The Society of the Four Arts Inc

Artistic programming consists of art exhibitions, concerts, films, HD screenings from cultural partners, and lectures. Each season The Society of the Four Arts presents a full season of notable programs in music, drama, literature, and the visual arts. Concerts include programs by the world's leading musicians in diverse performances of classical, jazz, bluegrass, and more. Recent art exhibitions included Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum and Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature. Each run included a lecture on the exhibition. The Four Arts curates a Friday Film Series and hosts screenings from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, National Theatre Live in London, and an Exhibition on Screen series. Attendance 21,534 over 83 programs.

Because the Town of Palm Beach has no public libraries, the Society's two libraries - the King Library for adults and a separate, superbly equipped Children's Library, serve, in effect, as the town's "official" libraries. Both are open to the public at no charge (adults pay a small fee for borrowing privileges); both present a full season's schedule of events: story hours for children, plus celebrations of special events like National Fire Prevention week when Palm Beach's fire trucks and firefighters visit the children's library, author visits, book signings, poetry readings, lectures, book discussions, and other events for adults. Attendance 75,530 including 313 events.

Education (Campus on the Lake) programming consists of field trips, lectures, master classes, seminars, and workshops dedicated to the living arts. These programs and events are presented in the new Four Arts Dixon Education Building. The presentations range widely in subject matter: ongoing classes on classical music, opera, literature, art, watercolor painting, sculpture, cooking, and flower arranging; one-time lectures on a wide variety of subjects. Designed to attract a broad audience, the Campus on the Lake has won wide praise for the variety and depth of its programs. Attendance 10,163 over 124 programs.