{"id":116670,"date":"2020-04-23T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=116670"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:38:23","slug":"floral-jewelry-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/23\/floral-jewelry-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media blooms with student floral art"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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“Two roads diverged.” (Photo credit: floral_pandemic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Succulent ring (Photo credit: floral_pandemic)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n
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Succulent necklace (Photo credit: floral_pandemic)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Stay-at-home orders couldn\u2019t stop eager University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> (CTAHR<\/abbr>) floriculture students from sharing their floral jewelry creations.<\/p>\n

The students planned to display their works at UH<\/abbr>\u2019s Hamilton Library<\/a> and further refine their skills by crafting centerpieces for CTAHR<\/abbr>\u2019s 32nd Annual Banquet. Undaunted, the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences<\/a> students took to Instagram<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>, curating online exhibitions for the community to view their work from home. Their artworks will appear in posts through May 1.<\/p>\n

Beautiful rings, bracelets and earrings were crafted from flowers, leaves and even live plants. Combined with wire and ribbon, they are a stunning amalgam of the natural and the created, the ephemeral and the enduring.<\/p>\n

Floral jewelry pieces are only some of the astonishing plant artworks created by the floriculture arts class. Under the direction of professors Tessie Amore<\/strong> and Orville Baldos<\/strong>, the students created leaves and fronds braided and woven into hand-crafted roses and fanciful swirls, and more traditional floral arrangements also feature found objects.<\/p>\n

Check out the exquisite creations, read how the students found inspiration and comment on their work at @floral_pandemic on Instagram<\/a> and floral_pandemic on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Floriculture students headed to Instagram and Facebook to share their floral jewelry artworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,1411,432,9],"class_list":["post-116670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-tropical-plant-and-soil-sciences","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t