Hours: Thursdays 4-8pm, Friday-Sunday 11-5pm, Mon-Wed By Private Appointment
Location: Camilla Webster Studio and Gallery, 500 Palm Street, Unit 11, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
This fall, the art world will converge on West Palm Beach as globally celebrated artists Camilla Webster and Karen Bystedt debut their highly anticipated collaborative exhibition, Warhols: Lost and Found. Taking place at Webster’s new gallery space in Flamingo Park Plaza, across from The Norton Museum of Art, this unique show offers an intimate exploration of their direct relationships with the legendary Andy Warhol.
Camilla Webster, known for her acclaimed American Flag paintings, and Karen Bystedt, celebrated for her iconic photographs of Warhol share the stage in this exhibition. Warhol granted Bystedt a sitting in the conference room of “The Factory” in 1982 for a book, NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE: America’s Top Male Models (NAL). Andy Warhol was Webster’s neighbour as a girl in New York City, and a lifelong inspiration. Webster created the flag painting used in collaboration with Karen Bystedt’s photograph of Warhol holding the American flag at the esteemed Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado.
Webster’s work, which delves into themes of Americana, idyllic memory, and cultural identity, is paired with Bystedt’s photographic exploration of Warhol’s persona, creating a powerful visual dialogue that honors Warhol’s influence while pushing the boundaries of
contemporary art.
“The memory of this unique creative environment that Andy fostered drew us together,” says Webster. “It was a time when the great melting pot of New York City generated a daring magic in the air. Karen and I were there. All was possible. There was hubris, rebellion, innovation in ideas, materials, Americana, and optimism. West Palm Beach is experiencing a similar bombastic chapter in arts, culture, and real estate, making it the perfect fresh location for this exhibit.”
Warhols: Lost and Found was born from a shared vision between Webster and Bystedt, inspired by Webster’s acclaimed American Flag series and Bystedt’s iconic photograph of Warhol holding the American flag. The exhibition features new original paintings on canvas by Webster, alongside a collaboration of American flag prints, collectible t-shirts, the Lost Warhols custom Linen box set which holds 10 of Bystedt’sphotographs of Warhol by Bystedt with a bonus contact sheet, white gloves and original quotes given to Bystedt by Andy offering visitors a comprehensive and immersive experience.
The exhibition will open on Friday November 15th and runs through the holiday season in Palm Beach.
West Palm Beach, a city with a rich history of Warhol collectors and muses, including Jane Holzer, provides the perfect backdrop for this show. The exhibition is expected to draw significant interest from the art community and beyond, making it a landmark event of the season.
For more information, please visit info@camillawebster.com
About Karen Bystedt:
Karen Bystedt is an internationally acclaimed photographer and mixed media artist based in Miami. Known for her iconic collection, *The Lost Warhols*, Bystedt captured a unique moment with Andy Warhol, who granted her the rights to his image. This collection honors Warhol’s legacy by inviting artists to reinterpret his image through various mediums. Bystedt has published four photography books and photographed stars like Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, and Drew Barrymore. Her work is exhibited globally, including at The Andy Warhol Museum, and featured in publications such as Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, and InStyle.
About Camilla Webster:
Camilla Webster is one of Florida’s leading museum collected artists and designers Her American flag and South Florida inspired paintings are in multiple important private collections. In 2024, Webster’s paintings have graced the covers of Dan’s Papers, Elevated Art Magazine, and Palm Beach City Life. Her work was recently featured at The Hamptons Fine Art Fair, in Whitehot Magazine, Modern Luxury Palm Beach, at The Southampton Arts Center and in a sixty painting survey exhibit at The Coral Springs Museum of Art. Webster’s Love From Palm Beach studio collections which launched in 2023 have been a runaway success at The Breakers.
AIMBY Family Saturdays is an arts-exposure program designed for families with children in search of interactive family arts activities and cultural experiences. Family Saturdays events invite families to discover the arts together, as they connect and create memories while acquiring new skills through visual art, dance, nature, theater, and more! Family Saturdays is a free program presented by various arts and cultural organizations and artists in Palm Beach County.
January’s workshop, hosted by artist Kianga Jinaki Parker, will guide participants in creating an upper body portrait using fabric and paper on a 9”x 11″ canvas board. Families and children can choose from images provided of historical figures, which can be altered using fabric and paper. Templates will be provided for participants to use for their portrait.
To register contact: Debra Wilson- dwilson@cpsfl.org/ 561.899.1644
This November, step into the visionary world of Leonardo da Vinci like never before at the “Da Vinci” exhibit coming to South Florida PBS studios directly from Amsterdam. Be transported back to Renaissance Italy through groundbreaking immersive technology and interactive activities that brings da Vinci’s masterpieces, inventions, and incredible mind to vivid life.
Leonardo da Vinci is considered one of the greatest geniuses of all time. His innovations and inventions are legendary, seamlessly combining science, technology, engineering, mathematics and art in his work long before it was seen as revolutionary.
This award-winning interactive art experience from Berlin showcases over 50 of da Vinci’s most cherished creations, including The Litta Madonna, Virgin of the Rocks, The Baptism of Christ, his ornithopter and many more.
An Unparalleled Immersive Experience Lose yourself in the wonders of da Vinci’s genius through:
• Spectacular projections animating his canvases and notebooks
• Multimedia exhibits showcasing the incredible range of da Vinci’s talents
This is no static exhibition – it’s a multisensory journey into the essence of creativity and curiosity that made da Vinci one of history’s most fascinating visionaries. Don’t miss your chance to experience the brilliance of the Renaissance Master with all your senses awakened.
Ritter Art Gallery
The Art of Science showcases original images and footage of the inherent beauty in research, scholarship and creative activity across Florida Atlantic University. Its contest opens once a year to all members of the Florida Atlantic community (faculty, students, staff and postdocs) where their images are put on display in Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters University Galleries. The Art of Science is more than just a contest, it’s a wide-ranging collection of research from all colleges at the university.
Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space
The US soldiers who helped defeat Nazi Germany and liberate the concentration camps were among the first eyewitnesses to the Holocaust. Remembering their stories of freedom inspires us to promote human dignity and confront hatred whenever and wherever it occurs. This January 27, 2025, International Holocaust Day of Remembrance, marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Liberation exhibit brought to the FAU Galleries from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in collaboration with the Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Family Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education presents 21 panels of historical images leading to this historical liberation day.
She. Her. Hers. Essay:
by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Ph.D.
In 1969, Judy Chicago started the Feminist Art Program at the California State University, Fresno. The program was tailored to give young women artists the tools they needed to use their own life-experience to make art. Unlike in traditional art programs, where materials and techniques were conditioned by gender, the students were encouraged to experiment with a wide range of materials. By 1972, Chicago was working with another feminist artist, Miriam Shapiro, at the recently founded experimental art school, the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). Chicago brought her Feminist Art Program to Cal Arts and in 1972, as the school building was still not ready to move in, they rented a house which became a total work of art, known as Womanhouse. Artists, teachers, and students took over rooms and created installations such as the Bridal Staircase, the Linen Closet or the Menstruation Room, which have since become part of the canon of twentieth-century art. Commenting on the legacy of Womanhouse in an 2017 interview with Susan Fischer Sterling, the Alice West Director of the National Museums of Women in the Arts, Chicago remembers how enthusiastic she was at the public success of the work, realizing that there was, back then, an enormous interest for feminist art.
Some fifty years later, Judy Chicago is having a major retrospective, Herstory, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and earlier this year, her experimental videos from the 1960s and 70s, the Atmospheres Series were shown at the Pinault Collection at the Bourse du Commerce in Paris, signaling that women artists and more specifically feminist art are no longer at the margins. Many milestones have been achieved; the work of women artists has become more visible, better known, and better studied in museums and academia, despite the many global forces which do not share Judy Chicago’s enthusiasm. The art works displayed in She.Her.Hers hope to generate a similar type of enthusiasm. Our goal is to contribute to the current conversation about women artists and the female experience by making the works of local women artists more visible to the community.
She. Her. Hers. presents the works of ten contemporary women artists who, a couple of generations later, tackle some of the similar themes addressed by Womanhouse in 1972. The tensions between self-fulfillment and the restraints of society forced on women, the multiple roles women are expected to assume, the weights of historical stereotypes, and the ambivalent feelings about the domestic are still some of the issues at the heart of the works of women artists displayed in the show. But there is also an agency, a sense of empowerment, that may have been less present in the works of the earlier generations of women artists.
The diversity of their practices is also an homage to Chicago’s legacy. From natural fibers and wood, to ceramics, mylar, appropriated images, threads, beds sheets, sewing needles, discarded domestic objects, and sequins, the diversity of the materials used by the artists to transform their vision into art provides many anchor points to activate our own memories. Some of the works speak about family and community; bodies are celebrated through traces, hanging pieces; natural materials are anthropomorphized. The works of Lisa MacNamara, Sarah Huang, and Heather Couch, each on its own terms and using different artistic practices, talk about memory and connecting the self with others but also the fragile equilibrium that keeps all our lives together. Some of the artists, like Amy Broderick, use irony tinted with nostalgia, bringing us back to the idealized worlds of TV shows and magazine ads, images we can all remember. In the works of Nazaré Feliciano and Olivia Austin, there is whimsy and satire, and a certain violence in the détournement of domestic objects. Between deadpan humor and criticality, the artists embrace the domestic to better subvert it as Autumn Kioti Horne does in her performance, or Laura Tanner in her large mixed-media collages. Through their choices of material and techniques, the scale they use, from Quimetta Perle’s powerful images of women to Lisa Zukowski’s poetic abstract evocation of the body through painting and ceramics, all the works in the exhibition celebrate the singularity of ten individual artistic visions.
These artists stand on the shoulders of previous generations of women artists, artists such as Hannah Hoch, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Laurie Simmons, and Marta Rosler. The ten artists of She.Her.Hers continue to build a multifaceted artistic narrative to make more visible the diversity of women’s experiences. They make art that is empowering and celebrate a long tradition of female agency. Their singular vision is carried by the formal qualities of their works. Led by strong, engaging aesthetic qualities, their art can contribute to the difficult conversations we need to have if we are to move toward a more inclusive society.
Fiesta De Pueblo, Inc. (Town Fest) a celebration of the Three Wise Men provides a unique, cross-cultural family event that engages the general-public in an educational experience that highlights the Hispanic culture through music, food, art, and commerce. Fiesta de Pueblo enables our Hispanic community to showcase its resources, products and services at our Business Expo.
We focus on Education, Community, Culture and Commerce. Fiesta de Pueblo features parades, games, arts, amusement park rides, regional food, business booths, and live entertainment.
For Business/Vendor Exhibition Booth call us at 561-889-6527.
Seven Superb Museum Stores to Explore in The Palm Beaches
Posted by: Cultural Council
Get ready for a holiday shopping spree!
Making your way to The Palm Beaches this holiday season? While Florida’s ever-exquisite destination for arts and culture provides a wealth of ‘shop-tions’ on Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue, West Palm Beach’s Rosemary Square or Boca Raton’s Mizner Park, among many others—there are plenty of exceptional cultural gift options available for those who want to shop outside the box for friends and family.
Here, we’ve collected seven excellent museum shop choices for you to explore during your trip to Florida’s Cultural Capital. Now, get to it and shop away!
For the art-lover in your life
The Norton Museum of Art, which was recently renovated by the famous Foster + Partners, is where you’ll want to go to for an excellent day (or evening) of high-quality exhibitions, collections and more.
On your way out, you’ll want to stop by The Store to grab a gift or small stocking stuffer for those who couldn’t join you on your trip!
Gilded Age style with modern convenience
One of The Palm Beaches’ oldest and most-famous institutions, the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum offers shoppers a chance to witness the decadence of the Gilded Age in all of its exquisite glory. Located on the first floor of the opulent Whitehall Mansion, former home of oil magnate and “father of Palm Beach” Henry Flagler, is the organization’s gift store. Here, you’ll find an array of memorabilia from the Florida East Coast Railway (Flagler’s rail line, built in the late 1800s and early 1900s), home decor, apparel, kitchenware and children’s toys that relate to the museum’s era and subject.
A visit to this store is available with any museum admission, so it serves as a perfect end to your day at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum. These gifts are perfect for mothers, grandmothers or even historically-curious kids that are hard to buy presents for!
Eastern delicacies and apparel abound
For the friend or family member that deals in international intrigue, you’ll want to take your shopping list on a trip to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Not only does the museum exude all things calm and soothing at a time that’s certainly stressful and rushed, the gift shop takes you far from the shores of South Florida into a world of kimonos, parasols, decorative ceramics and perfect small, suitcase-friendly items in the form of Japanese candy and snacks.
The shop is located within the museum’s main building in Delray Beach and can be visited with admission.
Local art and literature in Lake Worth
For a taste of the destination’s art scene, make way to downtown Lake Worth and into the Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. Building to pay a visit to the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. Pop into any of the three galleries to explore expertly-curated exhibitions featuring the work of area artists.
On your way out, browse through the Roe Green Uniquely Palm Beach Store and get something nice for that special someone in your life. Whether you’re looking for a book, a bow tie, or a bracelet—know that a significant portion of your purchase goes directly back to the Palm Beach County artist who made it. You cross another item off your shopping list, and you’ve supported the growth of arts and culture…now that’s a win-win!
Perfect for performing arts fans
Not sure what to get the theatergoer in your life? Take them to a performance at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, but arrive early and take a peek at the center’s excellent gift shop. Handbags, decorations, books, stationery, jewelry—who could ask for more?
Here’s an extra tip for arts and retail lovers both: the Kravis Center is only a block away from Rosemary Square, West Palm Beach’s major shopping district. Before the show, you can hit the stores, grab a bite to eat and make it back to the theater before the curtain rises!
Eco-friendly gifts in Juno Beach
Like anyone needs an excuse to shop near the beach! You’re already in relaxation mode, so why not purchase items that benefit an organization dedicated to life under the sea? Loggerhead Marinelife Center, located in Juno Beach, offers tours of their state-of-the-art sea turtle rehabilitation center to visitors year-round. At the center’s gift shop, you’ll find the perfect present for any environmentally-conscious friend or family member: sustainable drinkware, accessories, lifestyle products, beach gear and more. Say “hello” to one of the turtles and get your shopping done…at the same time!
Modern arts excellence
An elegant end to your shopping guide is located at the ever-popular Boca Raton Museum of Art. Not only is the museum smack dab in the middle of Mizner Park, Boca Raton’s luxury outdoor shopping and dining district, it also features the pièce de résistance of museum gift shops in The Palm Beaches. Books for burgeoning artists? Plenty. Quirky decorations for the home? Indeed. Boutique selections that are sure to please the art-minded friend? Almost exclusively!
Don’t forget to visit the museum’s collections and special exhibitions while you’re there. It’s a colorful way to spend the day!
