Image courtesy of Shane Connolly, florist and Pratt SCPS instructor for summer 2020
This fall, study floral design online with world-famous master florists working in diverse styles in the certificate program at Pratt Institute’s (SCPS). Every week, you can join a different floral design workshop and create beautiful designs with locally sourced flowers delivered right to your home.
Instructors include Ariella Chezar and Bella Meyer. Chezar, the author of Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home With Blooms, Branches, and Foraged Materials All Year Round, will lead a workshop using flowers sourced from her farm in the Berkshires, highlighting her “nature-first” style. Meyer, the founder and creative director of fleursBELLA, will teach a session focusing on points of inspiration and a formal structure for avant-garde floral designs, using classical music and her grandfather Marc Chagall’s work as examples.
While courses can be taken individually, participants can earn a Floral Art Certificate by successfully completing any three of the workshops listed below:
- Sustainable Floral Design
- Seasonal Flower Arranging
- A Wild Duet: A Celebration of the Arts via Foraged Materials
- Floral Art Through the Eyes of Master Artists
- From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Transform Store-Bought Bouquets
provides high-quality credit and non-credit courses and programs to adult learners in a variety of subjects for educational advancement, career change, and enrichment. Visit the Pratt Institute to learn more and register for upcoming workshops.