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Date:
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Time:
10:00 am
Location:
The Kampong (4013 S Douglas Road Miami FL 33133)
Visitors are invited to participate in a special hands-on workshop with artist Lauren Shapiro, creating patterns with kiln paper that will later be cast into glass tiles. Drawing inspiration from the Naples Botanical Garden’s Seed Bank, participants will engage with the surface details and histories of plants preserved within the collection. Through guided activities, attendees will help create low-relief forms to be translated into glass.
The tiles produced during this session and other workshops across South Florida will become part of a public art installation opening at Naples Botanical Garden in January 2027. Together, these translucent glass elements will form an interconnected screen, symbolizing the layered stories, motifs, and relationships contained within the seed bank as both a scientific archive and a living cultural record. Participants will have the unique opportunity to contribute directly to a large-scale artwork while helping to share the stories embedded within South Florida’s botanical and cultural landscapes.
Free for NTBG Members, $17 for non-members
