Meet the Artists: Gallery Opening

Meet the talented artists behind our gallery exhibits, enjoy live music on the Geis Terrace, and celebrate the Japanese Garden's 50th Anniversary with art, conversation, and delicious bites!

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Cost $20 per nonmember, members are free

Meet the talented artists behind our botanical garden galleries!

Friday, August 29, 6-8:30pm

Members are free, $20 per nonmember, registration required

Explore our art galleries after hours and meet some the featured artists whose work is on display. Works on display are from artists Amie Sell, Alvaro Alejandro Lopez, Jen Sowders, and Jane Small. In additional to our art galleries, the event includes a juried quilt show organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates, an international quilting group, though all artists are from Ohio or Pennsylvania. Enjoy the blooming gardens and live music on the Geis Terrace.

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The Artists

Amie Sell

Amie Sell (she/they) creates art that reminds humans that we are nature and nature is us. Through sculpture, ceramics, and collage they create work that help us to recall the inner wisdom of natural history and the cosmos that lies within all of us. Using a variety of styles and materials, they abstractly and absurdly create art that reveals the power of transformation and interconnection between the physical world and internal emotional landscapes.

Jennifer Sowders

Jennifer’s “Trails of Immersion” began as escapism from the dark days of Covid Lock-downs. Discovering watercolor on Yupo (a synthetic paper); and in parallel, the use of palette knives with thick acrylic paint for the first time, became two very different ways of painting lush and immersive landscapes from all her hiking references.

Jane Small

“Fairy Tales: A Floral Fantasy” is Jane’s artistic take on the alchemy of centuries-old fairy tales and the haunting beauty of flowers from the natural world. The photographic series grew from a childhood memory of her mother creating a magical “Cinderella” doll out of the blooms of the Hollyhock plant. Today, Jane has attempted to recreate that magic by imagining the flowers that she loves in a variety of fairy tale settings. All the photos are taken in a single shot in miniature theatrical sets.

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