Art & Culture Fall 2022

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A New Kind of Legacy

FROM LEFT: PIECE OF HEAVJEFFLY GABRIELA MOLINA; BIG TOOTH EBECHO MUSLIMOVA; AND MOTHER AND CHILD DRU DONOVAN, ALL AT THE WEST PALM BEACH HOME OF REGAN ROHDE.

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ARTIST BULK STYLES WORKS ON A MURAL AT SEA SHELL CITY IN RIVIERA BEACH.

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Cultural Council Board of Directors Officers

Daryn M. Kirchfeld (Chair), Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Trust • Frances Fisher (Vice Chair), Philanthropist • Jean S. Sharf (Secretary), Philanthropist • Christopher D. Caneles (Treasurer), Community Leader • Nathan Slack (Immediate Past Chair), Community Leader

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Edrick Barnes, Owner, The Law Office of Edrick Barnes • Bruce A. Beal, Partner and Chairman, The Beal Companies • David Cohen, Advertising Executive • Cheryl K. Crowley, Community Leader • Philip M. DiComo, Attorney, Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A. • Phillip Edwards, Director, City Private Bank Donald M. Ephraim, Philanthropist • Roe Green, Philanthropist • Sherry R. Jacobs, Philanthropist Bill Parmelee, Chief Financial Officer, Oxbow Carbon LLC • Elizabeth A. Bowers Stoops, Attorney, Gunster • Ethel Isaacs Williams, Community Leader

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Michele Jacobs, President and CEO, Economic Council of Palm Beach County • Barbara McQuinn, School Board Member, District 1, School Board of Palm Beach County • Davicka N. Thompson, TDC Board Member and President and CEO, Thompson Creative Collective • Gregg K. Weiss, Palm Beach County Commissioner, District 2

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Dear readers of art&culture,

Welcome to another fantastic fall cultural season here in Florida’s Cultural Capital! There are so many things that I look forward to seeing during this time of year: The curtains open on award-winning plays, musicals, and dance performances; top-notch exhibitions dot the walls of our incredible museums; and wonderful festivals pack our city streets with arts, culture, and community.

While we celebrate the return of so many events and performances at our arts institutions, we here at the Cultural Council want to spotlight another equally important part of the cultural sector well worth your attention—our spectacular community of creative professionals and artists. These individuals are the core component of what makes arts and culture here so vibrant, complex, and beautiful.

In this issue of art&culture especially, we’ve taken special care to focus on the work and stories of so many of our local artists—but it doesn’t stop there. I encourage all of you to use this issue as a resource to go out and get to know this exceptional creative community. Find a location in our new gallery guide and seek out local work to decorate your walls. Strike up a conversation with an artist at an exhibition. Go out for a night on the town with friends and see a local band play. Your support during this time will make a significant impact on their lives and enable them to thrive here in The Palm Beaches.

In this issue, you can have double the fun as you get to know a few creative duos (“It Takes Two,” page 26), taste delectable re-creations of the area’s murals made by pastry chefs and bakers (“Sugarcoated,” page 34), get into the spooky season with scary stories provided by historical societies (“Haunted History,” page 40), and so muchHavemore.agreat fall season here in The Palm Beaches!

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In serious cases, DVT can cause a blood clot to partially or totally break away and travel to the lungs, says Eileen de Grandis, M.D., a vascular surgeon and medical director of the Vein Clinic at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. The vascular team at the Clinic provides comprehensive treatments that are both therapeutic and cosmetic to address varicose veins and other symptoms of venous disease.

Varicose veins are enlarged, twisted or bulging veins that can be blue, red or skin-colored. They’re a very common reason for women to visit a vein clinic. But about half of all women who consult with Dr. de Grandis are diagnosed with other underlying health issues.

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Vascular evaluations at the Vein Clinic always begin with a thorough social and medical history to determine the underlying cause of your symptoms.

“We ask for a full history because it tells us a story about you,” says Dr. de Grandis. “What do you do for a living? Do you lift heavy things or stand on your feet every day? Can you walk up stairs and walk around the block? Whom do you care for? Who helps you at home? We also ask medical questions because they are important to who you are. Have you had any heart, lung or kidney problems? Have you had any blood clots? Have you had any surgeries? What have you tried that has or hasn’t worked to make you feel “Mostbetter?vein

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Flagler Museum Fall

The Story of Whitehall: 120 Years in the Making

October 11 – December 31, 2022

In celebration of Whitehall’s 120th anniversary, the Flagler Museum’s Fall Exhibition will tell the story of the many lives of Whitehall, as a home, a club, a hotel, and a museum.

The story of Whitehall over the last 120 years is a story of the people and events critical to its metamorphosis from a grand vision for an amazing private home, in what was then one of the more remote locations in America, to a commercial property that eventually fell out of favor, to a near brush with total destruction, and finally to one of America’s great house museums and a National Historic Landmark visited by my millions from all over the world.

Hundreds of objects and photographs drawn from the Museum’s extensive archives and collections will reveal the meaning expressed through Whitehall’s rich symbolism, the advanced technology incorporated into the home that put it at the forefront of domestic living at that time in history, despite its remote location, and the many special decorative features found only at Whitehall.

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MOTHER EARTH

Few subjects have inspired as many works of art as the natural world. For its 2022-23 concert series, The Symphonia is embracing Earth’s elements with four concerts themed around fire, earth, wind, and water. The season kicks off at Roberts Theater at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton with Fire No vember 13 and Earth December 4. The latter program features Terra Nostra, a multimedia symphony about the challenges of climate change, with a score by Christophe Chag nard and a film by Charlie Spears.

Chagnard was commissioned to create Terra Nostra in 2013, and he notes that the piece combines two of his most personal and important passions: music and environ mental activism. His original arrangement was for a full symphony orchestra, but The Symphonia’s performance will be the world premiere of Terra Nostra reworked for a chamber orchestra.

“I had created Terra Nostra for the larg est possible symphony orchestra to convey the enormity of the subject matter,” says Chagnard. “Working on a smaller orchestra scoring is a great opportunity to explore a different dimension of this creation’s various chapters, emphasizing a more intimate as pect [of] how climate change affects people

individually as well as collectively. There has been a lot of writing on climate grief lately, and this chamber orchestra version will aim at conveying this aspect as well. For listeners who are familiar with the original full symphonic version, be prepared to hear some details and layers for the very first time, as they were previously less prominent in the overall sonic texture.”

In the spring, The Symphonia will return with Wind March 26 and Water April 30. At tendees can learn more about each program with pre-concert conversations with guest conductors and soloists. thesymphonia.org, 561.376.3848 —Mary Murray

THIS PAGE: STILLS FROM THE FILM TERRA NOSTRA BY CHARLIE SPEARS. THE FILM WILL SERVE AS A BACKDROP WHEN THE SYMPHONIA PERFORMS THE TERRA NOSTRA COMPOSITION BY CHRISTOPHE CHAGNARD.

BY DAPHNE NIKOLOPOULOS

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Has Caren Neile, PhD, MFA, got a story for you. Naturally funny and engaging, the professional performance storyteller uses the power of story not only to entertain her audiences, but also to communicate on a visceral level. Through narrative, imagination, nonverbal behavior, and interaction, she captivates the audience’s senses and forms a connection. “A story is a living, breathing, dynamic thing in the hands of a storyteller,” she says.

In addition to performing, lecturing, and consulting throughout Florida, as well as nationally and internationally, Neile has taught storytelling studies at Florida Atlantic University, where she was founding director of the South Florida Storytelling Project, since 2001. A former chair of the National Storytelling Network, she was also a Peace Corps volunteer and a co-founding editor of the aca demic journal Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies. For the past 13 years, she’s hosted The Public Storyteller on WLRN public radio, through which she’s brought ordi nary people’s stories to light.

Neile spoke with A&C about the art of storytelling, stories as superpower, and her dubious claim to fame. carenneile.com

A&C: People around the world, regardless of culture, tell stories every day. Why do humans love stories so much?

Neile: One reason is security—the safety we get when we know that things follow things, that there is this causality instead of the scary chaos in the world. We learn from storytelling that our behavior has consequences, and what we do and say matters. There’s also the endorphin rush we get from hearing great stories.

You’re a professional storyteller. How does what you do differ from stories we hear every day?

Professional storytelling is an art form, like a performance. There are professionals of all levels. There’s the Barbra Streisand or Beyoncé or even the Rodney Dangerfield of storytelling. … Just like any other art form, but on a specific level.

Is it similar to acting?

No. Most professionals don’t memorize their stories word for word; it’s more extemporaneous. We know what we’re going to say, but we’re very much in the present, experiencing the “movie” in our heads. And you, as a listener, are experiencing it at the same time. That interaction is key.

What role does the audience play in the process?

The storyteller is playing off cues that the listener is giving. If you’re leaning forward, you’re probably interested. If you’re looking at your watch, that makes me think of how I can change the story a little. In a real sense, you’re co-creating the story with me.

Can you share some examples of stories you’ve performed?

I told the story of The Taming of the Shrew as Katherine’s sister, Bianca. I told the story of Carmen as Carmen, in a very flirtatious way. On the other side of the spectrum, I tell folk tales, especially Jewish [ones]. I’ve told stories from the Bible, and stories from Spain or Eastern Europe. I’ve told a lot of personal stories. It really runs the gamut. But we [as storytellers] very, very rarely tell fictional stories that we’ve created ourselves.

You’ve had a diverse career as a performance storyteller, teacher, consultant, columnist, and editor. What has been a highlight?

I always [say] one of my greatest claims to fame—and I say this only a little tongue-in-cheek—is when I was interviewed by Cosmopolitan magazine about 15 years ago. They were doing an article on how to snag a man, and one of the editors got this idea: You’ve got to be a good storyteller. So, they looked online and found me. It was very funny and yet it was perfect. [Telling] a good story is the best way to persuade, to connect, and, most importantly, to communicate.

You have been hosting The Public Storyteller on WLRN for 13 years. What has been the impact of that program?

The stories are little slices of life in South Florida that can be happy, sad, or something in-between. A lot of people tell stories about car accidents, or doing wonderful things in the community, or touching

PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLER CAREN NEILE CONNECTS SOUTH FLORIDA PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES, ONE STORY AT A TIME

human stories. One person recovered a lost wallet from an immigrant who had no money himself but had enough integrity to [turn in] the wallet. These stories connect us to each other and to a place.

I have this great story about two retired podiatrists who were going out on a pier in Boca, and there was a commotion. One of the fishermen had speared a pelican with his hook, and it was stuck by the pelican’s eye, and they did surgery right there. Now that’s a fantastic story, but besides that, every time I drive past that pier I think of that story. I have a connection to the place. Now, if I read in the paper that that pier is going to be demolished, it means something to me. That’s what stories do.

Experiences can be universal, and this is how we relate to each other. Do you find those shared experiences are what makes storytelling so timeless?

Absolutely. How many times have you felt uncomfortable about something, and someone else tells you they have the same thing, and it makes you realize you’re not alone?

How does storytelling give people, especially people from marginalized populations, a voice?

It’s more intuitive for us to tell stories and listen to stories than it is to write. So many people who are uncomfortable writing are fantastic at telling stories because that feels more natural to them. When an individual from a marginalized community has those tools to speak their truth, they recognize they don’t have to know spelling, grammar, or sentence structure to have that power. And it really is a power to be able to tell your story. You can tell it at a town hall meeting, you can tell it to like-minded people, you can tell it at a protest. That power is your birthright. ‡

BY MICHELE MEYER

Room for More

When the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens (ANSG) reopens in November, patrons will find the inside gallery has doubled in size, resulting in a better flow and greater flexibility. “We’ve opened a whole new section never before accessible to visitors,” says Margaret Horgan, managing director at ANSG. “It’s fabulous.”

The former home and studio of the late artist Ann Weaver Norton, ANSG welcomes some 40,000 visitors annually and belongs to the nationwide Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios program. The exterior space has long been a top draw, with nine of Norton’s monolithic sculptures sprinkled across 2 acres of rare palms and cycads.

“It’s unique as a cultural and historical insti tution,” Horgan says. “Not only does it hold the archives of an American female artist whose vision created a legacy for the community, but it’s a hidden gem in the midst of West Palm Beach’s exploding El Cid neighborhood.”

The interior renovations of the historic home/gallery include museum-quality climate control as well as enhanced security and light ing, notes ANSG board chairperson Frances

Fisher. A new lift has also made the gallery wheelchair accessible.

Such improvements are part of a threeprong master plan, which also includes restora tion of the home’s exterior and artist studio. The home was originally designed by Maurice Fatio in 1925, but when steel magnate Ralph Norton purchased it a decade later, he enlisted another noted Florida architect, Marion Sims Wyeth, to update it. Following his first wife’s death, Ralph Norton married Ann Weaver, who was a sculpting instructor at the nearby Nor ton Gallery and School of Art (now the Norton Museum of Art). Not only did Ralph encourage

Ann’s devotion to her craft, but he celebrated their 1948 nuptials by commissioning Wyeth to build her an art studio with vaulted ceilings.

“The minute you set foot on the property, it’s like walking into a love story,” Fisher says.

In 1977, Ann Weaver Norton established a nonprofit foundation to preserve the home, her studio, 100 of her artworks, and the gardens. As Horgan points out, Norton wanted her work to flow with nature, and to fulfill this vision, lauded botanist Sir Peter Smithers later trans formed the gardens into an oasis of conserva tion amid the burgeoning city.

Norton lived and worked in the home until her death in 1982. Since then, chisels and smocks still hang in her studio “as if she just stepped away,” Horgan says.

To inaugurate the enhanced gallery, ANSG will display Abundance of Riches, a retrospec tive of paintings and sculptures by local artists Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz. (Turn to page 32 to learn more about Montoya, Ortiz, and their artistic partnership.) “Their fruit- and vegetable-themed work plays beautifully in the gardens,” Horgan says. “We also love that Luis was a sculpting instructor at [the] Norton and knew Ann.”

We’ll never know if Norton foresaw her home and art studio being hon ored by the National Trust for His toric Preservation. But as she once said of her work, “I’ve always thought big.” ansg.org, 561.832.5328 ‡

FOR THE ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS, EXPANDED GALLERY SPACE TRANSLATES INTO MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO CARRY ON THE LEGACY OF ITS NAMESAKE ARTIST

VISITORS CAN PERUSE THE PANDED GALLERY INSIDE ARTIST ANN WEAVER NOR TON’S

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BULK STYLES HAS PAINTED MURALS AT BUSINESSES ACROSS THE PALM BEACHES. SOME OF HIS MOST NOTABLE INCLUDE A PAIR OF FLAMINGOS AND A GATOR AT SEA SHELL CITY IN RIVIERA BEACH AND A PIG AT CHEF TIM LIPMAN’S NEW COOLINARY LOCATION, HOME TO THE PARCHED PIG WATERING HOLE.

BY NICK MURRAY

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After spending years making a name for himself as part of the Miami Style Graffiti (MSG) crew, muralist Bulk Styles’ work now dots the walls of many Palm Beach County restaurants, businesses, and galleries. In addition to painting, Bulk also contributes his time to speaking with local students about how street art can have a positive impact in their lives. Bulk spoke with A&C about his process, developing his art into a business, and more from his Jupiter studio. bulks.bigcartel.com

A&C: Your work can be found at many restaurants, breweries, and arts districts throughout Palm Beach County. What’s your approach to securing new work and commissions?

Bulk: I’ve been fortunate enough to where I’ve had really good op portunities at a lot of awesome places here. It’s really word of mouth, and that’s why it’s so centralized here. But I did that on purpose, you know? I think a lot of [other artists] say to branch out and stuff, and my goal was to kind of keep it a little tighter. With every new project, I take the same approach: I listen to the clients, figure out what the vibe is, and begin by making them feel like they’re a part of the project.

What part does preparation play in your process of painting a new mural?

After the client approves a design, I go through a checklist of all the paint I need. I start packing a few days before the job. I get all my col ors together, make sure I have everything. The night before, I pack my truck up. I’m usually starting jobs super early in the morning, as early as 4 a.m., because of the heat. I realized not too long ago that the more I was preparing, the better my work was getting. It’s just the structure of the job that I needed to learn. However, the actual paint ing is the last thing I want to prepare for. I want to be present for that.

What are you most looking forward to on the day of painting?

[Bulk laughs] Finishing. When you’re working and you show up to a job, I’ll just say that there are days I have not wanted to paint. But you have to do it, right? And you have to dig deep. There’s no such thing as a block, not feeling it, not being

PROFESSIONAL STREET ARTIST AND MURALMAKER BULK STYLES DETAILS HIS PRACTICE FOR PAINTING SOUTH FLORIDA’S WALLS

inspired. It does become “paint by numbers.” A lot of people might think that’s funny, that it seems so structured for art, but it’s the way I get those end results.

When do you consider a piece to be done?

When a piece is done for a client, it’s when it looks like what you offered them in design. When it’s a painting that I do for myself, none of them are ever done. … Art’s so broad that I respect anybody who’s like, “That’s exactly what it is, and it’s done for me.” But for me? No. I could always revisit pieces at any time. Even when I sign [my work], I have dif ficulty. It’s like, the signing does feel very final, and I don’t want my work to be final.

What’s your least favorite part of the process?

Talking about money … because you have to make sure that if you don’t place your value on yourself, others will absolutely do that for you.

Do you see yourself as a commercial artist or a fine artist who commissions his work?

I’m just me. I’ve always just kept the mentality of “I want to paint.” I’ll paint that restaurant. I’ll paint that wall for that business. You can have one of my canvases for your home. I’ll do your back patio. I just want to paint. ‡

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This exhibition will highlight diverse works by more than 20 local artists from a wide range of Latin American origins. Guest curator Juliana Forero (founder of Nomad Art Projects) will weave a story with the work of artists whose families come from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, and Cuba, among others. Forero expects both unified and diverging themes to emerge from which she can develop a narrative of these many peoples crossing, sharing, and protecting their unique heritage. The aim of this exhibition is to highlight the range of Latin American experience by celebrating the art of its people. The exhibition will include didactic materials and opportunities for tours in Spanish and English.

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He’s the Adman

Before artist Robert “Bob” Birkenes moved to the Sunshine State, he worked as an adman in the Windy City, burn ing the midnight oil as a creative director on ads for such brands as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Special K cereal, and United Airlines, to name a few. Perhaps his greatest contribution to the advertising lexicon was his work for Eggo waffles and the iconic “Leggo my Eggo” campaigns that debuted in 1973.

“It feels weird to be considered a part of history,” says Birkenes. “The Eggo campaign originated from having fun. It was a lot of free-range when it came to this project. We wanted to do something that was memorable because the Eggo was more of a parody product. The idea of saying ‘Leggo my Eggo’ today is a phenomenon. Looking back on it, we really enjoyed doing it because it wasn’t hard work. During that time, we had no idea this phrase would still be around today.”

His career kicked off shortly after he graduated with his BFA in advertis ing and design from the ArtCenter College of Design in California. He notes that most graduates of the Art Center end up becoming commercial artists—and he was ready to do the same. “After graduating, the problem I had was that no one wanted to hire anyone who didn’t have experience working in Los Angeles,” he recalls. “Luckily, I had friends [with] connections in Chicago, so

BY DEON JEFFERSON

I moved there to find a job in advertising. I moved in the middle of a snowstorm. Needless to say, I aced the interview. My first job was at Foote, Cone & Belding.”

As a young creative director in the 1970s, Birkenes worked on accounts at Leo Burnett Advertising along side John Hughes, the writer and director who would go on to make such generation-defining films as Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. At the time, how ever, Chicago belonged to Hughes and Birkenes—not Ferris—and Birkenes fondly recalls late-night train rides when he and Hughes would trade quips in an effort to see who could make the other laugh.

In 1980, Birkenes relocated to Boca Raton and opened his own advertising agency. More recently, he’s pursued art outside of the ad world, creating landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, plein air drawings, and abstract paintings. His work has appeared in galleries and art exhibitions in several

HOW ONE PALM BEACH COUNTY ARTIST BECAME A PART OF ADVERTISING HISTORY

ROBERT BIRKENES, PICTURED ABOVE IN FRONT OF HIS ARTWORK, CONTRIBUTED TO FAMOUS AD CAMPAIGNS FOR PRODUCTS SUCH AS EGGO AND SPECIAL K CEREAL.

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cities across the country, including Chicago, Los Angeles, and South Florida.

“I’ve been painting and sketching my entire life,” he says. “I love drawing, especially cityscapes. It’s hard for me to get it out of my system. I did get to the point where I wanted to try something different, so abstract painting became a thing for me.

I approach my abstract art by asking myself: ‘What would I see if I looked through [the] Hubble Telescope from outer space?’” ‡

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PALM BEACH COUNTY ARTS PROFESSIONALS SHARE INSIGHT INTO THEIR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

BY HEATHER GRAULICH | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ATES ISILDAK

LYNDSEY CAREY AND LAUREN CAREY

Growing up in West Palm Beach’s historic El Cid neighborhood, sisters Lauren Carey and Lyndsey Carey were encouraged to appreciate art and cultivate their own creativity. They both gravitated toward dance, especially, leading them to the Dreyfoos School of the Arts, and for Lauren, a degree in dance from The Juilliard School and a master of arts from New York University.

Lauren returned to West Palm Beach after years of study in New York City and struck upon an idea: What if she could resurrect Ballet Florida, the esteemed local dance company founded by the late Marie Hale that shuttered in 2009? Both Lauren and Lyndsey studied there and have fond memories of its value in the cultural community.

Soon, the Careys had converted the ground floor of their childhood home into a dance studio. Lyndsey, who is finishing a bachelor of fine arts in illustration at Rocky Mountain College of Art, joined her sister to support the dance company with fresh designs for show graphics, costuming, and social media. The sisters say their eight-year age difference and unique personality traits—Lauren brings a type A perfectionism to tasks, while Lyndsey is the fiery one who gets to the point—create an ideal working relationship.

Now, with Lauren as artistic director and Lyndsey as director of outreach for the nonprofit company, their combined strengths are ushering Ballet Florida

into its 2022-23 season with plans for expansion and new audience experiences.

“I have a thousand ideas going on all at once, a lot of tabs open,” says Lauren. “Lyndsey is good about bringing me back to focus on one idea, giving me the checklist. She’s instrumental in being straightforward.”

“Lauren is very creative, and with her background in New York, she brings a lot of inspiration and ideas to the company that haven’t been brought to South Florida before,” Lyndsey says. “She made me realize how different mediums can interact with each other, like visual art with ballet.”

Ballet Florida will continue performance partner ships with the Kravis Center, The Square, and the Norton Museum of Art, while seeking a multifunctional space that can accommodate the growing company and allow for collaboration with more musicians and visual artists, the sisters say. They’re also developing a campus in Fort Pierce called Indian River Gardens to serve as an artists’ retreat and performance space, with vintage Airstream trailers as lodging. They plan to host an inaugural dance festival there in 2023. Ballet Flori da’s academy, which teaches dance to children, many of whom study on scholarship, will also continue.

“Ballet Florida is not just a ballet company,” says Lauren. “You have to be open to making it different. It’s important to make dance accessible.” balletflorida.org, 561.312.3115

SUE ELLEN BERYL AND WILLIAM HAYES

Sue Ellen Beryl and William Hayes of Palm Beach Dramaworks already had extensive individual theater experience when they met on stage more than 25 years ago. Each had been in a prior marriage and had five children between them. So, when romance blossomed and they got married, it was Dramaworks that became, as they say, “the child we had together.”

Beryl, who serves as Dramaworks’ managing director, made her professional debut as a dancer in New York City at age 9. She performed on stage and screen with artists such as Zero Mostel, Theodore Bikel, and Paul Sorvino before venturing in other professional directions, including theatrical management and 10 years in New York City’s advertising industry. Hayes is the theater’s producing artistic director and has worked as an actor, playwright, and director, with world premiere directing credits for Michael McKeever’s The People Downstairs and Joseph McDonough’s Ordinary Americans, to name a few.

In 2000, the couple founded Drama works, a professional nonprofit theater company recognized as West Palm Beach’s oldest regional theater and a literal cornerstone of Clematis Street; its down town home occupies a high-traffic locale where Clematis meets Narcissus Avenue, overlooking the fountain, park, and Intra coastal Waterway.

“Securing our permanent home on Clematis Street is the most important thing we’ve done together and our biggest accomplishment,” says Beryl. “Our unique working relationship made the difference in that we were able to handle different aspects of the project: raising the funds, overseeing the buildout, and mounting the firstThey’reproduction.”excited for Dramaworks’ current season, which kicks off with Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles October 14. Other highlights include two Pulitzer Prize–winning plays (Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks and August: Osage County by Tracy Letts), as well as the world premiere of Carter W. Lewis’ The Science of Leaving Omaha

Beryl describes her husband as the more visionary of the pair, who “hates sitting at a desk, or sitting at all, and is most comfortable standing in a rehearsal hall directing one of [our] stage productions.” Hayes, on the other hand, praises Beryl as a driven administrator and multitasker who gets things done. They even share an office at work—by choice.

“We feel that we are a good artistic team, and we complement each other,” Hayes says.

Adds Beryl: “It’s our nature to bounce thoughts and ideas off each other. We also collectively brainstorm and solve any obstacles that may come our way.” palmbeachdramaworks.org, 561.514.4042

For this pair, a beach vacation would launch an artistic partnership, bringing new visions in contemporary art to Lake Worth Beach.

Melissa DelPrete and Kenneth Schofield had already been friends for nearly 11 years, but in 2019, during Schofield’s visit with mutual friends to South Florida to see DelPrete and unwind, something else clicked.

“We talked all week, nonstop, about running a creative project or shop together,” DelPrete recalls. “We were exhausted and elated and unintentionally ignored our friends because we were just so excited about the ideas that seemed to be falling from the sky.”

Two years later, DelPrete says, she was running her new Lake Avenue gallery, Mtn Space, when “the stars aligned” and Schofield was ready to leave his job of 10 years to return to the creative sector.

Now, with DelPrete as its owner and Schofield as director, Mtn Space hosts and sells works by contemporary artists in varying stages of their careers. They include DelPrete herself, who earned degrees in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a master’s in arts education from Long Island University Post, as well as more than 15 Florida-based artists plus others from around the world.

The duo says their goals for 2023 include growing foot traffic to the gallery by rotating exhibits every five weeks and doing outreach within the local artistic community to continue raising awareness of the space.

Schofield, whose degree is in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, believes he and DelPrete provide each other with a sounding board for ideas. “Melissa always gets to the heart of the mat ter,” he says. “She sees the composition of things while I pick out the points of emphasis. I have an urge to elaborate, and Melissa encour ages that urge. Also, we talk a lot, about everything—our art practices, the selection of works, curation, design, event coordination, and our personal growth. Life itself is the artistic endeavor and those closest to you are your collaborators.”

“We have a great appreciation for each other’s aesthetics,” DelPrete adds. “Kenny is very organized and task-oriented, and I’m more fluid and open-ended. Because we’re friends and we know each other well, we really help each other get out of our own heads and feel confident. This helps put us in the state of mind [where] we’re not afraid to make mistakes.” mtnspace.com, 561.285.4883 SCHOFIELD AND MELISSA DELPRETE

Mykal Morrison and Andrew Rodriguez love the surprised look on audiences’ faces at the start of their shows. Here are two big guys— with backgrounds in mixed martial arts and bar bouncing—launching into achingly soulful music.

“We’re like the bad guys from a Disney movie, but we come out with these sweet melodies,” says Rodriguez. “My favorite thing is watching people’s jaws get blown off, because we look like roadies.”

The duo, known as MidnightFires, released their self-titled debut album last November, with instrumental contributions from Morrison as well as premier musicians including drummer Michael McDermott of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. They’re currently writing new music and plan to play shows this winter to promote the album.

“We call it ‘outlaw soul,’” Morrison says of their self-taught sound, which mixes elements of soul, blues, and a bit of country. “It’s vivid. You can see these sounds. We paint a picture.”

The name MidnightFires came from their experience recording their best work late into the night. “Midnight is when we get into our creative flow,” says Morrison, who works evenings at Propaganda,

the Lake Worth Beach bar and event space he manages. “It’s like a magic hour when things start happening.”

“We have stories of want and woe, love and pain, like an old western drama,” says Rodriguez. “I wrote Live Your Life Now after my mother passed away. At 19, I became my siblings’ custodial caretaker. When I showed it to Myk, he really understood what I was trying to do. We were like two big dudes crying while we recorded it.”

Both were born in Miami; Morrison now lives in Lantana while Rodri guez resides in Acworth, Georgia, and works as a boxing coach. They met in West Palm Beach as young men, but it was at an open mic night just a few years ago, when Morrison was fronting the Mykal Morrison Project and Rodriguez was singing for First Last & Always (FLa), that they realized how much life experience they had in common.

“We are the same where it counts, yet different,” Rodriguez says. “Mykal is methodical and diligent, especially when it comes to making music, where I am more like a raw thing—Mykal says it’s like working with a werewolf. Myk helps me stay in the project and the moment. And we both believe in meritocracy. There’s no ego.” themidnightfires.com

LESLIE ORTIZ AND LUIS MONTOYA

Leslie Ortiz recalls how her chance meeting with Luis Montoya would change the trajectory of her life. While Ortiz was visiting her birthplace of West Palm Beach in 1985 for her cousin’s wedding, her sister saw an ad in the newspaper: Montoya, a renowned local sculptor, was looking for a foundry worker to assist in his studio. Ortiz applied for the job, and the rest has been art“Wehistory.have different personalities, but we have a very strong bond through our desire to create sculpture,” says Ortiz. “Luis can see things right away and will aggressively pursue a project with abandon, while my approach is slower and more tempered. I’m good with fine-tuning and details, and Luis sees the whole concept and the abstract qualities of something. A balance occurs.”

As Montoya likes to say, “Four eyes are better than two.”

“We each have expertise and strengths in different areas, though we have similar training and background,” notes Montoya, who was born and raised in Spain. They both studied art in Europe, following the

classical techniques of sculpture, first mak ing sketches and clay models before hand crafting lost wax molds for the bronze.

In 1994, Montoya formally made Ortiz his artistic partner, and in the years since, their collaborative work has been prolific and popular, with hundreds of sculptures shown and sold in galleries and to private collectors around the world. In November, a retrospective of their work will open at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm

“NowBeach.that we’re getting older, we look back at these large pieces and we wonder, ‘How the hell did we do that?’” Montoya says with a chuckle. “We never jobbed anything out, we did everything—the molds, the sketches, the pours. A lot of sculptors

Thoughcannot.”theynow hire others for the physical and dangerous work of pour ing molten bronze, Montoya and Ortiz have no plans to slow down. The creative fire still burns too strongly. As Ortiz puts it, “We’ll work until we can’t anymore.” luismontoyaleslieortiz.com ‡

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An alumnus of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Ates Isildak is a photographer and artist based in West Palm Beach. He is also part of a creative duo, making up one half of the musical act Sagit tarius Aquarius alongside his wife, Carly Cassano. View more of his work at strangewaverecords.com

Tiny treats inspired by big artworks

By Mary PhotographyMurrayby Ashley Meyer

Amber Felton, executive pastry chef at Hive Bakery & Café in West Palm Beach, took inspira tion from a mural by Wellington artist Marc Beauregard. The work, which is located near the restaurant at 418 Palm Street, features verdant foliage and vibrant hues that reappear in Felton’s cupcakes. Felton also riffed on the mural’s motifs in her flavors: a coconut cupcake with orange marmalade and orange blossom buttercream. hivebakeryandcafe.com, 561.360.2196

Artist Danny Doya’s Eris and the Golden Apple mural in downtown West Palm Beach was the apple of Jamie Fago’s eye. The owner and cake designer of Southern Belle’s Cakery, Fago started with her signature sugar cookie and added an apple pie filling. She then decorated the cookie’s exterior with the mural’s gold and turquoise tones, taking her turn at bringing Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, to life. See more from Southern Belle’s Cakery (aka SBCakery) at Fago’s new storefront in the Juno Shoppes Plaza. sbcakery.com, 561.619.3131

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Few things are as synonymous with downtown Delray Beach as Anita Lovitt’s Dancing Pineapples mural, which greeted visitors and locals alike for more than a decade and now lives on in prints sold by the artist. Jenniffer Woo, the executive pastry chef at Charlie & Joe’s at Love Street in Jupiter, captured the feeling—and flavors—of Lovitt’s artwork, sandwiching pineapple jam between two vanilla cookies and decorating them with Art Deco flair. lovestreetjupiter.com,561.532.3280

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Jessica Nava, the Palm Beach Gardens–based creative behind Dulze Pastries, is an artist in her own right. For this assignment, Nava turned to one of Emmanuel Gonzalez’s new murals at Downtown Palm Beach Gardens, decorating sugar cookies with flamingos, leaves, and oranges that reflect the essence of the original artwork. For those looking to adopt a new hobby, Nava regularly hosts cookie-decorating classes, in addition to her custom confection services. instagram.com/dulze_pastries, 561.255.7384

Anna Ross of Anna Bakes has earned a local cult following for her weekly themed pastry boxes.

With Eduardo Kobra’s Einstein’s Theory of Love one of the county’s most popular murals, located at Subculture Coffee in West Palm Beach—as her muse, Ross whipped up baked coconut dough nuts dipped in a white chocolate coconut crumble, topping a few with a vanilla glaze. Think these are too beauti ful to eat? Taste test some of Ross’ other pastries inside Candid Coffee in West Palm Beach and a new Wellington location. annabakesfl.com

Ghosts are all around us. This is especially true in Palm Beach County, where the spirits of those who helped make the area what it is today can be felt in every loggia. Architect Addison Mizner’s pet monkey, Johnnie Brown, was laid to rest on Palm Beach, one of only two graves on the island. The spirit of Guy Metcalf, a public official and founder of South Florida’s first newspaper, is said to haunt West Palm Beach’s historic 1916 courthouse. And even the ghost of President John F. Kennedy has been rumored to frequent Ta-boo on Worth Avenue. Here, we explore three local spots where spirits reign supreme.

BY MARY MURRAY ILLUSTRATIONS BY GREGORY DIRR

Those who enter the Woodlawn Cemetery in West Palm Beach cross under a concrete arch with the inscription: “That which is so universal as death must be a blessing.” Prior to this, an iron gate welcomed visitors and the like to the cemetery, carved out of 17 acres of pineapple fields in 1904. It’s a fitting scene for our first tale of the Riddle House.

Originally known as the Gatekeeper’s Cottage, the wood-frame, Victorian-style home was the residence of the cemetery’s superintendent, who was responsible for thwarting grave robbers—a grave concern in the early 1900s. Its front parlor also hosted funerals. In 1920, West Palm’s first city manager, Karl Riddle, moved in with his wife, Louise. As the lore goes, one of the Riddles’ employees, a man named Joseph, hanged himself in the attic after falling on hard financial times. Afterward, Louise wrote in her diary that they had trouble keeping staff in the house, as they were frightened by murmuring voices and stairs that creaked so badly it sounded like some one was carrying a chain up them.

Palm Beach Atlantic University later purchased the home and used it as a woman’s dormitory, with some residents reporting waking up in the middle of the night to the sensation of someone playing with their hair. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the Riddle House

was moved farther west to Yesteryear Village on the South Florida Fairgrounds. The spirits, it would seem, followed suit.

Today, the Riddle House is open for tours and appears much like it did when Karl Riddle occupied it, complete with era-appropriate furnishings. One room that visitors cannot see is the attic. Stairs painted “haint” blue (a Lowcountry term for evil spirits) lead up to a space where, in 2008, the team from the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures made what they believed to be contact with Joseph.

“All kinds of stuff has happened in the Riddle House,” says Marla “Scottie” Burns, a co-founder and team leader of War Party Paranormal, which hosts History & Haunts in Yesteryear Vil lage. She adds that the entire living history park is full of ghost stories, and each has “their own cast of Josephcharacters.”isn’ttheonly ghost who calls the Riddle House home. Some have felt the pres ence of a little boy in the nursery. Others have glimpsed a woman sitting on one of the upstairs beds. Visitors have also reported hearing music and whispering, and even seeing figures in the windows and people dancing and playing cards on the front porch. Burns has captured EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) and heard the back-door bell in the kitchen ring for no reason.

SPECIAL THANKS

While the ghost stories are legend, many of Palm Beach County’s historical societies and paranormal professionals provided background research for this article. A special thanks to Susan Gillis of the Boca Raton Historical Society (bocahistory.org), Judy Reed of the Historical Society of Lake Worth (historicalsocietyoflakeworth.org), Connie Christman of Yesteryear Village at the South Florida Fair (southfloridafair. com/p/yesteryearvillage), Marla “Scottie” Burns of War Party Paranormal (warparty paranormal.com), and Rose Guerrero of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County (pbchistory.org), which will host Haunting History events October 13 and 20.

For the earliest inhabitants of the Boca Raton Municipal Cemetery and Mausoleum, a final resting place has proven to be not so final. The original cemetery was established in 1916, when a burial was made on the property of pioneer Frank Chesebro, who ran a pineapple plantation and nursery. At the time, Boca was a sleepy farming town. As it grew, the cemetery and its graves were relocated twice, in 1928 and 1943. In the 1980s, the first of many mausoleums was built. Today, one of those buildings is said to be haunted by the gentle spirit of a young girl.

In April 1989, 15-year-old Mary Davis died at Boca Raton Community Hospital when two tumors in her brain hemorrhaged. In the months leading up to her death, Mary underwent an experimental marrow transplant to treat her cancer. The community rallied behind her, with local businesses and groups sponsoring fundraisers to help pay for

the operation. Mary’s father was a pastor at a Boca Raton church, and a family friend is quoted in the Boca Raton News as saying: “She really had a will to live and a great faith in God.”

Mary Davis was laid to rest in the mausoleum’s tranquil rotunda, where a stained-glass window depicting two doves is flanked by two angel statues. She shares a space with her twin brother, Alex, who passed away in 2010. Some who visit have reported seeing a young girl, either walking the marble halls or kneeling in prayer. In particular, she seems to appear to those who pause to rest on a bench or who are grieving for a loved one interred there.

“People have been known to sense a presence and get a fleeting look at a little girl,” says Susan Gillis, curator at the Boca Raton Historical Society. “Most of the stories I’ve heard are that she’s a calming presence.”

Nestled in downtown Lake Worth Beach, the Gulfstream Hotel was a hub of community activity for most of the twentieth century. For the last two decades, however, that activity has been a little less … lively.

The Gulfstream opened in January 1925, coincid ing with a boom in Florida’s new tourism market. Several major fetes preceded its debut, beginning with a New Year’s Eve party and culminating in an eight-course dinner dance attended by local celebri ties and the daughter of former President Woodrow Wilson. The six-story hotel included a 200-person dining room, a lobby with black and gold furnish ings, a second-floor promenade court, and 130 guest rooms that, while small by modern standards, fea tured en-suite bathrooms. The arcade on the build ing’s north and east sides provided a shady respite, and the veranda was a favorite spot for afternoon tea.

For the better part of 50 years, the Gulfstream evolved with the times and was popular among visitors from the Midwest and Northeast. The hotel hit its stride in the 1930s, especially, when guests— mostly retired couples—would plan their weekslong visits around the hotel, its activities, and group excursions to nearby sites.

As the legend goes, it was during the 1930s when a girl named Maggie checked in with her family and never checked out. Tragedy struck when the 6-year-old fell down an elevator shaft and died. In the years after, guests and staff attributed “pranks” such as misbehaving television sets and flickering lights to the mischievous spirit. Some people even believed she tapped them on the shoulder or tugged on their skirts.

While the Gulfstream has been shuttered since 2005, developers recently received approval to renovate and reopen the hotel. In the mid-2010s, Marla “Scottie” Burns and War Party Paranormal gained access to the property to investigate its paranormal phenomena. Her team picked up more than little Maggie. “It spans the entire property, but we spent a lot of time on the third floor and had a lot of activity,” she says.

Among their recorded encounters, Burns and her colleagues have documented a shadow twirling on the dance floor in the bar area and a voice speaking in German. While she’s not sure of their identities, she believes the Gulfstream’s ghosts are plenti ful. “We got to know the spirits in there,” she says. “They were like our old friends.” ‡

A graduate of the Ringling College of Art and Design, Gregory Dirr is an interdisci plinary visual artist based in Boca Raton. View more of his work at gregorydirr.com MEET OUR ILLUSTRATOR

A EDUCATIONNever-Ending

BY SUSIE STANTON STAIKOS | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JERRY RABINOWITZ

LEFT: REGAN ROHDE AT HER WEST PALM BEACH HOME IN FRONT OF UNTITLED WOMAN (2021), GRACE WEAVER, A PIECE INSPIRED BY WEAVER’S RUNS DURING THE INITIAL COVID PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN IN NEW YORK CITY.

ABOVE: MRS. VODDEN’S FLOWERS (2014), JOSÉ LERMA, APPEARS IN THE FOREGROUND, WHILE A 2019 PIECE BY COSTA RICAN ARTIST FEDERICO HERRERO CAN BE SEEN IN ROHDE’S DINING ROOM.

Collector Regan Rohde supports emerging artists and is on a quest to bring new voices to the local arts community

s any Floridian knows, there’s ample inspiration to be found in the water. For Regan Rohde, who relocated to West Palm Beach from Chicago two years ago, inspiration struck while she was swimming some morning laps in her condominium’s pool. A woman nearby was bemoaning the misguided notion that the area was devoid of culture. Still a newcomer, Rohde took that surprising statement to heart and began brainstorming ways to bring new galleries and artists to Palm Beach County.

In December 2021, Rohde launched Arts & Conversations, with the goal of growing the local cultural community and demystifying the art world for collectors from all walks of life. For the 2021-22 season, Rohde

invited four galleries (Kavi Gupta Gallery, Patron Gallery, and Engage Projects out of Chicago, as well as Moskowitz Bayse from Los Angeles) to bring curated selections to Studio 1608 on West Palm Beach’s Antique Row, kicking off each exhibition with an opening night salon and discus sions with the gallerists, art world luminaries, and the artists themselves.

“Because of COVID I couldn’t bring dancers down, I couldn’t bring opera down, but I could bring young gallerists who have young emerg ing artists,” says Rohde. “Why not introduce them to this market and see how that works? It was really thrilling to me to have an idea and fig ure out how to help them in a meaningful way—not just a handout but through encouraging them to show their art.”

The opening night salons proved to be so popular that they soon moved into the gallery’s parking lot. Rohde also partnered with the restaurant next door, Table 26, enabling attendees to continue conservations with the speakers and forge relationships with fellow art lovers.

Rohde’s role as founder of Arts & Conversations is just the latest chapter in her personal narrative, which includes time spent as a professional ballet dancer, an actor, and a philanthropist. Throughout it all, art has remained a constant theme. She recalls the Impressionist art in her childhood home, as well as exploring museums, churches, and mosques with her parents on summer trips near and far. Currently, Rohde is part of the Emerge group at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago—which furthers the museum’s mission primarily through acquisitions of works by artists not already represented in its permanent collection—and she has also joined the Contemporary and Modern Art Council (CMAC) at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm

HerBeach.personal art collection is an exciting grouping of international artists, with a strong representation of women. When curating for her home, she gives sig

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: RUE D’AMIENS (1991), JACQUES VIL LEGLÉ; A PIECE BY CAL VIN MARCUS, AS WELL AS FAMILY PORTRAIT (2021), ORKIDEH TORABI; THE ACCIDENTAL DESTRUC TION OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS (2019), JACOB HASHIMOTO; A 2018 PINK WORK FEATURING WORDS BY MAYNARD MONROW AND A 2022 $50 BILL BY STACEY LEE WEBBER SITS NEXT TO A TREE PAINTING BY RO HDE’S VIVIANGRANDDAUGHTER,RYANROHDE.

nificant consideration to how the works relate to one another. “I feel that art has to be in conversa tion, especially if you are in an open space,” she says. “What pieces talk to each other? What pieces work [together]? What’s the energy of the artist? That’s very important to me.”

Rohde identifies a cultural trip to Cuba with the Art Institute of Chicago as a pivotal moment in her collecting journey. One day, she broke away from the group and encountered artist Daylene Ro dríguez Moreno. One of Moreno’s photographs in particular spoke to Rohde. Entitled Broken Dreams, the heartrending image depicts an old woman whose face shows her years and the signs of dashed hopes. The glass fragments incorporat ed into the frame are a metaphor for the shattered dreams that might have been.

Born in 1978, Moreno lives and works in Havana. She approaches photography with a sensitive eye, creating intimate black-and-white images that offer insight into how the subject’s origins or circumstances have deterred their promise or the possibility of fulfillment. Broken Dreams, which now hangs in a guest room in Rohde’s West Palm Beach apartment, was the first work Moreno sold outside of Cuba. Just before COVID, Rohde also helped Moreno gain gallery representation in Boston.

“Translating her letter, I learned that she had taken her first vacation because I had bought a piece of her work. That’s transformative,” says Rohde. “The emerging artists market is for me because it hits all the whistles that I’m passionate about. I think if women don’t help other women there’s a problem. I don’t just collect female artists, but I think it is very important that you lend a hand if you can.”

Another woman represented in Rohde’s collec tion is Lalla Essaydi, a Moroccan artist born in 1956. Essaydi’s Moroccan roots, her years spent in Saudi Arabia, and her studies in Paris and Boston, where she now lives, have given her a global perspec tive on her own cultural background and experi ence growing up in an Arab society, especially as it concerns the role and perception of women in the Arab world. She likes to set her models in tradi tional surroundings to emphasize the private spac es that women are culturally required to inhabit. Her work also boasts elements of the Hurufiyya movement in which artists manipulate traditional

BROKEN DREAMS BY CUBAN ARTIST DAYLENE RODRÍGUEZ MORENO FEATURES A FRAME ENHANCED WITH GLASS FRAGMENTS.

calligraphy to express a unique visual dialogue within contemporary Arabic art.

Essaydi’s Bullets Revisited #34 caught Rohde’s attention while she was picking up another artist’s work at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York.

“Lalla’s [photograph] was peeking around the corner from me as I was discussing prices,” Rohde recalls. “I just could not take my eyes off her. So that was that. She found a home, and I loved her story.”

The image centers on a young Moroccan woman curled up on a bed. She dons a dress featuring a stylized Arabic calligraphy (typically created by men), which also covers her face and arms as a form of henna (a tradition carried out by women). Her gaze is directed at the viewer. The “bullets” referred to in the title are bullet shells Essaydi painstakingly cut into squares, pierced, and threaded together to form a heavy, glistening woven fabric. Each of these

elements and the subject matter of her photographs fuse the influences of Eastern cultural symbols and the fantasy imagery of Western Orientalist painters such as Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Delacroix, and John Singer Sargent. Bullets Revisited #34 is currently on view at the Norton Museum of Art through November 6 as part of a 10-year retrospective on Essaydi’s work called Lalla Essaydi: Un/Veiled

In contrast to the carefully defined and detailed photographs by Essaydi and Moreno, American art ist Grace Weaver (born 1989) uses thick paintbrushes to depict chubby-limbed, pink-skinned women in bold, broad, and unrefined loose strokes. Despite the differences in technique and medium, these artists share a similar theme: observing women in solitary moments, each in their own distinct world.

Weaver is represented at James Cohan Gallery in New York, and Rohde had already acquired a piece by her, Crying Up, before attempting to purchase an other. “I had been following Grace for a few years,” says Rohde. “She sells very quickly, and when I tried unsuccessfully to get more of her work, I asked to reserve a piece before Miami Basel opened. She is evolving, and every collection is different. I believe she is one to follow.”

Untitled Woman (Weaver’s 2021 painting that is now part of Rohde’s collection) is a departure from her more cartoon-like work. Thinly applied bright

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: UNTITLED WOMAN (2021), GRACE WEAVER; SASSO (1991), MARIA GAMUNDI, WITH ROCKSTEADY BY JEFF KOONS IN THE BACKGROUND; THE SCULPTURE AFTER BIRTH 1 (2013), ENRICO DAVID, SITS IN FRONT OF PLAYGROUND (2015), OTOBONG NKANGA.

colors pop against a dark background, and gone are the confining black outlines Weaver previously placed around her figures. The young, blond-haired woman casts a glance as she jogs across the large canvas. The painting is part of a series, 11 Women, wherein Weaver situated the titular figures in what she calls the “theater of public life.” Despite the hubbub around them, these women are alone. This sense of isolation is one most of us have become all too familiar with during the COVID era. The evening runs through empty city streets Weaver and her husband took at the height of the pandemic— and the eerie atmosphere they encountered—served as inspiration for the series.

“The scale is fabulous, and I only had one wall to ac commodate her,” Rohde says of the piece. “But I trusted my eye when I saw her in person.”

This trust in her eye has served her well. When acquiring art, Rohde doesn’t set out with an agenda. Rather, she collects what she likes and does her homework. Her curiosity is not only reflected in her personal art collection, but in the Arts & Conversations series she shares with her new community in South Florida. The programming will continue this winter—and so will Rohde’s education. ‡

LEFT: ROHDE APPEARS WITH FAMILIA (2014), RENÉ FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, AND CHRISTMAS ROSES (2010), VALÉRIE BELIN. ABOVE: BULLETS REVISITED #34 BY LALLA ESSAYDI IS CURRENTLY ON LOAN TO THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART AS PART OF LALLA ESSAYDI: UN/VEILED

CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS

This season, Rohde will once again host Arts & Conversations at 1608 S. Dixie Highway, with additional shows at private residences. Visit artsandconversations.com to learn more. For more cultural conservations, head to The Ben in West Palm Beach November 7 for the next edition of the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s

Culture & Cocktails series with chefs Pushkar Marathe, Lisabet Summa, and Lindsay Autry (palmbeachculture.com). The Society of the Four Arts, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Flagler Museum, and the Norton Museum of Art also frequently host special lectures themed to their permanent collections and special exhibitions.

WEB EXCLUSIVE SEE MORE OF ROHDE’S COLLECTION AT PALMBEACH CULTURE.COM/MAGAZINE

The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum on Palm Beach will showcase the estate’s many lives and the meaning behind its design in a special exhibition entitled The Story of Whitehall, on view October 11 to December 31. Whitehall was the winter home of in dustrialist Henry Flagler and his wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, from 1902 to 1913—but that accounts for its shortest period of use. After investors added an 11-story tower, Whitehall served as a luxurious hotel from 1925 to 1959, hosting such celebrities as Greta Garbo and Walt Disney. Finally, in

1959, Flagler’s granddaughter, Jean Flagler Matthews, formed a nonprofit corporation, which purchased the property and opened it as a museum. Visitors to Whitehall’s exhibi tion hall will see these different eras come to life in photography culled from the Flagler Museum’s archives and collection. The Story of Whitehall will also spotlight Whitehall’s design that includes symbolism reflective of classical motifs and exemplary of the Gilded Age, for which Flagler and his beloved home have become synonymous. flaglermuseum.us, 561.655.2833 —Mary Murray

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Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, to Oct. 20, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

Grassy Waters Annual Nature Photo Contest

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, to Oct. 21, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

New & Now: Artists in Residence and New Faculty

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, to Oct. 21, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

Members’ Show 2022

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, West Palm Beach, to Oct. 28, workshop.org, 561.253.2600

Waves

Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, to Oct. 29, artswarehouse.org, 561.330.9614

Deep in the Palms: Mixed-Media Paintings by Toby Gotesman Schneier Sandhill Crane Golf Clubhouse, Palm Beach Gardens, to Nov. 1, pbgrec.com/gardensart, 561.630.1116

Lalla Essaydi: Un/Veiled Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, to Nov. 6, norton.org, 561.832.5196

Surplus Reiterations: Letty Bassart, Rod Faulds, Tom Scicluna

Florida Atlantic University Ritter Art Gallery and Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space, Boca Raton, to Nov. 6, fau.edu/galleries, 561.297.2661

Women in the Visual Arts

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, to Nov. 12, palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

John Bowen: Touched by the Sun Tennis & Pickleball Center, Palm Beach Gardens, to Nov. 29, pbgrec.com/ gardensart, 561.630.1116

Porous Boundaries: Carol Prusa

Florida Atlantic University Schmidt Center Gallery, Boca Raton, to Dec. 16, fau.edu/ galleries, 561.297.2661

To Be Continued: Tammy Knipp

Florida Atlantic University Schmidt Center Gallery, Boca Raton, to Dec. 16, fau.edu/ galleries, 561.297.2661

50 Years of Collecting

The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum, to Dec. 21, bocahistory.org, 561.395.6766

Hispanic Heritage: Going Places

Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, to Dec. 30, pbchistory.org, 561.832.4164

From Houses to Hospitals: Improving Health Care in the 1920s

Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, to Jan. 1, pbchistory.org, 561.832.4164

Autumn Mountains and the Light of the Harvest Moon

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, to Jan. 15, norton.org, 561.832.5196

Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

Boca Raton Museum of Art, to Jan. 22, bocamuseum.org, 561.392.2500

Reginald Cunningham: Black Pearls

Boca Raton Museum of Art, to Jan. 561.392.2500bocamuseum.org,22,

Henry IntimateTanner:OssawaPictures

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A PERSONAL VIEW ON HIGH FASHION AND STREET STYLE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NICOLA ERNI COLLECTION, 1930S TO NOW AT THE NORTON INCLUDES WORK BY AMY ARBUS, ARTHUR ELGORT, AND HORST P. HORST.

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, to March 12, norton.org, 561.832.5196

Dinosaur Explorer

Cox Science Center and Aquarium, West Palm Beach, to April 30, coxsciencecenter.org, 561.832.1988

A Personal View on High Fashion and Street Style: Photographs from the Nicola Erni Collection, 1930s to Now

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Oct. 8 to Feb. 12, norton.org, 561.832.5196

The Story of Whitehall

Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Oct. 11 to Dec. 31, flaglermuseum.us, 561.655.2833

Hunt Slonem: The World According to Hunt Slonem

Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta, Oct. 13 to Dec. 10, lighthousearts.org, 561.746.3101

Lucio Chiurulla: Structures

Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta, Oct. 13 to Dec. 10, lighthousearts.org, 561.746.3101

Lush2

Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta, Oct. 13 to Dec. 10, lighthousearts.org, 561.746.3101

Michelle Drummond

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, Oct. 14 to Dec. 3, palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Oct. 15 to Jan. 15, norton.org, 561.832.5196

Resident Photo Contest Group Exhibition

City Hall Lobby, Palm Beach Gardens, Oct. 17 to Dec. 8, pbgrec.com/gardensart, 561.630.1116

BraveHeARTS: Supporting Emerging Artists from our United States Veterans Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Oct. 28 to Nov. 11, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

Contemporary Art of the Latin American Diaspora

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, Oct. 28 to Jan. 14, palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

Verdant Bodies: A Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Oct. 28 to Nov. 18, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

Stanley Dornfest: Luminous Landscapes

Sandhill Crane Golf Clubhouse, Palm Beach Gardens, Nov. 3 to Jan. 24, pbgrec.com/ gardensart, 561.630.1116

Tribal Nation: Masks

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 3 to Dec. 16, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Nov. 5 to April 2, morikami.org, 561.495.0233

Women in the Visual Arts

Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Nov. 6 to Dec. 15, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Abundance of Riches by Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz, 1972-2022

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Nov. 16 to Dec. 30 (gardens exhibition to June 30), ansg.org, 561.832.5328

South Florida Cultural Consortium Winner Gabino Castelán

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, Nov. 18 to Dec. 31, palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

Armory Faculty Show

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 28 to Dec. 16, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

FROM LEFT: A DOLEFUL LOOK AND MANY SIDES OF THE SOUL (LOLLYPOPS), LUCIO CHIURULLA, AT THE LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER

SPARTINA SPARTINAE, DIANE FALKENHAGEN, PART OF VERDANT BODIES AT THE ARMORY ART CENTER

LOOK, SASAI FUMIE, PART OF HARD BODIES: CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LACQUER SCULPTURE AT THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS

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Burns Road Community Center, Palm Beach Gardens, Nov. 30 to Jan. 26, pbgrec.com/ gardensart, 561.630.1116

Irina Pushkareva: Florida Wildlife in Art Tennis & Pickleball Center, Palm Beach Gardens, Dec. 1 to Jan. 12, pbgrec.com/ gardensart, 561.630.1116

Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 3 to Jan. 22, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

David Rubinson

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, Dec. 9 to Jan. 21, palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

Laurie Snow Hein: An Artist’s View of Florida

City Hall Lobby, Palm Beach Gardens, Dec. 12 to Feb. 2, pbgrec.com/gardensart, 561.630.1116

STAGE AND SCREEN

Fun Home Lake Worth Playhouse, to Oct. 16, lakeworthplayhouse.org, 561.586.6410

Love, Loss, and What I Wore Delray Beach Playhouse, Oct. 7-9, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

The Boomer Boys: A Musical Comedy Delray Beach Playhouse, Oct. 12-16, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Milk and Honey

The Wick Theatre, Boca Raton, Oct. 13 to Nov. 6, thewick.org, 561.995.2333

4000 Miles

Palm Beach Dramaworks, West Palm Beach, Oct. 14-30, 561.514.4042palmbeachdramaworks.org,

Joe Machi

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Oct. 20, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

Craig Ferguson

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Oct. 21-22, 561.833.1812palmbeachimprov.com,

National Geographic Live: Terry Virts, View from Above Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Oct. 21, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Click, Clack, Moo

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Oct. 22, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Corey Holcomb

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Oct. 23, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Oct. 25 to Nov. 13, jupitertheatre.org, 561.575.2223

Stavros Halkias

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Oct. 26, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

Jimmy Dore

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Oct. 27, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

Churchill starring David Payne

Delray Beach Playhouse, Oct. 28-30, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Garage Queens Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Oct. 28 (also Nov. 25 and Dec. 30), artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Marlon Wayans

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Oct. 28-30, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

The Phantom of the Opera film screening with organist Cameron Carpenter

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Oct. 29, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

DC’s Reflecting Fools

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 1-6, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Jon Lovitz

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Nov. 4-6, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

Melissa Mastrangelo: Slice of Paradise

DISNEY’S ALADDIN ARRIVES AT THE KRAVIS

LIFE IN THE TROPICS, MELISSA MASTRANGELO, ON VIEW AT THE BURNS ROAD COMMUNITY CENTER

Tell Him it’s Jackie

Delray Beach Playhouse, Nov. 4-6, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

The Thin Place

Boca Stage, Sol Theatre, Boca Raton, Nov. 6-20, bocastage.net, 561.300.0152

Wiesenthal

Delray Beach Playhouse, Nov. 9-13, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Beehive: The ’60s Musical

Lake Worth Playhouse, Nov. 11-20, lakeworthplayhouse.org, 561.586.6410

On Your Feet: The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 15-20, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Joe DeVito

Delray Beach Playhouse, Nov. 18, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Small Mouth Sounds

Stonzek Theatre at Lake Worth Playhouse, Nov. 18-27, lakeworthplayhouse.org, 561.586.6410

Dorothy’s Dictionary

Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Nov. 19 to Dec. 11, fauevents.com, 561.297.6124

Great Art on Screen: Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Nov. 20, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Dirty Dancing in Concert film screening Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 23, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Cinderella

The Wick Theatre, Boca Raton, Nov. 25 to Dec. 24, thewick.org, 561.995.2333

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Nov. 28 to Dec. 18, jupitertheatre.org, 561.575.2223

Calendar Girls

Lake Worth Playhouse, Dec. 2-4, lakeworthplayhouse.org, 561.586.6410

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Dec. 2-9, events.lynn.edu, 561.237.9000

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

MNM Theatre Company, The Willow Theatre, Sugar Sand Park, Boca Raton, Dec. 2-18, 561.347.3948sugarsandpark.org/willow-theatre,

Villainous Comedy

Delray Beach Playhouse, Dec. 2-18, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

John Mulaney

iThink Financial Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, Dec. westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com3,

Ismo Leikola

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Dec. 4, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812

37 Postcards by Michael McKeever

West Boca Theater Company, Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Dec. 7-18, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Diva’s Holiday Party Lake Worth Playhouse, Dec. 9, lakeworthplayhouse.org, 561.586.6410

John Crist

Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach, Dec. 9-10, palmbeachimprov.com, 561.833.1812 561.795.8883

Lewis Black

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 9, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Twelve Angry Men

Palm Beach Dramaworks, West Palm Beach, Dec. 9-24, 561.514.4042palmbeachdramaworks.org,

Great Art on Screen: Maverick Modigliani

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 11, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Disney’s Aladdin

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 14-23, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Anthony Rodia

Delray Beach Playhouse, Dec. 18, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Here You Come Again: How Dolly Parton Saved My Life in 12 Easy Songs

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 28-31, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

THE SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR WILL PERFORM AT THE KRAVIS CENTER DECEMBER 19-20.

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A Tribute to Miles Davis

FAU University Theatre, Boca Raton, Nov. 10, fauevents.com, 561.297.6124

Miami City Ballet in the Palm Beaches: Romeo and Juliet Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 11-13, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

MUSIC AND DANCE

Summer of Soul, 1969: A Retrospective

FAU University Theatre, Boca Raton, Oct. 13, fauevents.com, 561.297.6124

Life in a Song: The JD Danner Story Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Oct. 14, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

The Joey Gilmore Band Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Oct. 16, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Palm Beach Symphony Dale A. McNulty

Children’s Concert Series: The Adventures of Peter and the Wolf Eissey Campus Theatre, Palm Beach Gardens, Oct. 16, palmbeachsymphony.org, 561.281.0145

Eliza Neals

Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Oct. 21, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Ballet Palm Beach: Snow White Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Oct. 26, balletpalmbeach.org, 561.630.8235

Stevie Nicks and Vanessa Carlton

iThink Financial Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, Oct. 561.795.8883westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com,28,

Lynn University Philharmonia No. 2 Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Oct. 29-30, events.lynn.edu, 561.237.9000

The Motowners Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Oct. 29, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Max Kaplan and the Magics Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Oct. 30, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Grupo Niche

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 5, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Irena Kofman and Friends

FAU University Theatre, Boca Raton, Nov. 5, fauevents.com, 561.297.6124

Svetlana and the New York Collective Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Nov. 5, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Palm Beach Symphony: Sarah Chang Plays Bruch Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 6, palmbeachsymphony.org, 561.281.0145

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 9, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Tito Puente Jr. Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Nov. 11-12, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Lynn University Philharmonia No. 3 Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Nov. 12-13, events.lynn.edu, 561.237.9000

Neil Berg’s 112 Years of Broadway Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 14, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

The Symphonia: Fire Roberts Theater at Saint Andrew’s School, Boca Raton, Nov. 13, thesymphonia.org, 561.376.3848

Odyssey Road: Tribute to Journey Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Nov. 16, jupitertheatre.org, 561.575.2223

Beethoven and Belief with pianist Roberta Rust

SEE ON YOUR FEET: THE STORY OF EMILIO AND ESTEFANGLORIA AT THE KRAVIS NOVEMBERCENTER15-20.

CATCH

COREYDJ

Snyder Sanctuary, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Nov. 17, events.lynn.edu, 561.237.9000

ClarinetFest: Quintets of Mozart and Brahms with José Franch-Ballester

Presented by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Nov. 17, cmspb.org, 561.379.6773

David Clark presents Live at the Garden: The Music of Billy Joel Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Nov. 17, jupitertheatre. org, 561.575.2223

Luis Mario Ochoa: Forever Lecuona Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Nov. 18, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Top of the World: A Carpenters Tribute Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Nov. 18, jupitertheatre. org, 561.575.2223

Germán López Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 19, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Stephanie J. Block: Believe Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Nov. 19, jupitertheatre. org, 561.575.2223

Best of the Eagles Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Nov. 20, jupitertheatre. org, 561.575.2223

Marlow Rosado Latin Jazz Ensemble Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Nov. 26, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

One Night of Queen Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Nov. 26, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Robert Sharon Chorale German-American Club, Lake Worth Beach, Nov. 26, rschorale.com, 561.687.4245

Celtic Angels Christmas

Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, Belle Glade, Nov. 30, 561.993.1160palmbeachstate.edu/theatre,

A Chanticleer Christmas

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Nov. 30, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Palm Beach Symphony with Garrick Ohlsson Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 1, palmbeachsymphony.org, 561.281.0145

Ballet Palm Beach: The Nutcracker Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 3-4, balletpalmbeach.org, 561.630.8235

Screening of The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 3, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Tribute to Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks

Veterans Plaza Amphitheater, Palm Beach Gardens, Dec. 3, pbgrec.com, 561.630.1100

Carols on the Lawn

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 4, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Destination Motown

Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Dec. 4, jupitertheatre.org, 561.575.2223

FAU Tuba Christmas

Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton, Dec. 4, fauevents.com, 561.297.6124

The Symphonia: Earth Roberts Theater at Saint Andrew’s School, Boca Raton, Dec. 4, thesymphonia.org, 561.376.3848

The Victory Dolls Holiday Show Delray Beach Playhouse, Dec. 5-6, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Canadian Brass

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 7, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

One Night in Memphis: Presley, Perkins, Lewis, and Cash

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 7, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

The Spa Trio: Songs from the Salon with soprano Susanna Phillips

Presented by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Dec. 7, cmspb.org, 561.379.6773

This Land is Your Land: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

Delray Beach Playhouse, Dec. 7, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Nut/Cracked

FAU University Theatre, Boca Raton, Dec. 9-10, fauevents.com, 561.297.6124

SARAH CHANG WILL PERFORM WITH THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY

Palm Beach Symphony: Handel’s Messiah

Rosarian Academy, West Palm Beach, Dec. 9-10, palmbeachsymphony.org, 561.281.0145

Robert Sharon Chorale

DeSantis Chapel, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Dec. 9-10, rschorale.com, 561.687.4245

Flutist Néstor Torres

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 10, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Screening of The Metropolitan Opera’s production of The Hours

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 10, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Young Singers of the Palm Beaches: Winter Tapestry Twentieth Anniversary Concert

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 10, yspb.org, 561.651.4429

Lynn HolidayPhilharmoniaUniversityGingerbreadConcert

Wold Performing Arts Center, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Dec. 11, events. lynn.edu, 561.237.9000

Pianist George Li

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 11, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Black Violin

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 12, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Celebrating the Songs of Jule Styne Delray Beach Playhouse, Dec. 12-20, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

Saxophonist Stephen Banks

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 14, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Robert Sharon Chorale with the Gold Coast Band

First Baptist Church of Boynton Beach, Dec. 15, rschorale.com, 561.687.4245

Anthony Geraci Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Dec. 17, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

SOPRANO SUSANNA PHILLIPS WILL PERFORM WITH THE SPA TRIO AT THE NORTON DECEMBER 7.

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Screening of The National Opera of Ukraine’s performance of The Nutcracker The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 17, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Robert Sharon Chorale Holiday Concert

DeSantis Chapel, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Dec. 17, rschorale.com, 561.687.4245

GOT the Holiday Soul with Gianni Organ Trio Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Dec. 18, artsgarage.org, 561.450.6357

Soweto Gospel Choir

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 19-20, yspb.org, 561-651-4429

Aaron Kula and the Klezmer Company Jazz Orchestra: A Very Jewish Concert on Christmas Day

Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Dec. 25, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Miami City Ballet in the Palm Beaches: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 2830, kravis.org, 561.832.7469

Feelin’ Good: A Michael Bublé Tribute Delray Beach Playhouse, Dec. 30 to Jan. 1, delraybeachplayhouse.com, 561.272.1281

ABBAmania Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Dec. 31, jupitertheatre.org, 561.575.2223

SPEAKERS, FESTIVALS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Haunted History

1916 Historic Courtroom, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Oct. 13 and 20, pbchistory.org, 561.832.4164

Boca Raton Pumpkin Patch Festival

Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton, Oct. 15-16, bocapumpkinpatch.com

Lighthouse Sunset Tour

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum, Oct. 19 (also Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9, and Nov. 16), jupiterlighthouse.org, 561.747.8380

Fall Festival

Gardens North County District Park, Palm Beach Gardens, Oct. 22, pbgrec.com, 561.630.1100

Ghosts, Changelings, and Apparitions in Traditional Japanese Tales with William Wilson

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Oct. 29, morikami.org, 561.495.0233

Haunted History of Lake Worth Playhouse

Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach, Oct. 29, 561.868.7700

History Talks: Randal Agostini on An Englishman in the Seminole War: A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose

1916 Historic Courtroom, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Nov. 2, pbchistory.org, 561.832.4164

Continuum Palm Beach Art Fair

Palm Beach Art, Antique, & Design Showroom, Lake Worth Beach, Nov. 3-30, continuumwpbarts.com

First Friday Art Walk

Downtown Delray Beach, Nov. 4 (also Dec. 2), 561.243.1077downtowndelraybeach.com/artwalk,

Washi Textile Prints: Art of Imperfection (Wabi Sabi) with Yuko Kimura

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Nov. 4, morikami.org, 561.495.0233

LagoonFest

Flagler Drive, downtown West Palm Beach, Nov. 5, thepalmbeaches.com

Culture & Cocktails: Foodies, a Tasty Conversation with Local Chefs

The Ben, West Palm Beach, Nov. 7, palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

Lighthouse Moonrise Tour

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum, Nov. 8 (also Dec. 8), jupiterlighthouse.org, 561.747.8380

The Garden Club of Palm Beach Christmas Boutique

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Nov. 10-11, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Holiday Kickoff

The Square, West Palm Beach, Nov. 12, thesquarewestpalm.com, 561.232.6552

Juno Beach Craft Festival

14200 U.S. Hwy. 1, Juno Beach, Nov. 12-13, artfestival.com, 561.746.6615

Reggae Fest FL

Boynton Beach Amphitheater, Nov. 12, reggaefestfl.com, 561.279.0907

Sculpture in Motion: The Art of Pre- and Post-War Automobiles

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Nov. 12, ansg.org, 561.832.5328

SCENE

Chasing Wild with Mac Stone and Luca Martinez

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Nov. 14, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

The First Ladies of Comedy with Evan Weiner

Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Nov. 17, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Live Now: Creative Process in Interior Design with Victoria Hagan

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Nov. 17, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Mock Trials: Was it Murder?

1916 Historic Courtroom, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Nov. 17, pbchistory.org, 561.832.4164

Virtual History Talks: Jose Garcia on the Mariel Boatlift

Presented online by the Historical Society of

Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Nov. 17, pbchistory.org, 561.832.4164

Zoo Lights

Palm Beach Zoo, West Palm Beach, Nov. 18 to Jan. 1, palmbeachzoo.org, 561.547.9453

Downtown West Palm Beach Art Festival

The Square, West Palm Beach, Nov. 19-20, artfestival.com, 561.746.6615

The Current Political Landscape: From the Supreme Court to the Mid-Term Elections with Robert Watson

Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Nov. 29, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Churchill at the Movies with Lee Pollock

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Nov. 30, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy

with Martin Indyk

Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Nov. 30, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Downtown Delray Beach Art Festival on Fourth

401 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, Dec. 3-4, artfestival.com, 561.746.6615

West Palm Beach Arts Festival

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Dec. 3-4, armoryart.org, 561.832.1776

Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Festivities and Holiday-Themed Lecture

Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Dec. 4, flaglermuseum.us, 561.655.2833

Another Justice: By Any Medium Necessary with Hank Willis Thomas

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 5, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

The Tabloid Press with Margery Marcus Levis JCC Sandler Center, Boca Raton, Dec. 5, levisjcc.org/culture, 561.558.2520

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival

Various locations in Palm Beach County, Dec. 8-11, pbfoodwinefest.com, 800.210.0689

Amazing Florida Shells and Mollusks with José H. Leal

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 12, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World with Amy Stanley

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 12, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Legendary Films, Directors, and Actors: Grace Kelly with Bill David The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 15, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Dramatic Life of America’s Most Controversial and Creative Architect with René Silvin The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Dec. 19, fourarts.org, 561.655.7226

Holiday Evening Tours of Whitehall Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Dec. 19-22, flaglermuseum.us, 561.655.2833

Kuumba Village/Kwanzaa 2022

Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, Delray Beach, Dec. 26, spadymuseum.com, 561.279.8883

Kwanzaa Celebration with Afrique Ngozi Dance & Drums

The Square, West Palm Beach, Dec. 30, 561.232.6552thesquarewestpalm.com,

GALLERIES

ON THE HUNT

For those looking for an inspiring and enriching way to explore The Palm Beaches, the county’s array of art galleries showcase masters and up-and-coming artists alike. Many of them also curate special exhibitions themed around movements in contemporary art or spotlighting a specific artist. Rosenbaum Contemporary in Boca Raton, for example, is hosting “Thomas Hartmann: Works on Paper” through November 5, followed by “Mira Lehr: Arc of Nature” from November 15 to January 15. Founded in 1979, Rosen baum Contemporary has long been a go-to stop for collectors in search of paintings, photography, sculptures, works on paper, and mixed-media pieces. The gallery’s roster includes Fernando Botero, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, and Manolo Valdés as well as Boca Raton–based artists Larry Dinkin and Donald R. Harivel. Turn the page to dis cover more galleries. rosenbaumcontemporary.com, 561.994.9180 —Mary Murray

FROM ABOVE: FROM KATHMANDU (2020), MIRA LEHR; (MOONLIGHTSCHEINFAHRTMOND RIDE) (2015), HARTMANN.THOMAS

z BIPOC SHOWING PALM BEACH ARTISTS

PALM ACQUAVELLABEACH

In its 100-year history, New York–based Acquavella has provided international collectors and museums with works from old masters through to the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. 340 Royal Poinciana Way Suite M309, acquavellagalleries.com, 561.283.3415

ADELSON GALLERIES With locations in New York and Palm Beach, Adelson Galleries is a family-run enterprise that showcases living artists with strong aesthetic, technical, and academic merit. 318 Worth Ave., adelsongalleries.com, 561.720.2079

BEN BROWN FINE ARTS This recent London transplant presents curated selections of iconic works by gallery artists and twentieth-century masters. 244 Worth Ave., benbrownfinearts.com, 561.366.9985

BRINTZ GALLERY Founded in 2014, Brintz exhibits and promotes established, mid-career,

and emerging artists, with a focus toward painting and sculpture. 375 S. County Road, brintzgallery. com, 561.469.7771

z DTR MODERN One of five DTR Modern locations on the East Coast, this Palm Beach gallery boasts strong relationships with some of today’s modern masters and showcases works by blue-chip artists from the last 100 years. 408 Hibiscus Ave., dtrmodern.com, 561.366.9387

FINDLAY GALLERIES This family-run international art business has served Palm Beach collectors since 1961. It focuses on Impressionism, European modernism, L’École de Rouen, L’École de Paris, and twentieth-century American art, with exclusive representation of contemporary European and American artists and artist estates. 165 Worth Ave., findlaygalleries.com, 561.655.2090

GALERIA OF SCULPTURE Stop by to peruse museum-quality art glass by American and European artists, including unique furniture pieces. 11 Via Parigi, galeriaofsculpture.com, 561.659.7557

z GALLERY BIBA Paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by modern and contemporary

masters abound at Gallery Biba. 224A Worth Ave., gallerybiba.com, 561.651.1371

z GAVLAK This contemporary gallery focuses on the representation of women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC artists. A stable of more than 20 artists includes Marilyn Minter and Betty Tompkins. 340 Royal Poinciana Way Suite M334, gavlakgallery. com, 561.833.0583

z HOLDEN LUNTZ GALLERY Holden Luntz exists to acquire and present the work of significant photographers who are defining or expanding the parameters of photography. 332 Worth Ave., holdenluntz.com, 561.805.9550

PACE GALLERY Adding Palm Beach to Pace Gallery’s collection of eight global locations provides locals with direct access to some of the contemporary art world’s leading voices. 340 Royal Poinciana Way Suite M333, pacegallery. com, 561.444.3922

z THE PALM BEACH ART COLLECTION Two working artists are behind this gallery, which showcases paintings by established and emerging artists curated by the Liman Gallery in Palm Beach, among other works. 139 N. County Road, thepalmbeachartcollection.com, 301.674.2671

z PAUL FISHER GALLERY Paul Fisher established his eponymous gallery in 1990. Today the gallery strikes a balance between emerging talent and masters of the twentieth century and

THIS SEASON, SAMUEL OWEN GALLERY ON PALM BEACH WILL DISPLAY WORKS BY MR. BRAINWASH (ABOVE) AND TYLER SHIELDS (LEFT).

Inset: Summer of 55, Tyler Shields Right: Mr. Brainwash

blue-chip works. The Brazilian Court Hotel, 301 Australian Ave., paulfishergallery.com, 561.832.5255

PROVIDENT FINE ART If you are building a collection or divesting of pieces you no longer want, this gallery offers a range of helpful services. Provident Fine Art is highly regarded for its expertise in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and American Impressionism, PostImpressionism, modern, and contemporary art. 125 Worth Ave., providentfineart.com, 561.249.7929

z ROBERT FONTAINE GALLERY

Representing artists in every stage of their careers, the Robert Fontaine Gallery carries Post-War works through to current expressions of digital media, conceptual installations, and urban interventionism. 256 Worth Ave., robertfontainegallery.com, 305.397.8530

z RUSSECK GALLERY With roots in Philadelphia, Russeck Gallery now operates on Worth Avenue and specializes in paintings, sculptures, and major works on paper by twentieth-century artists, as well as paintings and sculptures of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West. 203 Worth Ave., russeckgalleries.com, 561.832.4811

z SAMUEL OWEN GALLERY In addition to three locations in New England, Samuel Owen Gallery resides on Royal Poinciana Way and represents contemporary artists who reflect upon the twentieth- and twenty-first-century zeitgeist. Its roster includes South Florida–based artists as well as Palm Beach artist Cayla Birk. 253 Royal Poinciana Way, samuelowen.com, 561.249.1876

SOTHEBY’S PALM BEACH Sotheby’s carries an array of luxury goods, from fine art to jewelry and automobiles. 150 Royal Poinciana Plaza, sothebys.com/palmbeach, 561.710.8830

z SUROVEK GALLERY Surovek Gallery identifies “the acquisition and sale of American works of art” as its “foremost goal,” offering American paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 349 Worth Ave. 8 Via Parigi, surovekgallery.com, 561.832.0422

TAGLIALATELLA GALLERIES This international gallery has become synonymous with modern and contemporary art, specializing in recent Pop and street art movements. 313 1/2 Worth Ave., taglialatellagalleries.com, 561.833.4700

THE BOX GALLERY WILL HOST MYTH AMERICA! IN NOVEMBER (RIGHT) AND A PRIVATE COLLEC TIONS EXHIBITION IN DECEMBER (BELOW).

Studio 54 Invitation, Andy Warhol

WEST PALM BEACH

z z THE BOX GALLERY More than just a gallery, this 4,000-square-foot space acts as a hub for local, national, and international artists to present a variety of artworks, cultural experiences, and programs including exhibitions, lectures, and screenings. 811 Belvedere Road, theboxgallery.info, 786.521.1199

z HABATAT GALLERIES Specializing in glass, Habatat Galleries represents world-renowned artists and offers custom services. 2401 N. Dixie Hwy., habatatgalleries.com, 561.469.8587

z JF GALLERY This contemporary art gallery nestled in the Antique Row district provides framing services and exhibits new works by nationally and internationally lauded painters and sculptors. 3901 S. Dixie Hwy., jfgallery.com, 561.478.8281

z MARY WOERNER FINE ARTS In addition to personal collection services such as restoration, framing, and installation, Mary Woerner sells contemporary paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects, mixed media, and graphics. 3700 S. Dixie Hwy. #7, marywoernerfinearts.com, 561.832.3233

z THE PEACH Local artists such as Craig McInnis create at this art collective, which often hosts open studios. The community can also visit during monthly art walks that feature live entertainment, family-friendly activities, and food from Troy’s Barbeque. 3950 Georgia Ave., thepeachwpb.com, 561.532.0900

PALM BEACH GARDENS

CALL OF AFRICA’S NATIVE VISIONS

GALLERIES Native Visions specializes in works by internationally acclaimed environmental and wildlife artists, including David Longmead, John Seerey-Lester, Mopho Gonde, and Margaret Gradwell. 4600 PGA Blvd. Suite 105, nativevisions.com, 561.741.1600

ONESSIMO FINE ART Showcasing fine art, sculpture, and contemporary glass from old and modern masters as well as established contemporary artists. 4530 PGA Blvd. Suite 101, onessimofineart.com, 561.355.8061 (more locations online)

z STUDIO E GALLERY For collectors wanting to discover a not-yet-famous talent or an internationally known artist, this is the place to browse original works in glass, bronze, mixed media, and paintings—and to learn the stories behind them. 4600 PGA Blvd. Suite 101, studioegallery.com, 561.799.3333

JUPITER/TEQUESTA

z LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER GALLERY & SCHOOL OF ART Founded by a group of artists and the son of the founders of the Norton Museum of Art, the Lighthouse ArtCenter boasts a gallery that features curated exhibitions centered around works by local, national, and international artists. 373 Tequesta Drive, lighthousearts.org, 561.746.3101

School Supplies for the Next Generation, Rolando Chang Barrero

z MAC ART GALLERIES Boasting decades of expertise and 20,000 square feet of space across three South Florida locations, MAC Art Galleries offers a diverse collection of paintings, sculptures, photography, glass, and installations, and provides personalized guidance and inhome showings to clients. 4601 Military Trail Unit 101, macfineart.com, 561.429.4829 (more locations online)

z THE VILLAGE ART STUDIOS This hidden gem has spotlighted and sold the original works of local artists for 10 years. 578 N. U.S. Hwy. 1, thevillageartists.webs.com, 561.310.8499

LAKE WORTH BEACH

z CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY The Cultural Council’s Lake Worth Beach headquarters is home to three gallery spaces (the main gallery, solo gallery, and north gallery), all dedicated to showcasing works by Palm Beach County artists. 601 Lake Ave., palmbeachculture.com, 561.471.2901

z z MTN SPACE In addition to special exhibitions, this artist-owned gallery offers curation, collection development, and art rental services. 502 Lake Ave., mtnspace.com, 561.285.4883

z STEIDEL CONTEMPORARY Known for intriguing sculptural objects and emerging international collections, Steidel Contemporary hosts diverse exhibitions showcasing mixed-media makers, ceramicists, and glass artists. 500 N. Dixie Hwy. Suite 305, steidelcontemporary.com, 561.283.2446

DELRAY BEACH

z ADDISON GALLERY In the Pineapple Grove arts district, this contemporary art gallery represents both established and emerging artists whose work the gallery describes as innovative, passionate, and uplifting. 206 N.E. 2nd St., addisongallery.com, 561.278.5700

z z AMANDA JAMES GALLERY This boutique gallery is run by a husband-and-wife team of artists, James Knill and Amanda Johnson. 400 Gulfstream Blvd. #7, amandajamesgallery.com, 561.270.7832

z ARTS WAREHOUSE This arts incubator also holds exhibitions where local arts enthusiasts can discover new and exciting works by the artists who create within the warehouse and others. 313 N.E. 3rd St., artswarehouse.org, 561.330.9614

BLUE GALLERY Across two locations on Atlantic Avenue, Blue Gallery showcases heavy hitters in the world of contemporary art. 600 E. Atlantic Ave., 616 E. Atlantic Ave., bluefineart.com, 561.265.0020, 561.562.5390

z DEBILZAN GALLERIES Artist William DeBilzan creates both paintings and sculptures featuring elongated figures, engaging textures, and a rich color palette. 38 E. Atlantic Ave., debilzan.com, 561.266.2090

FORD FINE ART For a snapshot of the best in Latin American art, visit Ford Fine Art and view works by Mexican, South American, and Central American masters. 260 N.E. 5th Ave., fordfineart. com, 561.243.0630

z THE HEART OF DELRAY GALLERY Featuring works by more than 90 artists, including some who call Delray Beach home. 301 N.E. 2nd Ave., theheartofdelraygallery.com, 561.278.0074

z JOHN SCHUYLER GALLERY Born in New York, John Schuyler relocated to South Florida in the 1990s. Today his eponymous gallery boasts

his ethereal abstract landscapes and paintings. 200 N.E. 2nd Ave. Suite 101, 561.330.4615, johnschuyler.com

z z MAGNUS & GORDON GALLERY

Established in 2013, this gallery features the work of South Florida artists Brenda Gordon and Magnus Sebastian. 354 N.E. 4th St. Unit C, magnusandgordongallery.com, 561.212.6714

z RENATA FINE ARTS Stop by to peruse modern and contemporary works on paper, sculptures, and paintings. 502 E. Atlantic Ave. Suite 103, renatafinearts.com, 561.385.4779

z SUNDOOK FINE ART GALLERIES

Founded in 1979, Sundook has earned a national reputation for its vast catalogue of original paintings, fine art prints, bronze sculptures, and acrylic sculptures. 524 E. Atlantic Ave., sundook. com, 561.266.3425

BOCA RATON

z ROSENBAUM CONTEMPORARY

Rosenbaum Contemporary features a nationally recognized, museum-caliber exhibition program of Post-War, modern, and contemporary masters in all mediums, with works by Thomas Hartmann, Hunt Slonem, and Mira Lehr, among others. 150 Yamato Road, rosenbaumcontemporary.com, 561.994.9180

z SPONDER GALLERY With a focus on Post-War, contemporary paintings, sculpture, and photography, this gallery provides support and consulting in all aspects of collecting, including appraisal services. The Boca Raton, 501 E. Camino Real, spondergallery.com, 561.241.3050

z VERTU FINE ART This established gallery boasts Pop, abstract Expressionism, and optical art, as well as photography. 5250 Town Center Circle Suite 128, vertufineart. com, 561.368.4680

WENTWORTH GALLERY With locations across the East Coast, Wentworth Gallery features works by some of the world’s most acclaimed artists. 6000 Glades Road #1089, wentworthgallery.com, 561.338.0804

CALL OF AFRICA’S NATIVE VISIONS IN PALM BEACH GARDENS HOST ZIMBABWEAN SCULPTOR ZONDE DECEMBER 9.

Kneeling Spirt and Whisper My Love, Godfrey Zonde

When Gabino A. Castelán was a student at Public School 121 in New York City, he drew a triceratops and was really proud of how it came out—so much so that he thought his pencil had magical powers. As the pencil shrank with each sharpening, Castelán real ized he was the one bringing the power to his drawings. Now, 27 years later, Castelán is based in Boca Raton and a 2022 recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium awards for visual and media artists. His work will be on display at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County in Lake Worth Beach from November 19 to December 31.

Born in Epatlán, Puebla, Mexico, Caste lán interprets his family’s experience of illegally immigrating to the United States as themes of presence and absence. “For me, being undocumented felt like I was invisible, and I also felt like my family was invisible,” says Castelán. “[I grew up] in an environ ment where the labor of an undocumented migrant needed to be present, but our voices were absent. … I’m using presence as a device that I latch onto my work to create these imaginary worlds [that encompass] aspects of the workers’ spiritual, political, and cultural life.”

Layering enables him to play with percep tion and “have something that is simultane ously there but also alternatively not there,” he says. “In my painting, I’m constantly trying to figure out how to create the separation between this figure and the ground.”

Castelán describes himself as an impulsive image collector. Some of his figures are real people from his family archives, while others are invented. What they often have in com mon is their ability to evoke empathy—and hope—within the viewer. “Even if our stories do not have a happy beginning, it does not need to define us for life,” Castelán con cludes. “Who we choose to be as we learn and grow is essential.” gabinocastelan.com —Mary Murray HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

WORKS BY GABINO A. CASTELÁN FROM ABOVE: OUR MOTHERS HAVE NOT ABANDONED US (2021) AND THE ENIGMA OF GRIEF: MY MOTHER, MY GRANDMOTHER, CESAR CHÁVEZ (2021)

Since 1936, The Society of the Four Arts has inspired and engaged the Palm Beaches with outstanding cultural programs, including live performances, art exhibitions, notable speakers, workshops, films, book discussions, children’s programs, and more.

The Four Arts’ campus in Palm Beach includes a performance hall, an art gallery, a modern education center devoted to lifelong learning, a library, a children’s library, and beautiful botanical and sculpture gardens.

The Four Arts believes that the passion of music, the beauty of art, the thrill of drama, and the pleasure of literature bridge the gap from mere existence to truly living. Our programs are open to the public, so come see what The Four Arts has to o er!

Shawn ProvidentDirectorDavid,ofFine Art