Last Art After Dark before Extended Closing Celebrates Construction Home Stretch
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Spoken Word Team Among the Performers; Artist Jen Clay and Norton Teen Squad Present Multi-Media Extravaganza
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (June 20, 2018) – Art After Dark invites you to a Community Party on Thursday, July 12, 2018 to celebrate entering the home stretch of the Norton’s transformative expansion project. This is the last Art After Dark until Feb. 15, 2019 as the Museum is closing to finish interior construction and reinstall art. Art After Dark runs from 5 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.
Making the evening more special: The Museum’s Teen Advisory Squad (TASQ) not only helped plan the evening, but is performing as well! Art After Dark is also thrilled to present performances by other area teens, including members of the Word Warriors, “a spoken word collective” of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The award-winning group competes statewide and was recently featured on Miami TV station NBC 6.
The evening also includes art tours, art-making activities, and artist Jen Clay presenting her stop-motion animation and video projections, accompanied by costumed members of the Norton Teen Advisory Squad in playful, choreographed movements. JM & the Sweets close out the night performing a set of what they call South Florida Soul music.
“Art After Dark is a weekly arts party,” explains Art After Dark Coordinator Mariela Acuna. “It’s a pleasure working with community members of all ages to present programs that are exciting, surprising, and unique each Thursday, and July 12 will be no exception. Local artists, musicians, and other performers, along with the Norton’s Teen Advisory Squad (TASQ) are presenting a night for art and music lovers, where they can explore, make, learn, and be inspired.”
The MSD Word Warriors performing at the Norton include: Anna Bayuk, Jorgie Garrido, Shaunak Maggon, Bianca Navas, AJ Griffin, Ramis Hashmid, and Alivia Brower. The team is coached by MSD English and creative writing teacher Stacey Lippell.
The members of the Norton’s 2017-2018 Teen Advisory Squad are:
Alexa Williams, Cardinal Newman High School; Autumn Payne, Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Julie Ha, Alexander W Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Ashton Smith, Saint John Paul Academy; Carolyn Lord, Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Chubbasco Williamson, Lake Worth High School; Eleana Pena, Royal Palm Beach High School; Njari Anderson, Alexander W Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Gianna Bruno, Pace Center for Girls; Shomari Baldwin-Jackson, Suncoast Community High School; Sofia Grosso, Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Taneria Tysinger, Suncoast Community High School; Anitte Jean Baptiste, Lake Worth Community High School; Philip Schrotenboer, Alexander W Dreyfoos School of the Arts.
The schedule is as follows:
5:30-8:45 p.m. / Photo Booth
Make your own photo props and strike a pose!
6 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m. / Performance: Jen Clay and the Norton Teen Advisory Squad (TASQ) South Florida-based artist Jen Clay combines stop-motion animation, video projections, along with a live, costumed performance by the Norton’s TASQ, resulting in playful, choreographed movements with video projections featuring giant, alien forms.
6 p.m. / Artist Tour: Vickie Pierre
Miami-based artist Vickie Pierre leads an informal, 30-minute gallery tour to offer unique perspectives on works in the Museum Collection and special exhibitions.
6-8 PM / Make: Processional Art Workshop
In February 2019, the Norton’s re-opening celebration will include a public procession around the Museum campus that celebrates community and art. You can be a part of it! Attend this workshop and help make larger-than-life puppets designed by the New York-based Processional Arts Workshop that will lead visitors around and into the new building.
6:30-7:30 p.m. / Spotlight Talks by Norton’s Teen Advisory Squad (TASQ)
7 p.m. / Performance: Members of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Word Warriors
The group presents original works including, “The Aftermath,” “Dreams,” “Broken Windows,” and “Eulogy
7:30 p.m. / JM & the Sweets Singer, guitar-player, and songwriter Josh Miles and his band perform what they call South Florida Soul.
Until 8:30 PM / Cash bar, featuring a signature cocktail each week!
The schedule is subject to change.
Art After Dark is sponsored by the Addison Hines Charitable Trust.
About the Norton Museum of Art
Founded in 1941, the Norton Museum of Art is recognized for its distinguished holdings in American, European, and Chinese art, and a continually expanding presence for Photography and Contemporary art. Its masterpieces of 19th century and 20th century European painting and sculpture include works by Brancusi, Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso, and American works by Stuart Davis, Hopper, O’Keeffe, Pollock, and Sheeler.
The Norton presents special exhibitions, lectures, tours, and programs for adults and children throughout the year. In 2011, the Norton launched RAW (Recognition of Art by Women), featuring the work of a living female painter or sculptor and funded by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative. In 2012, the Norton established the biennial, international Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers in partnership with Beth Rudin DeWoody, named in honor of her late father, Lewis Rudin.
In 2016, the Norton broke ground for a visionary expansion designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners, under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster. The project reorients the Norton’s entrance to the main thoroughfare of South Dixie Highway, restoring the symmetry of the museum’s original 1941 design, and includes a new 42,000-square-foot West Wing that doubles education space, and increases gallery space for the Norton’s renowned collection. The transformation of the Museum’s 6.3-acre campus will create a museum in a garden, featuring new, verdant spaces and a sculpture garden.
The Norton is located at 1451 S. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach, Florida, and during construction through July 15, 2018, is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday, noon to 9 p.m., and is free to the public. Free parking and shuttle service is available at 1501 S. Dixie Highway. The Museum is closed on Mondays and major holidays, and will be closing for an extended period beginning on July 16 to complete interior construction and reinstall art.Reopening is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2019. For additional information, please call (561) 832-5196, or visit www.norton.org.