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Festival of flowers

APRIL 15-17

April 15 - Academic Sessions

Join us in exploring all of the ways that science, history, and art interact with one another. Learn, discuss, and snack!

April 16 - Sowing Art

A morning of workshops, talks, and experiences where you will interact with flowers in a diversity of ways

April 16 -Exhibition Opening

Alongside a selection of works from the A-State Herbarium, the exhibition Spring is Calling asks a simple but powerful question: how does great art bloom again through your hands? Participants will interpret the color, mood, symbolism, composition, or emotional intensity of work of art housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through floral arrangements. Events starts at 4:30pm

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Spring is Calling

April 17 - A Night Downtown

From 5:00pm to 7:30pm come celebrate flowers at three amazing downtown businesses!

Gearhead Outfitters "A Spring in Your Step Fun Run" starting at 5:30, followed by stretching with Bethany Chu Generations Floral Company Flower arranging and personalized bookmarks Something Art Cafe Make your own buttons, gelli prints, pollination activity, and coloring pages

Free tote bag for the first 100 guests!

For more information contact: Kristen Franyutti (kfranyutti@astate.edu) Katherine Baker (katbaker@astate.edu) Melissa Thompson (melthompson@astate.edu)

Credits:

Images by Jade Kilgore using Book of Flower Studies Master of Claude de France ca. 1510–1515 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.197