Kathy Michaels will host an Ikebana flower-arranging demonstration by Gretchen Ward Warren, an expert in the school of Ichiyo Ikebana. More about the presenter below.
Arrangements in the manner of Ichiyo School are intended to arouse our senses in a different way from traditional ikebana, giving the viewer an experience with nature that is unexpected, stimulating, and profound.
Ichiyo School encourages personal interpretation. Imagination is considered as essential to creative designs as materials and containers. “If flower arranging is to be truly fulfilling, it should be a reflection of oneself.”
Participants will observe the demonstration only. They will not create arrangements.
Light refreshments and socializing to follow.
Attendee Limit: 25 people
RSVP
CLICK HERE to email Kathy Michaels by 5:00 PM, Thursday, February 8 to secure your reservation. Kathy will return a link for payment if there is still room available.
Parking
Parking is available on the street or at the Sundial parking garage.
Gretchen Ward Warren is a member of Ikebana International Chapter 65 of St. Petersburg, FL and a Certified Instructor in the Ichiyo School of Ikebana. Her floral arrangements have been exhibited at many ikebana exhibitions and Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
In addition, Ms. Warren is an American Rose Society Master Consulting Rosarian and Past-President of the Tampa Rose Society. Among her many awards at rose shows have been Queen of Show, King of Show and, in arranging, the ARS Royalty, Oriental and Artist Awards. Well-known for her award-winning photographs of roses, she is a frequent speaker on various aspects of rose horticulture and history.
Professionally, Warren retired in 2009 after twenty-seven years as a Professor of Ballet and Dance History in the College of the Arts at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Prior to this, she danced as Soloist with the Pennsylvania Ballet and later was Ballet Mistress of American Ballet Theatre II in New York.
She is the author of two best-selling books, Classical Ballet Technique and The Art of Teaching Ballet and is frequently invited to work as a master teacher at professional ballet schools and companies around the world. Her latest book, Hollow Bone, will be published this spring. A memoir that details her work with Australian Aboriginal and Native American dancers, the book was inspired by her remarkable experiences as a Fulbright Fellow in Australia.