Flowering: Art History & Arrangement

with Maddie Reyna
June 13, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $100
Materials Fee: $30

Create a living sculpture with flowers while considering foundational historical floral styles, including Dutch Baroque, ikebana, and contemporary movements. Following a demonstration, participants will experiment with vessel armature techniques such as wire mesh, pin frog, and tape grid. Local flowers from White Barn Flower Company in Holland, Michigan, will be provided to each participant. The class will conclude with a group discussion, after which participants will take their ephemeral arrangements 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, Floral Still-Life Painting, led by James Brandess.

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

Location: Main Campus - 3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453

Maddie Reyna working with a Flowering: Art History & Arrangement partcipant. Photo by Nolan Zunk, SF’25

Maddie Reyna (she/her) 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 Master’s in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at the Flower School of New York. She designs flower arrangements for brides and other party throwers in Chicago and serves as the Education Director at Ox-Bow.