Ellen Linder talks about how black how a little black can really spark a design.

It took me a lifetime to allow myself the “luxury” of making art purely for pleasure, rather than feeling like everything I do has to have “worth.” What is “worth” anyway? As defined by The American Heritage Dictionary, it is “the quality that renders something desirable, useful or valuable” and “material or market value.”

Carole Lyles Shaw discusses her current contemporary art quilts at the opening of her show at Art Center Sarasota

“Black Women: Music of the Heart & Soul”

Artist Talk on Friday, January 5, 5:30-7 p.m.