Golden sunlight slants over the Water Garden as Christy Noonan arrives one spring morning, sketchbook in hand. She surveys the scene. A cluster of plants catches her eye, an assortment […]
Art and Culture
Mary Day: An Enlightened Sense of Space
Mary Day spends her days taming the product of a truly wild plant. For 15 years, she’s worked with rattan reed, a plant native to Southeast Asia that spreads vine-like […]
Dusty Holmes: Weaving the Benefits of Nature
To source the materials for her art, Dusty Holmes need only look around her. Seed pods, clay, pine needles — anything found in nature is fair game. Holmes is an […]
Woven Behind the Scenes: Meet Artist Muffy Clark Gill
It was not easy, says Naples artist Muffy Clark Gill, to transform the scene she’d photographed in the Garden — a mosaic partially obscured by overlapping palm fronds — into […]
Weaving a Tropical Tapestry
The artists behind Woven: Fiber Arts Now give us a glimpse of what’s to come in our newest exhibition. The Garden team curated this show, on view in Kapnick Hall […]
Towering Bamboo Sculpture Brings Ikebana Exhibition to New Heights
If you intend to visit this weekend’s Naples Ikebana International #160 show, you’re likely — and correctly — anticipating tabletop floral arrangements showcasing the Japanese floral design practice. You’re probably […]