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Sustaining Spirit with Color & Whimsy
Friday September 24th at 10:15 am
Ayers Hall, L.A. County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
How much more whimsical can you get than turning gardens into
gigantic works of art you can walk into and be a part of? From
adventures in a blue pear fountain, a strawberry paving, or even
painted shovels, Keeyla Meadows will inspire you to transform
your gardens by being wildly colorful, artistically playful, and
energetically resourceful. She shares her expertise with a "try this,
try that" attitude that engages the imagination - whether you are
making decisions about design or selecting specific materials for
your garden. Keeyla likes to focus on garden spaces as works of
art to eat in, meditate, or to be colorfully sublime. There's one
answer for all these gardens: "Raise it up!" For this she has
developed planters and wavy cement containers to shape and
create wildly imaginative garden spaces. Along with her simple
principles for creating and using color in space, she will share
these techniques and demonstrate with some fabulous images!
Speaker
Keeyla Meadows
Artist & author, Fearless Color Gardens
For more than 20 years, award-winning designer and artist Keeyla Meadows has been creating original, surprising and inspiring gardens. She runs a full-scale landscaping company and operates an art gallery in the San Francisco Bay area. The New Leaf and Sculpturesite galleries represent her artwork. Her garden has been featured on national television and in Sunset, Metropolitan Home and Fine Gardening. She won the Best in Show 'Golden Gate Award' at the 2001 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show. Her latest book, Fearless Color Gardens, was released by Timber Press in November, 2009. She is also the author of Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Personal Paradise (Sasquatch, 2002). She holds a BA from the California Institute of the Arts, a MA in sculpture from the Univ. of California at Berkeley, and has completed post-graduate studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Keeyla has made extraordinary contributions to the gardening world, as she teaches how to turn a gardener into an artist, and a garden into a work of art.