IKEBANA INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER #182
Columbia SC
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 we are again holding meetings in the newly rebuilt Garden Club Council Building. We have been without a home since a catastrophic fire in 2018 but we are happy 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.
2024/2025 Executive Board
President: Sandra Pait
First Vice President: Moulikta Shaw
Second Vice President: Lucy Spence
Recording Secretary: Debbie Marowitz
Treasurer: Valerie Marcil/Carol Gelhaus
Honorary Advisor: Lin Ko
Liaison to Japan: Hideko Rainey
Corresponding Secretary: Meg Ellis
Immediate Past President: Betsy Kaemmerlen
Standing Committees
Programs: Lucy Spence
Membership: Sandy Pait/Lucy Spence
Annual Exhibition:
Tea:
Ways and Means: Jewell Patterson
Nominating: Lee Sipe
Publicity:
Hospitality: Moulikta Shaw
Historians: Lin Ko/Jean Davis
Sunshine:
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: Betsy Kaemmerlen
New Member Orientation: John Spence
Presentations: John Spence / Lin Ko
September Organizer: Li Yueh Huang
October Organizer: Jewell Patterson
November Organizer: John Spence
December Organizer: Lee Sipe/Angela Valvesario
January Organizer: Lucy Spence
February Organizer: Lin Ko
Annual Exhibition :
April Organizer: Sandy Pait
May Organizer:Debbie Marowitz/ Cheryl Martino
Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival: John Spence