Going Green
Presented by the Benz School of Floral Design
March 21–June 1, 2025
J. Wayne Stark Galleries | Memorial Student Center, MSC 1110
Explore floral displays crafted from found and recycled objects by students in the Benz School of Floral Design’s class, Floral Art 453, under the direction of professor Wendy Osburn.
Old grocery sacks become a crocheted wall hanging, 1960s magazine pages become origami-like flowers, and a coffee box turns into a faux watering can. Floral delivery boxes that once lined the school’s halls are transformed into objets d’art. Plastic bubble wands become flowers when heat is applied, and a student’s old T-shirt becomes the petals of a floral bouquet on a quilted wall hanging.
As a followup to Hort. 203, the students were tasked with taking the foundational skills they’ve learned and asked to make larger-scaled installations with available resources, like 3-D printer shards, plastic strapping from boxes, water bottles and other materials that might have otherwise landed in the landfill to create gallery-quality expressions of floral art.
Inside the Exhibition
