Flowering: Art History & Arrangement

with Maddie Reyna

August 23, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $100

Materials Fee: $30

Create a living sculpture with florals while considering foundational historical floral styles including Dutch Baroque, Ikebana, and contemporary movements. Participants will experiment with vessel armature techniques such as wire mesh, pin frog, and tape grid. Local flowers from White Barn Flower Farm in Holland, Michigan, will be provided to each participant, and after demonstration, arranging, and group discussion, they will take their ephemeral arrangement home. For a full-day making experience, during which you will make a painting of your floral arrangement, sign up for the second part of this workshop, Still Life Painting led by James Brandess!

Plan to bring: A vessel, garden shears, garden gloves, a box to transport your arrangement.

Maddie Reyna is an American painter who began arranging flowers as a way to have live subjects for her work. That practice has come to stand alone as she applies considerations of color, form, and composition to three-dimensional organic matter. She has a Masters in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studied at The Flower School of New York, designs flower arrangements for brides and other party throwers in Chicago, and is the Academic Program Director for Ox-Bow School of Art.

Images courtesy of the artist.