No Place Like Home / Afterschool Arts Outreach Student Exhibition
Since 1991, the Afterschool Arts Outreach (AAO) program has provided creative development to youth in under-resourced Palm Beach County communities through year-round arts experiences. Each year, over 700 participants, ages 5 to 18, from eight community organizations engage in art led by Norton Museum educators.
AAO offers free art lessons, Museum tours, and family passes to visit the Norton, fostering new interests, exploration, empathy, and self-awareness. The program culminates in an annual exhibition featuring artworks by children and teens who have participated in the program.
The concept of "home" is the central theme of this year's exhibition.
Museum educators introduced unconventional techniques and materials allowing students to re-imagine home not just as a physical space, but as an emotion. In both individual and collaborative artworks, students explored new interpretations of home through the lenses of nature, the body, and imagination. As they visited artworks in our Collection, students encountered how art can reflect both deeply personal experiences and broader community ties, articulating the theme of "No Place Like Home" with their own distinctive viewpoint.
No Place Like Home / Afterschool Arts Outreach Student Exhibition was organized by the Norton Museum of Art.
The Afterschool Arts Outreach program was made possible by the generosity of the Marmot Foundation, the Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation, the Jim Moran Foundation, and the Scaife Family Foundation, with additional support provided by the Christina Orr-Cahall Endowment for Community Outreach.
Afterschool Arts Outreach at Highridge Family Center and Guatemalan-Maya Center was made possible by the generosity of the Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation.
Afterschool Arts Outreach at Gaines Park Community Center and Rinconcito del Sol was made possible by the generosity of the Rosenberg Ebin Family Foundation.