Art Workshop - Flower Arranging

This workshop invites participants to create a living sculpture with florals. We will review the art historical overlaps found in the Dutch baroque and ikebana styles and experiment with vessel armature techniques such as wire mesh, pin frog, and tape grid. Local and exotic live flowers will be provided to each participant; after demonstration, arranging, and group discussion, participants will take their lush, ephemeral arrangements home.

MADDIE REYNA is a Chicago-based artist who started MG Flower Studio in 2019. She began arranging flowers as a way to create subjects for her work, but this practice has come to stand alone as she applies considerations of color, form, and composition to three-dimensional organic matter. In addition to flowering events for brides and other party throwers in Chicago, she is Assistant Director of Academic Programs at Ox-Bow. She received a Master’s in Painting and Draw-ing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at FlowerSchool New York.