Art After Dark

A New Experience Every Friday Night!

Enjoy an eclectic mix of live performances, film screenings, workshops, tours, and more!

EVERY FRIDAY, 5:30 & 7 PM
Docent-led Tours (30 min) Explore great works in the Norton’s collection led by one of the Museum’s fine docents.

EVERY FRIDAY, 6 – 9 PM 
Open Studio: Art Workshops Join local teaching artists as they lead drop-in style art-making sessions. All ages and experience levels welcome. Materials included.

EVERY FRIDAY, Live Performances
Enjoy live performances every Friday including live music, dance, spoken word, and more! Check our website weekly for updates.

First Fridays of the Month, 7:30 pm / Jazz Fridays
This popular monthly series features performances by some of South Florida’s best jazz musicians!

Third Fridays of the Month, 8 pm  / Artist Tour
South Florida-based artists lead informal, 30-minute gallery talks about works in the Norton’s collection and special exhibitions.

Art After Dark

Friday, March 29 / 5PM-10PM

Schedule of Events

  • Join a tour!

    Docents discuss artworks in the Norton’s Collection. Pick up your tour wristband at the Reception Desk one hour before the tour.

    5:30-6pm
  • Artist Tour

    Celebrate the Women's Walk by joining a sunset tour led by Dorotha Grace Lemeh. Take a stroll in the evening light as Lemeh recounts the lives and practices of numerous women enshrined on the Walk

    As an accomplished national and international artist, Dorotha Grace Lemeh, is best known for her mixed media paintings, though most recently, her painted, and sometimes collaged, digital still & moving imagery. A northern-born southerner, as she (at times) describes herself, Dorotha’s foray into the digital world emerged from her own love of photography, collage, painting, box art assemblage, art installation, plus moving & still imagery.

    6-6:45pm
  • Open Studio

    Join Resident Teaching Artist Janelle Fulford to create a colorful mixed media collage based on the work of Women's Walk inductee Pacita Abad. 

    Classroom #2

    6-9pm
  • Film


    Subtropic Film Fest presents a celebration of short films by women.

    Some mature language and themes.

    Mango City / Dirs. Emma Cuba and Dana Depirri / 18 minutes / 2022

    Lou, a curious 7 year old girl, has three days left to say goodbye to the love of her life, Miami.  In this love letter to the city that raised her, Lou reveals Miami’s magic through her strange but familiar encounters with Miami locals and the unforgettable landscape.

    Erosion / Dir. Karla Caprali / 6 minutes / 2022

    An experimental piece to pay tribute to women who have been killed by their intimate partners and their own families worldwide. It sheds light on the issue of insecurity within paternal homes, particularly in Iran, where the existing legislation has failed to adequately protect women and girls.

    The Ritual to Beauty / Dirs. Shenny De Los Angeles and Maria Marrone / 14 minutes / 2022

    Three generations of Dominican women explore their relationship to chemically relaxing their hair. 

    Alice in Dystopia / Dir. Jeanne Jaffe / 7 minutes / 2021

    Based on Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland, but in this version Alice and the Rabbit go down the wrong rabbit hole and end up in 2020.

    Un Pequeño Corte / Dir. Mariana Serrano / 14 minutes / 2022

    When six-year-old Elizabeth makes an image-altering decision, she is left to face the backlash from culturally-imposing beauty standards. Set in the all too beauty-centric city of Miami, Elizabeth grabbles between two cultures as she seeks her own identity.

    7:30-8 pm / Talkback

    Join us after the screening for a talk back with all of the directors from this evenings films.

    6:30-7:30pm
  • Join a tour!

    This evening’s tour will highlight Artists, Muses, and Patrons: Women in Art.  Pick up your wristband at the Reception Desk one hour before the tour.

    7-7:30pm
  • Music

    Victoria Cardona

    South Florida native Victoria Cardona is a guitarist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, one-woman jam band. Her loop performances are a sonic and visual experience that take the audience on a ride through the mind of an improvisationalist.

    With the aide of the Boss RC-300 Loop Pedal Victoria stacks intricate layers of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal harmonies that are complimented by alto vocals that are reminiscent and often compared to Janis Joplin. Victoria’s Cuban roots and obsession with multicultural/ world music genres provide the inspiration for the strong Afro Cuban rhythmic undertone she delivers, in conjunction with a harmonic counterpart that fuses elements of Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae, Afro-Caribbean, Rock ’n’ Roll and folk.

    Stiller Auditorium

    7:30-9pm

Art After Dark is made possible by the generosity of The Addison Hines Charitable Trust.

Support for the Docent Program was provided by The Donald and Linda Silpe Endowment for the Professional Development of Docents and The Marcia Mahon Education Endowment Fund.

Support for Open Studio was provided by The Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schott Endowment for Education.

Holiday Hours

The Museum is closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day/First Night of Hannukah, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. We hope to see you soon – Happy Holidays!