Art Residency

New Wave provides support for under-represented artists across diverse backgrounds. Since its founding in 2018 by gallerist Sarah Gavlak, we have served over twenty artists and produced dozens of public programs for the Palm Beach communities. Artists receive an unrestricted $5,000 stipend, housing and an artist studio in West Palm Beach for 6 weeks. Domestic travel, up to $300 roundtrip, is also covered by the residency.

Upcoming Residents

Ann Lewis

New Wave is proud to announce Ann Lewis as its spring 2026 resident. During her 6-week stay in Palm Beach, Lewis will realize a series of social practice performances, with a special program taking place at Rohi’s Liberation Station on Friday, March 6 from 2-4PM for New Wave Art Wknd.

Ease is an immersive public artwork blending creativity, sensory experience, and the science of well-being. Participants are invited to pause, reflect, and reset their nervous systems in a supportive and accessible space. Designed to reduce anxiety and depression, this space utilizes trauma-informed design principles, meditative Solfeggio chimes, native aromatic plantings, ergonomic seating, and sustainable materials to create a restorative environment.

The structure is intimate in scale yet publicly accessible, offering privacy while maintaining a connection to the surrounding environment. For the residency, Lewis will construct a seating section, creating a fully realized, self-contained experience.

Portrait credit Breann White

Current Residency Jurors

Sybille Canthal

The Director of Arts, Culture and Community Building for the City of West Palm Beach, Mayor’s Office. Canthal is responsible for managing multiple projects with a wide range of budgets, negotiating and liaising between the public and private sector to guide the commission's review of art projects and enhance equity in the Arts.
She specializes in contemporary art projects, commissions and programming with experience as a curator, administrator, policy research, writer, and educator in the nonprofit and government sector. Canthal holds an MA in Arts Administration and Policy from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art History from California State University Northridge.
Javier Castro

Javier is a Cuban artist who resides in New York City, keeping a strong connection with Havana, Cuba and is a former New Wave Artist Resident. His work addresses concepts of marginality, race, religion, and broken paradigms through a wide artistic practice that spans video, photography, sculpture, drawing, and installation.
Castro studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba. He has exhibited extensively in more than fifteen countries including the United States, Senegal, Colombia, the United Kingdom, and China. His work is in a number of prominent collections including The National Museum of Fine Art (Havana), the Daros-Latinamerica Collection (Zurich), the Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco), and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (Miami), among others
Erica Prince

Erica Prince is a multidisciplinary artist and full-time faculty member in Printmaking and Drawing at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach Florida, whose recent work in ceramics, printmaking and drawing explores botanical arrangements as they relate to vessels that contain or support them. Prince has nurtured the growth of countless artists in over 15 years as an educator and holds an MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and a BFA in Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art.
Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.)

Born Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga, Venezuelan artist Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), creates paintings/collages on mica, videos, installations, and performances, through which he breaks down belief systems into intersecting components of science, spirituality, and mysticism.
He began his career through charismatic performances where he “channeled” the 2,000-year-old spirit of a shaman named Carlos. In front of live audiences around the world, Carlos’ performances and media broadcasts have been viewed by millions of people in the United States, China, Australia, Europe, and South America. Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) has performed and exhibited internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, NASA Johnson Space Flight Center, GAVLAK Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, The Moore Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Norton Museum of Art, The Bunker Artspace, The Kemper Art Museum and The Drawing Center, among others.
Audrey Foster

Audrey Foster is a passionate art collector who, together with her husband Jim, endowed the ICA Boston Show (the Audrey and James Foster Prize). She spends a great deal of her waking hours looking at art, talking to and spending time with people in the art world. Foster is mostly connected to the Boston arts community and is so happy to be spending more time in West Palm Beach.
Arden Sherman

Arden is a curator and organizer, currently Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL. She was formerly Director & Curator of Hunter East Harlem Gallery, a multi-disciplinary space for art exhibitions and socially-minded projects located at Hunter College in New York City. Her specializations are socially-engaged art, community work, and photography.
Arden has years of experience in non-profit and university settings and has held positions at Creative Time, Loyola Marymount University Gallery, Pratt Institute, as well as Prospect New Orleans and Headlands Center for the Arts. She earned her Master's degree in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in 2010 and her bachelor’s degrees in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Studio Art from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.