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  • Wednesdays, July 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2:00 pm – Pop Up Gold Leaf Workshop

    This Berkshire Botanical Garden workshop is complementary to BBG’s current exhibition, Shimmering Flowers: Nancy Lorenz’s Bronze and Lacquer Landscapes. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the artistic medium of gold leafing and deepen their understanding by creating their very own gold leaf jar. Facilitated by BBG’s art education intern Mariah Baca. This workshop begins at 2 in the Center House Leonhardt Galleries, 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge, and is open to all ages and is free with Garden admission. Come learn by creating! For more information visit www.berkshirebotanical.org. Workshops will take place weekly through July 24.

  • Friday, May 31, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Opening Reception: Shimmering Flowers

    Berkshire Botanical Garden warmly welcomes Nancy Lorenz on Friday, May 31, 5 – 7 p.m. for an opening reception of its ART/GARDEN exhibition Shimmering Flowers: Nancy Lorenz’s Lacquer and Bronze Landscapes. The reception will include a demonstration presented by floral designer and ikebana master Kan Asakura.  

    A New York City based artist, Nancy Lorenz incorporates techniques from traditional Asian crafts, drawing on her years spent living in Japan and a thirty-five-year career as a noted contemporary abstract painter. For Shimmering Flowers, Ms. Lorenz has created gilt and mother-of-pearl paintings that complement the Garden’s collection of flora and will also present table-top landscape vessels in cast bronze, creating a dialogue with the galleries and their surrounding gardens. Throughout the summer, these vessels will display arrangements created by a rotating group of talented floral designers whose interpretations of the art are reflected in unique displays of flowers and other natural materials.

    Gallery hours June 1 – September 30:  Daily, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free with Garden admission.
     

    Shimmering Flowers is made possible through the generous assistance of the Dorothea L Leonhardt Foundation, Inc.