What Changed Inside Arts Warehouse This Spring Is Now Hanging on Its Walls

This past April and May, the resident artists at Arts Warehouse packed up their studios at 313 NE 3rd Street and left. The floors on both levels had to be repaired, buffed and sealed, and the building needed to be empty for the work. Some of the artists set up at the Creative Arts School in Delray Beach. Others worked from home. Program assistant Lukas Maas told the Delray Beach CRA that the time away changed "not only... where they work, but how they work," as artists explored new themes, tried different mediums and went back to older projects.

That work is on the gallery walls now in Endings to Beginnings, the 2026 Resident Artist Show, which runs through November 21. The building around it is between two phases of repair. The inside is finished. The roof, air conditioning and exterior paint are next, and the money for that work is set aside for this fiscal year. Over the next few weeks you can see what the first phase did to the art, in a building that is about to start the second.

What the Spring Closure Fixed

The floors are what forced everyone out, but they were only one part of the job. A May 2026 CRA update put the full scope at a new roof, new AC units, new exterior stucco and paint, and new countertops and cabinetry.

The contract kept growing as the work moved along. CRA board records show Waypoint Contracting, Inc. was approved for exterior and interior repairs with a cap of $593,700. The first amendment added $258,786 for seven rooftop HVAC units, and the second added up to $34,402.03 for more floor-crack repairs. That brought the total cap to $886,888.03, nearly 50 percent above the original figure.

In its April through June quarterly update, the CRA said the interior work was completed in April and May, "closing out the first phase of the building's renovation," and that the gallery and studios were open to visitors again. Program director Grace Gdaniec told the CRA, "We're glad that it went smoothly."

When the artists came back, the studios didn't look the same. In May, Gdaniec said that "some artists have moved around as well, so you may see artists in a new, larger studio within the building."

The Show the Closure Produced

The title Endings to Beginnings came from a meeting with the exhibiting artists. Maas said they described moving out and back in as "a reset," which is why the ending comes before the beginning. The show opened October 2 and includes 11 artists who work in the building's studios:

• Landis Carey
• Dominique Denis
• Lisa MacNamara
• Ma Nong
• Nickki Lewis-Parker
• Marianela Pérez
• Lilian Ried
• Renee Rey
• Kelley Ryan
• Andrea Sarcos
• Kelsey Snyder

Gdaniec told the CRA that many of these artists "are in their final terms as residents or a few years in, and that can mean a lot of change within their work." One section of the gallery is a good place to start. Maas described Lilian Ried's ceramic birds native to Brazil, where she is from, arranged around her bright mangrove painting so that walking through that part of the room "feels like an entryway into her world."

Admission is free. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. That leaves six more open days before the show closes on Saturday, November 21.

Tonight, the Studios Are Open Too

The gallery shows the finished work. Open Studio Night shows what the artists are working on now. It runs tonight, Thursday, November 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. Admission is free and Arts Warehouse asks guests to RSVP through Eventbrite. A group artist Q&A starts in the front gallery at 7 p.m.

Gdaniec described the evening to the Delray Beach CRA:

"The artists will be actively working on something in their studios which is one of my favorite things to watch and learn from. Being in the studios is a glimpse into all of the different things that the artist may be working on that aren't seen on their website or social media platforms, since they may be in early stages of development."

She added that artists often sell smaller pieces from their studios on these nights. After the spring move, she said, the artists "have re arranged their spaces a bit, allowing for a new creative environment," so the studios now look different from how they did a year ago.

The Calendar on Artist Alley Through December

After tonight, the building's schedule moves from the resident show to the next set of exhibitions.

On December 4, the studios and the three new exhibitions will be open on the same evening, and admission to the Art Walk is free.

Phase Two Is Already in the Budget

The interior is finished, and the outside of the building is next. The CRA's FY 2026–27 budget and work plan lists Arts Warehouse repairs and improvements as ongoing from the prior fiscal year, with $914,000 in CRA funding for replacing the air conditioning units, painting the exterior and repairing the roof. That one-year amount is larger than the full $886,888.03 cap on the Waypoint contract that covered the spring work.

The same document explains why the CRA keeps spending on the building. The CRA turned a dilapidated warehouse into Arts Warehouse in 2017. The 15,000-square-foot space on Artist Alley in the Pineapple Grove Arts District rents affordable space to small local artists, and the plan describes it as an anchor that brings foot traffic to the area.

The building has 15 resident studios, including one shared pottery studio. The CRA subsidy brings studio rent to $2 per square foot. Residents are expected to work in their studios at least 20 hours a week during public hours and to take part in the monthly First Friday Art Walks, so on any open afternoon some of the artists are likely to be at work. The current application window for new residents closes November 15 at 11:59 p.m., and new residents are expected to start in early 2027. Some of the artists in Endings to Beginnings are in their final terms, so the group working in the building next spring may be different from the one showing now.

Building the Evening Around It

Arts Warehouse is a short walk from the newest stop on NE 2nd Avenue. Preface Wine opened in October at 279 NE 2nd Ave. Boca Magazine describes it as part wine shop, part wine bar. Founder Jonathan Frutkin built the shop with shelves and displays that slide out to small nooks for tasting, and it becomes a wine bar at 4 p.m. Bottles can be taken home or opened in the store, and its proprietary system, JJ, remembers what you liked for your next visit. Tonight's Open Studio Night ends at 8 p.m., and Preface's bar hours begin well before it starts.

Saturday morning brings two markets within walking distance of each other. The 31st winter GreenMarket is back at Old School Square on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. through May 22, 2027, with more than 70 local growers, makers and food vendors, according to the Delray Beach CRA. On November 14, the Warehouse Market on NE 3rd Street runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., so both markets are open at the same time for most of the morning.

The first week of December has three events on three nights. The city's tree lighting and Yuletide fair on December 1 brings more than 60 vendors across Atlantic Avenue, Old School Square and Pineapple Grove. On December 3, the Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square holds the opening reception for KOLLERISM: Vivid & Wild, Helmut Koller's animal portraits, which are on view December 4 through March 21, 2027. The next night, December 4, the December First Friday Art Walk at Arts Warehouse opens its three new exhibitions.

Arts Warehouse's artists are back in their studios after the first phase of repairs, and the next phase is already funded. At Florida 360 Group, we follow the projects that shape daily life in Pineapple Grove because they're part of what living here means. If you're wondering how this stretch of the arts district affects your own home's value, start with an Instant Home Valuation and we'll go over the numbers with you.