Sowing Seeds of Inspiration
‘Black Flora’ shares the stories of influential Black flower farmers and floral creatives.
When it comes to expressing heartfelt emotion, often we’re encouraged to “say it with flowers.” Floral arrangements accompany life’s most significant moments and have a way of elevating everyday life. While it’s natural to focus on the receiver, Bloom Imprint, a local indie publisher, is sharing a look into the lives of the makers behind floral artistry.
In a recent title Teresa Speight, author of Black Flora, profiles 22 inspiring and influential Black floral creatives working in wedding and event design, botanical art, horticultural therapy, cut flower farming, entrepreneurship, and activism.
As Speight writes in her introduction: “Younger generations of Black plant-lovers are seeking inspiring examples of successful floral artists and entrepreneurs. When they see their potential -- through representation of people who look like them in farming and floristry -- the possibilities of the future enable their dreams.”
Black Flora offers a look at women and men from around the country, including several floral creatives from our region, who are infusing the profession with diversity and broadening the beauty of botanical storytelling.
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