Pasta, “Art of the Sail” · Islamorada
Thirty Years Celebrating Arts & Culture
in the Florida Keys
we support. we connect. we promote. we give.
Events Calendar
What’s happening across the Keys
Arts and cultural events from Key Largo to Key West, updated continually.
Explore the county
Art in Public Places
49 works and sites along 110 miles of the Overseas Highway, on one map: the county collection, the Florida Keys Sculpture Trail, and the WPA artworks of the 1930s.
Explore the mapIn print
Read the Keys
From the archive
Worth reading
- 2001Your Arts Council by (not just) Any Other NameThe oldest piece in the archive, and the one that explains the name on the front door. It also records the first year the Council published the Gallery Guide. Read it
- 2007A letter to the membersWritten to announce that a director was leaving, it turned into the plainest description of this organization anyone has put on paper, including why most people have never heard of it. Read it
The work so far
What the Council has done
$1,329,529 directly awarded in local grants since 1997
1,000+ artists helped and collaborated with
Grants are funded in part by the State of Florida, the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners, membership dues and private donations.
“We aren’t the group in the limelight because our job is to highlight others.”