Art After Dark

Explore great works in the Museum’s collection led by one of the Museum’s fine docents.

Space is limited, and tickets are available on a first come first served basis 1 hour before the program begins.

Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative

The City of West Palm Beach’s ArtLife Committee commissioned 15 local artists to create temporary works that bring to light our community’s need to reconnect with one another during the pandemic. The project encouraged artists to reimagine our public spaces, reflect and respond on a localized level to a global crisis, while offering the artists monetary relief. One of the 15 artists was asked to create a final short documentary that would play a vital role in producing a shared cultural memory of our pandemic times.

This screening will be followed by a Panel Discussion with artists Emilio AponteSierra, Ates Isildak, Dana Donaty, and Robert Fehre and moderated by Sybille Welter.

Emilio AponteSierra is a Colombian-born and South Florida-based multidisciplinary artist that uses his artistic talents as a community activist. AponteSierra’s body of work is created using three mediums: paper manipulation, ink on canvas, and manipulated photography.

Ates Isildak, is the documentary’s filmmaker. Using short films, music videos, and photography, Ates Isildak aims to create a safe space and medium in which marginalized communities can exuberantly express themselves.

Dana Donaty, panelist, is a Colombian American multidisciplinary artist that explores the convergence of memory, identity, individuality, and influence with an overarching theme of play.

Robert Fehre is an American artist and photographer who works with photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture. He is known for his colorful photographs which are an expression of love for the environment, focusing primarily on coastal cities such as Miami and Los Angeles.

Sybille Welter is the Administrator of Public Art and Culture for the City of West Palm Beach and facilitates the ArtLife program, which commissions artists in all stages of their careers to create permanent and temporary artworks throughout the city’s public spaces.

The Norton is proud to partner with the City of West Palm Beach to bring you this program.

Space is limited, and tickets are available on a first come first served basis 1 hour before the program begins.

Join artist Nicole Galluccio, artist featured in The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces, A Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative project, for a drop-in style art-making sessions for all ages and experience levels. All materials are included.

Hailing from New York City, Charles Goold blends styles of many different influences all under the umbrella of jazz. Being of Haitian descent and the son of a jazz musician, Goold represents his background by blending and juxtaposing traditional Haitian and Afro Caribbean rhythms with hard bop, modern jazz, and hip hop.

His debut album, “Rhythm In Contrast”, released in February 2022, showcases all of the influences Goold has acquired throughout his years living in New York City and performing worldwide.

Explore great works in the Museum’s collection led by one of the Museum’s fine docents.

Space is limited, and tickets are available on a first come first served basis 1 hour before the program begins.

Join artist Gregory Dirr, artist featured in the The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces, A Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative project, for an informal 30-minute gallery talks about works in the Norton’s collection and special exhibitions.

Gregory Dirr

About the artist: Gregory Dirr (b. 1986 Miami, Florida) was awarded the Silver Key for Portfolio by The National Scholastic Art and Writing Alliance in 2004 and graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2008. He won “Best of Core” and “Best of Fine Arts” awards. His focus on ecologically sourcing materials and alternative processes is what makes his art distinctive. His work has been exhibited in art fairs such as Scope, published in numerous magazines, and collected by galleries and art buyers internationally.