Join us for a thought-provoking conversation inspired by Jennifer Steinkamp’s digital installation Madame Curie, exploring the intersections of nature, art, and well-being. Leah Diehl, Director of Therapeutic Horticulture at Wilmot Botanical Gardens and Lecturer in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida, will share insights into the therapeutic benefits of horticulture, including creative activities like nature mandalas, foliage bouquets, and kokedama, as well as wellness strategies and research findings from her programs. Kali Rabaut, botanical artist and lead designer of Tampa-based Blue House Florals, will examine the evolving recognition of floral design as an artistic medium, its historical ties to women’s work, and the resurgence of locally grown flowers as a source of healing and creative expression.

They will be joined in conversation by Joanna Robotham, the Tampa Museum of Art’s curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, as they explore the intersections of digital art, nature, and the human experience.

Every Thursday from 4 to 8 pm, the Tampa Museum of Art offers Art on the House where admission prices change to pay-as-you-will, and visitors choose whatever admission price they want to pay.

Talks at the Tampa Museum of Art are free with the cost of Admission. 

• Art+ Museum Members: Free

• Not-Yet-Members: $25

• College Students: Free

Six artists converge on three Ybor City venues for HCC’s 2nd annual Now on View, an ephemeral public art show. Their purpose: to create a series of temporary public artworks that invite the public to consider Tampa’s past, present, and future. The resulting artworks will be displayed in a one-day public festival in Ybor City with music, food, and other entertainment.

Tours will begin at the HCC Ybor City Campus, Performing Arts building (1411 E. 11th Ave., Tampa). Maps, light refreshments, and parking passes will be provided.

Now on View is organized by Hillsborough Community College Art Gallery and is made possible with the support of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners. Additional support comes from our project partners, including the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, HCC Foundation, HCC Student Government Association, Hotel Haya, and Tempus Projects.

Embody the spirit of the Harvest Fest with your own everlasting flower crown! Join Blue House Florals for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn organic, sustainable design techniques using locally grown, dried flowers like strawflower, gomphrena, and statice to create a festive, textural flower crown. Visit our flower crown bar at any time during the festival to create this whimsical keepsake.

It’s Meacham Urban Farm’s 2nd annual Harvest Fest! Meacham Urban Farm is an organic 2 acre farm in the heart of downtown Tampa. Tickets can be pre-ordered at Meacham Urban Farm’s website here. Additionally, I’ll have limited additional materials for those who want to purchase and create the day of.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.

Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.

Eight artists converge on three Ybor City venues for HCC’s inaugural Now on View June 1. Their purpose: to create a series of temporary public artworks that invite the public to consider Tampa’s past, present, and future. The resulting artworks will be displayed in a one-day public festival in Ybor City with music, food, and other entertainment.

Tours will begin at the HCC Ybor City Campus, Performing Arts building (1411 E. 11th Ave., Tampa). Maps, light refreshments, and parking passes will be provided.

Participating NOW ON VIEW artists:

Samson Huang creates an “Interdependent Pavilion” comprised of local potted plants, color-changing lights, and origami alligators, cranes, birds, butterflies, fish, and squirrels, “The Interdependent Pavilion” reminds us of our connection to the ecosystem. Visitors engage with the art by writing their wishes for a sustainable future onto a tag and hanging it on the Pavilion.

Emiliano Settecasi, founder of The Department of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL, brings a mobile music and arts venue to HCC Ybor. Settecasi’s custom-made utility cart can host artistic and musical performances when a rented venue is out of reach, a situation becoming more common in Tampa, where pandemic-induced inflation has made brick-and-mortar spaces unaffordable for many local artists. Settecasi’s mobile art space reflects on the current state of the arts in Tampa while providing a possible solution to rising rents. Rising local DJ T. Coutre starts the party with her signature mix of Latin, dancehall, house, baile, funk, Afro and Amapiano beats.

Mia Makes It stitches Tampa’s history to its present through a community art quilt. Before Now on View, the artist hosts embroidery workshops to teach participants to embroider a one to two-sentence reflection on Tampa’s past. During the festival, they’ll stitch the squares together with some of their own embroidery at HCC Ybor to create a community remembrance of Tampa.

Kali Rabaut brings her Flower Bike to Hotel Haya’s entrance for a build-your-own-bouquet experience. Rabaut’s bike holds enough flowers for 50-500 people to create a small bouquet to take home at the end of the day. Unlike your traditional florist who arranges Eurocentric blooms flown in from overseas, Rabaut prefers to use locally grown flowers and foliage in her floralscapes. In doing so, Rabaut connects herself and others to the place where they live.

Libbi Ponce brings sculpture and/or video installation to Hotel Haya lobby. Ponce combines sculpture and video to build worlds inspired by historic folklore, ancestry, and memory. At Now on View, she’ll use a combination of media to create an immersive environment exploring the role of Latinx ancestral history in the formation of South and Central American diasporic communities in the Tampa Bay area.

Emma Quintana reflects on Tampa Bay’s culinary history. Quintana’s Now on View project tells Tampa’s history through its food. Quintana created video combining footage of locals eating with video of Tampa Bay and its connected waterways. During Now on View, she’ll project this footage onto a wall in the historic Kress building to highlight food’s central role in placemaking.

Samantha Modder displays a temporary mural at Kress highlighting one of the first African American communities in Tampa Bay. Construction of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway displaced several Dobyville families in the 1960s, a loss represented by the Selmon Expressway logo included among depictions of neighborhood kids in Modder’s digitally printed mural.

Nicole Villanueva Garcia invites the public to symbolically embrace newcomers by weaving yarn through the dowels of a Plinko board at Kress. The installation, inspired by underground tree networks and Garcia’s immigrant experience, recreates a colorful forest scene in which participants weave yarn from community trees toward a transplanted tree.

Now on View is organized by Grounds4Art@HCC and is made possible with the support of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners. Additional support comes from our project partners, including the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, HCC Foundation, HCC Student Government Association, Hotel Haya, and Tempus Projects.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

Join Blue House Florals in creating a garden-style arrangement for your table, while learning basic floral design principles. Each arrangement will be unique, as we emphasize process over product. All arrangements will feature locally grown, organic flowers and foliage.

Anticipated spring flowers include: lisianthus, cosmos, ammi, snapdragons and more

Ticket $45 – Ages 16+ Sign up here.

It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.

Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.

Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

Build your own bouquet at the market. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.

Have a party coming up? You can rent the flower bike for your own build your own bouquet experience. Learn more here.

Winter solstice is upon us, and dried flowers are a great way to feel the festivus. Join me for a dried flower festival in the garden, where we’ll be making our own everlasting crafts: wreaths, ornaments, garlands, and bundles.

Where: Blue House Florals garden

2302 N Massachusetts Ave

Tampa, FL 33602

When: Saturday, December 9th 9am-12pm.

*10% of sales will be donated to Graham Elementary School PTA, funding great experiences for Tampa Heights kids such as field trips, a school garden, and more.

I’ll have 4 stations set up in the garden and will be wandering around, coaching you up. This is an à la carte experience, so you can pick which stations you’d like to do. Reserve a spot by pre-purchasing below, or swing by to create your own.

Send me an email at kali@bluehousefloralstampa.com if you’d like me to custom create a wreath, ornament, garland, or bundle for you to pick up. A 30% design fee will be added to each item.

It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.

Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.

Get in the holiday spirit with Kali of Blue House Florals to create a unique set of 4 festive glass ornaments filled with dried, everlasting florals.

Enjoy playing with color, texture, and shape in this beautifully baubilicous workshop. In addition to learning the best techniques for creating this ship-in-a-bottle feel decor, you'll also learn some best practices for growing and creating your own dried florals.

Tickets are $30 per person. Sign up in store at Sans Market or by calling 727-332-7000 to reserve your spot.

Available add-ons:
➕Additional ornaments can be added at $5/ornament
🌱Cut flower seeds ideal for drying will be available for purchase at $5/seed packet (enough for a 4 x 8 bed) or 5 for $20 ($4 each)

Add-ons can be applied at ticket purchase or the day of the event.

Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.