No Place Like Home / Afterschool Arts Outreach Student Exhibition
Afterschool Arts Outreach is a creative youth development program that serves communities across Palm Beach County through meaningful, out-of-school arts experiences. Each year, over seven hundred participants aged 5 - 18 from eight community organizations engage in art experiences led by the exceptional and creative Norton teaching artists. These projects awaken new interests, activate exploration, promote empathy, build self-awareness, and culminate in the annual AAO student exhibition featuring artworks created by children and teens from around Palm Beach County.
The concept of "home" is the central theme of this year's exhibition.
Museum educators Lymari Cuevas, Amaya Estrada, Shannon Walker, and Kate Hofmann 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.