Floral Arranging Gathering
WITH TAWANA SCHLEGEL DESIGN
Galerie Shibumi Presents:
A Floral Gathering with Tawana Schlegel Design
In conversation with Unfading Traces, the current exhibit at Galerie Shibumi, floral designer Tawana Schlegel invites guests into a quiet, hands-on evening centered on flowers as gestures of presence rather than perfection.
This two-hour bouquet-making experience invites guests to learn the fundamentals of floral composition, guided by intuition, texture, and feeling. Drawing on YeonKyung Park's softened Still Life series, this gathering explores flowers as vessels of memory—something to be touched, shaped, and experienced in the moment.
All materials provided.
Guests get to take their floral creations home.
Light refreshments will be served.
Flowers have long carried layered meanings across cultures. In East Asian traditions, they often symbolize humility, seasonal change, and spiritual reflection. In Western art history, flowers have served as powerful metaphors for life and mortality, from the vanitas still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age to modernist explorations of nature as emotion and form. Artists such as Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and Rachel Ruysch elevated floral still life into a sophisticated language of symbolism, where each bloom spoke to time, fragility, and abundance. Later, figures like Vincent van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe transformed flowers into deeply personal and psychological subjects, while Cy Twombly distilled nature into gestural marks that hovered between writing, memory, and sensation.
THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 19, 2026
6:30 - 8:30 PM
GALERIE SHIBUMI
261 W 35th St New York, NY 10001, USA 14th floor - suite 140
