{"id":85,"date":"2008-04-17T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-05-06T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:52:37","slug":"museum-announces-art-in-bloom-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2008\/04\/museum-announces-art-in-bloom-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Announces ART IN BLOOM Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI, April 15, 2008&mdash;<br \/>\nMore than 8,000 people visited the Milwaukee Art Museum during the inaugural <strong><em>Art in Bloom,<\/em><\/strong> April 10-13, 2008. <!--more-->In all, 32 floral designers participated in the exhibition&#8217;s installations. Presented by the Museum&#8217;s own Garden Club, <em>Art in Bloom <\/em>also included lectures, workshops, docent-guided tours, book signings, mother-daughter teas, a multi-vendor indoor marketplace, a one-day outdoor sculpture sale, and refined dining in the Caf\u00e9 Calatrava Garden Room.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum is pleased to announce the three winners of the professionally judged <strong><em>Art in Bloom <\/em>awards<\/strong>, and the popular-demand <strong>People&#8217;s Choice Awards<\/strong> for which more than 400 visitors cast ballots. Pam Borgardt of Mileagers in Racine and Terri Madison of the Bayside Garden Center won awards in both contests.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Art in Bloom <\/em>Awards<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Best in Show<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pam Borgardt, Milaegers Inc. Racine<br \/>\n<em>Inspired by Red, Yellow, Blue II<\/em> by Ellsworth Kelly<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Creative Design<br \/>\n<\/strong>Alka Bhargava and Helen Surridge, Ikebana International Chapter 22<br \/>\nInspired by <em>Study for Three Portraits<\/em> by Fernand L\u00e9ger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Traditional Design<br \/>\n<\/strong>Terri Madison, Bayside Garden Center<br \/>\nInspired by Portrait of <em>Miss Frances Lee<\/em> by Francis Cotes<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Art in Bloom <\/em>Awards were judged by a three-person panel:<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Winters<br \/>\nCurator of Earlier European Art<br \/>\nMilwaukee\u00a0 Art Museum<\/p>\n<p>Kitty Larkin<br \/>\nPast president of the National Garden Club Federation, 2004-06<br \/>\nAccredited Flower Show Judge<br \/>\nMenomenee Falls, WI\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elaine Burke<br \/>\nAccredited Flower Show Judge, Garden Clubs of America<br \/>\nHartland, WI<\/p>\n<h3>People&#8217;s Choice Awards<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Best in Show<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pam Borgardt, Milaegers Inc. Racine<br \/>\n<em>Inspired by Red, Yellow, Blue II<\/em> by Ellsworth Kelly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Creative Design<\/strong><br \/>\nMary Strachota Jahnke, Grasch Floral<br \/>\n<em>Untitled<\/em> by Simon sparrow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Traditional Design<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Portrait of Miss Frances Lee<\/em>, Francis Cotes<br \/>\nTerri Madison, Bayside Garden Center<\/p>\n<p>Images of these award-winning installations are available upon request.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI, April 15, 2008&mdash; More than 8,000 people visited the Milwaukee Art Museum during the inaugural Art in Bloom, April 10-13, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}