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November 15, 2007
This Weekend in Easton
Something very special is happening on the Eastern Shore this weekend and will continue happening through the next three weeks. Seiko Behr, potter, Ikebana master, and my mother-in-law, is the featured artist in a one-woman show at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD.
Many of you have seen Seiko's pots around our house and some of you may have received them as gifts. They are wonderful, organic containers meant to serve as vessels for traditional Japanese flower arranging, or Ikebana. Seiko has, over the years, developed a wide canon of original concepts, merging beauty and function in creating containers sought after for their originality and elegance. She has emerged as one of the leading figures in the American Ikebana world.
It is your lucky opportunity, then, to have a chance to see the largest-ever exhibition of Seiko's work, for the next three weeks in Easton. The show opens to the public on Saturday, November 17th and runs through Friday the 30th. In addition, Seiko's daughter, Maiko Behr (my sister-in-law) will be conducting a formal Japanese Tea Ceremony on November 19th at 2pm (cost $5) and Seiko will be conducting a flower arranging demonstration at a luncheon on November 29 (cost $40).
If you have never seen Seiko's containers, you will be in for an enormous treat. If you have seen her containers, but have never seen them with actual Ikebana arrangements inside, you will be in for an eye-opening experience. Although Seiko's containers are inspiring in their own right, they are transformed and animated by the company of organic branch and flower material, meticulously arranged. The fusion of the two artforms is stunning. Meaning, do yourself a favor and come see it.
Posted by bogenamp at November 15, 2007 10:56 AM