Exhibitions
Explore rotating exhibitions featuring local, regional, and nationally recognized artists in three distinct gallery spaces. Exhibits change throughout the year, offering something new with every visit.
Free Admission
Open Tuesday through Saturday: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
HIGH FIVE!
Celebrating the Tribby's First Five Years
The Shell Point Gallery
November 6, 2026 – December 31, 2026
The exhibitions program of Tribby Arts Center opened with the Sparkle! series of 2021. Since then the Tribby Exhibitions Program has continued to win praise and shatter stereotypes regarding the creative power of the older artist. In this annual juried and judged exhibition, Shell Point artists and writers salute the Tribby’s first five years by incorporating the theme of “high five” in their creative submissions. The results are sure to be artistically excellent and often surprising.
REFLECTIONS
Don Adams / Annie Wainwright / George Waters
The Legacy and Overlook Galleries
November 6, 2026 – December 31, 2026
This 2026 Legacy Exhibition honors three Tribby Legacy Artists. Selected by a committee of their peers, honorees have demonstrated exceptional artistic skills in their works and also outstanding service to the arts community of Shell Point. The photography of (the late) Don Adams and George Waters is paired with artworks created in glass and ceramics by Annie Wainwright.
Pictured: Detail, Fork in the Road, George Waters
POETS & PAINTERS
An Artistic Collaboration
The Corridor 2 Gallery
November 6, 2026 – December 31, 2026
Every year, twenty resident painters and writers of Shell Point participate in a collaboration that encourages creativity. Working as a pair, a writer submits a poem to inspire the partner’s painting, and the painter submits a painting to inspire the partner’s poem. This exhibition will display one painting and one poem from each team, for a total of 20 works. Members of the Tribby Photo Studio photograph the paintings for inclusion, along with all poems, in a booklet that documents the collaboration.
REVIVE!
Trash to Fashion: The Couture Collection
Presented in Partnership with “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society | The Shell Point, Legacy, Overlook, and Corridor 2 Galleries | Sponsored by Carol and Bobby Mann
January 8, 2027 – February 18, 2027
Emphasizing the importance of creative reuse and presented in partnership with “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society, REVIVE! brings more than 20 wearable art fashions, created by the best minds working in creative reuse throughout Southwest Florida, to the Tribby galleries. The exhibition includes a video of the November fashion show in which the fashions were modeled in debut.
Pictured: Detail, Pool Cover Dress (2022/23), Helen Gerro
EXPLORATIONS
Paul Arsenault & Richard Rose | The Shell Point Gallery
March 6, 2027 – June 17, 2027
One critic has said that Paul Arsenault’s paintings “celebrate an intense, direct, uncomplicated beauty.” A professional painter for more than 50 years, Arsenault creates landscapes that are saturated with color and tell stories about their surroundings. Some 30 or more large canvases provide a visual travelog of regions throughout Florida. Paired with these paintings are exquisite wooden objects made by Richard Rose of Fort Myers, this being the first time Rose’s work will be on public display. In his sculptural works, Rose explores the aesthetic potentials of various woods, including maple, walnut, ash, oak, yellow pine, and rare koa wood.
Pictured: Detail, Vessels, Richard Rose
THE ART OF CRAFT
Works by the Southwest Florida Fine Craft Guild and Art Quilters Unlimited | The Legacy and Overlook Galleries
March 6, 2027 – June 17, 2027
The Southwest Florida Fine Craft Guild has existed for more than 50 years, and this exhibition marks the group’s first display in the Tribby. This judged and juried exhibition will include fine crafts in a variety of mediums, including paint, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, and more. Members of Art Quilters Unlimited will join the exhibition, as well.
A Year of Exploration
Selections from the 2027 Photo Gala | The Corridor 2 Gallery
March 6, 2027 – June 17, 2027
Every year, the Photo Studio of Tribby Arts Center sponsors the Annual Photo Gala which presents photo submissions from members of the Photo Studio. This year, the selected theme is A Year of Exploration. Following the Gala and for the first time, this exhibition places 20 of these photos on display in the Tribby.
Explorations of the Ancestors
Works by John McCaskill | The Corridor 1 Gallery
March 6, 2027 – June 17, 2027
Following his introduction in the previous REVIVE! exhibition, three artworks by John McCaskill of St. Pete Beach extends the “exploration” theme concurrently on display in other Tribby galleries. The Voyage of the Hokule’a, 2019; Journey to the Edge, 2025; and Sails of the Ancestors, 2018 tell the story of a Polynesian voyaging canoe which, when launched in 1975, proved that ancient Polynesians navigated the Pacific using the stars and nature for guidance. This display shows McCaskill’s woodblock skills.