World-renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly will be bringing his beautiful and captivating work to the Missouri Botanical Garden this spring for the park's "High Demand" exhibition, officials announced Wednesday.
Chihuly and his team created 18 plants that add vibrant color to the entire 79-acre garden. The exhibition will be larger than Chihuly's previous exhibition in 2006, Chihuly in the Garden, which was primarily at Climatron.
"It's hard to put into words the wow factor," said Peter Wise Jackson, president of Foreign Affairs. "But I guarantee people won't be disappointed when they come to the park and see lots of exhibits they've never seen before."
The Chikuli in Paradise 2023 exhibition opens on May 2 and runs until October 15.
Nights of Chihuly tickets go on sale March 1 for Garden members and March 15 for the general public. The day pass is included in the cost of visiting the park.
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Craftsmen and planners Chihuly studio visited the garden three times to design and finalize plans, and until recently only a small group of gardeners knew about the exhibition. A park representative said Chihuly herself wanted to come, but no date had been set. This park is located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard.
Glass installations are scattered throughout the gardens in the Linnean House, Japanese Garden, Winter Garden, and the Climatron, a large blue chandelier with 928 pieces from 2006. An exhibition of Chihuly's paintings will be held at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum in the park's stash.
In 2006, Chihuly's exhibition "Glass in the Garden" created a huge sensation and changed the schedule of upcoming events in the garden. Ticket, rental, ticket and restaurant revenue rose 30 percent. The park extended the exhibition by two months until later that year, and even heated a reflecting pool so crowds could watch the "wallah wallahs" float in the freezing weather.
The show attracted thousands of new exhibitors and broke attendance records, surpassing the 1 million mark that year. Since then, the park has topped the 1 million mark, but the pandemic has reduced that figure.
Park officials hope Chihuly will serve as an inspiration to attract new visitors and those who haven't been to the park in a long time.
In 2006, Chihuly Nights became the basis for future audience favorites such as the Garden Festival and Chinese Lantern Exhibition. Staff learn how to deal with the evening crowd and know that the crowd enjoys the garden's illuminated ambiance.
In 2006, Glass in the Garden attracted visitors from all 50 states. The security guard counted the number plates in the parking lot. Park officials hope the new exhibition will attract tourists again, who will spend money not only on the park, but also on other parts of St. Petersburg. Petersburg.
Jack S.'s Park at the Taylor Visitor Center opens in August, and the nearby Bayer Events Center will open in May. In the coming months, more than 30,000 plants, flowers and trees will be planted in the new flower beds. "This really caps off a great year to build on a new season of gardening and build on what we've accomplished here," said Wise Jackson.
It was also the festival he thought would bring the end of the epidemic. "It's our way of giving back to the community when we come here and come back and enjoy the park."
The park will not host the summer fair in 2022 due to construction. Park officials have been meeting with the Chihuly studio for years and finalizing plans for the exhibition in 2019.
Park officials wouldn't say how much it would cost — "a lot," says public relations consultant Peggy Lintz — and the money was budgeted with sponsors. Lelia and David Farr are prize sponsors, and the other main sponsors are Edward Jones and Schnook Markets Inc. They include Scott Schnack.
At the 2006 show, donors purchased several pieces by Chihuly for the park's permanent collection: among them a floating lamp, a blue chandelier that will move to the Climatron in 2021 due to a new visitor center, and yellow doodles on roses. Garden area.
While we don't have a budget or plans to purchase any new items, officials are open to any generous donations that will buy one or more for the park.
In While the 2006 exhibition changed the park's landscape, it broke new ground for Chihuly. It was one of the first exhibitions at the Botanical Gardens; Since then he has exhibited in twelve parks.
"The Missouri Botanical Gardens is a special place for the Chihuly studio," said garden spokeswoman Catherine Martin. "It was so successful that it gave them a roadmap for future shows."
Wise Jackson He worked in Dublin in 2006, so he had never seen the exhibition here, but he had seen the Chihuly exhibition in other parks and knew that it was the most famous. "It really attracts new visitors to a lot of botanical gardens," he said.
Chihuly told the Post-Dispatch in 2006 that he was excited to be working on the Climatron, another glass structure.
“The Missouri Botanical Gardens are one of the finest historic parks in the world,” he said, “and I am honored to be involved in this project.
Valerie Schremp Khan • 314-3408246 @valeriehahn on Twitter vhahn@post-dispatch.com
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