The Chalk Festival is such a fun and creative event -- the talent on display is incredible and it's…read moreamazing watching the artists bring their pieces to life right on the pavement. There's a great variety of styles, plenty to walk around and see, and the atmosphere is lively and family-friendly. My biggest tip: come early to beat both the crowds and the heat so you can really take your time enjoying the artwork. It makes the experience so much more enjoyable. Definitely worth checking out if you love art, community events, or just want something different to do.

2nd year attending this incredible event. So much fun, so much talent. Incredible artists of all…read moreages from all over the country. Good food, fun DJs and great live music. The most amazing thing is when you look at a piece of art with your naked eyes and then look at it through the lens of your phones camera and it brings it to live. Some incredible 3D and some extremely detailed faces, water, birds & animals You'd be blown away at every step. If you haven't been there before I'd highly recommend you attending next year!

The Mermaid is an abstract sculpture created in 2000 by local artist Claudia Jane Klein who…read moreattended Albert Lea College in Minnesota where she majored in art. In the 1980's she worked in fashion design and was recognized by the Fashion Institute of Technology for her unique designs. In the 1990's she decided to concentrate solely on sculptures and learned metal fabrication and welding in trade schools in New York and Florida. Today she creates metal sculpture in her studio in Lake Worth. I love mermaids so this sculpture caught my eye as I was walking back from the Snook Islands. This is not a classic sculpture of a mermaid but a more abstract form of a sea nymph although you can clearly make out the tail.The face of the mermaid is an open circle. Claudia Jane Klein thought a mermaid sculpture was perfect for Lake worth since it is directly on the Lake Worth Lagoon and ocean. She donated her time and money to create the piece and gifted it to the city in partnership with the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival who maintains it. You can find The Mermaid in Bryant Park across from the golf course. She is next to the fountain. I think she adds artistic interest to the park.

Rosemary Square is home to Palm Beach County's largest concentration of public art installed by a…read moreprivate company. One such piece, The Wishing Tree is a public art piece created in 2019 by San Francisco Symmetry Labs, an American, art & design collective founded 2014. By day the installation looks like a 26 foot tall Banyan tree in the middle of Rosemary Square. By night, the tree is illuminated by a computer made light show. The tree is covered in 100,000 individually programmable, full-color-spectrum LEDs that create the light embedded in 10,000 leaves. The way the lights are programmed was inspired by the fast changing South Florida weather system. Symmetry Labs has said about The Wishing Tree "We hope, despite the technological complexity, that the piece invokes a simple and beautiful feeling: the wonder of nature and humans working in harmony, the possibilities we can achieve together when we share knowledge and wisdom, and the awe of life itself." I love this show stopping piece. Art, technology, and nature intertwine to great a piece that makes you stop and whip out your camera. After taking all of your pictures don't forget to make a wish. With a tree this amazing, it will surely come true.

...Glorious glass Sparklet and glisten…read moreHot heat and melting Molding and sweltering Glorious glass art coming to fruition... I love Benzaiten y'all. The live glassblowing event will knock your socks off. I appreciate that they have glass art for sale, they have these live events once a month and they are even starting a poetry event there in May 2026!! Hungry Poet will be there!! Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts is an impressive and inspiring space that I know you'll enjoy. If you're looking for something new and like nothing else you've experienced in Palm Beach county, please check it out. Even if you're not artsy fartsy like me, it's so vibrant and visceral (the live, team glassblowing event) you'll find something that tickles your fancy (wine, food, live music, sweaty humans, lol) Another review giving it to you straight no chaser! -Lizz aka The Hungry Poet

A full service 4,500 square foot glass blowing and glass-working studio. There ia also fine glass…read moreart for sale. The items for sale are of high quality and considering that, the prices are by a large reasonable. You're supporting a local, small business by spending your money here. It is well worth it. My wife and I went with our local photography club where we saw the artists creating their works of art. We watched an informative glassblowing presentation, saw a lot of beautiful unique art and walked around the extensive gift shop.

The Mechanical Horse is a new public art installation in front of the Boynton Beach Arts and…read moreCultural Center. First announced in December of 2018, it is part of a new 1.15 million dollar art project to create kinetic and interactive art to bring cultural tourism to Boynton Beach and to make the new Town Square "iconic, interactive, and connective". Some of the money came from the city while the majority came from a private developer. Art is dispersed around the area in the new Kapok Tree Park, the new  fire station, police headquarters, and two new parking garages that will have murals. I love horses and public art so I was really delighted to discover this guy hanging out in front of the culture center. It was created in 2015 by artist Adrian Landon who grew up riding horses. Of his horse pieces Landon has said "My work also has a lot of sound in it, just the metal clanking, like the hooves touch the ground and slide on a metal sheet. And you can hear the chains. So it's very much about providing a new experience for people." When I visited, the horse was just hanging there but I saw on the internet videos where the motor is turned on and the horse looks like it is running. It is very cool to watch. You can find several large scale art pieces outside in this area. The rest of the exhibit is inside the Arts and Cultural Center. Come check out art that no only moves you, it actually moves.

This garden area is free which is hard to come by these days, and offers a bunch of different…read moretables or secluded spaces to read a book or have lunch during a workday. It looks like they sometimes host events here based on the people I see and the scupltures are very cool. Community groups like this who all maintain a nice area for the public are becoming increasingly important, and the balance here was just right. It wasn't overloaded with things yet there were pleasant surprises around each corner. Will definitely be back!

This place deserves 5 starts but unfortunately the staff really take away from the entire…read moreexperience. Parking is listed as free if you use the amenities of the four arts, museums, gardens, library etc. According to my visit today it's "private" or only available for an hour. I've been here two days previously to read in the sculpture garden and stayed far longer than an hour without any issues. Yesterday I also had to uncomfortably witness their security staff yelling while on a person call in the gardens. I guess if you're rich and tip the parking attendant (it's self park so this shouldn't be necessary) you can park without an issue. Very off putting experience.

Went to a wonder art opening here. Very nice group of people. The exhibit was terrific. So glad to…read morefinally go to this terrific gallery.

From the moment we walked in and were greeted by a bearded man wearing cargo shorts, a red lame…read morescarf, and a green rhinestone witches hat, it was obvious we'd arrived in Lake Worth at last! Hatch 1121 is a cozy venue just off the main drag in Lake Worth, near the railroad tracks. There's plenty of parking there or on the street. The building itself has potential to run all sorts of shows with high ceilings, and lots of space. LULA is a program run through the CRA to revitalize Lake Worth as it revitalizes the arts community through a shared vision. Tonight's performance of MacBeth is free, put on by locals who love to perform, and set up as theater in the round, so every seat is potentially as both good and/or bad as any other. As they pass the hat at the end of the show, please help fill it, these are unpaid performers, doing this purely for the love of theater, and your applause.

Hidden gem! Beautiful garden right in the heart of downtown west palm beach by the intercostal. So…read morepeaceful and beautiful in here. The garden grounds were nicely kept.

This place is a sleeper. It's hidden in a cool little neighborhood. Great little walk-through…read morelittle surprised they ding you for 15 bucks but it's only 15 bucks is worth it. Nice to walk so cool. The walk is actually cooler than the statues. Honestly, I don't know who the artist is they're OK I don't love them. I don't hate them. They remind me of some cool Monuments from Aztec, but they're not as cool as the Aztecs but they're well positioned the nature walk is just relaxing except for the planes coming in for a landing but aside from that it's a cool thing. It's a nice little place to hang. It could be great for like cocktail hour cocktail parties

We happened on this art center a bit by accident as I saw a notice about it in the shiny sheet…read morewhile visiting palm beach. So we made the detour to this historic Art Deco building to see what their gallery had to offer. The building was a WPA project during the depression. It was built in 1939. After many years as a military building, and some years in disrepair, it became an arts school in the the late 80's. It's gone through renovations and expansions. It is now an arts education school with many classes for all ages and in the summer a lot of workshops, etc., for kids from young ages through teens. Attached to the school was a small one room art gallery with an exhibit highlighting mainly clay pieces done by students and teachers. Each ceramic piece was marked with a price and displayed the name (s) of the artist and the teacher's name. Exhibitions change periodically. There was no charge to enter, but donations are accepted. We couldn't see the other (creative) studios as entry was restricted. More interesting to me was their sculpture garden outside with a few appealing items and the manicured grounds that faced the street. They've hosted an art festival for the last few years (in December) outside on these grounds.

My daughter (13) signed up for a teen art camp with the Armory. She came home after the first day…read morefeeling very disappointed as it did not seem there was enough planned for them. For a jewelry making task, they were given wire, string, and seashells, and were simply told to wrap wire around the shells tie it to the string for a necklace. They were shown an example, but never shown how to do it, and lacked tools. They spent a good bit of time on their phones when they had nothing to do, and at one point, another child in the group had to ask if they could all have some beads to string because they literally weren't doing anything. Needless to say, I called the director, but was fed a bunch of excuses such as "it won't be the same as last year, because we don't have that same studio to use." Yet, she assured me she would make sure there were more things for them to do the next day. I told my daughter to try it out again on Tuesday, but to call me at lunch if it felt as underwhelming as the previous day. Sure enough, I received the phone call. In their jewelry class, they were learning how to make seed bead flowers... but here is the catch... she told them to look up the method on their phones to learn!!! Geez, I could do that at home for a lot cheaper than I paid for this camp! I went and picked my daughter up where I was 'greeted' by the camp director (Jeanie, not sure on spelling?) telling me that it was my fault that one of the camp instructors quit because of my concerned phone call, and now she only has one instructor, and it's all because of me. Went on to say that he said he was tired of dealing with armory parents like myself. To me, this is just an omission of guilt, I guess I'm not the only parent with concerns??? She continued on with her blame rampage saying that my daughter brought a bad attitude to camp with her, and was refusing to do things. That's when I demanded to speak with the teacher who confirmed what I already knew, my daughter was not negative, and did participate in the activities (as poorly planned out as they were for a group of 13-17 year olds). I've given the Armory many chances, but they just can't seem to get it together. The last camp she attended there a few summers ago, she came home upset with how mean she saw the director treating instructors and helpers... interestingly enough that director was fired by week's end. On top of that, the last 2 classes we signed her up for were cancelled due to another instructor quitting and lack of enrollment. It's pretty sad, my daughter loves art and we have heard this place was so wonderful back in its prime.