2025 Winner of the CT Historic Gardens poster contest

Connecticut's Historic Gardens Day is an annual event that attracts garden lovers from throughout the state and beyond. The contest is open to all Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts artists.
www.cthistoricgardens.org

Participating artist for the 2024 Stonington Lobster Trap Tree, Stonington, CT.

The 2024 Stonington Lobster Trap Tree, deemed “one of the most amazing trees in the world" by te BBC, was draped in one-of-a-kind artwork of CT and RI artists (93 from CT, 40 from RI), along with buoys created to promote local businesses and some created by area families for a total of 460 buoys. The tree pays homage to the town’s renowned fishing industry and proceeds from the Artist's Buoy Auction go towards the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce.

Schreiner's Iris Gardens winner

Entry chosen to name a new variety of dwarf iris developed by Schreiner’s Iris Gardens, which is now catalogued in the American Iris Society: "Marionberry Blush"