Arts

The Third annual Music in Pictures Community Music Festival celebrates arts in education in 17 Walton County Schools with 2,000 students. Music in Pictures program includes music instruction, school performances, and art contest. Three hundred finalists were selected and the exhibit is now on display. This year, with support from The Division of Cultural Affairs, the festival will be at South Walton High School. 

COMMUNITY FESTIVAL
Sunday, May 18, 2014, 2 – 5 pm
South Walton High School
645 Greenway Trail, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

Spring 2014 programs by the Seaside Repertory Theatre are being staged in Seaside, Alys Beach and Rosemary Beach - promising fun for all the family. All performances are free thanks to the support of the Merchants of Rosemary Beach, Seaside Merchants, and the community of Alys Beach.

Emerald Coast Theatre Company will perform Resurrecting van Gogh at Seaside Meeting Hall Theater on Friday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. Event proceeds will benefit the Arts in Medicine program at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast.

Created and performed by Jason Hedden, this show is based on the life, work and writings of the late Andy Martin. Martin was a medical student and oncology patient at Tulane University where he conducted groundbreaking research on sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC), the extremely rare form of cancer that eventually took his life.

When Joyce VerStraete was admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast recently, she was pleasantly surprised to see volunteer artist Rita Stuck enter her hospital room wheeling her “art cart”. Joyce quickly had clay in her hands and a smile on her face, chatting about children and grandchildren, completely forgetting she was in the hospital.

The A+Art, Committee of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County is proud to present the annual juried exhibition “Top of the Class” from April 4 until May 30, 2014. The opening reception is April 4, 2014, 5-7pm at the Northwest Florida State College South Walton Center, 109 Greenway Trail, Santa Rosa Beach, FL.

Sinfonia Gulf Coast is expanding its music education program along the Emerald Coast by forming the Sinfonia Gulf Coast Youth Orchestra. The program will incorporate the talents of over fifty students who previously performed with the longstanding Northwest Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Sinfonia’s eighth season of innovative musical programming as the region’s only fully-professional symphony orchestra continues at the Emerald Coast Convention Center on Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. with “An Evening with Patti LuPone.”

The WaterColor Community Association will host the 9th Annual Art in the Park on Mar. 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in WaterColor's Cerulean Park and Town Center.

Stellar weather is a tradition at Art in the Park and WaterColor provides a perfect setting for the one-day event during the most beautiful time of year. Artists display their works throughout one of South Walton's most beautiful landscapes filled with butterfly gardens, trees, walking paths and fountains. 

Grayton Beach is SoWal's oldest beach town with incomparable natural beauty, unique charm, and amazing art galleries! First Thursday Art Walk is a monthly series of events hosted by Grayton Beach artists beginning on March 6 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.