
LEARNING ABOUT IKEBANA
Our meetings are a demonstration and workshop for members to learn ikebana and share the beauty in The Art of Flowers
We are pleased to announce that this year we will once again be holding meetings in the newly rebuilt Garden Club Council Building. We have been without a home since a catastrophic fire in 2018 but are looking forward to once again having a place of our own.
Ikebana International does not teach any single type of ikebana. Rather, it is an interest group made up of people of many nationalities who enjoy ikebana and other arts of Japan. Many of the members have studied ikebana; some have not.
Those who have studied ikebana have learned from many different schools. Some schools of ikebana stress classic styles; other focus on contemporary forms, and some blend the two. Each of the hundreds of schools of ikebana takes its own approach to arranging flowers. At I.I. meetings, students and teachers share openly their own schools' inspirations, styles, philosophy, history, and techniques.
2022/2023 Executive Board
President: Betsy Kaemmerlen
First Vice President: Joan Danforth
Second Vice President: Karen McMillan
Recording Secretary: Cheryl Martino
Treasurer: Cindy Sanders
Honorary Advisor: Lin Ko
Liaison to Japan: Hideko Rainey
Immediate Past President: Valerie Marcil
Standing Committees
Programs: Karen McMillan
Membership: Vijaya Prabhu
Exhibition: Cindy Sanders
Tea: Annie Fan / John and Lucy Spence
Ways and Means: Jewell Patterson
Nominating: Lee Sipe
Publicity:
Hospitality: Moulikta Shaw
Historians: Doris Kahn/Lin Ko/Jean Davis
Sunshine: Doris Kahn
Social Networking: Betsy Kaemmerlen /John Spence
Website: John Spence / Betsy Kaemmerlen
Video: Valerie Marcil /John Spence
Photography: Betsy Kaemmerlen / Cheryl Martino /John Spence
GCC Liaison: Cheryl Martino
Yearbook: Valerie Marcil/John Spence
Event/Activity Chairs
State Fair: Jewell Patterson
Orchids on the Riverbanks: Betsy Kaemmerlen
CIF:
Sowing Seeds: Lucy Spence
SC Arts:
New Member Orientation: John Spence
Presentations: John Spence / Lin Ko
August Organizer: Joan Danforth
September Organizer : John Spence
October Organizer: Lin Ko
November Organizer: Betsy Kaemmerlen
January Organizer: Valerie Marcil
February Organizer: Lucy Spence
Annual Exhibition : Betsy Kaemmerlen
April Organizer: Sandy Pait
May Organizer: Betsy Kaemmerlen
