell out. Tickets start at $15.

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It’s a concert requiring a lot of coordinating. For Wesolowski, the hardest part comes the morning of the concert. His team will start at the Symphony Center, loading all the chairs, music stands and percussion equipment into a semi-truck. The stage and lighting will also arrive around the same time. A company out of Tampa, ESI Audio, will provide the sound equipment.

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// Sir Frederick Ashton Festival — ‘Illuminations,’ Divertissements and ‘Les Patineurs’ The final gala evening of the Sir Frederick Ashton Festival confirmed that the Sarasota Ballet is one of the premier ballet companies in the United States, if not internationally.

The Sarasota Ballet dancers performed Ashton’s choreography as if they had been trained by the choreographic great himself.

That is also true testament to the ballet’s leaders — Director Iain Webb and Assistant Director Margaret Barbieri — who have coached the dancers with the love and devotion clearly demonstrated by their admiration of “Sir Fred.”

The dancers, albeit surely exhausted from the intense week, performed with such passion and gusto as if they knew, just knew, how impeccably the entire week was going and, hopefully, reveling in the international recognition they had received — and more that is surely to come.

Webb has reached for this international recognition and most certainly achieved it.

Bravo, sir. Sarasota is lucky to have Webb for another 10 years. We can’t wait to see what’s to come.

The final evening of the festival opened with a reprisal of “Illuminations,” which is set to music by Benjamin Britten and performed live with the Sarasota Orchestra conducted by Ormsby Wilkins along with the beautiful voice of tenor Matt Morgan.

Dancing the lead role of The Poet, Ricardo Graziano seemed to dance this role with more fervor than previously. It was if the torment he was experiencing, while loving both Sacred Love danced by Amy Wood and Profane Love by Ellen Overstreet, was real. His emotions expressed at the betrayal

by Profane Love when two officers shot him were purely tragic and emotionally raw.

Standout Stand-ins — Due to an injury, Victoria Hulland had to step out from a few pieces. Her replacements did extraordinary jobs — Amy Wood in Monotones II and Ryoko Sadoshima in “Sleeping Beauty.”

Logan Learned in Ashton’s “Les Patineurs” The company performed five Divertissements, which were all equally impressive and enjoyable. However, “La Chatte” may have been an audience favorite.

Kate Honea was absolutely incredible as a white fluffy cat that perfectly embodied the movements of lithe cat. From playfully pawing at the back of a chaise to her final meow at the end, she was captivating and hilarious.

Overstreet was seductive and elegant in “Jazz Calendar” while dancing in and out of a large red “O.” Standing in for Victoria Hulland in “The Awakening Pas de Deux” from “Sleeping Beauty,” Ryoko Sadoshima performed a technically clean pas de deux with Ricardo Rhodes with a lovely stage presence. Edward Gonzalez was an expert

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partner of Danielle Brown in “‘Meditation’ from Thaïs.” He kept her aloft during the pas de deux as if she floated on air. And Jessica Cohen and Ricardo Graziano were buoyant and precise in “Voices of Spring.”

One could not think this performance could get any better, but it did with “Les Patineurs.” This incredibly difficult ballet in choreography, technique, stamina and control was performed with effortless ease and the largest of smiles by the Sarasota Ballet dancers. Logan Learned stole the entire production with his impish personality and extraordinary tricks. From his multiple pirouettes, leaps, over-the-knee jumps, nohanded cartwheels to the many à la seconde chugs performed en tournant, Learned simply wowed as the Blue Boy. His cohorts

Ruling Roles — Nicole Padilla in the “Elaine Fifield” solo in “Birthday Offering,” Polka in “Façade” and Blue Girl in “Les Patineurs;” Ricardo Graziano as The Poet in “Illuminations;” Kate Honea as the Milkmaid in “Façade,” “La Chatte” and Blue Girl in “Les Patineurs;” Juan Gil and Ricki Bertoni in “Popular Song” in “Façade;” Amy Wood in “Monotones II;” Ricardo Rhodes in the third movement of “Sinfonietta;” Logan Learned as the Blue Boy in “Les Patineurs.” the Blue Girls, Nicole Padilla and Honea, were equally impressive dancing in such sync that they seemed they were twins. The two closed out the show with incredible turning feats — Honea with a fast-paced piqué turn manèges and Padilla with 32 fouetté en tournants with double pirouettes in between.

This festival was a magnificent end to an excellent season for the Sarasota Ballet.

One would think that Webb couldn’t create another season that could compare, but he can! Next season is also exciting with world premieres and more choreographic greats such as Michel Folkine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Paul Taylor and Rudolf Nureyev and, of course, Ashton’s “La Fille mal Gardée.” We can’t wait!

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THE PERFECT SETTING A stylish St. Armands home showcases a lifetime of collecting fine art and design.

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At left from top: A wood and rubber sculpture by Chakaia Booker was purchased at auction in 2008. Prints by mid-century artist Charlie Harper decorate the living room. A low Mies van der Rohe table sports a custommade top from Florence. The small sculpture is a found piece of molten glass. Above: In the living room, a Dunbar sofa by Edward Wormley and two small tables by Eliel Saarinen. The bookcase was designed by I. M. Pei.

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Today the house that could have been a teardown has been reborn. Though it keeps the same footprint, it has a new personality. Certain things were kept — the terrazzo floors, for example, which are embedded with bits of terracotta that give them a hint of red — but the atmosphere is now that of a romantic, low-keyed glamour, made personal by the owners’ collection of extraordinary mid-century furniture and art. *** Both Snyder and Breit know their way around modern architecture. One of the masters of the style, I.M. Pei, designed their home in Washington, D.C., and another master, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, performed renovations.

The home was light and elegant, with a barrel-vaulted roof and

In a guest room, period travel posters and a garden view of citrus and bromeliads.

exposed brick walls. Viewed from the exterior, it had an imposing presence.

Their Sarasota home takes a different approach. The light touch of mid-century modernism is still there, but the house unfolds as a series of rooms and spaces, each self-contained and different. To get this effect, Hervieux opened up each room to face the outside.

Before, the bedrooms had high clerestory windows, which only made the smallish rooms seems smaller. Now, the rooms open to the garden that flows around the perimeter of the house, with the glass walls each framing a different view. The master bedroom looks out on a tiny oasis of succulents and cacti, barely 7 feet wide.

The study at the rear of the house faces a little grove of plants and sculpture-like walls, all perfumed

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The home is not large, perhaps 1,800 square feet. What surprises the visitor is how well the art and furniture fit into the space.

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study — “every piece has a story behind it,” Snyder says — the effect is not cluttered. The objects have been edited and distilled.

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But it is the carefully collected art that gives the Snyder-Breit house its intimate, gallery-like feeling. A triptych by color-field painter Gene Davis animates one wall, with the artist’s famous vertical lines arranged with an al-

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If you’re dishing out the dough for a nice dinner, ask: Is the pasta made fresh? From where is it imported?

When it’s fresh, you can tell the difference.

When the pasta is made in-house (or if a restaurant buys from a local pasta maker) the entire experience changes.

Imagine the server sets it in front of you.

Without having to pick up a knife, you cut through the pasta easily. As you take a bite, the lights dim. Out of nowhere a man with an accordion and a bushy moustache named Luigi comes to your table just to accompany your bite. He sings, “That’s Amore.” And after that bite, you now magically speak Italian fluently.

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As soon as chef and owner Andrea Bozzolo starts speaking, you know this Italian is the real deal. He’s from Piedmont, Italy, a place known for its food. Bozzolo grew up with homemade pasta, but he didn’t learn to make it until culinary school.

He imports his flour from Italy and uses only the freshest eggs he can find.

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4141 S. Tamiami Trail At the farmers’ market No. 13, Sarasota alone, they sell around 870-2729 250 pounds of fresh peperonatapasta. pasta in a morning. He com says he has the best gnocchi in America, but 50% of sales come from the simple cut linguini, fettucini, spaghetti and angel hair.

Plus, when area restaurants don’t have the space or equipment to produce their own hand-made pasta, Adrian Fochi Fochi does it wholesale for them.

Adrian Fochi is the pasta man in You’d be surprised how many estabtown. He and his family, Italian im- lishments in town get it fresh from migrants from Argentina, produce him — he’s practically the only guy 50-plus varieties of pasta. They sell selling wholesale pasta in Florida.

Not all of the pasta you find on the menu is made in-house — you need a lot of space to do that, and Salute’s kitchen is small for seating 200. But chef and co-owner Laszlo Bevarbi makes all the gnocchi, ravioli, agnolotti, lasagna and pappardelle by hand. The Hungarian, whose ancestors are from Sicily, has been making pasta for more than 15 Salute! years.

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Laszlo Bevarbi new shapes. He combines colorful sauces.

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by Heather Merriman Black Tie Assistant Editor It was an evening of color and spice for YMCA Foundation of Sarasota’s 23rd annual Going for the Gold, themed “The Golden Lotus” Saturday, May 3, at the Frank Berlin Branch. The annual fundraising event was Indian-themed — rich colored silk drapery lined the walls and ceilings, large tapestries of Indian cities hung in the ballroom, and colorful lanterns and more transformed the Frank Berlin Branch into a magical celebration.

As guests entered the venue they were greeted by Co-Chairs Merrill Bonder and Pat Martin, YMCA Foundation of Sarasota President Jennifer Grondahl,

Chairman Paul Bowman and CEO Kurt Stringfellow before making their way into “Lotus Garden,” which featured lounge seating, a Henna artist offering tattoos to guests to add flair to their attire and “The Levitating Guru” silently hovering over his magic carpet (one guests actually screamed when he suddenly moved).

During cocktail hour, guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and cocktails while browsing more than $150,000 worth of silent auction items. Guests then made their way into the ballroom (or the gym as it’s known any other day) for an IndianAmerican-inspired dinner catered by Michael’s On East. As the night continued, guests enjoyed more theme-inspired

entertainment, including a vocal performance by School House Link student Danielle Ackermann and Indian classical dances and fusion performances by Orlando’s Ameya Groups dancers.

Following the live auction, an Indian DJ and Dhol Drummer in traditional dress taught guests some bhangra steps, as well as how to play the dhol.

“Pat, Jennifer and I were so overwhelmed by the generosity of our guests Saturday evening.

I think people were as touched by the stories of kids in Y programs that were shared as we were,” said Co-Chair Merrill Bonder. “What we are doing really is life changing, and we are so proud to be able to support those who need us through Go James and Jennifer Dawes

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The New York Times’ Jack Anderson, Dance International, Canada’s Michael Crabb and The New York Times’ George Dorris

SIR FREDERICK ASHTON FESTIVAL TAKES OVER SARASOTA …

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ritics get a word in at The Observer … It’s not often reputable national newspaper critics come to town. But for Sarasota Ballet’s Sir Frederick Ashton Festival, critics from as far as London and Scotland and from papers as internationally recognized as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal came to town. Before the second night’s performance, The Observer hosted a critic cocktail party to welcome them to Sarasota.

It was interesting to learn that most of them started with a dance background rather than a journalism degree. And how’d they get their positions at their prestigious papers (aside from great talent)? Luck. For instance, a friend recommended Robert Greskovic as the dance critic for the Wall Street Journal.

Many were well educated about Sarasota Ballet — they’ve heard about our circusthemed Nutcracker. They were surprised to learn that the holiday performance this year would be of “La Fille mal Gardee.” In fact, every critic mentioned how special “La Fille” is.

‘Give me something brilliant’ … According to Anthony Dyson, chairman of the Frederick Ashton Foundation, that’s what the great choreographer asked of his dancers. And “brilliant” along with “technically superb” and “that Ashton feeling” is how Dyson summarized the Sarasota Ballet’s Ashton Festival, which ended Saturday. Local balletomanes could not have agreed more; a request for a one-word summary elicited “awesome,” “absolutely fabulous,” “incredible,” “uplifting,” “glorious,” “spectacular” and “satisfying” — recognizing the troupe’s accomplishment over recent years. Attendees reported themselves “speechless,” “stupefied,” “gobsmacked” and “thrilled.”

Jean Weidner Goldstein, who founded the ballet 20-plus years ago, dubbed Director Iain Webb an “impresario.” Outside the opera house after the performance, Webb said simply, “They did so well; I am so proud of them. What’s so different from other companies is that they’ll do anything for me.”

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ay 4 saw not one but two surprise parties …

The Big 90 … Philanthropist Gloria Moss, who frequently pronounces that age is just a number, is notching up a new one this month. Daughter Marion, friend Janet Hunter and Saks Fifth Avenue, represented by Sally Schule, successfully surprised her at brunch for 50 guests at Michael’s On East.

Friend Linda Solomon recalled celebrating Gloria’s 70th in Beaune, France, with their late husbands, Gilbert and Marty. Janet and John Hunter told of her 80th at Chewton Glen, England, with Scott George and John Mason present. The three Moss daughters (Marion, Judy and Peggy, in birth order) were at both, and they will sweep their mom off to Newport this weekend.

Commissioner Suzanne Atwell read a proclamation designating Moss a “favored citizen.”

Joel Elzey, Gloria Good, Chantelle Ryan and Paula Weissman were there from Saks along with Schule. Christine Jennings, Tosca Strong and Nate Jacobs (who serenaded the birthday girl) represented Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, and Dolly Jacobs and Pedro Reis were there for Circus Sarasota. Friends included dance instructor/partner Jim Helmich, Mike Ash, Betsy Bagby, Tana Sandefur, Betty Schoenbaum (who owned up to being envious of Moss’ legs), Ursula Essex, Zoltan Karpathy, Pat and Gerald Phillips, Phil King and Dennis Stover and Jimmy Neal. Much in the spirit of things, Moss volunteered, “You’re all invited to my next one.”

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Swor first opened L’Asia in 1994 in Atlanta — a 1,000-square-foot cottage with two employees, which later became L. Boutique in Sarasota.

Her store now boasts 6,000 square feet and 25 employees. After being lured under the idea that she was attending a program graduation with Crystal Stephens (who planned the soirée with Elaine Briggs), Swor was greeted by her son, Ryker, and family, including Doris and David Swor, Dr. Mike Swor and Brenda Haenel-Wix. The celebration continued through the afternoon with toasts and surprise out-oftown guests Reginia Browning, Shane and Meredith Petsch, Tamara Whatley and Alicia Balius, as well as 30 L girls (past and present) and friends Fabiola Beckmann, Marsha Panuce, Kristi Dorman and Dini Russell.

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oms are the most deserving of appreciation and pampering — so what are you doing for your her this Mother’s Day (May 11)?

When it comes to actual gifts, Mother’s Day occurs during the prettiest of seasons for gift giving. Between spring and summer, uplifting colors, floral and summery items make the best presents to make anyone smile.

So, where do you start when buying a Mother’s Day present? First, it depends on

what type of gift you want to give — are you a gift giver who prefers gifts that are personal and sentimental?

Are you a gift giver who enjoys giving gifts that you can experience with that person? Or are you a gift giver who just gives downright fabulous gifts? Whatever your style, Black Tie has found the most gift-able of gifts around town.

 Take mom out for a spa day at L. Spa. Manicures and pedicures always serve as a relaxing treat and great way to unwind.  Boca Terry robes will make anyone feel like a queen. Comfortable, practical and a pampering gift that keeps on giving, these robes are great gifts for a great mom. Available at Say it With Stitches, these robes can also be monogrammed.

 If buying gifts isn’t your thing, enjoy a walk over the Ringling Bridge with your mom before treating her to brunch downtown. Not only is the walk beautiful, but it also provides a great time to catch up with each other.

 Moms love nothing more than photos with their children. Find a great photo of the two of you and put it in a nice frame, like these from Main Street Traders, to add to her home or office.

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 Layer up with these gold Zodiak pendant necklaces.

Found at Addison Craig, they are stylish and equally personal. They can be worn alone or layered with other necklaces.

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The wooden clutch has golden elephants as clasps — and a gold chain, making it a shoulder bag, too.

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