Reflect, Meditate, Create: A Floral Workshop

This reflective floral workshop responds to the emotionally charged work on view with an embodied, creative practice. Participants will create a small compote-style arrangement that explores tension, displacement, and rootedness – using space and subtle structural elements to express connection and separation within the floral form.

The session begins with 30 minutes in the gallery, followed by a guided meditation and facilitated reflection on grief, witnessing, and the complexities of belonging. The program concludes with hands-on floral design, offering space to translate reflection into material form.

All experience levels are welcome.

Kate Hardy is the creative hands and heart behind Sticks & Stones Floral Design, based in Hamilton, Ontario. Her 17 years in floristry and event planning combined with an educational background in social justice and medical anthropology has informed a compassionate lens with which she approaches design. Kate’s artistic work focus on organic shape, local varieties, and embracing the temporary nature of living things