September 18, 2025 • 31 mins
Talked with Scott Simmons from the Norton Museum of Art. They have a great line up events for this Fall season. There are some big exhibitions coming: Art and Life in Rembrandt's Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection, Shara Hughes: Inside Out, and Anastasia Samoylove: Atlantic Coast. They have a great line up of Art After Dark series that happens every Friday night. And have Sunday Jazz brunch on 9/21. Coming up they are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Nuestra Cultura their Free Community Day, Saturday October 4th from 11am-4pm. Visitors can take docent led tours, enjoy live music by Marimba Anhelos Del Copal, Mariachi Pancho Villa, Cuban Flavor Band and dance, crafts, food and more. They also have The Norton has a Chinese collection, spanning 5,000 years. Listeners can find out more info by going to www.norton.org.
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your host Stev new Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. It is coming Monday,
the West pom Beach VAS hosting Service Dog Awareness. It's
gonna be a cool event is from ten am to
one pm the main atroam, first floor of the Thomas
Corey VA Medical Center. Come on out. They have some
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nice swag for the for the people with the service dogs.
They have information like free information about like how you
can qualify for service dog training for the dogs and
get you connected with all of that. For more details
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going on, it is Mounts Botanical's plant sale all kinds
of plants and if you need more information go to
Mounts dot org and all the different vendors and stuff
that are going to be there are listed on there
for you or reminder. Saint Lucy County Libraries are hosting
their Halloween costume swap tuber first through the thirty first.
So if you have an old costume your kids about
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grown it gently use drop it off at the library
and they will like coordinate all that. For details, go
to Saint Lucylibrary dot org and you can see all
the branch where you can drop it off and I
can pick one up and all that good stuff. Oh,
got a reminder from our friends at the Palm Palm
Beach County Natural Areas pbcarm folks, lots of great events
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coming up. I definitely check this one out. It is
the Wandering Wildflower Hike, say September twenty fourth, nine thirty
am to eleven thirty am at the Hyperluxo Scrub Natural Area.
And then when more physically active, on Thursday, they're doing
Pulled Together for Nature the weed Pool and that one's
happening at North Jupiter Flatwoods Area from eight to ten am.
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There's going to be a morning hike on Friday at
Jupiter Ridge National Area Natural Area. And then this is
kind of cool on Saturday, the twenty seventh, it's nature
inspired planting ideas for your yard, so you can figure
which native species are going to go work well in
your yard, and that one's going to be happening at
North Jupiter Flatwoods area as well, so definitely check that
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out I for on details on those and the other
one's coming up. They've got sunset runs, kayaking, paddleboarding, all
kinds of fun things. Go to PBCERM dot com and
they're all listened right there for you and if who
want to be a volunteer, let them know that too
when you're at the website. Oh also reminder, Saint Lucy's
hosting their fourth annual vaccine and Microchip event for Saint
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Lucy County pets. It's going to be September twenty seventh.
You do need to pre register and the event is
free for residents of unincorporated areas of Saint Lucy and
ten dollars for residents of the City of Fort Piers
and the City of Port Saint Lucy. Simply go to
ac voucher at Saint Lucico dot gov to pre register
and they'll tell you what all you have to have
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as far as documentation and stuff. That way, you go
through the line quickly and it's all taken care of.
Oh Paubach County Parks. This month September is the pollinator month,
so as you're going out and about take pictures and
you can log them with the free I Naturalist smartphone app.
So if you're seeing the bees and all the good things,
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helps them track the data, which is kind of cool.
I also don't forget Saint Lucie County Hikes has got
so coming up Monday, the twenty ninth, from eight to
eleven am. This one's a wings and water paddle, and
that one's going to be Richard E. Becker Preserve and
exploring all the birds and the fine areas in that area.
SLC hikes dot org for all the details on that,
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And of course the Fen Center has got also kinds
of cool programs going on and parks, some rec are
offering get to know your pickleball game, So there's all
kinds of training, whether it's ball control drills, forehand, backhand,
all that good stuff. Simply call Eric seven to seven
to two for six two seventeen ninety one and he
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can connect you with the right folks for that. Oh
I talked to doctor Gabby in a couple of weeks.
Coming up, it's the tenth annual Indian River Lagoons Science
Festival and it's going to be Saturday, October twenty fifth,
from ten eight to three pm at Veterans Memorial Park,
part of the Riverwalk Center in Fort Pierce. Free Day
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of fun, all kinds of cool science steam events for
the little kids all the way up to us big kids.
So lots of cool things. I can't wait to check
out the It is like the human powered snowcone machines,
so I can't wait to try that out. Anyway. For
more details, reach out to doctor Gabby seven seven to
two two four two twenty four seventy or info at
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Irlsciencefest dot org. And if you're interested in being a
vendor or a volunteer, they're looking for both of those,
so you can reach out to them there. Ah and
more parks, fun stuff, Canyon Amphitheater and Boyton BH has
got the Legends on the a Lawn series running, so
coming up in October it's the Samantha Russell duo. This
is Country one. November fifteenth will be Sound Stations, the
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seventies Disco. The twentieth of December is Chase Stites and
the last word which is country pop. So lots of
cool stuff with that. And if you've got the fur
baby and you've never taken them into the water park.
They're doing Wagon at the water Park at Calypso Bay
and that is coming up on Saturday, October fifth, and
they're fifty minute sessions based on the size of the dog.
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So it's just a cool thing. Reach Out to Diana
Rodriguez at ds R O d rig at PBC dot
gov and she'll give you all the details on how
you can participate in that so fun thing to do
with you in the fur baby. Our friends at the
Cravis got a great season coming up Cravis on Broadway.
You can check out The Whiz Twas the Night Before,
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Some like It, Hot MJ, The Musical, Adams Family, Beetlejuice,
lots of cool ones, and of course definitely want to
check out their Peak series this year. Coming up October
ninth is Step Africa, The Migration Reflections on Jacob Laurin's
so cool these Step shows. I love them, saw them
all the time during college. It's so amazing. Then we
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have Totality America will be on November two, Electric Route,
Let Love Lead and that it's going to be April
twenty fourth and twenty fifth, so way out. So of
course they have a wonderful classical Concerts series happening Handle
and Heyden Society Messiah. It's going to be December third,
and you go to Cravis dot org to buy your tickets,
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and while you're there, they're also looking for volunteers to
be ushers. So if you're interested in working at the
Cravist doing that, let them know and they'll set you
up with that as well. Oh, Ballet Palm Beach Wonderful
season coming up, starting things off with Cocktails on Point
at the Colony Thursday, October ninth, snow White October twenty
fourth and the twenty sixth. You can go to Ballet
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Palmbach dot org to get information, or you can get
your tickets at kravistot or because they share, which I
think is a fun thing they do. Coming up on Sunday,
September twenty seventh and the twenty eighth, ten am to
four pm, it is the thirtieth annual Downtown Delray Beach
Craft Festival on the fourth, so I'm going to check
that out. And then October fourth and the fifth it
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is going to be a twenty sixth annual Downtown Stuart
Craft Festival, So all lots of craft festival. I'd love
to go see what people are making now and get
some fun Christmas gifts. So fun way to do that. Oh,
Arts Garage Delray Beach, good season coming up the Cafe
on Main October eleventh, starting things off, and for more
details go to Artsgarage dot org. And they have also
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all the listenings there for like there're a gallery, the
poetry nights, open mic nights for music, so lots of
fun things happening there. And of course we don't remind
everybody it is Hispanic Heritage Month, so the Historical Society
of Palm Beach County has got an exhibition running now
through our October fifteenth celebrating that. And then of course
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the City of West Palm Beach is also doing a
nice celebration at City Hall Courtyard on October tenth from
seven to ten pm. Of course, great authentic food, street food,
live music, lots of fun. Definitely check that out. And
speaking of Hispanic Heritage Month, that brings me to my
guest for today, I want to welcome Scott Simmons, public
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relations manager for the Norton Museum of Art.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Good morning, good morning, thank you for having me, well.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thanks for coming in. And then Norton's always doing these
really awesome like community days. So you have something coming
up for Hispantic characterge at Nuestra.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Nuistra Cultura October fourth, free admission, free parking. Last year
we had very nearly one thousand people attend. And you
come in for these free community days and you get
to see all that the museum offers. Plus we have
special activities. Guests can make their own art in classes
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and workshops. You can be entertained by musicians with the
sounds of Cuba, of Guatemala, of Mexico, and feast on
food inspired by the cuisines from across the Americas, and
also can meet with representatives of community organizations. We're going
to have a lecture on the giant Guatemalan kites and
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there's one of those, an example of them hanging in
the fabricant gallery across from the restaurant right now. It
is spectacular. When I left the museum earlier today, some
ladies were admiring it. It's just spectacular.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I can't wait to see it. So what day is
that again?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It is Saturday, October fourth, and there will be free admission,
free parking. It's eleven am to four pm. We have
a parking in a lot across from the museum. We
will have parking set a site at Palm Beach Atlantic
University just north of the museum campus. So please come,
Please bring the family. It's a great opportunity. If you
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haven't been to the Norton. During our last community day,
it warmed my heart to learn that there was a
couple we were there for their forty second wedding anniversary
and it was the first time they had ever been
to a museum. So that's the level of impact a
place like the Norton can have.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That is fantastic And what a great way to spend
your anniversary. I like that. So time with you guys
enjoying wonderful art. So and as we've talked before, art
is just so enriching for the community helps folks. And
I like days like this where everybody can come, you
meet your neighbors, have fun. And I'm really hoping they
have like the street corn with the little cheese.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
On the fingers crossed will find out.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
The little corn cake things. I love those. But yeah,
that is really fun. So what kind of music that day?
And like you said, they can create their own art,
and of course lots of dancing. So I think that
is fantastic when you said there's going to be a
talk by Jose.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Right, Yeah, Jose Mendez, who's former instructor at the Norton,
will be coming back to talk about the Guatemalan kites.
There's a whole tradition of those, and it's they honor ancestors,
community and celebrate the link between earth and sky.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That makes sense. I like that, And of course the
Norton would not be the Norton lest it included kids
from Palm Beach County schools doing some kind of presentation exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Exactly, and we have we will have special presentations by
Latinos in action with poetry and dance. We will have
the open studio with opportunities to decorate many plaster skull
magnets inspired by de dead traditions, to create a we
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build paper collage inspired by the traditional blouses of Mexico
and Central America, and to make paper marigolds inspired by
the vibrant flowers of Deliosos.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I love it, and all those things are so gorgeous
like when you see them, and to be able to
learn how to make those hands on it, it's just.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
A flood of color and texture. Really, it's something for
just about all of the senses, the eye, the year, obviously,
the taste and the scent with the foods that we
will have available for sale there. So I encourage everybody,
if you have not been to the Norton, to make
this your opportunity to come see the Norton and see
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what we're all about. We're getting ready to mark our
eighty fifth anniversary this February. Ralph Norton built it to
house his collection. He was buying Renoirs basically when Renoir
was still alive, and Picasso's and some of these other
noteworthy artists of the twentieth century labored the contemporary art
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of his day, and he wanted to share it with
the community, and so he built his gallery. And here
it is now and we're now Florida is one of
Florida's oldest art museums, and we are the largest.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh that's fantastic. And can you imagine like just him
being around with his friends. He's like, oh, there's this
new guy painting. He's like, let me go check him out,
and buys them out to help support him. And then
here it is in his collection for us to enjoy
one a while later.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, it really touched my soul. When I took my
job two years ago. My dad grew up in the
glades in Pajochi and one of his schoolmates emailed me
and said, oh, you're getting a job at the Norton.
I remember going there in elementary school field trips. And
this is a woman who's in her mid eighties. So
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that gives you an idea of how much of an
impact we have had on the community over these eight
and a half decades.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That is just amazing, and I think it's just obviously
very much needed for folks to be able to have
access to art and fine art. And like we've talked before,
the kids come in they do that. You have wonder
after school programs where they the artists go and help
the kids and help them and then their art gets
presented and hung on the wall as an.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Exhibition exactly we have. We have a current exhibition of
No Place Like Home with representations of home that we're
done by the after school students and they're really lovely,
these little structures, the Waal art with the sayanotypes. It's
just really something magical to see. And we also have
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a video playing with some of the instructors and teachers
talking about what an impact it has on a community
to go into sometimes underserved neighborhoods and to make this introduction.
And I know there are people who've gone on to
careers in art because they went someplace like they went
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to the Norton and it inspired them and they wanted
to create art based on that inspiration.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That is wonderful. And speaking of beautiful, tell us about
your new upcoming I believe it's the Rembrandt exhibition.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
We are really excited about this one. It's been a
while since we've had a blockbuster show. This is a
blockbuster show Life and Art in Rembrandt's time. Masterpieces from
the Leiden Collection. The Leiden Collection is a private collection
of seventeenth century Dutch paintings out of New York with
a collector, Thomas Kaplan and his wife had gathered these works.
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They've been quietly lending them out here and there for
display at other institutions around the world and in the country.
This year, for the seven hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the founding of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, they sent a
bunch of these paintings back to the Heart Museum there
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for an exhibition, and this one is sort of in
honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the Dutch founding
of what is now New York New Amsterdam. So we
will have more than seventy works by twenty seven artists
from the seventeenth century. Of those, there will be seventeen
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Rembrandt paintings featured. There will be the only Vermire in
private hands on display, and it's the Young Woman playing
the Virginals, which received a lot of media attention earlier
this year when it was undergoing conservation work and they
discovered that they could actually date it to a specific
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time based on the pollution particles in the paint varnish
that the artists used. They could pinpoint it to a
specific time in his life narrow it. So it's really
pretty remarkable. The galleries are going to be gorgeous. I've
been upstairs to see it and they're painted the sumpshoal
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Obergian eggplant purple color. It's really rich. There will be
comprehensive scholarships scholarship on these works, but the main thing
is they're just gorgeous and they do so much storytelling
about their time, which was a time of great prosperity
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for the Dutch.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That's fascinating, and of course I like to remind the
school teachers in school field trips all the good stuff
and teachers can get freedmission to the Norton. Correct.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Absolutely, educators have free admission. Our team is happy to
arrange school trips and field trips. We have thousands of
school children come in every year to the Norton just
to see the special see the collections, to see the
special exhibitions. We're anticipating this one will be really popular.
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There's no additional fee to see it, but it will
have time entries.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Of course, it's not too crowded, right, so that people.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Can actually have space to enjoy the art.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh, I think that's lovely. Yeah, because when they big,
big exhibitions like that, of course everybody wants to see it.
So turning the time version is much as much easier everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
It'll be the first time there has been anything like
this scene in Florida, and I can speak with some
confidence that it's the first time anything of the scale
has been seen in the United States in years, so
it should be really special. In fact, we had a
meeting to discuss the the plan for it, and I've
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seen the layout for the galleries and again it's going
to be really lovely. It's taking up the whole just
about the whole Third Florida, the Norton.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I was just going to say, I think it's going
to take up at least a whole floor by itself.
We had a special wing just about. But that's cool.
So you have again lots of room, wonderful paintings coming.
I can't wait to see them, and then also have
other exhibitions happening. It's like, yea, what think you mean
about the Nortons. It's paintings, sculptures, mixed media, lots of
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different kinds of art. So including photography, we have.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right now we have Leslie hewod achromatic scales and Hewitt
as an artist who works out of Texas, and her
work is a combination of photography and installation, so she'll
have color blocks that are framed and set in a
certain way, while those blocks themselves actually are photography that
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she has created using special filters. It's really something to
take in. The Norton also has coming up this fall.
In November, November fifteenth, we will have an exhibition of
Anastasia Samoilova and it's her Atlantic Coast series and she
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has sort of taken she's taken a cue from Bernice Abbott,
who did a journey from Key West to the Canadian
border on US one in nineteen fifty four. Only she's
followed up seventy years later, doing it in twenty twenty
four and documenting the scenes that she has seen along there,
from Key West, Jacksonville right on to Maine. And it's
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really the photos are compelling, there's a lot of storytelling.
Their large format, it should be gorgeous. Opening at the
same time will be Shara Hughes and Shara Hughes is
doing an exhibition called Inside Outside. She is a painter,
large scale, colorful works, very vibrant. Really, I mean, it's
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going to be gorgeous. These will be in the special
exhibition galleries on the main floor. I think it's going
to be gorgeous. And she's been down for an Artist
in residency already and during that residency, the Armory generously
lent us Space Armory Art Center for her to make ceramics.
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So she created ceramic works that will be part of
this exhibition. And this is the first time she's done that.
She's a really incredibly hot artist right now. She's really
well known. I've been showing a lot of great places
and it's just a real honor for the Norton to
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get to present her work well.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So of course shares obviously branching out in her artistic endeavors,
which I think that's fantastic as well, because you never
know what they're going to create next.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
She's continuing to grow.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And speaking of continuing to grow, the great thing with
the Norton is that we have nearly a century of
collecting represented there in our galleries by Ralph Norton, who
core collection forms the nucleus of what we offer, and
our curators have availed themselves this summer of opportunities when
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galleries were being emptied to totally rethink how the collection
is presented, and we have the Cox Gallery right off
the Great Hall has works from all of the collecting disciplines,
from the Asian and Chinese works that Norton collected, to
paintings to photography to sculpture. To give people a taste
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is then they go into the collection galleries which have
been reimagined the contemporary works on the north flank of
the building have a fresh new look. There are a
lot of things that have possibly never seen the light
of day before at the Norton that are now out
there and on view. And then the modern works. And
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the modern works basically consist of works from the started
the Industrial Revolution up to about nineteen sixty. It's nice
to know that nineteen sixty one is contemporary.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And those are We're not classics yet.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Exactly. It's just a really beautiful, very satisfying presentation of
these works. There are a lot of chestnuts there that
people will be familiar with. Ruby Green Singing is back
up by James Chapin. The Georgia O'Keefe paintings are back
up and they are gorgeous, and they are seen in
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context with other works from the Southwest in some instances,
so there's sort of a thematic thing going on. We
also have photography in those galleries too, with the paintings
and drawings. With the paintings, our curators found a link
among in between all of these things to unite them.
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So it's a really special rendering of the works of
the Norton.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And that's another great reason I always encourage people to
keep coming to the Norton because it's not static. It changes.
And like you said, you go and you see these
curators like what their imagining of this theme is and
how to connect paintings and drawings and photography together. I'm
always amazing like that and it all ties together, like
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you see it and you're like, oh, I do see it,
But like I would not think of that myself looking
at it myself, I would like not to put it
all together.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
These women and men travel to art fairs and museums
and galleries all over the world, and so they gain
inspiration everywhere, and then they come back and tell these stories.
I joked one time after a meeting that I was
in a room full of geniuses and you know, I mean,
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this is our our smart group here. These are some
of the most intelligent, thoughtful people I've ever encountered in
a lengthy career in journalism and LPR. These are really
pretty creative, pretty mind blowing individuals who are pulling together
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these presentations.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
For you.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's fantastic. You're definitely come and join them, and I
know you have, Like on Saturdays, there's a family.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Time, we have the open studio and for families on Saturdays.
We have Art after dark on Friday nights a ten
dollars admission for adults. You also can bring the kids
there as open studio there. The Norton is open Wednesday
through Monday, so we're closed on Tuesdays and we're open
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until ten pm on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Nice. Yeah, the Art after Dark is always so fun.
And I keep reminding the listeners that that first one
of the month as General World is your jazz one.
And then you recently started just this summer, I believe
doing like a jazz brunch in your new restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The Jazz.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The Jazz Fridays has been very popular at Art after Dark,
so we thought, you know, that's one more opportunity for
people to come to the Norton. Maybe you don't feel
like coming on a Friday night, maybe you want to
have a nice brunch experience. We have the restaurant there,
which is gorgeous overlooks the garden. So we are now
doing a jazz brunch on Slack Sundays. To check the
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Norton dot org for the schedule for that and we
can get you in. They have a special brunch menu,
special drink offerings, just the whole gamut, and you can
sort of chill and have a relaxing vibe for your
Sunday and be surrounded by art.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I love that. That's so great. So you come brunch
jazz and then check out the museum afterward.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Right exactly this Sunday, we have jazz Branch on the
twenty first, with the Adam Douglas Trio that begins at
eleven am and it continues till three pm. And then
that afternoon from two to four thirty pm, we will
be hosting a screening of The Great Gatsby and with
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Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. It just kind of timely
since he died this week. It's an opportunity to look
back at a distinguished career.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh yeah, and I remember his wonderful work. A nice
way to pay tribute. So, of course, listeners can get
more information going up by going to Norton dot org.
Can they follow you on the different social media.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
We have If you go on to hashtag nort Museum
of Art. You can follow us on Instagram. We have
a very lively social media component and following. Mariah Forbes
racis who handles our social media is just a genius
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coming up with creative ways to present what the Norton offers.
We are on Facebook and we are on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh very nice. And I believe I've seen you and
star in a few of these videos.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, I have been on a couple of them. I'll
be in an upcoming one of staff favorites.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh very cool. Do you have a staff favorite you
want to share?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
There's a Dwayne Hanson sculpture. And for those of you
who don't know who Dwayne Hanson was, he was a
South Florida artist based in Davy in southwestern Boward County
who created hyper realistic figures of men and women, mostly
working class people involved in day to day scenes. And
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that was one of the first works I saw the
first time I visited the Norton in nineteen eighty six,
and the next year I had the opportunity to drive
Dwayne Hanson from Davy to the South Florida Fair for
an appearance. They were having a contemporary sculpture exhibition at
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the Fair and I was working for what is now
the Cultural Council, so I had to drive him up
and he cut the ribbon. They said, do anything he
wants taking the lunch. So I'm like, okay, we did
everything he wanted. He wanted to see the agricultural exhibitions.
So we saw the cows and the chickis and the
piggies and then we headed for the car and I said,
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mister Hanson, I can take you to lunch. And he said, well,
it's the Cultural Council paying for it. And I said, absolutely,
you don't need to worry about that, and very good.
So there's a place near my house I like to go.
So we drove all the way back down to Southwestern
Broward on University Drive. In Davy passed the water plant,
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passed everything, he goes, ah, there it is on the left.
It was the Davy KFC. Apparently he liked the faux
Victorian architecture of the building lovely and so that that's
my share. And I think of that day. He's been dead.
He died in nineteen ninety six, I believe, so he's
been gone nearly thirty years. But every time I see
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that work, I think of that day and think of him.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, so he is alive and everybody's memory.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I love that exactly, what a wonderful story.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I like that. I want to write everybody to come
for the community Day and what day is that again?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
October fourth from eleven till.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Four help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Enjoys some one of
the food neighbors and of course amazing art and if
you want to carpool, we always encourage that and for
more information they go to the website right.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yes Norton dot org or five six, one eight three two,
five one nine six.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Well, thank you Scott for coming in and sharing all
the wonderful news with myself and the listeners. Doing such
a cool thing in the community. It is definitely needed
and so very appreciated.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Well, thank you, and if.
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Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host Stev new Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. It is coming Monday,
the West pom Beach VAS hosting Service Dog Awareness. It's
gonna be a cool event is from ten am to
one pm the main atroam, first floor of the Thomas
Corey VA Medical Center. Come on out. They have some
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nice swag for the for the people with the service dogs.
They have information like free information about like how you
can qualify for service dog training for the dogs and
get you connected with all of that. For more details
on that, reach out to them five six, one four
two two eight six zero seven oh. On This weekend
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going on, it is Mounts Botanical's plant sale all kinds
of plants and if you need more information go to
Mounts dot org and all the different vendors and stuff
that are going to be there are listed on there
for you or reminder. Saint Lucy County Libraries are hosting
their Halloween costume swap tuber first through the thirty first.
So if you have an old costume your kids about
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grown it gently use drop it off at the library
and they will like coordinate all that. For details, go
to Saint Lucylibrary dot org and you can see all
the branch where you can drop it off and I
can pick one up and all that good stuff. Oh,
got a reminder from our friends at the Palm Palm
Beach County Natural Areas pbcarm folks, lots of great events
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coming up. I definitely check this one out. It is
the Wandering Wildflower Hike, say September twenty fourth, nine thirty
am to eleven thirty am at the Hyperluxo Scrub Natural Area.
And then when more physically active, on Thursday, they're doing
Pulled Together for Nature the weed Pool and that one's
happening at North Jupiter Flatwoods Area from eight to ten am.
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There's going to be a morning hike on Friday at
Jupiter Ridge National Area Natural Area. And then this is
kind of cool on Saturday, the twenty seventh, it's nature
inspired planting ideas for your yard, so you can figure
which native species are going to go work well in
your yard, and that one's going to be happening at
North Jupiter Flatwoods area as well, so definitely check that
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out I for on details on those and the other
one's coming up. They've got sunset runs, kayaking, paddleboarding, all
kinds of fun things. Go to PBCERM dot com and
they're all listened right there for you and if who
want to be a volunteer, let them know that too
when you're at the website. Oh also reminder, Saint Lucy's
hosting their fourth annual vaccine and Microchip event for Saint
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Lucy County pets. It's going to be September twenty seventh.
You do need to pre register and the event is
free for residents of unincorporated areas of Saint Lucy and
ten dollars for residents of the City of Fort Piers
and the City of Port Saint Lucy. Simply go to
ac voucher at Saint Lucico dot gov to pre register
and they'll tell you what all you have to have
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as far as documentation and stuff. That way, you go
through the line quickly and it's all taken care of.
Oh Paubach County Parks. This month September is the pollinator month,
so as you're going out and about take pictures and
you can log them with the free I Naturalist smartphone app.
So if you're seeing the bees and all the good things,
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helps them track the data, which is kind of cool.
I also don't forget Saint Lucie County Hikes has got
so coming up Monday, the twenty ninth, from eight to
eleven am. This one's a wings and water paddle, and
that one's going to be Richard E. Becker Preserve and
exploring all the birds and the fine areas in that area.
SLC hikes dot org for all the details on that,
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And of course the Fen Center has got also kinds
of cool programs going on and parks, some rec are
offering get to know your pickleball game, So there's all
kinds of training, whether it's ball control drills, forehand, backhand,
all that good stuff. Simply call Eric seven to seven
to two for six two seventeen ninety one and he
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can connect you with the right folks for that. Oh
I talked to doctor Gabby in a couple of weeks.
Coming up, it's the tenth annual Indian River Lagoons Science
Festival and it's going to be Saturday, October twenty fifth,
from ten eight to three pm at Veterans Memorial Park,
part of the Riverwalk Center in Fort Pierce. Free Day
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of fun, all kinds of cool science steam events for
the little kids all the way up to us big kids.
So lots of cool things. I can't wait to check
out the It is like the human powered snowcone machines,
so I can't wait to try that out. Anyway. For
more details, reach out to doctor Gabby seven seven to
two two four two twenty four seventy or info at
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Irlsciencefest dot org. And if you're interested in being a
vendor or a volunteer, they're looking for both of those,
so you can reach out to them there. Ah and
more parks, fun stuff, Canyon Amphitheater and Boyton BH has
got the Legends on the a Lawn series running, so
coming up in October it's the Samantha Russell duo. This
is Country one. November fifteenth will be Sound Stations, the
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seventies Disco. The twentieth of December is Chase Stites and
the last word which is country pop. So lots of
cool stuff with that. And if you've got the fur
baby and you've never taken them into the water park.
They're doing Wagon at the water Park at Calypso Bay
and that is coming up on Saturday, October fifth, and
they're fifty minute sessions based on the size of the dog.
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So it's just a cool thing. Reach Out to Diana
Rodriguez at ds R O d rig at PBC dot
gov and she'll give you all the details on how
you can participate in that so fun thing to do
with you in the fur baby. Our friends at the
Cravis got a great season coming up Cravis on Broadway.
You can check out The Whiz Twas the Night Before,
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Some like It, Hot MJ, The Musical, Adams Family, Beetlejuice,
lots of cool ones, and of course definitely want to
check out their Peak series this year. Coming up October
ninth is Step Africa, The Migration Reflections on Jacob Laurin's
so cool these Step shows. I love them, saw them
all the time during college. It's so amazing. Then we
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have Totality America will be on November two, Electric Route,
Let Love Lead and that it's going to be April
twenty fourth and twenty fifth, so way out. So of
course they have a wonderful classical Concerts series happening Handle
and Heyden Society Messiah. It's going to be December third,
and you go to Cravis dot org to buy your tickets,
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and while you're there, they're also looking for volunteers to
be ushers. So if you're interested in working at the
Cravist doing that, let them know and they'll set you
up with that as well. Oh, Ballet Palm Beach Wonderful
season coming up, starting things off with Cocktails on Point
at the Colony Thursday, October ninth, snow White October twenty
fourth and the twenty sixth. You can go to Ballet
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Palmbach dot org to get information, or you can get
your tickets at kravistot or because they share, which I
think is a fun thing they do. Coming up on Sunday,
September twenty seventh and the twenty eighth, ten am to
four pm, it is the thirtieth annual Downtown Delray Beach
Craft Festival on the fourth, so I'm going to check
that out. And then October fourth and the fifth it
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is going to be a twenty sixth annual Downtown Stuart
Craft Festival, So all lots of craft festival. I'd love
to go see what people are making now and get
some fun Christmas gifts. So fun way to do that. Oh,
Arts Garage Delray Beach, good season coming up the Cafe
on Main October eleventh, starting things off, and for more
details go to Artsgarage dot org. And they have also
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all the listenings there for like there're a gallery, the
poetry nights, open mic nights for music, so lots of
fun things happening there. And of course we don't remind
everybody it is Hispanic Heritage Month, so the Historical Society
of Palm Beach County has got an exhibition running now
through our October fifteenth celebrating that. And then of course
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the City of West Palm Beach is also doing a
nice celebration at City Hall Courtyard on October tenth from
seven to ten pm. Of course, great authentic food, street food,
live music, lots of fun. Definitely check that out. And
speaking of Hispanic Heritage Month, that brings me to my
guest for today, I want to welcome Scott Simmons, public
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relations manager for the Norton Museum of Art.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Good morning, good morning, thank you for having me, well.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thanks for coming in. And then Norton's always doing these
really awesome like community days. So you have something coming
up for Hispantic characterge at Nuestra.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Nuistra Cultura October fourth, free admission, free parking. Last year
we had very nearly one thousand people attend. And you
come in for these free community days and you get
to see all that the museum offers. Plus we have
special activities. Guests can make their own art in classes
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and workshops. You can be entertained by musicians with the
sounds of Cuba, of Guatemala, of Mexico, and feast on
food inspired by the cuisines from across the Americas, and
also can meet with representatives of community organizations. We're going
to have a lecture on the giant Guatemalan kites and
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there's one of those, an example of them hanging in
the fabricant gallery across from the restaurant right now. It
is spectacular. When I left the museum earlier today, some
ladies were admiring it. It's just spectacular.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I can't wait to see it. So what day is
that again?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It is Saturday, October fourth, and there will be free admission,
free parking. It's eleven am to four pm. We have
a parking in a lot across from the museum. We
will have parking set a site at Palm Beach Atlantic
University just north of the museum campus. So please come,
Please bring the family. It's a great opportunity. If you
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haven't been to the Norton. During our last community day,
it warmed my heart to learn that there was a
couple we were there for their forty second wedding anniversary
and it was the first time they had ever been
to a museum. So that's the level of impact a
place like the Norton can have.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That is fantastic And what a great way to spend
your anniversary. I like that. So time with you guys
enjoying wonderful art. So and as we've talked before, art
is just so enriching for the community helps folks. And
I like days like this where everybody can come, you
meet your neighbors, have fun. And I'm really hoping they
have like the street corn with the little cheese.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
On the fingers crossed will find out.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
The little corn cake things. I love those. But yeah,
that is really fun. So what kind of music that day?
And like you said, they can create their own art,
and of course lots of dancing. So I think that
is fantastic when you said there's going to be a
talk by Jose.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Right, Yeah, Jose Mendez, who's former instructor at the Norton,
will be coming back to talk about the Guatemalan kites.
There's a whole tradition of those, and it's they honor ancestors,
community and celebrate the link between earth and sky.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That makes sense. I like that, And of course the
Norton would not be the Norton lest it included kids
from Palm Beach County schools doing some kind of presentation exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Exactly, and we have we will have special presentations by
Latinos in action with poetry and dance. We will have
the open studio with opportunities to decorate many plaster skull
magnets inspired by de dead traditions, to create a we
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build paper collage inspired by the traditional blouses of Mexico
and Central America, and to make paper marigolds inspired by
the vibrant flowers of Deliosos.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I love it, and all those things are so gorgeous
like when you see them, and to be able to
learn how to make those hands on it, it's just.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
A flood of color and texture. Really, it's something for
just about all of the senses, the eye, the year, obviously,
the taste and the scent with the foods that we
will have available for sale there. So I encourage everybody,
if you have not been to the Norton, to make
this your opportunity to come see the Norton and see
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what we're all about. We're getting ready to mark our
eighty fifth anniversary this February. Ralph Norton built it to
house his collection. He was buying Renoirs basically when Renoir
was still alive, and Picasso's and some of these other
noteworthy artists of the twentieth century labored the contemporary art
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of his day, and he wanted to share it with
the community, and so he built his gallery. And here
it is now and we're now Florida is one of
Florida's oldest art museums, and we are the largest.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh that's fantastic. And can you imagine like just him
being around with his friends. He's like, oh, there's this
new guy painting. He's like, let me go check him out,
and buys them out to help support him. And then
here it is in his collection for us to enjoy
one a while later.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, it really touched my soul. When I took my
job two years ago. My dad grew up in the
glades in Pajochi and one of his schoolmates emailed me
and said, oh, you're getting a job at the Norton.
I remember going there in elementary school field trips. And
this is a woman who's in her mid eighties. So
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that gives you an idea of how much of an
impact we have had on the community over these eight
and a half decades.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That is just amazing, and I think it's just obviously
very much needed for folks to be able to have
access to art and fine art. And like we've talked before,
the kids come in they do that. You have wonder
after school programs where they the artists go and help
the kids and help them and then their art gets
presented and hung on the wall as an.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Exhibition exactly we have. We have a current exhibition of
No Place Like Home with representations of home that we're
done by the after school students and they're really lovely,
these little structures, the Waal art with the sayanotypes. It's
just really something magical to see. And we also have
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a video playing with some of the instructors and teachers
talking about what an impact it has on a community
to go into sometimes underserved neighborhoods and to make this introduction.
And I know there are people who've gone on to
careers in art because they went someplace like they went
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to the Norton and it inspired them and they wanted
to create art based on that inspiration.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That is wonderful. And speaking of beautiful, tell us about
your new upcoming I believe it's the Rembrandt exhibition.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
We are really excited about this one. It's been a
while since we've had a blockbuster show. This is a
blockbuster show Life and Art in Rembrandt's time. Masterpieces from
the Leiden Collection. The Leiden Collection is a private collection
of seventeenth century Dutch paintings out of New York with
a collector, Thomas Kaplan and his wife had gathered these works.
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They've been quietly lending them out here and there for
display at other institutions around the world and in the country.
This year, for the seven hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the founding of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, they sent a
bunch of these paintings back to the Heart Museum there
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for an exhibition, and this one is sort of in
honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the Dutch founding
of what is now New York New Amsterdam. So we
will have more than seventy works by twenty seven artists
from the seventeenth century. Of those, there will be seventeen
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Rembrandt paintings featured. There will be the only Vermire in
private hands on display, and it's the Young Woman playing
the Virginals, which received a lot of media attention earlier
this year when it was undergoing conservation work and they
discovered that they could actually date it to a specific
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time based on the pollution particles in the paint varnish
that the artists used. They could pinpoint it to a
specific time in his life narrow it. So it's really
pretty remarkable. The galleries are going to be gorgeous. I've
been upstairs to see it and they're painted the sumpshoal
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Obergian eggplant purple color. It's really rich. There will be
comprehensive scholarships scholarship on these works, but the main thing
is they're just gorgeous and they do so much storytelling
about their time, which was a time of great prosperity
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for the Dutch.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That's fascinating, and of course I like to remind the
school teachers in school field trips all the good stuff
and teachers can get freedmission to the Norton. Correct.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Absolutely, educators have free admission. Our team is happy to
arrange school trips and field trips. We have thousands of
school children come in every year to the Norton just
to see the special see the collections, to see the
special exhibitions. We're anticipating this one will be really popular.
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There's no additional fee to see it, but it will
have time entries.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Of course, it's not too crowded, right, so that people.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Can actually have space to enjoy the art.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh, I think that's lovely. Yeah, because when they big,
big exhibitions like that, of course everybody wants to see it.
So turning the time version is much as much easier everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
It'll be the first time there has been anything like
this scene in Florida, and I can speak with some
confidence that it's the first time anything of the scale
has been seen in the United States in years, so
it should be really special. In fact, we had a
meeting to discuss the the plan for it, and I've
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seen the layout for the galleries and again it's going
to be really lovely. It's taking up the whole just
about the whole Third Florida, the Norton.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I was just going to say, I think it's going
to take up at least a whole floor by itself.
We had a special wing just about. But that's cool.
So you have again lots of room, wonderful paintings coming.
I can't wait to see them, and then also have
other exhibitions happening. It's like, yea, what think you mean
about the Nortons. It's paintings, sculptures, mixed media, lots of
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different kinds of art. So including photography, we have.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right now we have Leslie hewod achromatic scales and Hewitt
as an artist who works out of Texas, and her
work is a combination of photography and installation, so she'll
have color blocks that are framed and set in a
certain way, while those blocks themselves actually are photography that
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she has created using special filters. It's really something to
take in. The Norton also has coming up this fall.
In November, November fifteenth, we will have an exhibition of
Anastasia Samoilova and it's her Atlantic Coast series and she
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has sort of taken she's taken a cue from Bernice Abbott,
who did a journey from Key West to the Canadian
border on US one in nineteen fifty four. Only she's
followed up seventy years later, doing it in twenty twenty
four and documenting the scenes that she has seen along there,
from Key West, Jacksonville right on to Maine. And it's
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really the photos are compelling, there's a lot of storytelling.
Their large format, it should be gorgeous. Opening at the
same time will be Shara Hughes and Shara Hughes is
doing an exhibition called Inside Outside. She is a painter,
large scale, colorful works, very vibrant. Really, I mean, it's
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going to be gorgeous. These will be in the special
exhibition galleries on the main floor. I think it's going
to be gorgeous. And she's been down for an Artist
in residency already and during that residency, the Armory generously
lent us Space Armory Art Center for her to make ceramics.
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So she created ceramic works that will be part of
this exhibition. And this is the first time she's done that.
She's a really incredibly hot artist right now. She's really
well known. I've been showing a lot of great places
and it's just a real honor for the Norton to
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get to present her work well.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So of course shares obviously branching out in her artistic endeavors,
which I think that's fantastic as well, because you never
know what they're going to create next.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
She's continuing to grow.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And speaking of continuing to grow, the great thing with
the Norton is that we have nearly a century of
collecting represented there in our galleries by Ralph Norton, who
core collection forms the nucleus of what we offer, and
our curators have availed themselves this summer of opportunities when
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galleries were being emptied to totally rethink how the collection
is presented, and we have the Cox Gallery right off
the Great Hall has works from all of the collecting disciplines,
from the Asian and Chinese works that Norton collected, to
paintings to photography to sculpture. To give people a taste
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is then they go into the collection galleries which have
been reimagined the contemporary works on the north flank of
the building have a fresh new look. There are a
lot of things that have possibly never seen the light
of day before at the Norton that are now out
there and on view. And then the modern works. And
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the modern works basically consist of works from the started
the Industrial Revolution up to about nineteen sixty. It's nice
to know that nineteen sixty one is contemporary.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And those are We're not classics yet.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Exactly. It's just a really beautiful, very satisfying presentation of
these works. There are a lot of chestnuts there that
people will be familiar with. Ruby Green Singing is back
up by James Chapin. The Georgia O'Keefe paintings are back
up and they are gorgeous, and they are seen in
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context with other works from the Southwest in some instances,
so there's sort of a thematic thing going on. We
also have photography in those galleries too, with the paintings
and drawings. With the paintings, our curators found a link
among in between all of these things to unite them.
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So it's a really special rendering of the works of
the Norton.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And that's another great reason I always encourage people to
keep coming to the Norton because it's not static. It changes.
And like you said, you go and you see these
curators like what their imagining of this theme is and
how to connect paintings and drawings and photography together. I'm
always amazing like that and it all ties together, like
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you see it and you're like, oh, I do see it,
But like I would not think of that myself looking
at it myself, I would like not to put it
all together.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
These women and men travel to art fairs and museums
and galleries all over the world, and so they gain
inspiration everywhere, and then they come back and tell these stories.
I joked one time after a meeting that I was
in a room full of geniuses and you know, I mean,
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this is our our smart group here. These are some
of the most intelligent, thoughtful people I've ever encountered in
a lengthy career in journalism and LPR. These are really
pretty creative, pretty mind blowing individuals who are pulling together
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these presentations.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
For you.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's fantastic. You're definitely come and join them, and I
know you have, Like on Saturdays, there's a family.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Time, we have the open studio and for families on Saturdays.
We have Art after dark on Friday nights a ten
dollars admission for adults. You also can bring the kids
there as open studio there. The Norton is open Wednesday
through Monday, so we're closed on Tuesdays and we're open
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until ten pm on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Nice. Yeah, the Art after Dark is always so fun.
And I keep reminding the listeners that that first one
of the month as General World is your jazz one.
And then you recently started just this summer, I believe
doing like a jazz brunch in your new restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The Jazz.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The Jazz Fridays has been very popular at Art after Dark,
so we thought, you know, that's one more opportunity for
people to come to the Norton. Maybe you don't feel
like coming on a Friday night, maybe you want to
have a nice brunch experience. We have the restaurant there,
which is gorgeous overlooks the garden. So we are now
doing a jazz brunch on Slack Sundays. To check the
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Norton dot org for the schedule for that and we
can get you in. They have a special brunch menu,
special drink offerings, just the whole gamut, and you can
sort of chill and have a relaxing vibe for your
Sunday and be surrounded by art.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I love that. That's so great. So you come brunch
jazz and then check out the museum afterward.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Right exactly this Sunday, we have jazz Branch on the
twenty first, with the Adam Douglas Trio that begins at
eleven am and it continues till three pm. And then
that afternoon from two to four thirty pm, we will
be hosting a screening of The Great Gatsby and with
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Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. It just kind of timely
since he died this week. It's an opportunity to look
back at a distinguished career.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh yeah, and I remember his wonderful work. A nice
way to pay tribute. So, of course, listeners can get
more information going up by going to Norton dot org.
Can they follow you on the different social media.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
We have If you go on to hashtag nort Museum
of Art. You can follow us on Instagram. We have
a very lively social media component and following. Mariah Forbes
racis who handles our social media is just a genius
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coming up with creative ways to present what the Norton offers.
We are on Facebook and we are on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh very nice. And I believe I've seen you and
star in a few of these videos.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, I have been on a couple of them. I'll
be in an upcoming one of staff favorites.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh very cool. Do you have a staff favorite you
want to share?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
There's a Dwayne Hanson sculpture. And for those of you
who don't know who Dwayne Hanson was, he was a
South Florida artist based in Davy in southwestern Boward County
who created hyper realistic figures of men and women, mostly
working class people involved in day to day scenes. And
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that was one of the first works I saw the
first time I visited the Norton in nineteen eighty six,
and the next year I had the opportunity to drive
Dwayne Hanson from Davy to the South Florida Fair for
an appearance. They were having a contemporary sculpture exhibition at
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the Fair and I was working for what is now
the Cultural Council, so I had to drive him up
and he cut the ribbon. They said, do anything he
wants taking the lunch. So I'm like, okay, we did
everything he wanted. He wanted to see the agricultural exhibitions.
So we saw the cows and the chickis and the
piggies and then we headed for the car and I said,
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mister Hanson, I can take you to lunch. And he said, well,
it's the Cultural Council paying for it. And I said, absolutely,
you don't need to worry about that, and very good.
So there's a place near my house I like to go.
So we drove all the way back down to Southwestern
Broward on University Drive. In Davy passed the water plant,
(29:48):
passed everything, he goes, ah, there it is on the left.
It was the Davy KFC. Apparently he liked the faux
Victorian architecture of the building lovely and so that that's
my share. And I think of that day. He's been dead.
He died in nineteen ninety six, I believe, so he's
been gone nearly thirty years. But every time I see
(30:12):
that work, I think of that day and think of him.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, so he is alive and everybody's memory.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I love that exactly, what a wonderful story.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I like that. I want to write everybody to come
for the community Day and what day is that again?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
October fourth from eleven till.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Four help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Enjoys some one of
the food neighbors and of course amazing art and if
you want to carpool, we always encourage that and for
more information they go to the website right.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yes Norton dot org or five six, one eight three two,
five one nine six.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Well, thank you Scott for coming in and sharing all
the wonderful news with myself and the listeners. Doing such
a cool thing in the community. It is definitely needed
and so very appreciated.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Well, thank you, and if.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
You need more information, reach out to me Palm Beach
Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com. Happy to forget on the
details and don't forget. You can always download the show
as a podcast on our iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody has
a wonderful weekend. I'm dev Nev and this has been
my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your healthiest
view and let's get out there and live it until
(31:17):
next week.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
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