Naples Botanical Garden is closed to ensure the safety of guests and staff until Hurricane Milton and resulting inclement weather have passed.

Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

September 16, 2023 9:00 am 5:00 pm

Fogg Café

On View June 16, 2023 Through January 21, 2024

Patricia Zalisko’s mixed media collages capture the intimate process of healing and understanding after a time of crisis.

For Life to Return is a profound visual diary, which explores the idea of creating beauty from destruction. Zalisko pairs each work in this spotlight exhibition with an accompanying haiku, emphasizing man’s relationship with nature through themes of survival, displacement, and renewal.

Included with Garden admission

Image: Pat Zalisko, “Displaced,” collage on cradled birch, 2022

Meet the Artist – January 6, 2024, 11am – 1pm

Meet Patricia to ask questions and engage in conversation while enjoying the spotlight exhibition. Look for her on the Kapnick Terrace, where she’ll lead a live collage demonstration, and offer guests the opportunity to participate, as well!

This relaxed, drop-in opportunity is included with Garden admission, and no registration is required.

About the Artist

Patricia Zalisko was born in New York City, New York, where she studied and practiced law after graduating from Fordham University School of Law. Her childhood was rich with creativity and her life in New York City deepened her passion for the creative world. In 2004, Zalisko moved to Florida where she continued to seek opportunities to study the arts in both New York and Florida universities. Zalisko’s work is regularly included in exhibitions and private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Top image: Image: Patricia Zalisko, “Form Over Function,” collage on cradled birch, 2022


Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Cultureand the National Endowment for the Arts.

We Love our Members!