The Arts & Tourism Summit

The Arts & Tourism Summit - Access For All

The Summit features nationally recognized keynote speakers, panel discussions with local experts, and breakout sessions providing targeted workshops and facilitated dialog. The event will also feature inspiring cultural performances, designated networking opportunities, an artist market, a DEIA vendor spotlight, and an opening night reception. The content is designed for Palm Beach County arts and tourism leaders, and employees at every level working at cultural institutions, tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants, and across the arts and hospitality sectors. The Summit’s fundamental goal is for DEIA not to just be a two-day focus, but that the audience leaves with new perspectives, contacts, and opportunities for action.

Note: Sign language interpreters will be available for every session.

Employees at every level from the arts and tourism sectors are encouraged to attend this free, two-day voluntary event.

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Devil's Advocate

 

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Mixed Media

Family (Abstract)

 

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Acrylic on Canvas

Free Vision Board Workshop

Photo courtesy of Mandel Library of West Palm Beach

Today is Juneteenth, a day to celebrate and honor Black culture and history. And it's a day to celebrate freedom – on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, those still enslaved in Texas were finally free.

Last week, the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach. had me teach art class in celebration of Juneteenth, creating a safe space where attendees put together vision boards to share their hopes and goals for the future.

These free workshops will be back July 12 & 26. 6pm-8pm

Mandel Public Library 

411 Clematis St, 

West Palm Beach, FL, Florida 33401

July 12, 2023 RSVP Here

July 26, 2023 RSVP Here

 

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Over the last 30+ years I have provided free services in the arts world.  Everything from teaching art, providing information to artists, research and development for other companies, organizations & people, programming, and curating. All done without receiving payment for any services rendered.  Though I do not mind donating my services, realistically this can become problematic for being able to maintain a level of fundamental survival.  One cannot pay bills, mortgage, buy groceries, pay insurance etc.

And if your response is, “ Well get a job”, the answer to that is.  I have a job.  I have just been doing it for free. Often times many other non-profits and individuals cannot afford the services but desperately need help.  I cannot turn my back on them because they cannot afford it.  I am humbly asking  if you believe in the projects and services, I have been providing the community for the last three decades, won’t you consider contributing something to what I do, so I can continue to provide all the unique services to those who cannot afford it?

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Friday, April 1 / 5-10pm

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces, documenting The City of West Palm Beach’s ArtLife Committee Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative. A colorful Open Studio and an insightful Artist Tour will be led by artists featured in this project. And a Jazz Friday performance by Charles Goold, hailing from New York City, blending, and juxtaposing traditional Haitian and Afro Caribbean rhythms with hard bop, modern jazz, and hip hop.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• Tour

  Explore great works in the Museum’s collection led by one of the Museum’s fine docents.

  Space is limited, and tickets are available on a first come first served basis 1 hour before the program begins.
  5:30-6pm

• Screening and Panel Discussion/ The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces

   Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative

  

  The City of West Palm Beach’s ArtLife Committee commissioned 15 local artists to create temporary works that bring to light our community’s need to reconnect with one another during the pandemic. The project encouraged artists to reimagine our public spaces, reflect and respond on a localized level to a global crisis, while offering the artists monetary relief. One of the 15 artists was asked to create a final short documentary that would play a vital role in producing a shared cultural memory of our pandemic times.

  This screening will be followed by a Panel Discussion with artists Ates Isildak, Dana Donaty, and Robert Fehre and moderated by Sybille Welter.

  Ates Isildak, is the documentary’s filmmaker. Using short films, music videos, and photography, Ates Isildak aims to create a safe space and medium in which marginalized communities can exuberantly express themselves.

  Dana Donaty, panelist, is a Colombian American multidisciplinary artist that explores the convergence of memory, identity, individuality, and influence with an overarching theme of play.

  Robert Fehre is an American artist and photographer who works with photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture. He is known for his colorful photographs which are an expression of love for the environment, focusing primarily on coastal cities such as Miami and Los Angeles.

  Sybille Welter is the Administrator of Public Art and Culture for the City of West Palm Beach and facilitates the ArtLife program, which commissions artists in all stages of their careers to create permanent and temporary artworks throughout the city’s public spaces.

  The Norton is proud to partner with the City of West Palm Beach to bring you this program.

   Space is limited, and tickets are available on a first come first served basis 1 hour before the program begins.
  
  6-7pm

• Open Studio

  Join artist Nicole Galluccio, artist featured in The Commons: 15 Artists 15 Spaces, A Covid-19 Artists Relief Initiative project, for a drop-in style art-making sessions for all ages and experience levels. All materials are included.