The Vero Beach Museum of Art is hosting the 36th Annual Vero Beach Art Club Members’ Invitational, on view starting this Friday, December 5 through January 18  in the Patten Community Gallery, located in the education wing. A Members’ Reception on January 16 from 4–6 PM  offers visitors a chance to meet the artists and hear about their work firsthand. The show brings together paintings, sculpture, and mixed media from both emerging and established local artists. VBMA is k

If you’ve ever wondered what the future of the arts in Vero looks like, it was on full display for three glorious, candlelit nights (November 18-20) at Indian River Charter High School’s Visual and Performing Arts Charter Dome, made possible by The Horn Family . The Enlightened Treasure —with its play authored by student playwright Johan Akiel Fontanilla —unfolded in a supper‑club setting of linen‑draped tables and flickering candles while live orchestra and jazz, ballet an

Following the groundbreaking of their 90,000-square-foot expansion on November 7 , the Vero Beach Museum of Art recently announced it will be opening Museum in the Garden: Envisioning the New VBMA  on January 9 in the Stark Gallery. The exhibition, on display through February 7 , 2027 will feature early sketches, drawings, and renderings tracing the evolution of the design from its inception to the project now currently underway. Visitors will have a unique opportunity to

Rody Johnson has been hard at work telling Vero Beach's story for as long as he can remember, and he's never been more passionate about it. The acclaimed local author has spent decades chronicling the fascinating threads of our community's past, and his latest work, Forever Vero: A History 1880-2020 , is his most ambitious yet. He will be hosting a special book signing and author presentation at Vero Beach Book Center  on Thursday, December 4 at 5:00 PM , where he’ll present

At nine years old in rural Maine, Xaque Gruber popped a videocassette of "Anna" the 1987 Oscar nominated, Golden Globe-winning film starring Sally Kirkland into his VCR. Young Gruber was transfixed.

It began with a single wall. Thirteen years ago, Neli Santamarina , owner of Raw Space , commissioned local artists Sick Fisher and photographer Jared Thomas to paint one of Vero's first large-scale murals. This leap of faith set everything else in motion. Vice Mayor and owner of Kilted Mermaid Linda Moore was watching. For the next 13 year she championed the idea of public art. This past May, when the Downtown Mural Project partnered with Main Street Vero Beach and sent o

Ballet Vero Beach's annual Nutcracker on the Indian River returns, this time at Riverside Theatre from December 11-13. Tickets range from $10 - $90, and for $25 extra, you can purchase the VIP add-on experience, where you can meet and take photos with select cast members. The experience also includes VIP merchandise, including a signature Nutcracker on the Indian River ornament. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here Set in 1919 Florida, this reimagined

After months of buzz, it’s finally happening -- the Main Street Mural Festival  arrives this weekend, Nov. 7–9, in step with First Friday Gallery Stroll . Downtown Vero is about to transform into one big, open-air art studio thanks to the vision of Linda Moore , owner of Kilted Mermaid, and Main Street Vero Beach . The Festival will feature stationed artists the length of 14th Ave. painting both permanent installations and pop-up panels which will become a semi-permanent disp

In addition to the Main Street Mural Festival , this weekend’s First Friday Gallery Stroll  on November 7 from 5–8 pm includes a special artist reception at Gallery 14 , celebrating Spiritual Explorations  by Jane Johnson , on display through November 28. Johnson has been painting professionally since 1996, exhibiting widely across the country and earning numerous awards. Drawing influence from her studies in Japan, her work reflects an ethos of balance, fearlessness, streng

By Ellen Contreras TEDx Vero Beach returns to The Emerson Center on November 2 with the theme “Breaking Barriers: Systems That Challenge the Status Quo," asking us to ponder "What happens when we stop accepting the way things have always been done?"   This year’s event features 13 speakers who are rethinking the systems that shape our lives — from ultrarunning icon Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell and Bob Becker to AI innovators Jürgen Schwanitz and David Hartmann . Other s