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 […]
Art and Culture
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 […]
Weaving Transformation
Overnight, it seemed, the Kapnick Caribbean Garden lawn transformed from grassland to wonderland as sculptor Patrick Dougherty — the “Stickman” — and his son, Sam, led nearly 100 volunteers in […]