Norwood May 2016

May 2016 Local Town Pages www.norwoodtownnews.com Page 11
Norwood’s Art in Bloom A Success
By Donna Lane
The George H. Morse House
once again opened its lovely facility
to host the Norwood Evening
Garden Club’s 12th Art in Bloom
event. Student artists from Norwood
and Walpole High Schools
provided artwork and sculpture
using many different media resources
while members of the garden
club put forth their best efforts
at interpreting them.
Susan Kaplan, past president
of Beth Shalom Garden Club in
Needham and owner of Highgate
Floral Designs has visited Norwood’s
Art in Bloom for the past
six years. She texted a message as
she was leaving the Morse House
saying, “Excellent! Art and florals
get better every year.”
Most garden club members
primarily consider themselves
“dirt gardeners” and aren’t comfortable
doing flower arrangements,
especially those that will
be on public display. Lorraine
Devine, past president of the club,
sums up how many of the designers
feel.
“It’s a lot of fun, but it’s also a
bit nerve wracking because you
want to do a good job for the student
and you don’t want to make
a fool of yourself,” Devine said.
“It has also been a great learning
experience getting to know about
the different flowers and greens
that are available, and how you
condition them so they last as long
as possible. This is my sixth year
doing Art in Bloom, and I think I
finally got the hang of it this year.”
Nancy Costa, Chair of Art
in Bloom 2016, said she couldn’t
be more pleased with this year’s
event.
“Nearly 300 people viewed the
displays over the weekend, and
two classes of students from the
middle school viewed the displays
on Monday," Costa said. "They
are our future artists. I want them
to get excited about participating
in the future. I guess it’s the
teacher in me.”
Students were asked to look at
the art and floral pieces and focus
on the textures of each. After they
looked at each piece, they were
to select the one that exhibited
the greatest match in terms of
drawing and floral texture. What
emerged was very interesting. The
two classes were evenly
split in their choices.
Many gravitated to
a piece that had been
composed on a map,
and which used pieces
of wire to delineate a
bridge. The piece was
done by Emily Schneider
of Walpole. Color
was limited to subtle
greens and pale yellows,
melding into blue. The
depth of the composition
was striking. Students
noted that they liked the
fact that wire was carefully added
and that everything was not simply
painted on. It was not an easy
piece to interpret. Yours truly had
the honor.
The second piece most-selected
by the students was by Macy
Chutoransky, of Walpole, whose
pastel conch shell received many
visitors’ compliments. When the
young artist visited the exhibit,
she was quite taken with the flowers
used by club president, Tracy
Firth, to interpret her piece.
“I love the selection of flowers
… and the choice of container …
and how she captured the curves
and the feeling of my piece.”
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Chutoransky said.
In contrast to Chutoransky’s
soft colors, Norwood artist Rory
Lake submitted a striking landscape,
rich with strong pigments
of orange, yellow, green, red and
a range of blues. Whether bold or
muted, did visitors have favorites?
Without a doubt. But the predominant
comments of the weekend
were about the wealth of talent
housed under the Morse House
roof by artists and designers alike.
“Many thanks to Dale Day
and members of the George H.
Morse House Committee, Laurie
Meade-McGrory, Visual Arts
Department Chair of Norwood
High School, Sandra Allison, Visual
Arts Department Head for
Walpole High School, all of the
talented high school artists, all participating
garden club designers,
my Art in Bloom Committee and
all who visited from the community,”
Costa said. “Without you,
this event would not have been
possible.”
Donna Lane is a Norwoodbased
writer, lecturer and designer,
and a founding member of the
Norwood Evening Garden Club.
You can reach Donna at AddictedGardener@verizon.net.
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