2024/2025 Calendar
Life is Alchemy
Maria Paula Suarez
Mezzanine Gallery
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 1
There is an almost imperceptible impact in contemplating how rare and unique our environments can be; hence, the information to which we are exposed shapes how we may perceive life and transform it.
Cypress Lake High School Student Mural
A Shell of a Time
Artist Reception: Friday, May 9
BIG ARTS is thrilled to share that the National Honors Society Art Class of Cypress Lake High School has created a mural for the West Gallery. The class incorporated this project into their Fall 2024 curriculum.
Impediments and Byways to Love on the Road to Eternity
Monika Larsen Dennis and Frida Oliv
Dunham Family Gallery
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 15
In their collaborative installation, Monika Larsen Dennis and Frida Oliv invite us to wonder and think about obstacles that may be keeping us from loving ourselves and each other more fully, and consider how to bypass those obstacles to expand our capacity for love.
Nickel Boys
Ramell Ross, 2024, PG-13, 140 min
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “Nickel Boys” chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Annual Artists Collective
Mezzanine Gallery
Artist Reception: Friday, May 9
The Annual Artists Collective is a collaboration between our Arts Education & Fine Arts departments. It features BIG ARTS instructors, showcasing an eclectic body of work that includes a wide range of mediums.
I’m Still Here
Walter Salles, 2024, PG-13, 140 min
Portuguese with subtitles
A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.
Art as Therapy;
Hope and Healing Through Art
Dunham Family Gallery
Artist Reception: Friday, May 9
The partnership between Hope Healthcare’s Art Therapy Program and Lee Health’s Art in Healthcare Program conveys the vision of healing through art. Expressive arts, in all forms, strive to provide hope and healing through the creative process.
Fort Myers Film Festival
BIG ARTS Sanibel 900 Dunlop Rd, Sanibel, FL, United StatesBIG ARTS is proud to host the Fort Myers Film Festival, bringing three nights of outstanding films to our stunning Christensen Performance Hall.
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Student Exhibit
Florida SouthWestern State College
Dunham Family Gallery
Artist Reception: Saturday, June 14
BIG ARTS and FSW have partnered for years to give serious art students a venue to realize this essential part of the creative process: to exhibit, to share, to examine, and assess.
ART VIBE
Don’t miss an unforgettable evening of artistic inspiration at this free and open-to-the-public event!
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Matisse Paper Collage
Instructor: Erica Sharp
BIG ARTS Sanibel
900 Dunlop Rd, Sanibel, FL, United States
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