January 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Talked with Scott Simmons and Quincy Brukerhoff from the Norton Museum of Art. They have a great line up events for season. There are two big exibhitiions running: Strike Fast Dance Lightly Artists on Boxing now-March 9th and Sorolla and The Sea, now-April 13th. They have a great line up of Art After Dark seriers that happens every Friday night. Coming up they are kicking off their Lunar New Year Celebration with Art After Dark on Feburary 7th and then continuing the festivities on their Free Conmuunity Day,Saturday February 8th. The Norton has a Chinese collection, spanning 5,000 years. Visitors can take docent led tours, enjoy story telling, puppet shows, dragon dance, crafts,food and more. Then on February 14th, they'll have Jazz perfomances (normally the 1st Art After Dark) for Valentine's day. Listeners can find out more info by going to www.norton.org.
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Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm your host,
dev Nev. Thanks for spending your weekend with me. All
kinds of great things happening and wrapping up this weekend.
A lot of things you want to check out. The
Sun and Stars International Film Festival sponsored by Morre's Life
is wrapping up and you can go to sa SIFF
dot org to find out all the different films that
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are playing down Delray this weekend, so definitely want to
check those out while they're still wrapping up. Great a
great festival this year. Oh and the twenty fourth annual
Hobe Sound Festival for the Arts is happening this weekend,
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five or something. Go to the website art Festival dot
com and all the different vendors and stuff are listed
there for you, so and you to check them out
if your favorites there this weekend. Speaking of favorites, we
just talked to the folks last week from Palm Beach
Shakespeare Festival. So they're wrapping up this weekend the Shakespeare
by the Palms production of As You Like It, so
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they're doing and then they'll do their other one, the
Winter's Tale, at Carlin Park in the summer. So this
one is as you Like It. It's happening at Commons
Park in Royal Palm Beach throughout this weekend. Simpthy go
to Pbshakespeare dot org and all the details are listed
on there, and if you want to audition for the
one in the summer, you can find out details about
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that as well while you're there. Oh, folks over the
Flagler's Museum have a big season happening coming up on
February fourth. It is the Boromeo String Quartet performing and
then the Jupiter String Quartet will be performing there on
February eleventh. And of course you can always make reservations
for the tea and their real car number ninety one
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tea room. That is a lot of fun. My friends
and I've done that and they can go explore in
the real car afterward and everything, and of course the
whole of Whitehall as well, So Carlon Park after Dark
CPS and Amphitheater has their music seasons happening, so it's
coming up on February eighth, is going to be Solid
Brass and of course they are the Chicago tribute band,
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so it's gonna be a lot of fun. And then
on April twelfth, way further out, it is Shaken Up
and Jaded, which is the Cars and Aerosmith tributes, so
lots of fun there. Check those out. Those are completely free,
of course. Then our friends over at Saint Lucie County Library,
it's got a lot of cool things doing and you
can join different reading groups based on what you're interested in.
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Coming up February sixth, they're featuring Generations by Gene Twine
at the Kilmer. The eleventh is when Breath Becomes Air
by Paul klan Eathy and that's at the Morning Side Branch.
So lots of cool things there, and they also have
different classes to help with technology, so if you can
on a new iPhone or an upgraded Android for the holidays,
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or an iPad, they can help you figure that out.
Simply go to Saint Lucco dot org and it's all
listed there for you and of course you talked to
our friends over at Pump Each Drama Works a few
weeks ago, so coming up now is their next one
is going to be called The Humans as part of
their twenty fifth anniversary season and it's starting February fourteenth
and going through March second. Simply go to pump Each
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Drama Works dot Org and you can see all the
different plays and stuff that are happening throughout the season
and then end of the summer, and of course Pump
Each County Natural Areas has got a lot of cool
things happening, so you want to go to sea. They
have Florida Native Plant Bingo. This is a fun one
where you go check out sign and find the different plants.
And that's going to be Friday, February seventh, nine thirty
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am to eleven am, and that's at the Delaware Scrub
Natural Area. They have a Sunset Meditation under the Oaks Thursday,
February thirteenth from five to six thirty and that's in
the Delray Oaks Natural Area. And then on Saturday, February
fifteenth is their Big Natural Areas Festival and that is
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from two pm till seven pm at the Winding Waters
natural area something. Go to PBC r M dot com
and they have all the different places listed on there
for you to check it out. It's a lot of
fun things going on there, and this is a cool
fundraiser coming up. It is suits for seniors and is
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their six annual golfing Gifts so it's a cool way
to raise money for them and it's going to be
happening at the drive Shack Wednesday, February twelfth from six
to nine pm. Seve we went to check that out.
For more details, reach out to Allison five six '
one six zero two eight five five eight and show
of ye all the details for that. Mounts Botanical all
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kinds of amazing things happening, and they have tai Chi
at Mounts. There's a sound immersion, forest bathing, watercolor of
the gardens. And coming up on February eighth and ninth
is their big annual Plant to Palooza. It's a plantabule
Lose a winter plant sale, so for people like me
whose plants have now perished, we can go and get
new people to replace them. Simply go to Mounts dot
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org and they have all the details on the different
programs listed there for you and going on through now
through February twenty eighth. There'll be daily things happening nine
am till five pm at the Fencenter as they're hosting
Black History Month Art Expo. It's free, open to the public.
Come on out, check it out. Marie Morrow stuff is
going to be there, Lisa jil Allison just to name
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a few. And again go to Saint Lucieco. Dot gov
and all the different artists and stuff are listed there
for you. Ah, And this is a new one. Saint
Lucie County Aquarium is hosting a special Valentine's events for
couples and it's going to be February fifteenth, and this
is for folks sixteen and older. It's an hour long
program focusing on Marille life and what happens in the
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marine world. Go to Saint Lucieco dot gov forward slash
Aquarium for details on that. And of course, also wrapping
up this weekend is Funny Girl, part of the Cravis
on Broadway series and they have coming up on the
February second, Layla mckella part of the Peak series. Chris
Body's coming. He does a fantastic show. That is Monday,
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February third, and then Dreyfus Hall. We have got Michael
Feinstein in Because of You, the Tribute to Tony Bennett
featuring the Carnegie Hall Big Band Wednesday at eight pm.
And then Joy of Movement is coming to the Cohen
Pavilion Thursdays at one pm. Rivedez thirty. The New Generation
is coming and that is February seventh through the ninth,
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and then the next Cravis on Broadway series is February
twelfth through sixteenth. That is Peter Pan the Musical. So
that's a great one for everybody, including the family. So
if you haven't taken the kids to check it out yet,
this is a good one to introduce them to the
theater with. And of course the Writers' Academy happens at
the Cravis as well. We'll be talking to Julie Gilbert
about that in a few weeks get more details on that.
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And then their nineteenth African American Film Festival, Jazz Legends
and Cinematic Icons, will be running February thirteenth through the sixteenth,
and again simply go to Cravis dot org to get
more details on that, and if you want to become
an usher and find out more information about them speaking
of finding out more information, and we'll welcome my guests
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for today. I have got Scott Simmons and Quincy Bruckerhoff
from the Norton Museum of Art. Good Morning, Good morning,
thanks for coming in. So Scott, what is it that
you do at the Norton.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I handle the local PR liais with a national PR
agency and try to get the word out about the
great activities we offer at the Norton and fabulous art exhibitions.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, you always have really fun things happening. And I
always like the idea of how like like you and
Quincy can top off this. Like when you do an exhibition,
it may not be just the paintings you have in house.
You can borrow from other museums and then they in
turn can borrow from you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
There's an excellent example of that right now with the
two of the big exhibitions, Soroya and the Sea, which
features works by Joaquin Sooya from the turn of the
last century. It comes from the Hispanic Society in New
York City. And then we have the Strike Fast Dance
lightly which is the art of boxing, so we have
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works by Muhammad Ali. We also have works featuring Muhammad Ali.
In this exhibition. It goes back to the eighteen eighties
up to the present day, and all of those works
just about are borrowed. I think there may be a
few from the collection, but by and large, one hundred
and twenty works all on loan from various galleries and museums.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh, that is fantastic. I think it's so nice that
you guys have that interconnectivity between all the different museums.
Because there's one hundred and twenty five pieces. The likelihood
of me making it to one hundred and twenty five
different museums not so much. But if you get them
all one place, I can go to that one place, yea.
So it makes much better for the public to be
able to engage with the art.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's really amazing. And I've been telling people that even
if you don't care for boxing, it doesn't really matter
because the art sort of transcends the sport and it's
really sort of how the boxing is a metaphor for
life and the struggle of life and getting by, so
it speaks on multiple levels. And we also have an
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artist in residence, Fabiola men Kelly, who does camera less photography,
so she has these really intense photographs that she creates
in pitch blackness, using different chemicals, different filters, different exposures,
folding the photographic paper to make her compositions. And they
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really need to be seen to be appreciated. It's amazing work.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That sounds amazing to me. When can I come to
the Norton to see these? What days are you open?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We are open every day, but Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you offer field trips during the school year?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yes, In fact, yesterday the museum was packed with young children.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yay. You never have too many young children enjoying art now.
And I like how you do the thing where you have.
I think I call it the student Gallery. I'm much
if that's the right name.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
For it, right, And we have a show that's inspired
by Surrealism right now in our Martin Gallery with works
by students from after school programs all over the county.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
There are also much more talented me, but that's a
good thing. It's good for future generations. Speaking of coming
to Norton and having a good time, Miss Quincy, that
leads me to you. You get to do all the
fun art after dark. So tell the listeners tonight what
exactly is art after dark.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So Art after Dark is every single Friday, fifty two
Fridays a year. We always do it. Everybody says, isn't
it just once a month. Nope, it's all the time.
Every Friday, the museum stays open late until ten and
we have different programming so we always have a performance
bace thing. Last week we had dance and martial arts.
The week before we had music. It's often music, but
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it can be other things. We've had theater, we've had
all We've had a variety. I think some spoken word.
We have a lecture, a lot of lectures. Not every Friday,
but most Fridays. We'll have a lecture and then we
have an open studio class, which is an art class
that happens every week and there's twenty minute drop in projects.
You don't have to be good at art to do them.
It's just a fun project for you to come do.
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Last week we had an artist tour where we have
a local artist come and pick a couple pieces. Last
weeks we had Kianga Janaki, who's a local textile artist
talking about works in boxing in Strike Fast Dance lightly
artists on boxing. The restaurant is open, the store is open.
You can see all of the art, all of the
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galleries are open, and we also have docent tours and
our docents are wonderful, dedicated, very well trained, and they
give tours of varying pieces right now. Soroya and the
Sea and Strike Fast and Slightly are two of our
major tours that they do every Friday.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So can people sign up for a tour when they
get to the Norton. Yes, you don't have to sign
up ahead of time.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You don't have to sign up ahead of time. You
just walk in and tell them at the front desk
that you want to do the five thirty or the
seven o'clock tour, and then they send you over and
doesn't cost extra. It's just it is limited, just because
there's so many people we can fit on a tour.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, that makes sense. So what time does art after
Dark start?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Really?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The programming generally starts around six pm. You know, the
museums open all day so you can come in whenever
you want, but generally there's the five thirty tour and
at six o'clock open studio will start, our lectures will start,
but then the music is always or the performance is
usually at seven thirty pm, So okay, And how much
is Art after Dark. It's ten dollars for adults and
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five dollars for kids.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Well, this is a great deal.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, it's a less expensive as well. And the programming
ends at nine, but you can stay in the museum
until ten pm.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Okay, So if I what finished doing the tour afterward,
if I didn't get to all the paintings, I can. Yeah,
you can go back. Oh I like that. And sometimes
you want to go back because the exhibit like spoke
to you and you want to go back and check
it out again, maybe when it's a little bit more
quiet and you have more time to focus on it exactly.
So I think it's awesome. And of course I'm excited
because you know, you guys have your wonderful Lunar New
Year thing coming up, and it is the Year of
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the Snake, so it's my year.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
People.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Are you a snake?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Good?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Whyse and beautiful or something like that. I'm like, all right,
I'll take that. See there you go. So tell me
about what's happening Art after Dark for Lunar New Year's
what day? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So we last year when we did Lunar New Year,
we had almost two thousand people in the museum, so
we uh thought about how to make this sort of
a better experience because people enjoy it, but then you know,
if there's too many people, it's just not as much fun.
So we went ahead and last year it was from
noon to seven all on a Saturday. And what we
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did this year is we have Art after Dark being
part of it, and then the community Day is on Saturday.
So on Friday night for Art after Dark, we have
the lecture that we would normally have the evening with
Jans Stewart, who is the Melvin R. Sidon Curator of
Chinese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, and
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he is going to talk about the significance of lacquer
screens in China. So he'll be doing that and that'll
be at six o'clock. We will also have the Florida
State University Chinese Music Ensemble playing that evening, and then
we're going to do our fireworks that night, So after
the lecture, people will come out and watch the fireworks,
which go off over the inner coastal and then you
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can come back around and into the museum and the
Florida State Chinese Music ensemble will be playing, and of
course we'll have those some tours which we always have,
and we always have a open studio, so we're doing
that on Friday evening and then on Saturday from eleven
to four, we have Chinese Theater Works coming. It's the
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Lee Kun Hung Troy lay Foot Kung Fu Association, and
they do the Dragon and Lion Dance and the Dragon
in line dance is the most popular thing that we
did in last year, it was so crammed people couldn't
see it. So we're doing it twice this year. We're
doing it once at noon and once at three thirty.
And then we also have Chinese Theater Works coming back
down this year and they're doing a special puppet show
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based on the year the Snake, so it's different than
last year, and they'll be doing that three times, so
you can come earlier in the day and you can
see the puppet show, and you can see the Dragon
and Lion dance, and you can do some of the
tours and the art activities will be happening. And we
also have Monica Ladd who's a story tainer. She comes
every year and she tells stories and this year her
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stories will be about Madam White Snake and that the
legend of out On Whitesnake. So and she's performing several
times during the day. You can find all of this
on our website at Norton dot org the exact schedule.
But she's coming as well, so hopefully people can come
spend a couple hours. So we're lucky this year we're
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spreading the events out more. We have the Dragon Online
Dance twice, we have the Puppet Show three times. That
way families can come and there's more accessibility to the
programming and people can enjoy it a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I think that's fantastic. Now, Scott correct me if I'm wrong.
Does it the Norton Did the Nortons collect a lot
of Chinese stuff in their travels and put that in
the museum.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yes, they collected nineteen twenties and thirties and there were
over seven hundred works in that collection, representing over five
thousand years of history if you can imagine that, So
a five thousand year span of objects, which is pretty incredible.
There's one piece that's on the second flora that you
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definitely want see. Lori Barnes, who curates that collection, will
tell you that it's the it's a you wear a
secret color glaze green box with a dragon motif on
it that is like the only example of that pottery
in this country. And it's a thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's an amazing to go see something that's like so
incredibly old.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
That's the fun thing about our Chinese collection. As you
walk around and you see like the different dynasties that
came from in what year, and you're like, oh my goodness,
it's just I mean, it's it's just been around forever.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
How did it survive? You know? And you see some
of these things. There's a crystal vessel in there that's
cut crystal rock crystal that is just exquisite, otherworldly. And
you see these things, and we have these sixteenth century
scrolls depicting a past New Year celebration that is just
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incredible that then they have those on display through February sixteenth.
But they're Ming dynasty. You know, we always hear about
something being Ming dynasty. Well, this is a late sixteenth century,
early seventeenth century and here it is and you can
see it at the Museum of Art.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's just mind boggling to me. So and I think
it's so cool. It's likely you said something this thousand
years old, two thousand years old, and it looks craftsmanship.
It's amazing that they had the technique to do that
back then. And the I'm I'm never surprised by the talent.
I'm often surprised by the technique.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, but you know it's a it's a lantern festival,
and I mean there are just dozens of figures in it.
So you see people from all walks of life in
this thing from four hundred plus years ago, which is
really special. Acrobats, children, soldiers, immortals, court officials, musicians, and
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if you can imagine the smells and the sounds and
the sites of this day.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Five years ago, makes you kind of want to be there,
and by seeing this that you can kind of get
there in your imagination exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And of course that's I think a large part of
that we said art is about. You know, it's still
relevant today all these all these centuries late. So and
I know, so Art after Dark, the Lunar New Year
celebration is going to start a little bit early on
February seventh, right with the Art after Dark. Yes, with
Art after Dark and the eighth is the big community day.
It's the community and that means admission is free, right,
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admission is free, yes, and it's eleven four and free
parking in our lot. And then we just heard recently
confirmed with the Family Church which is not too far away,
that they're going to let us use their lot for
overflow parking. So thank you to the Family Church. That's
very generous. Yes, yes, because you know, like you said,
so many people want to come and we want to
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make it's easy for them as possible, So don't be
shy about carpooling. Go ahead and take your friends and
your neighbors in your car. Make a little bit easier
for everybody. I love it. And of course more arts
after dark happened, Like you said, they happen every Friday.
So the first month is the first one of the
month is always jazz, right.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Except this month. Yes, yes, we're we're mixing it up.
We hope our jazz people are understanding. But because it's
Lunar New York kickoff, we're doing the Chinese Music Ensemble. However,
on the fourteenth, on Valentine's Day, we have Yette Yvette
Norwood Tiger coming and she's a jazz singer and kind
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of a local legend who's coming to sing. And she
will be weather permitting, out in the garden, which is
where we're doing all of our jazz now because it's
so popular, and so she will be there that evening,
and we also have a lecture that night with it's
an artist talk with teju Cole, who's a photographer and
author and who's just a really fascinating person and he's
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gonna come and come talk.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So that'd be a fun thing to do for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yes, yes, it'll be a lot of fun. And the
restaurant is open, and who knows, there might be something
special on the on the menu that night.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
There may be be some what chocolate covered strawberries perhaps,
who knows? Who knows. I don't know why I associate
there's a Valentine's Day, but I do.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
So go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
How do people become a docent? Because, like Quincy's saying,
people come into the art after dark and they can
go on the docnt Le dosn't lead tours.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
The docents are highly trained. They spend months learning about
the museum and about the collections and about art. They're
not it's not something just anybody can do. Literally, you're
interviewed for it and vetted for it, and because we're
trusting you to tell the museum's story and trusting you
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to tell the story of that particular exhibition. So they're
pretty remarkable people. And if you're interested in getting in,
we do have lots of volunteer and for lots of
volunteer opportunities at the Norton Museum of Art, working with kids.
We have people who come in and do the programs
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for art after dark every Friday, the same group of people,
don't we and we have our team. The whole team's
in place. They come in great visitors to the Norton,
make them feel welcome, and there's nothing more satisfying than
being able to show off that place.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Really.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh yeah, I speaking of showing off, my favorite I
know is still there, the Hooly ceiling.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Love that, ye yep.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Everybody loves the choly and people are just like what
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, you gotta go see it. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
We have adults who come in and lay on the
floor to view it and photograph it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I'm not laying on the floor yet, but hey, it's
he lay on the bench too. I can do the bench.
I I'm okay with the bench. And of course I
know also like obviously there's the Dosn't Lead tours. I
want to call them a self guided tours where you
can scan the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yeah, we have engaged by Seal and we're actually working
on updating that a little bit, so hopefully in the
near future we're trying to launch. We're kind of finishing
it up. I wanted it for February, but we're getting
close the Black artists and the collection, so you'll be
able to come through and focus on about nine works
in the collection by black artists, and then we're working
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on putting one up for Soroy in the Sea as well,
so they will be more and more. We're trying to
revamp that program.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So and of course you always have works by women
artists as well. The guys really do a great job
of highlighting.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, and we'll be highlighting those as well.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Very cool, And then I think you had I'm not
sure I believe it's complete. On the outside of the museum,
there's a thing called Women's Walk.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, there's a women's walk on Crane's Nest Way and
it sort of marks every year. I believe it's every year.
We pick five artists that we highlight and then we
learn a bit about and then in March, during Women's
History Month, we have a special tour where the docent
will take you out on the Women's Walk, but then
show you some of the artwork from each of the
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women that are there. So I'm not sure how many
women are there now, but there's quite a number of
women artists.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It pretty well goes up the block between Dixie and Olive.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, that's fascinating. So like you always have extra things
you're adding and new things you're adding, which I think
that's obviously how you stay current, which I think is fantastic.
How do people reach out to you? Do they just
go the website? You on social media?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, we're both, yeah, So the website obviously Norton dot Org.
We're on Instagram, we are on Facebook, We're on LinkedIn,
so you can kind of hear from us from different channels.
I know, we put Facebook events up to try and
let everybody know what's happening as well.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's at Norton Museum of Art, all spelled out on Instagram.
That's our handle and it's a great way to keep
in touch and to see what's going on and see
our good news when we have an opportunity to share it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh, I think it's fantastic and I love like Instagram's
one of my favorite media platforms to use because it's
so visual.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And art of course definitely lends itself to that, which
I think.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And I'll give a shout out to our social media
manager who is just top notes with that and so creative.
It's entertaining a lot of them are entertaining, even the posts.
So you just never know of finding a quirky way
to look at a piece of art.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh, very true. Yeah, and again we can talk about
a lot of things. Art is indicative of life because
it's really about your perspective. So obviously people come for
free on Community Day, but they can also become members
of the Norton and come at anytime.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Right exactly, and free admission, free parking. They get discounts
in the restaurant, in the store if you're a member,
and we have varying levels of membership that will get
you into lectures for free or concerts for free or
for a greatly reduced price. It's a wonderful opportunity. Of course,
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with any not for profit, any arts organization, the best
way you can support it, how is to buy tickets
and or a membership. A membership is a sustaining gift
that ensures operations keep going and ensures that we have
the kind of the programming that we want to present
and that you want to see.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh yeah, So like when people sponsor the Patreon accounts
for the online folks, buying a membership to the Norton,
is that the real life version of that of sponsoring
you and getting the programs in And you guys do
offer a great wide variety of programs, which I think
is just fantastic, Quincy. What are some of the other
shows coming up? Because of that? We have Lunar New
Year of Art after Dark on Friday, and the following
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one is going to be the fun one for Valentine's
Day with jazz. What's happening later in the month.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
So the Friday after that is actually we'll be celebrating
our Black History Month. We're going to have the Lee Boys,
which are a sacred steel gospel band. They played for
Juneteenth for the June teenth kickoff last year and they
were so great and such lovely people. So we're having
them back and we have a special artist tour that
night with Jillian and Kennedy Wright. We'll be doing a
tour and then of course our open studio will have
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a guest teaching artist Dean Jefferson that night, and then
the Friday after that we're doing the next in Art.
We've been doing a series of Spanish films and we
will be doing The Chess Player, which is a Spanish film,
and that will be in the Garden. We're going to
try and show the film out in the garden this time,
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which we haven't done in quite a while. So excited
about that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Cool. Yeah, I didn't know you're doing the films. That's nice.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
We're starting to do more and more films. Yeah, and
we work with Subtropic Film Festival quite a bit with
their opening and then they do a lot of films
when we do local sort of more local Florida based
films and then but we're exploring other options for films
as well.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It's really an opportunity to see films you won't be
able to see anywhere else in South Florida, and to
see them in a big format, which is much better
than watching them at home on TV or on the
computer screen.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah. I know. Still an auditorium is a very lovely
place to see.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
If some of the most comfortable seating anywhere too.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So are those listed on the website the yes, yeah,
so any art after dark is And then of course
we have a lot of other programs that happen on
weekends and during the week that would also be on
the website.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You have like the Family Thing on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yes, so we have a family Studio on Saturday mornings
with Amaya Strata, who's our teaching artist, and it's a
I believe, a short docent tour and then they do
an art project and they happen twice a day. I
believe it's eleven and one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That sounds right, but that you can you should.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Pre register if you want to do that. It's great
for kids, but they sell out because it's really really popular,
so you don't want to just show up and try
and get in.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So we have that.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
We have book plus art that's coming up. We have
so on the fourteenth that night we have teju Cole speaking,
But then a month later we are doing a book
plus art with the book that he has written called Tremor,
and we we team up with the library and and
we it's book club. You read the book and the
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library comes and discusses the book and then we tie
it into a work of art. And I think that's
March fifteenth that we're doing that. But that's another popular
program we do during the week. I think that's during
the year. Yeah, yeah, because I do book clubs, so
that's even that's Yeah, it's a next level book club.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
But there's exactly enhands.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, so very cool. Yeah, getting all crafty on me.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
We have we have all kinds of stuff we do.
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And Tody Seipher has returned to do her mindfulness.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Mindful Moments, Yes the first it is the last Monday
of the month at noon, which she just did it
her first one yesterday, but she's back doing it. And
it's a lovely guided meditation using a work of art
or sometimes two different works of art, depending to kind
of it's. It's a it's a chance to really deeply
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look at a work and then also to have a
little mindfulness practice which we can all use a little
more mindfulness, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Oh, absolutely yes. The things are just getting more stressful.
So this is a great way to take part at
the arts and benefit even more from the arts. For
folks who want to actually become like a donor to
the Norton, how would they do that? Would they just
call you, Scott.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
That's Scott.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
They can call the Norton at five six three two
six and ask to speak to someone in our development
department who will be happy to work with them on
a on a gift. To designate a gift to the Norton,
they can go on our way site where we have
links to ways you can give as well as memberships
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membership levels. I recommend that Norton dot org.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, I thank you both for coming in and sharing
with us today doing such a cool thing in the community,
very much needed and definitely appreciated.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And if you need more information, reach out to me
Palm Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy
to ford on the details and don't forget you can
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Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev no and
this has been my perspective. Remember life is good, so
be your healthiese and let's get out there and live it.
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Until next week Enjoy.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm your host,
dev Nev. Thanks for spending your weekend with me. All
kinds of great things happening and wrapping up this weekend.
A lot of things you want to check out. The
Sun and Stars International Film Festival sponsored by Morre's Life
is wrapping up and you can go to sa SIFF
dot org to find out all the different films that
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are playing down Delray this weekend, so definitely want to
check those out while they're still wrapping up. Great a
great festival this year. Oh and the twenty fourth annual
Hobe Sound Festival for the Arts is happening this weekend,
so that is twelve three five zero Southeast Federal Highway
and Hope Sound. For details on that, you can call
them five six one seven four six six six one
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five or something. Go to the website art Festival dot
com and all the different vendors and stuff are listed
there for you, so and you to check them out
if your favorites there this weekend. Speaking of favorites, we
just talked to the folks last week from Palm Beach
Shakespeare Festival. So they're wrapping up this weekend the Shakespeare
by the Palms production of As You Like It, so
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they're doing and then they'll do their other one, the
Winter's Tale, at Carlin Park in the summer. So this
one is as you Like It. It's happening at Commons
Park in Royal Palm Beach throughout this weekend. Simpthy go
to Pbshakespeare dot org and all the details are listed
on there, and if you want to audition for the
one in the summer, you can find out details about
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that as well while you're there. Oh, folks over the
Flagler's Museum have a big season happening coming up on
February fourth. It is the Boromeo String Quartet performing and
then the Jupiter String Quartet will be performing there on
February eleventh. And of course you can always make reservations
for the tea and their real car number ninety one
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tea room. That is a lot of fun. My friends
and I've done that and they can go explore in
the real car afterward and everything, and of course the
whole of Whitehall as well, So Carlon Park after Dark
CPS and Amphitheater has their music seasons happening, so it's
coming up on February eighth, is going to be Solid
Brass and of course they are the Chicago tribute band,
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so it's gonna be a lot of fun. And then
on April twelfth, way further out, it is Shaken Up
and Jaded, which is the Cars and Aerosmith tributes, so
lots of fun there. Check those out. Those are completely free,
of course. Then our friends over at Saint Lucie County Library,
it's got a lot of cool things doing and you
can join different reading groups based on what you're interested in.
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Coming up February sixth, they're featuring Generations by Gene Twine
at the Kilmer. The eleventh is when Breath Becomes Air
by Paul klan Eathy and that's at the Morning Side Branch.
So lots of cool things there, and they also have
different classes to help with technology, so if you can
on a new iPhone or an upgraded Android for the holidays,
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or an iPad, they can help you figure that out.
Simply go to Saint Lucco dot org and it's all
listed there for you and of course you talked to
our friends over at Pump Each Drama Works a few
weeks ago, so coming up now is their next one
is going to be called The Humans as part of
their twenty fifth anniversary season and it's starting February fourteenth
and going through March second. Simply go to pump Each
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Drama Works dot Org and you can see all the
different plays and stuff that are happening throughout the season
and then end of the summer, and of course Pump
Each County Natural Areas has got a lot of cool
things happening, so you want to go to sea. They
have Florida Native Plant Bingo. This is a fun one
where you go check out sign and find the different plants.
And that's going to be Friday, February seventh, nine thirty
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am to eleven am, and that's at the Delaware Scrub
Natural Area. They have a Sunset Meditation under the Oaks Thursday,
February thirteenth from five to six thirty and that's in
the Delray Oaks Natural Area. And then on Saturday, February
fifteenth is their Big Natural Areas Festival and that is
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from two pm till seven pm at the Winding Waters
natural area something. Go to PBC r M dot com
and they have all the different places listed on there
for you to check it out. It's a lot of
fun things going on there, and this is a cool
fundraiser coming up. It is suits for seniors and is
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their six annual golfing Gifts so it's a cool way
to raise money for them and it's going to be
happening at the drive Shack Wednesday, February twelfth from six
to nine pm. Seve we went to check that out.
For more details, reach out to Allison five six '
one six zero two eight five five eight and show
of ye all the details for that. Mounts Botanical all
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kinds of amazing things happening, and they have tai Chi
at Mounts. There's a sound immersion, forest bathing, watercolor of
the gardens. And coming up on February eighth and ninth
is their big annual Plant to Palooza. It's a plantabule
Lose a winter plant sale, so for people like me
whose plants have now perished, we can go and get
new people to replace them. Simply go to Mounts dot
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org and they have all the details on the different
programs listed there for you and going on through now
through February twenty eighth. There'll be daily things happening nine
am till five pm at the Fencenter as they're hosting
Black History Month Art Expo. It's free, open to the public.
Come on out, check it out. Marie Morrow stuff is
going to be there, Lisa jil Allison just to name
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a few. And again go to Saint Lucieco. Dot gov
and all the different artists and stuff are listed there
for you. Ah, And this is a new one. Saint
Lucie County Aquarium is hosting a special Valentine's events for
couples and it's going to be February fifteenth, and this
is for folks sixteen and older. It's an hour long
program focusing on Marille life and what happens in the
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marine world. Go to Saint Lucieco dot gov forward slash
Aquarium for details on that. And of course, also wrapping
up this weekend is Funny Girl, part of the Cravis
on Broadway series and they have coming up on the
February second, Layla mckella part of the Peak series. Chris
Body's coming. He does a fantastic show. That is Monday,
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February third, and then Dreyfus Hall. We have got Michael
Feinstein in Because of You, the Tribute to Tony Bennett
featuring the Carnegie Hall Big Band Wednesday at eight pm.
And then Joy of Movement is coming to the Cohen
Pavilion Thursdays at one pm. Rivedez thirty. The New Generation
is coming and that is February seventh through the ninth,
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and then the next Cravis on Broadway series is February
twelfth through sixteenth. That is Peter Pan the Musical. So
that's a great one for everybody, including the family. So
if you haven't taken the kids to check it out yet,
this is a good one to introduce them to the
theater with. And of course the Writers' Academy happens at
the Cravis as well. We'll be talking to Julie Gilbert
about that in a few weeks get more details on that.
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And then their nineteenth African American Film Festival, Jazz Legends
and Cinematic Icons, will be running February thirteenth through the sixteenth,
and again simply go to Cravis dot org to get
more details on that, and if you want to become
an usher and find out more information about them speaking
of finding out more information, and we'll welcome my guests
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for today. I have got Scott Simmons and Quincy Bruckerhoff
from the Norton Museum of Art. Good Morning, Good morning,
thanks for coming in. So Scott, what is it that
you do at the Norton.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I handle the local PR liais with a national PR
agency and try to get the word out about the
great activities we offer at the Norton and fabulous art exhibitions.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, you always have really fun things happening. And I
always like the idea of how like like you and
Quincy can top off this. Like when you do an exhibition,
it may not be just the paintings you have in house.
You can borrow from other museums and then they in
turn can borrow from you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
There's an excellent example of that right now with the
two of the big exhibitions, Soroya and the Sea, which
features works by Joaquin Sooya from the turn of the
last century. It comes from the Hispanic Society in New
York City. And then we have the Strike Fast Dance
lightly which is the art of boxing, so we have
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works by Muhammad Ali. We also have works featuring Muhammad Ali.
In this exhibition. It goes back to the eighteen eighties
up to the present day, and all of those works
just about are borrowed. I think there may be a
few from the collection, but by and large, one hundred
and twenty works all on loan from various galleries and museums.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh, that is fantastic. I think it's so nice that
you guys have that interconnectivity between all the different museums.
Because there's one hundred and twenty five pieces. The likelihood
of me making it to one hundred and twenty five
different museums not so much. But if you get them
all one place, I can go to that one place, yea.
So it makes much better for the public to be
able to engage with the art.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's really amazing. And I've been telling people that even
if you don't care for boxing, it doesn't really matter
because the art sort of transcends the sport and it's
really sort of how the boxing is a metaphor for
life and the struggle of life and getting by, so
it speaks on multiple levels. And we also have an
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artist in residence, Fabiola men Kelly, who does camera less photography,
so she has these really intense photographs that she creates
in pitch blackness, using different chemicals, different filters, different exposures,
folding the photographic paper to make her compositions. And they
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really need to be seen to be appreciated. It's amazing work.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That sounds amazing to me. When can I come to
the Norton to see these? What days are you open?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We are open every day, but Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you offer field trips during the school year?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yes, In fact, yesterday the museum was packed with young children.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yay. You never have too many young children enjoying art now.
And I like how you do the thing where you have.
I think I call it the student Gallery. I'm much
if that's the right name.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
For it, right, And we have a show that's inspired
by Surrealism right now in our Martin Gallery with works
by students from after school programs all over the county.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
There are also much more talented me, but that's a
good thing. It's good for future generations. Speaking of coming
to Norton and having a good time, Miss Quincy, that
leads me to you. You get to do all the
fun art after dark. So tell the listeners tonight what
exactly is art after dark.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So Art after Dark is every single Friday, fifty two
Fridays a year. We always do it. Everybody says, isn't
it just once a month. Nope, it's all the time.
Every Friday, the museum stays open late until ten and
we have different programming so we always have a performance
bace thing. Last week we had dance and martial arts.
The week before we had music. It's often music, but
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it can be other things. We've had theater, we've had
all We've had a variety. I think some spoken word.
We have a lecture, a lot of lectures. Not every Friday,
but most Fridays. We'll have a lecture and then we
have an open studio class, which is an art class
that happens every week and there's twenty minute drop in projects.
You don't have to be good at art to do them.
It's just a fun project for you to come do.
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Last week we had an artist tour where we have
a local artist come and pick a couple pieces. Last
weeks we had Kianga Janaki, who's a local textile artist
talking about works in boxing in Strike Fast Dance lightly
artists on boxing. The restaurant is open, the store is open.
You can see all of the art, all of the
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galleries are open, and we also have docent tours and
our docents are wonderful, dedicated, very well trained, and they
give tours of varying pieces right now. Soroya and the
Sea and Strike Fast and Slightly are two of our
major tours that they do every Friday.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So can people sign up for a tour when they
get to the Norton. Yes, you don't have to sign
up ahead of time.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You don't have to sign up ahead of time. You
just walk in and tell them at the front desk
that you want to do the five thirty or the
seven o'clock tour, and then they send you over and
doesn't cost extra. It's just it is limited, just because
there's so many people we can fit on a tour.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, that makes sense. So what time does art after
Dark start?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Really?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The programming generally starts around six pm. You know, the
museums open all day so you can come in whenever
you want, but generally there's the five thirty tour and
at six o'clock open studio will start, our lectures will start,
but then the music is always or the performance is
usually at seven thirty pm, So okay, And how much
is Art after Dark. It's ten dollars for adults and
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five dollars for kids.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Well, this is a great deal.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, it's a less expensive as well. And the programming
ends at nine, but you can stay in the museum
until ten pm.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Okay, So if I what finished doing the tour afterward,
if I didn't get to all the paintings, I can. Yeah,
you can go back. Oh I like that. And sometimes
you want to go back because the exhibit like spoke
to you and you want to go back and check
it out again, maybe when it's a little bit more
quiet and you have more time to focus on it exactly.
So I think it's awesome. And of course I'm excited
because you know, you guys have your wonderful Lunar New
Year thing coming up, and it is the Year of
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the Snake, so it's my year.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
People.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Are you a snake?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Good?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Whyse and beautiful or something like that. I'm like, all right,
I'll take that. See there you go. So tell me
about what's happening Art after Dark for Lunar New Year's
what day? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So we last year when we did Lunar New Year,
we had almost two thousand people in the museum, so
we uh thought about how to make this sort of
a better experience because people enjoy it, but then you know,
if there's too many people, it's just not as much fun.
So we went ahead and last year it was from
noon to seven all on a Saturday. And what we
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did this year is we have Art after Dark being
part of it, and then the community Day is on Saturday.
So on Friday night for Art after Dark, we have
the lecture that we would normally have the evening with
Jans Stewart, who is the Melvin R. Sidon Curator of
Chinese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, and
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he is going to talk about the significance of lacquer
screens in China. So he'll be doing that and that'll
be at six o'clock. We will also have the Florida
State University Chinese Music Ensemble playing that evening, and then
we're going to do our fireworks that night, So after
the lecture, people will come out and watch the fireworks,
which go off over the inner coastal and then you
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can come back around and into the museum and the
Florida State Chinese Music ensemble will be playing, and of
course we'll have those some tours which we always have,
and we always have a open studio, so we're doing
that on Friday evening and then on Saturday from eleven
to four, we have Chinese Theater Works coming. It's the
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Lee Kun Hung Troy lay Foot Kung Fu Association, and
they do the Dragon and Lion Dance and the Dragon
in line dance is the most popular thing that we
did in last year, it was so crammed people couldn't
see it. So we're doing it twice this year. We're
doing it once at noon and once at three thirty.
And then we also have Chinese Theater Works coming back
down this year and they're doing a special puppet show
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based on the year the Snake, so it's different than
last year, and they'll be doing that three times, so
you can come earlier in the day and you can
see the puppet show, and you can see the Dragon
and Lion dance, and you can do some of the
tours and the art activities will be happening. And we
also have Monica Ladd who's a story tainer. She comes
every year and she tells stories and this year her
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stories will be about Madam White Snake and that the
legend of out On Whitesnake. So and she's performing several
times during the day. You can find all of this
on our website at Norton dot org the exact schedule.
But she's coming as well, so hopefully people can come
spend a couple hours. So we're lucky this year we're
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spreading the events out more. We have the Dragon Online
Dance twice, we have the Puppet Show three times. That
way families can come and there's more accessibility to the
programming and people can enjoy it a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I think that's fantastic. Now, Scott correct me if I'm wrong.
Does it the Norton Did the Nortons collect a lot
of Chinese stuff in their travels and put that in
the museum.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yes, they collected nineteen twenties and thirties and there were
over seven hundred works in that collection, representing over five
thousand years of history if you can imagine that, So
a five thousand year span of objects, which is pretty incredible.
There's one piece that's on the second flora that you
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definitely want see. Lori Barnes, who curates that collection, will
tell you that it's the it's a you wear a
secret color glaze green box with a dragon motif on
it that is like the only example of that pottery
in this country. And it's a thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's an amazing to go see something that's like so
incredibly old.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
That's the fun thing about our Chinese collection. As you
walk around and you see like the different dynasties that
came from in what year, and you're like, oh my goodness,
it's just I mean, it's it's just been around forever.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
How did it survive? You know? And you see some
of these things. There's a crystal vessel in there that's
cut crystal rock crystal that is just exquisite, otherworldly. And
you see these things, and we have these sixteenth century
scrolls depicting a past New Year celebration that is just
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incredible that then they have those on display through February sixteenth.
But they're Ming dynasty. You know, we always hear about
something being Ming dynasty. Well, this is a late sixteenth century,
early seventeenth century and here it is and you can
see it at the Museum of Art.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's just mind boggling to me. So and I think
it's so cool. It's likely you said something this thousand
years old, two thousand years old, and it looks craftsmanship.
It's amazing that they had the technique to do that
back then. And the I'm I'm never surprised by the talent.
I'm often surprised by the technique.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, but you know it's a it's a lantern festival,
and I mean there are just dozens of figures in it.
So you see people from all walks of life in
this thing from four hundred plus years ago, which is
really special. Acrobats, children, soldiers, immortals, court officials, musicians, and
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if you can imagine the smells and the sounds and
the sites of this day.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Five years ago, makes you kind of want to be there,
and by seeing this that you can kind of get
there in your imagination exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And of course that's I think a large part of
that we said art is about. You know, it's still
relevant today all these all these centuries late. So and
I know, so Art after Dark, the Lunar New Year
celebration is going to start a little bit early on
February seventh, right with the Art after Dark. Yes, with
Art after Dark and the eighth is the big community day.
It's the community and that means admission is free, right,
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admission is free, yes, and it's eleven four and free
parking in our lot. And then we just heard recently
confirmed with the Family Church which is not too far away,
that they're going to let us use their lot for
overflow parking. So thank you to the Family Church. That's
very generous. Yes, yes, because you know, like you said,
so many people want to come and we want to
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make it's easy for them as possible, So don't be
shy about carpooling. Go ahead and take your friends and
your neighbors in your car. Make a little bit easier
for everybody. I love it. And of course more arts
after dark happened, Like you said, they happen every Friday.
So the first month is the first one of the
month is always jazz, right.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Except this month. Yes, yes, we're we're mixing it up.
We hope our jazz people are understanding. But because it's
Lunar New York kickoff, we're doing the Chinese Music Ensemble. However,
on the fourteenth, on Valentine's Day, we have Yette Yvette
Norwood Tiger coming and she's a jazz singer and kind
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of a local legend who's coming to sing. And she
will be weather permitting, out in the garden, which is
where we're doing all of our jazz now because it's
so popular, and so she will be there that evening,
and we also have a lecture that night with it's
an artist talk with teju Cole, who's a photographer and
author and who's just a really fascinating person and he's
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gonna come and come talk.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So that'd be a fun thing to do for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yes, yes, it'll be a lot of fun. And the
restaurant is open, and who knows, there might be something
special on the on the menu that night.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
There may be be some what chocolate covered strawberries perhaps,
who knows? Who knows. I don't know why I associate
there's a Valentine's Day, but I do.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
So go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
How do people become a docent? Because, like Quincy's saying,
people come into the art after dark and they can
go on the docnt Le dosn't lead tours.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
The docents are highly trained. They spend months learning about
the museum and about the collections and about art. They're
not it's not something just anybody can do. Literally, you're
interviewed for it and vetted for it, and because we're
trusting you to tell the museum's story and trusting you
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to tell the story of that particular exhibition. So they're
pretty remarkable people. And if you're interested in getting in,
we do have lots of volunteer and for lots of
volunteer opportunities at the Norton Museum of Art, working with kids.
We have people who come in and do the programs
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for art after dark every Friday, the same group of people,
don't we and we have our team. The whole team's
in place. They come in great visitors to the Norton,
make them feel welcome, and there's nothing more satisfying than
being able to show off that place.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Really.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh yeah, I speaking of showing off, my favorite I
know is still there, the Hooly ceiling.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Love that, ye yep.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Everybody loves the choly and people are just like what
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, you gotta go see it. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
We have adults who come in and lay on the
floor to view it and photograph it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I'm not laying on the floor yet, but hey, it's
he lay on the bench too. I can do the bench.
I I'm okay with the bench. And of course I
know also like obviously there's the Dosn't Lead tours. I
want to call them a self guided tours where you
can scan the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yeah, we have engaged by Seal and we're actually working
on updating that a little bit, so hopefully in the
near future we're trying to launch. We're kind of finishing
it up. I wanted it for February, but we're getting
close the Black artists and the collection, so you'll be
able to come through and focus on about nine works
in the collection by black artists, and then we're working
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on putting one up for Soroy in the Sea as well,
so they will be more and more. We're trying to
revamp that program.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So and of course you always have works by women
artists as well. The guys really do a great job
of highlighting.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, and we'll be highlighting those as well.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Very cool, And then I think you had I'm not
sure I believe it's complete. On the outside of the museum,
there's a thing called Women's Walk.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, there's a women's walk on Crane's Nest Way and
it sort of marks every year. I believe it's every year.
We pick five artists that we highlight and then we
learn a bit about and then in March, during Women's
History Month, we have a special tour where the docent
will take you out on the Women's Walk, but then
show you some of the artwork from each of the
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women that are there. So I'm not sure how many
women are there now, but there's quite a number of
women artists.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It pretty well goes up the block between Dixie and Olive.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, that's fascinating. So like you always have extra things
you're adding and new things you're adding, which I think
that's obviously how you stay current, which I think is fantastic.
How do people reach out to you? Do they just
go the website? You on social media?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, we're both, yeah, So the website obviously Norton dot Org.
We're on Instagram, we are on Facebook, We're on LinkedIn,
so you can kind of hear from us from different channels.
I know, we put Facebook events up to try and
let everybody know what's happening as well.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's at Norton Museum of Art, all spelled out on Instagram.
That's our handle and it's a great way to keep
in touch and to see what's going on and see
our good news when we have an opportunity to share it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh, I think it's fantastic and I love like Instagram's
one of my favorite media platforms to use because it's
so visual.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And art of course definitely lends itself to that, which
I think.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And I'll give a shout out to our social media
manager who is just top notes with that and so creative.
It's entertaining a lot of them are entertaining, even the posts.
So you just never know of finding a quirky way
to look at a piece of art.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh, very true. Yeah, and again we can talk about
a lot of things. Art is indicative of life because
it's really about your perspective. So obviously people come for
free on Community Day, but they can also become members
of the Norton and come at anytime.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Right exactly, and free admission, free parking. They get discounts
in the restaurant, in the store if you're a member,
and we have varying levels of membership that will get
you into lectures for free or concerts for free or
for a greatly reduced price. It's a wonderful opportunity. Of course,
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with any not for profit, any arts organization, the best
way you can support it, how is to buy tickets
and or a membership. A membership is a sustaining gift
that ensures operations keep going and ensures that we have
the kind of the programming that we want to present
and that you want to see.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh yeah, So like when people sponsor the Patreon accounts
for the online folks, buying a membership to the Norton,
is that the real life version of that of sponsoring
you and getting the programs in And you guys do
offer a great wide variety of programs, which I think
is just fantastic, Quincy. What are some of the other
shows coming up? Because of that? We have Lunar New
Year of Art after Dark on Friday, and the following
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one is going to be the fun one for Valentine's
Day with jazz. What's happening later in the month.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
So the Friday after that is actually we'll be celebrating
our Black History Month. We're going to have the Lee Boys,
which are a sacred steel gospel band. They played for
Juneteenth for the June teenth kickoff last year and they
were so great and such lovely people. So we're having
them back and we have a special artist tour that
night with Jillian and Kennedy Wright. We'll be doing a
tour and then of course our open studio will have
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a guest teaching artist Dean Jefferson that night, and then
the Friday after that we're doing the next in Art.
We've been doing a series of Spanish films and we
will be doing The Chess Player, which is a Spanish film,
and that will be in the Garden. We're going to
try and show the film out in the garden this time,
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which we haven't done in quite a while. So excited
about that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Cool. Yeah, I didn't know you're doing the films. That's nice.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
We're starting to do more and more films. Yeah, and
we work with Subtropic Film Festival quite a bit with
their opening and then they do a lot of films
when we do local sort of more local Florida based
films and then but we're exploring other options for films
as well.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It's really an opportunity to see films you won't be
able to see anywhere else in South Florida, and to
see them in a big format, which is much better
than watching them at home on TV or on the
computer screen.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah. I know. Still an auditorium is a very lovely
place to see.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
If some of the most comfortable seating anywhere too.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So are those listed on the website the yes, yeah,
so any art after dark is And then of course
we have a lot of other programs that happen on
weekends and during the week that would also be on
the website.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You have like the Family Thing on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yes, so we have a family Studio on Saturday mornings
with Amaya Strata, who's our teaching artist, and it's a
I believe, a short docent tour and then they do
an art project and they happen twice a day. I
believe it's eleven and one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That sounds right, but that you can you should.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Pre register if you want to do that. It's great
for kids, but they sell out because it's really really popular,
so you don't want to just show up and try
and get in.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So we have that.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
We have book plus art that's coming up. We have
so on the fourteenth that night we have teju Cole speaking,
But then a month later we are doing a book
plus art with the book that he has written called Tremor,
and we we team up with the library and and
we it's book club. You read the book and the
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library comes and discusses the book and then we tie
it into a work of art. And I think that's
March fifteenth that we're doing that. But that's another popular
program we do during the week. I think that's during
the year. Yeah, yeah, because I do book clubs, so
that's even that's Yeah, it's a next level book club.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
But there's exactly enhands.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, so very cool. Yeah, getting all crafty on me.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
We have we have all kinds of stuff we do.
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And Tody Seipher has returned to do her mindfulness.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Mindful Moments, Yes the first it is the last Monday
of the month at noon, which she just did it
her first one yesterday, but she's back doing it. And
it's a lovely guided meditation using a work of art
or sometimes two different works of art, depending to kind
of it's. It's a it's a chance to really deeply
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look at a work and then also to have a
little mindfulness practice which we can all use a little
more mindfulness, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Oh, absolutely yes. The things are just getting more stressful.
So this is a great way to take part at
the arts and benefit even more from the arts. For
folks who want to actually become like a donor to
the Norton, how would they do that? Would they just
call you, Scott.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
That's Scott.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
They can call the Norton at five six three two
six and ask to speak to someone in our development
department who will be happy to work with them on
a on a gift. To designate a gift to the Norton,
they can go on our way site where we have
links to ways you can give as well as memberships
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membership levels. I recommend that Norton dot org.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, I thank you both for coming in and sharing
with us today doing such a cool thing in the community,
very much needed and definitely appreciated.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And if you need more information, reach out to me
Palm Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy
to ford on the details and don't forget you can
always download the shows a podcast on our iHeartRadio app.
Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev no and
this has been my perspective. Remember life is good, so
be your healthiese and let's get out there and live it.
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Until next week Enjoy.
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