Flowers, fruits, and birds have long been a source of inspiration for textile artists and designers. From Indian “chintz” prints to William Morris’s Arts & Crafts designs to the 1960s Finish design house Marimekko, flowers have been cultivated on the body and in interiors for centuries for their graphic beauty and symbolic meanings. Research will include the Victorian language of flowers, Chinese flower symbolism, and other cultural meanings. Using the Oakland campus as a site of field research, students will tour the garden campus and learn about its flora, research the botanical properties and symbolic meanings of specific plants, draw botanical renditions on site, design engineered prints and draft repeat patterns in Photoshop, and silk-screening lengths of fabric. This course is open to students in ALL majors without prerequisites, but may be of special interest to students in Fashion, Interior Design, Illustration, and Painting/Drawing.

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