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Initiator Donors pledge $2.5 million towards dollar-for-dollar match SARASOTA, Fla., October 6, 2021 – Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is excited to announce a Campaign Capping Challenge to secure the remaining funds needed for Phase One of the...
The partnership expands Family Togetherness programming to Selby Gardens’ Historic Spanish Point campus and will establish a curriculum for plant science and environmental sustainability to encourage local students to pursue careers in natural sciences. SARASOTA, FL –...
SARASOTA, Fla. -September 1, 2021: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is proud to announce its selection and participation in the Smithsonian Affiliations pilot initiative that increases access to internship opportunities for college-level students. In...
SARASOTA, FL – August 26, 2021 – Selby Gardens’ annual Orchid Show brings together two of Sarasota, Florida’s most renowned legacies —orchids and the circus. Presented in collaboration with the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (The Ringling), The Orchid Show...
Selby Gardens is excited to announce an opportunity for individuals to purchase landscape paintings by several “Florida Highwaymen,” African American landscape painters. The Art Fair and Sale Weekend will take place Saturday and Sunday, August 21 and 22, 2021, 10 a.m....
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is excited to announce that a fifth, one-million-dollar gift has been secured towards the capital needs for Phase I of the Master Plan for its Downtown Sarasota campus. Marcia Jean Taub and Peter Swain have made this gift...
Marking Sixth Edition of Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry, and Light Showcases Nature-Inspired Works by Two Iconic Contemporary Artists in Garden Setting for First Time This winter, Marie Selby...
The most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology will premiere at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in September 2021 as one of 12 participating gardens across six countries. Seeing the Invisible...
SARASOTA, FL – June 24, 2021 - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) and the Duncan McClellan Gallery (DMG) in St. Petersburg present the fourth annual summer glass show In Dialogue with Nature: Glass in the Gardens July 10 to September 26, 2020 at Selby...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) will soon welcome two new individuals to their governing Board of Trustees. Aaron Bellamy and Renée James Gilmore will each serve a three-year term beginning July 1, 2021, during which they will help guide the strategic...