Our Art & Blooms event is back! Using flowers as their medium, floral designers from The Garden Club of Niagara have been invited to interpret selected artworks on display at RiverBrink Museum. Join us for a weekend of art, unique floral arrangements, talks and a live demonstration!
OPENING PREVIEW
Friday, March 24 at 4:00pm-7:00pm
Wine & Canapes (from Willow Cakes)
*Ticket includes one full year membership to RiverBrink Art Museum
Buy Tickets $75.00
OPENING PREVIEW
Friday, March 24 at 4:00pm-7:00pm
Wine & Canapes (from Willow Cakes)
*Ticket includes one full year membership to RiverBrink Art Museum
Buy Tickets $75.00
The Picturesque Garden and its Transformation into a Symbol of Urbanization in the Late Ottoman Empire
with Berin Golonu Thursday, March 16 at 1:00pm Please join us for this fascinating talk with Berin Golonu, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The new public gardens that opened in Istanbul and Cairo around the year 1870 were designed after the promenades built during Baron Haussmann's renewal of Paris in the 1850s. This presentation undertakes a triangulated comparison between the promenades, parks and public gardens of Paris, Istanbul and Cairo to discuss how the aesthetics of the picturesque landscape became a signifier of modernizing reform, infrastructural and commercial growth, and increasing urbanization in the late nineteenth century. This talk will be followed by a brief Q&A period and light refreshments. $20 for one Talk | $35 for Both |
The Power of the Rose
with Penny-Lynn Cookson Saturday, March 25th at 3:30pm Ancient, legendary, mysterious, the rose has been a symbol of love and romance, of religious faith, of war and of hidden meanings. We’re ‘coming up roses’ in art, history, literature, music, film, fashion and food with art historian Penny-Lynn Cookson! This talk will be followed by a brief Q&A period and light refreshments. $20 for one Talk | $35 for Both |
A Breath of Spring Floral Arrangement Demonstration
with Babara Bedell and Lil Haworth Saturday, March 25th at 11:00am Join Barbara Bedell and Lil Haworth from the Garden Club of Niagara for this live floral arrangement demonstration. Barb and Lil will take you through the process of creating whimsical floral arrangements inspired by artworks on display at RiverBrink Art Museum! Registration to this event includes entry into a draw to win one of two floral designs to take home with you! Barbara Bedell is the President of Garden Clubs of Ontario, past president of the Garden Club of Niagara, as well as an accredited Floral Design judge, competing and judging floral design locally and internationally. Involved in designing since the 70’s, Barb began working in flower shops, before a long career as an illustrator and graphic designer. She has been an active member of the Garden Club of Niagara for 21 years teaching, demonstrating and furthering her knowledge of Floral Art and Horticulture. Tending a sprawling and ever-changing perennial garden is her passion. Lil Howarth is a founding member of the Garden Club of Niagara and continues to be active in the club and with other design and horticulture clubs. She is an accredited judge of Design and Horticulture, demonstrating, exhibiting, teaching and judging both locally and internationally for over 30 years. Working in her Grimsby garden is one of her “happy places.” Tickets: $20.00 |