Art After Dark

Musician Charles Goold

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 / Charles Goold

Friday, April 1 / 5PM-10PM

Art After Dark / Charles Goold

Friday, April 1 / 5-10pm

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces, documenting The City of West Palm Beach’s ArtLife Committee Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative. A colorful Open Studio and an insightful Artist Tour will be led by artists featured in this project. And a Jazz Friday performance by Charles Goold, hailing from New York City, blending, and juxtaposing traditional Haitian and Afro Caribbean rhythms with hard bop, modern jazz, and hip hop.

Schedule of Events

  • Tour

    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.

    5:30-6pm
  • Screening and Panel Discussion/ The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces

    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.

    6-7pm
  • Open Studio

    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.

    6-9pm
  • Live Music / Jazz Friday

    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.

    7-8:30pm
  • Tour

    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.

    7:30-8pm
  • Artist Tour

    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.

    8-8:30pm

Attending Art After Dark

Hours: The museum is currently open to the public until 10 pm on Friday nights.

Entry: Admission during Art After Dark is $10 for Adults & Seniors, $5 for Students. Tickets may be purchased at the Reception Desk or reserved in advance

How to get here: The Norton Museum of Art is located at 1401 S. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, FL 33401. For more information, click here.

Parking: Parking is available in the Norton’s main parking lot at 1501 South Dixie Highway, immediately across the street from the Museum. Parking is $5 per car, per day. Norton Members park for free.

Food and drink: The Restaurant at the Norton offers indoor and outdoor seating with beautiful views of our Sculpture Garden. Along with great food, The Restaurant serves creative cocktails, wine, and champagne. Reservations available through Tock.

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

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