Inspiring Expressions of Gratitude
Article and photos by Elizabeth Elba, Garden Educator, Bok Tower Gardens When I joined Bok Tower Gardens as the Youth Program Educator in March of 2022, I only knew a …
Article and photos by Elizabeth Elba, Garden Educator, Bok Tower Gardens When I joined Bok Tower Gardens as the Youth Program Educator in March of 2022, I only knew a …
Barbara Stone has exclusively used the image of polar bears as a personal symbol in her artwork since 1979. Her research has taken her to Canada’s Northwest Territories, the Yukon and Alaska to study the yearly migration of polar bears. A self-taught artist, she has developed a unique style of incorporating colored pencil with watercolor in her paintings. She has explored many media with the polar bear image, including fabric design for Japanese kimonos, porcelain sculpture, water color paintings, wooden furniture forms, pen and ink and pencil drawings, and serigraph and lithograph prints.
Bok Tower Gardens celebrates the city’s centennial anniversary, in partnership with the Florida’s Natural Grove House and the