George H. Morse House Hosts 8th Annual Art in Bloom

The following was provided by the Norwood Evening Garden Club.

Norwood High School art students will once again join the Norwood Evening Garden Club to present Art in Bloom 2012. This is the eighth annual event where club members create floral displays to interpret the work done by students in Drawing and Painting III and 2D Digital Design III classes.

The historic George H. Morse House at 1285 Washington Street in South Norwood will host this year’s Art in Bloom on Saturday, March 31 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 1, from 1:00-5:00 p.m.  The public is invited. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

This year, the students have interpreted a range of styles from realism to abstraction, abstraction being the simplification or exaggeration of reality. The media varies from landscape images in the Fauvist style (bright, bold, unusual colors), to images based on microscopic cells, to self-portraits with unusual colors (a la VanGogh), to computer-generated images. Laurie Meade McGrory, Norwood Visual Arts Chair, has titled the exhibit “From Realism to Abstraction.”

Participating students include Emma Campbell, Kimberly Crockett, Carly Dow,  Alayna Fogg, Maria Katinas, Liana Lewis, Thais Skopinski, Isaac Wood, Elisabeth Cortese. Sara Cunningham, Kelly Duggan, Lillian Hester, Stephanie Francis, Hana Pellowe, Devon Ryan, Lauren Cullinane, Bradley Ogore, Adrianna Woodley, Kimberly Alocque and Sarah Lussier.            

According to Julie Stenson, chair of the event, all  artwork done by the students was assigned on a lottery basis.  Participating designers are all members of the Norwood Evening Garden Club and hail from Norwood, Walpole, Westwood, Medfield, Stoughton and Millis. Designers include Martha Emerson, Barbara Coughlin, Judith Howard, Lynne Riley, Tatianya Dunham, Ana Puzey, Lois Walsh, Julie Costello, Lorraine Devine, Donna Lane, Penni Jenkins, Mel Dawson, Lynn FordhamJulie Stenson, Ron Wight, Rita Russo and Tracy Firth. 

Dale Day, Morse House Committee Chairman, has been an enthusiastic supporter of Norwood’s Art in Bloom since the inception of this community collaboration.  “This is one of the highlights of the year and is a truly wonderful event linking students, talented designers from the garden club, and residents of Norwood and surrounding communities. We’re hoping for a record turnout this year,” she said. 

A member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, New England Region and National Garden Clubs, Inc., members of the Norwood Evening Garden Club have been providing education and public beautification in Norwood and its surrounding communities for 16 years.

The Club, open to novice and expert gardeners, draws its members from Norwood, Walpole, Westwood, Dedham, Medfield, Millis, Randolph, Stoughton and Foxboro. 

For information about the Norwood Evening Garden Club, contact Susan Pearson at 508-668-4039 or visit www.NorwoodEveningGardenClub.com. For more information about Art in Bloom, call Julie Stenson at 781-344-5650.