Flower show ready to bloom at Attleboro Arts Museum
ATTLEBORO — “The Burning Man” is the theme Nolan’s Flower Shop chose for its display at the Attleboro Arts Museum Flower Show, which has a preview on Wednesday night, starts on Thursday and runs through Sunday.
Jillian Carlson and Jake Schnitzlein, who have worked at Nolan’s for three and four years respectively, were hard at work putting the display together on Tuesday afternoon. Nolan’s has been in North Attleboro for 137 years, the duo said.
Their burning man will be about 6 feet tall, but the event on which it is based takes place in the Nevada desert where a 100-foot tall burning man is set to flame.
When it was offered as a possible theme, Carlson and Schnitzlein jumped right on it.
“It’s really cool,” Schnitzlein said. “It’s (the Burning Man festival) has been going on for a few years now.”
In the desert the promoters actually burn the effigy of a man, but that won’t happen in the museum.
The burning man there will be surrounded by brightly colored flowers to imitate flames.
A few feet away Lindsey Epstein of Lindsey Epstein Pottery in Tiverton, R.I. was busy completing her tulip display, as it might be seen in Holland. It features a windmill and rows of brightly colored tulips.
On Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. there will be a preview of the flower show, museum director Mim Brooks Fawcett said.
Tickets for the preview are $17 for non-members and $15 for members.
When the show starts on Thursday the tickets will be $3 and those 9 and younger get in free. The hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
There will be live music and a café in the lower level that is named Tony’s Whistle Stop in honor of the late Tony Viveiros.
The overall theme of the show is “Festivals Around The World: Gardens in Celebration.”
The displays include “Day of the Dead” from Mexico and “Yi Peng Lantern Festival” from Thailand.
There will also be 236 pieces of artwork on display, Fawcett said.
“We reached out to seven exhibitors and gave them options regarding the festival,” she said. “The ones we suggested were to get their creative juices flowing (like the burning man) suggestion.”