Daily Archives: January 6, 2022

Wednesday, January 26, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – Incorporating Fruit into Flower Arrangements, Online

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In the winter, although flowers can be hard to come by, citrus and pomegranates are plentiful and can add color to nature’s otherwise muted palette.

Learn how to incorporate various fruits into your arrangements and tips on using them as part of a table-scape. Techniques include using wire and skewers to secure your fruit and choosing the best container for your arrangement. This Smithsonian Associates virtual workshop takes place January 26 from noon – 1:30. All levels are welcome.

Note: This streamed program will not be recorded. $35 for Smithsonian Associates members, $45 for nonmembers.

Other Information

  • The instructor is Arrin Sutliff.
  • One 1.5-hour session
  • This studio arts program is a Zoom Meeting to allow for patron and instructor interaction.

Patron Information

  • All Studio Arts classes require a ticket for each participant so that the instructor can provide individual attention to every student listed on the roster.
  • If you register multiple individuals, you will be asked to supply individual names and email addresses so they can receive a Zoom link email. Please note that if there is a change in program schedule or a cancellation, we will notify you via email, and it will be your responsibility to notify other registrants in your group.
  • Unless otherwise noted, registration for streaming programs typically closes two hours prior to the start time on the date of the program.
  • Once registered, patrons should receive an automatic email confirmation from CustomerService@SmithsonianAssociates.org.
  • Separate Zoom link information will be emailed closer to the date of the program. If you do not receive your Zoom link information 24 hours prior to the start of the program, please email Customer Service for assistance.
  • View Common FAQs about our Streaming Programs on Zoom.

Tuesday, January 11, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Eastern – Forgotten Women Gardeners: Weeding, Writing, and Illustrating, Online

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Following the success of the Gardens Trust series on gardeners last year they are pleased to be offering six more lectures this time focusing on some less well-known women and their contributions to horticulture.

This ticket costs £24 for the entire course of 6 sessions or you may purchase a ticket for individual sessions, costing £5. Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

In this introduction to the series Twigs Way will explore the broader history of women’s involvement in gardens from medieval weeders paid in ale and herrings to Victorian ladies gardening in corsets via ambitious royal creators of botanic gardens and forgotten illustrators. Highlighting the way in which women were forced into the margins of the traditional overview of garden history, we will shine a spotlight on the forgotten, the neglected and the poorly paid to whom the ‘art and craft of gardening’ in its broader context owes its existence.

Twigs Way is a garden historian, writer and researcher. Twigs’ talks and books reflect themes of symbolism and meaning, class and gender, art and literature, and her desire to follow unknown paths towards the unexpected. Twigs has a specific interest in the roles of women in and out of the garden, which was the topic of her first book. Twigs is an accredited Arts Society lecturer and her history of the Chrysanthemum in art and culture was published by Reaktion in 2020. She is currently working on the equally golden daffodil, but dreams of having a publisher for a biography of Frances Garnet Wolseley.