Armory Art Center

Here are a few photos from last night’s opening reception of the three exhibitions by conceptual artist Apia.

- Exaggerations of History (101 miniature portraits of women in history)
- WATTA: Women Artists Through the Ages
- Hi and Hello World

The exhibitions are open until October 25 Please join us!

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Florida Weekly covered the exhibition running at the Armory. Click here to read the story. We hope to see you in our galleries.

Celebrating Female Artists Throughout History - Palm Beach Florida Weekly West Palm Beach’s Armory Art Center opens three new exhibitions celebrating women artists, female excellence, and inclusively. “Threads of Time and Imagination” features works in multiple mediums by Apia, a conceptual multidisciplinary artist based in South Florida. The first show in the colle...

Wild Wednesdays

Take a peek into Sharon Bastin's recent Animal Sculpture class for Beginners and Intermediate.

First-time sculpture student Ilene Philips is sculpting a dog for her first project, memorializing her beloved English Cocker Spaniel.

Beginning student Emily Oseroff is working on a panda bear she named Penelope.

Buzzy August is experienced with clay, so she goes wild with her choice of creatures, creating an alien. She said she lets the materials tell her what it wants to be.

All these students in Sharon Bastin's Animal Sculpture for Beginner and Intermediate agree that their teacher is awesome, amazing, and talented!

If you want to bring animals to life in clay, join the Fall 1 session, beginning Wednesday, September 18th.

https://canvas.armoryart.org/classes/9235

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DON’T MISS THESE OPPORTUNITIES!!!
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in the
ART + CRAFT + DESIGN CREATIVE MARKET
November 9-10, 2024
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🎨 SHOWCASE AND SELL YOUR ART.
The Armory’s 8th juried art festival will be during the height of the holiday shopping season. We invite artists to apply in the following categories: basketry, ceramics, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, wood, leather, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and more.

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED:
Sept. 22, 2024.
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🌴 WHAT’S YOUR VIEWPOINT?
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PALM BEACH JURIED EXHIBITION.
Answer this is a call for artists to submit up to three works that grab attention and provoke thought while addressing contemporary social, cultural, environmental, inspirational, spiritual, or personal issues. Delve into modern life’s realities, challenges, struggles, and joys. Show us how you see a day in the life of Palm Beach.

⏰ SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Sept. 27, 2024
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🎸ENTERTAINERS - ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PERFORM?
Find an enthusiastic audience at the Armory Art Center’s annual Creative Market. We want to feature a variety of entertainment for our stage performances throughout each day, including:
musicians
singer-songwriters
dance acts
and more!

⏰ APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Sept. 13, 2024.
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🥑 DO YOU SELL CREATIVE CUISINE?
We seek food and beverage vendors to join this year’s Creative Art Market at the Armory Art Center. We want vendors who create unique options that are delicious and visually appealing for our visitors to enjoy. We will do our best to ensure vendors do not serve the same products but complement each other.

⏰ APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Sept. 13, 2024.

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LINK TO APPLICATIONS IS IN OUR BIO
https://armoryart.org/art-center-programs/holiday-arts-festival/festival-call-artists/
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2024 marks the 8th year of the Armory Art Center’s annual juried art festival. We have reimagined and rebranded our event. Our museum-quality contemporary art, craft, and design creative market is in beautiful West Palm Beach, Florida, just across the bridge from the Town of Palm Beach.

If you spend time at the Armory’s Ceramic Studio, you will likely have met Aya Bendat. Aya has created ceramics here for the last 20 years. 🏺🔥

These photos show a vessel Aya created this summer. She is inspired by archeological and ceremonial pieces, and her work often has metaphorical and mythological roots. She considers each ceramic piece sculptural even when they are functional.

🩷💚💙Next time you visit the studio, say hello to Aya. She advocates for the Armory and is known to nurture and guide new ceramic students in the studio. She is an accomplished 2D and 3D artist. To learn more about Aya and her work, visit ayabendatstudios.com.

Attention artists! We’re on the lookout for talented individuals to create an inspiring mural for Shutts & Bowen LLP in Fort Lauderdale. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your art in a professional setting.

Visit https://armoryart.org/opportunities/ for the application and prospectus. This is a paid opportunity. Deadline to apply is September 20.
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West Palm Beach native Hanna Love says that when you create from a space of joy, you can feel it in the jewelry. Hanna teaches Introduction to Jewelry and Metalsmithing and various jewelry workshops at the Armory. For her, to teach is to learn. Sharing her love of jewelry-making helps her learn about her craft and passion.

Hanna took her first jewelry class at the Armory in 2021. She fell in love with jewelry because of her attraction to crystals. She began making jewelry by wrapping the crystals in wire. Her passion for the craft led her father to build a backyard studio for her. She found healing benefits after a debilitating auto accident when her artistry helped her recover from nerve damage by improving her mind and body communication.

When Hanna isn’t teaching, she creates jewelry to sell at outdoor events, including Clematis by Night and Farmers’ markets. She also works on commissioned, one-of-a-kind, intuitive jewelry.

Hanna teaches that we learn from our mistakes. “As long as you enjoy it, you will keep going back to it.” Her positivity is infectious, so we hope you will join her in the studio and bring more joy to your world.

“As long as you have passion and love what you do, It is a happy moment,” says Zoe Quezada in the jewelry studio at the Armory this week.

Zoe has always loved silver jewelry. She used to buy it, but since she took her first class with Ellen Levy a year and a half ago, she’s made her own. Zoe has studied with several Armory jewelry teachers since, and what she likes most about all the classes is the flexibility—everybody can make the pieces that move them. Zoe advises, “Make what makes you happy!”

Making jewelry is Zoe’s meditation. It’s when time flies. She feels good. She relaxes.

She lays down her file and bracelet and turns to a ring. Shifting her attention gives her a fresh perspective. She believes that practice makes her better, and she learns from her mistakes.

Zoe wants people to know about the Armory’s jewelry studio and teachers. She said, “People need to come out and enjoy life.”

During week 9 of camp, kids' imaginations came to life. From giant butterflies to entire cityscapes, it was a joyous way to end Summer Art Camp 2024.

Registration is now open for summer and early fall. What a great time of year to spend time with your creative community. Check out the selection of classes taught by outstanding professional artists in jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, and digital media.
Register today!
https://armoryart.org/

Hadley Finch is a studio art major at Southern Methodist University in Texas. She is shown here with instructor Mark Cohen in Wednesday’s Contemporary Painting class.

College art students can keep their creative juices flowing during summer break at the Armory. The Armory has spacious painting workspaces, and well-equipped ceramics, sculpture, and jewelry studios.

Debbie O’Hara wedged porcelain tentacles into her sculpture in the ceramic studio last Wednesday. This sculpture will join her collection of mixed-media creatures, including slugs, snails, and crustaceans.

We have Great News!

Teen studio intensives in ceramics have been so popular this year that we added a new workshop.

Teen Handbuilding Ceramics Studio
Week 8, July 22-26
4:00 - 6:00 PM

This class introduces a combination of elaborate techniques in hand-building and glazing processes.

Join us while spots are available.
https://canvas.armoryart.org/classes/9204