GardensArt presents The Highwaymen, Original Florida Landscapes. Approximately 25 paintings will be on display January 27 – March 13, 2025, at Palm Beach Gardens City Hall Lobby, 10500 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. Exhibit hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm.

The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African American landscape artists from Florida. Two of the original artists, Harold Newton, and Alfred Hair, received training from Alfred “Beanie” Backus. It is believed they may have created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings. While challenging many racial and cultural barriers. Mostly from the Fort Pierce area, they painted landscapes and made a living selling them door-to-door to businesses and individuals throughout Florida from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. They also sold their work from the trunks of their cars along the eastern coastal roads.

An art reception will take place on Friday, February 7th from 6:00-8:00pm at City Hall. A formal talk by art collector Roger Lightle will be held at 6:30pm. Many original Highwaymen paintings will be available for purchase. Light refreshments and live music will be provided. All are welcome to attend.

Join Waste to Wonder Artist Lori Arbel to create a symbolic art piece with an upcycled book as the base. We will weave other recycled materials and personal marks to honor your future self and its connection to the collective story. No experience necessary and all materials provided. Intended for 16+

Lori Arbel will help lead participants with guided visualization and reflective journaling. Working to weave strips of recycled materials that will help represent the connections between your present, past, and envisioned future. Participants will work to incorporate elements inspired by #Marks4TheirLives, such as unifying patterns, marks, or colors that reflect oneness. The end results will be shared with the group, and everyone will walk away with the start of an art Upcycled Art Journal that they can continue to work add to. As well as an art piece they can be proud of in its pages.

Advanced registration required. Registration Closes Friday February 7 at 12pm.

$30 per person.

Find out more about Lori Arbel: https://www.loriarbel.com/

Funded in part by:

The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County & Palm Beach County.

Kevin Killough, presenting a solo show at Maximalist 444

mtn space gallery is pleased to present Smile for Me: The Flea, a solo exhibition by artist and architect Sydney Rose Maubert.

“The exhibition presents work that considers layered explorations of Southern flea markets, as a point of Black and Indigenous exchange. This work specifically reflects on the flea market as a site of cultural production, through the fashion and musical expression of Miami and Atlanta Bass culture. Flea markets are emblematic of Bass culture, a sub-genre of Southern hip hop and its attending visual culture, a material residue of Black and Indigenous intersectionality from the Saltwater Railroad. Debuting new paintings, metalwork sculptures, and site-specific installation — the works document movement between people, objects, and space witnessed in Miami and in recent travels to Decatur and Sapelo Island, Georgia.

One of the most vulnerable sites of erasure in Miami, in the wake of climate gentrification and the vulnerable American economy, is marketplaces. Miami’s flea markets provided a site of exchange for Black and brown communities, providing a unique material index, ranging from grillz, gold jewelry, airbrushed clothing or nails, and Brazilian jeans, to more basic amenities. The items found in the flea market allude to a broader cultural geography, including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Cuba, Georgia and the Carolinas. Marketplaces make legible Miami’s Bahamian history and its unique ties to a larger cultural geography of Caribbean and Southern Black aesthetics. This work argues for the importance of flea markets as sites of cultural exchange and the maintenance of care, construction of self, and racialized gender in the built environment.

One of the unique phenomena that emerges in the flea market, specifically in Miami, is the spatialization of gender. Flea market booths were gendered spaces with programs such as nail salons, grillz, jewelry stands, and more. Through constructing a single 1:1 installation that explores media in the language of these lost flea markets, I explore gender construction and fungibility by creating sculptures and furniture that make clear the swift movement of gender, by dismantling gender through signification. I intend for this work to specifically honor Black femmes and queer folks who share heritage with flea market spaces or Black culture at large. This work is urgent and timely because of the lack of public discourse surrounding the historicity or ramifications of displacing Black and brown Indigenous people from the South. Situating our contemporary culture within the history of this land also contextualizes our practices as part of a unique liberating fugitive story, while also expanding our visual and architectural repository.”

Sydney Rose Maubert (b. 1996) is a Haitian-Cuban artist and architect based in Miami and Chicago. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art. She is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC., her art and mural practice, which has been awarded by the Graham Foundation, Oolite Ellies Creator Award, NALAC Foundation, GreenSpace Initiative Grant, Miami-Dade Individual Artist Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts Award, Yale Moulton Andros Award, and University of Miami Alpha Rho Chi Award. Her work has been exhibited at TenBerke Architects, Augusta Savage Gallery, Artist in Residence in the Everglades, GreenSpace Miami in Miami ArtWeek 2023, and Cornell Hartell Gallery, and most notably in 21C Museum’s permanent collection. Currently, she is the Jeanne and John Rowe Fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture. She was the Strauch Fellow at Cornell College of Architecture (2022- 2024). She sits on the board of the Center for Architecture’s Scholarship Committee (2023- ). She has assisted in teaching courses at Yale University, Morgan State University, City College of New York, and the University of Miami. Her work has been published in Log, Drawing Matter, and Yale Retrospecta. She was listed as a New Progressive in Architect Magazine.

About mtn space gallery — Founded in 2020 by Melissa Delprete, mtn space is a contemporary art space located within a carefully renovated 1951 art deco cornerstone of Lake Worth Beach. Melissa and Gallery Director Tina Caso are committed to exhibiting emerging and established artists who are deeply rooted in their practice and whose work is informed by the greater global arts community. For information, updates, and to stay current on events, please join our mailing list at mtnspace.com/gallery or follow us on Instagram: @mtnspacegallery

Free Art Deco Lecture Series celebrating Art & Architecture of the Jazz Age celebrating 100 Years 1925-2025! ArtDecoPB.org

introspection

by Milena Arango

EXHIBITION | November 4, 2024 – December 28, 2024

RECEPTION | November 21, 2024 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Lite bites + beverages

https://armoryart.org/event/introspection/

Milena Arango is a Colombian artist based in West Palm Beach, driven by discipline and a deep passion for her work. She thrives on adventure and exploring new ideas to create compelling works of art. Her mother’s boundless curiosity and zest for life ignited her journey into the world of art. Growing up, she had the privilege of experiencing diverse cultures, languages, and people, profoundly influencing her artistic perspective.

Introspection is her most significant project to date, a labor of love spanned over 8 1/2 years. The project is crafted using the natural pigment of the Tectona Grandis tree. Each element holds deep personal and symbolic meaning.

Free Admission for all ages

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Milena Arango was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1978. Because of her mother’s studies, Milena grew up traveling in her childhood and later, as an adult, decided that was the turn she needed in her work.  She graduated from Visual Arts in Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in 2001 and then took a journey in theater for a few years.

She’s a passionate and dedicated artist, always finding new ways to keep her work dynamic and motivated.  To keep this up, she travels to different art residencies worldwide to keep her inspiration high.  In recent years, her work has been followed by psychoanalytic therapy, which relates her relationship with her mother and her communication with nature.

Day in the Life of Palm Beach

https://armoryart.org/event/a-day-in-the-life-of-palm-beach/

Exhibition Dates: November 4-December 28

Reception: November 21 | 5:30-7:30 pm

The Armory Art Center invited artists statewide to submit up to three (3) artworks to our winter/fall juried show, which is held in conjunction with our 8th annual Arts + Crafts + Design Creative Market on November 9-10, 2024. All artwork is for sale and all proceeds benefit the submitting artists and the Armory Art Center school programs. Buy Local while supporting the Arts!

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PALM BEACH was a call for artists to submit work that grabs our attention and provokes thought while addressing contemporary issues. Whether social, cultural, environmental, inspirational, spiritual, or personal. We encourage artists to delve into modern life’s realities, challenges, struggles, and joys and express them uniquely through their artistic creations. 43 Artists were selected to participate in the juried show.

Participating Artists: Ryan Toth, Cynthia Oakes, Mary Rosseland, Judy Flescher, Ellen Wilner, Kim Aikens, Enid Blechman, Riley Kroeker, Aya Bendat, Sherly Rivkind, Sharon Bastin, Debbie Ohara, Robbie Potter, Nadine Saitlin, Karen Keenan, Manon Sander, Lynn Kalber, R. Patrick Cochran, Lydia Dardi, Christine Knize, Claudia Jane Klein, Jerilyn Brown, Marcelle Zanetti, Karen H. Salup, Nancy Tilles, Susanne Stroh, Adrienne Walker, Terry Pesso, Chuck Bale, Hilary Pulitzer, David Charlowe, Jessica Mills, Evan Charney, David Cohen, Merry Renert, Abbe Kalman, Trish Kahn, Gretchen Pravaz

Free Admission for all ages

Are you interested in Nature Journaling and don’t know how to start?  We have the class for you!  Nature Journaling is a great way to slow down to discover and explore the nature around us.  We will teach observation, writing, measurement and recording skills.  You do not need to be an “artist” to be a nature journalist.  You just need a little curiosity.  This is a monthly class with a different theme and skill each month.  Recommended ages 10+

Cost is $5 per person.  Purchase the starter kit for an additional $5 per person.

String Safari – December 18

Students discover a world of wonders within the boundaries of a loop of string. Using maps, drawings, and diagrams, they describe their discoveries in the pages of their journals.

Location: Pal-Mar