ATLANTA, Georgia

May 30, 2014

Atlanta based workshops beginning June 10 – 14 and June 24-28 to be held at The Showcase Camera School of Photography will include a field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

It’s all about “Imaginary Worlds – Plants Larger than Life!” and it’s the first time showing of this exhibit in the United States, created by the International Mosaiculture of Montreal.  Workshop students will spend the day capturing images and creating their first Portfolios.  The assignment?  To tell the story of these incredible sculptures through photography.  Each student will then create their on in color, printed Portfolio. Read on!

The link here will take you to the Atlanta Arboreteum and further information on this exhibit.  It continues through October, 2014.

http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/events-classes/events/imaginary-worlds

About Mosaiculture

Each sculpture is a living, sophisticated evolution of the traditional “stuffed topiary” technique. Thousands of meticulously groomed annuals are planted into soil-and-sphagnum moss filled netting covering the steel forms – hidden works of artisanship themselves – to carpet the skeletons in colorful patterns. Complex irrigation systems beneath the surface of the sculptures allow the plants to grow – and the creatures to flourish – in Atlanta’s summer heat. The larger than life sculptures are transported in climate-controlled trucks.

The exhibition of mosaiculture – the horticultural art of creating giant topiary-like sculptures using thousands of annual bedding plants to carpet steel armature forms – is the creative genius of International Mosaiculture of Montreal. The nonprofit group has staged wildly successful exhibitions of its work around the world, and the Atlanta showing will be the first major exhibition of its kind in the U.S.

http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/events-classes/events/imaginary-worlds