Ten Southwest Florida museums curating 25 visual art exhibitions in April

By Tom Hall, WGCU PBS / NPR
April 2, 2025

Southwest Florida’s museums regularly curate traveling art exhibitions as well as artworks from their permanent collections. During April, visitors will find the following shows in museums from Sarasota to Naples:

 

Joe Fig: Contemplating Vermeer [Sarasota Art Museum]:

Sarasota based-artist Joe Fig traveled to a blockbuster Johannes Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. in 2023 and produced a series of small paintings that focuses not only on the gallery space and over a dozen of Vermeer’s canvases, but also on the visitors looking at the art. Listen to a review of the exhibition on WGCU. Closes April 13.