LEARNING ABOUT IKEBANA

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. 

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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.

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2025/2026 Executive Board

President: Sandra Pait

First Vice President: Lucy Spence

Second Vice President: Panny Pan

Recording Secretary: Debbie Marowitz

Co-Treasurers: Valerie Marcil/Carol Gelhaus

Honorary Advisor: Lin Ko

Liaison to Japan: Hideko Rainey

Corresponding Secretary: Meg Ellis

Immediate  Past President: Betsy Kaemmerlen

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Standing Committees

Programs: Lucy Spence

Membership: Panny Pan

Annual Exhibition: Sandy Pait

Tea: Jewell Patterson

Nominating: Debbie Marowitz

Ways aand Means:Carol Gelhouse

Publicity: TBles and Bylaws

Hospitality: Valerie Marcil

Historians: Lin Ko/Jean Davis

Sunshine: Margarite Young

Rules and Bylaws: Sandy Pait

Social Networking: Betsy Kaemmerlen /John Spence

Website: John Spence 

Video: Valerie Marcil /John Spence

Photography: Betsy Kaemmerlen / Cheryl Martino /John Spence

GCC Liaison: Betsy Kaemmerlen

Yearbook: Valerie Marcil/John Spence

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Event/Activity Chairs 

State Fair: Jewell Patterson

Orchids on the Riverbanks: Betsy Kaemmerlen

CIF:

Sowing Seeds: 

SC Arts: Betsy Kaemmerlen

New Member Orientation: John Spence

Presentations: John Spence / Lin Ko

September Organizer: 

October Organizer: 

November Organizer: 

December Organizer: 

January Organizer: 

February Organizer: 

Annual Exhibition: 

April Organizer: 

May Organizer:

Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival: John/Lucy Spence

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