Calusa Garden Club Announces Art in Bloom

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island invites the community to “Art in Bloom” on Friday, April 19 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, presented in connection with Marco Island Center for the Arts. The floral design exhibit will include an opportunity for visitors to vote for their favorite design with a “People’s Choice” ballot. In addition, a reception will follow the exhibit from 4:00 to 5:30 PM. All are welcome, and there is no admission fee. 

For an Art in Bloom exhibit, designers make floral designs to interpret a painting, sculpture, or other creative work in any medium. The floral designs are exhibited near their companion artwork. Calusa Garden Club has not held an Art in Bloom exhibit since 2011, so the club members are excited to be able to make arrangements that reflect a piece of art and display them.  

The Adult Student Exhibit to be held April 8-30 at Marco Island Center for the Arts is the foundation for the Art in Bloom floral design exhibit. This juried exhibition will show the best work of adult art students in a variety of media from classes at the Center for the Arts. Calusa Garden Club floral designers will choose a piece of art, study it, and make a design with flowers that is inspired by the art. The floral design should not mimic the art, but should interpret the artwork in some way, such as through colors, shapes or choice of materials.  

Photos of the 2011 Art in Bloom show how the floral designs interpret the artwork. It was held at Marco Island Center for the Arts, as is the April 19 show. The photo shows a painting of the still life with a jar of pasta, and the painting was interpreted with a display of a jar of pasta, but that repetition is not required in an Art in Bloom floral design. The striped ginger leaves refer to the avocado, and the pink gerbera daisies refer to the red tomato in the painting. The photo of the arrangement interpreting a necklace shows how the floral designer used candleholders with a geometric pattern to allude to the pattern in the necklace, and also used circular wire constructions to mimic the circular necklace. The pink colors in the flowers complement the colors in the necklace. The floral design that accompanies the painting of overlapping palm fronds reflects the green of the fronds and the straight lines crosshatched in the painting.