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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2019
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A QUIET RETREAT
After 15 years, Bruce Rodgers bids adieu to the Hermitage Artist Retreat.
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Bruce Rodgers has strived to make Hermitage Artist Reteat a place where artists would have the comforts of home but none of the distractions. KLINT LOWRY | A+E EDITOR
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executive director of the Hermitage Artist
veryone dreams about getting away
Retreat, a position he’s held since it opened
from it all — surprisingly, even Bruce
in 2004. In those 15 years, he took it from a
Rodgers. What’s surprising about
collection of once-abandoned structures
that? For most, the dream is to chuck the
off Manasota Key’s Blind Pass Beach to a
workday world to go live by the beach and
creative wellspring from which art enters
become an artist. Rodgers is leaving a place
the world and enriches the community with
artists go to get away from it all. As 2019
a steady infusion of world-class talent.
comes to a close, so will Rodgers’ run as the
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