Each selected a piece to interpret through flowers. The art includes abstract paintings, woven pieces, still lifes, sculpture, portraits, contemporary metal sculpture, a mobile and a totem pole. The floral arrangements are as varied as the art. It's the first piece you see when you step through the museum's glass front doors. Bale stacked red clay pots and large shallow clay bowls in a pile taller than your head.
Flowers spill over each tier.
Long branches of yellow forsythia shoot out of the top pot, reminding you of a bright yellow headdress. Nearby, Chase Clark's inspiration came from a still life called Orange Gaugin by Mary Ann Currier. The artist painted a large orange on a plate, a Gaugin note card slipped halfway out of an envelope and two pieces of hard candy wrapped in cellophane. After spending a few minutes with the painting last week, Clark was hit with inspiration. Patrick Howard chose to interpret an orange-and blue Alexander Calder mobile.