Rosemary District
The Rosemary District is Sarasota's densest urban neighborhood, a compact grid of mixed-use buildings and adaptive reuse warehouses north of downtown where the city's artists and architects have concentrated since the 1990s. The district's mural program reflects Sarasota's unusually strong mid-century modernist heritage — several pieces reference the Sarasota School of Architecture and the Ringling family's influence on the city's aesthetic identity, producing a mural collection that engages with architectural history more seriously than most Florida cities manage.
Featured Artists
All artists →Shepard Fairey
"Sarasota Modern" applies Fairey's graphic portrait style to the architects of the Sarasota School — Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell, Tim Seibert — rendered in the layered halftone and flat-color vocabulary of Fairey's political portraiture, honoring the local modernists who gave Sarasota an architectural identity distinct from every other Florida city.
Buff Monster
"Ringling Circus" celebrates the Ringling Bros. circus legacy that made Sarasota its winter home for decades — the performers, the big-top architecture, the trained animals — in Buff Monster's candy-pink ice cream and soft-serve aesthetic that transforms the history of mass entertainment into pure sensory pleasure.
Wyland
"Sarasota Bay Egrets" documents the great egret colonies that nest in the mangrove islands of Sarasota Bay — a population that has rebounded dramatically since the end of the plume-hunting era — in Wyland's luminous naturalist style, the birds rendered at life scale against the shallow tidal flats of the bay at low water.