Artist in Residence (AiR)

The Norton Museum of Art established its Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program in 2019. Each year, the initiative invites between two and four artists to West Palm Beach, Florida, to participate in the residency. The program emphasizes the Norton’s commitment to fostering creative and intellectual growth for artists. It also promotes gender, racial, and ethnic parity in the arts through the dedication of two residencies each year for women artists. One of those is exclusively for artists of color and is endowed as the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence.

The AiR is housed in three renovated historic buildings on the southern edge of the Museum campus. Two houses are for artists and their families to occupy during residencies, while the third house features two open, flexible studio spaces for the artists to work.

Each residency ranges from two to eight weeks and is focused on the visual arts broadly defined; there are no restrictions on medium. Artists are encouraged to use the span of the residency to create, study, investigate, and reflect on artistic practice.

The Artist-in-Residence program currently selects participants by invitation only. These invited artists are regularly engaged with the Norton as their work is either part of the Museum’s Collection, the focus of a special exhibition, or in conversation with other artworks on display. Since the program’s inauguration, the Museum has welcomed nearly 20 artists.

AiR Artists 

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, with major funding provided by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative.