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.
Norton Artists-in-Residence
2026 Artists
Anastasia Samoylova | Jane Dickson
2025 Artists
Danielle Mckinney | Fabiola Menchelli | Jas Knight | Shara Hughes | Sara VanDerBeek | Leslie Hewitt
2023 Artists
Deborah Willis | Nora Maité Nieves
2021 Artists
2020 Artist
2019 Artists
Norton Partnership Artists in Residence
To further the reach of the Norton’s residency program, the Museum has also partnered with national and local organizations to allow additional artists the opportunity to work in a professional studio setting. Through partnerships with the Long Meadow Art Residency (LMAR) and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, the Norton has hosted an additional six artists since 2024. Founded in 2021 by David Feldman and Jennifer Herman Feldman, LMAR provides artists with living and studio spaces to provide accessible opportunities for creative expression. The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is the official support agency for arts and culture in The Palm Beaches that provides resources, grants, and fellowships for artists and art organizations through the Palm Beaches Florida and Florida Arts and Culture organizations. In 2025, they launched the Emerging Artist Prize as a part of the Council’s Year of Extraordinary Support, providing creative professionals across all artistic disciplines the opportunity for professional development through mentorships, stipends, and access to the Norton’s Artist-in-Residence studio spaces. These opportunities to partner with arts organizations allow the Museum to support a wider range of up-and-coming and mid-career artists.
2025 Cultural Council for Palm Beach County Emerging Artists
Hodaya Louis | Jamie Ricardo Rodriguez | Kelvin Small III | Laura Tanner | Sitki Doğan
2024 Long Meadow Artist Residency 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.
