About the Project:
How Does Your Garden Grow? is a community art installation celebrating creativity, connection, and shared expression. As part of Public Arts Midland’s 2025 theme, Art Grows, this project invites people of all ages and abilities to design their own unique flower, symbolizing their voice within our community. Together, these flowers will create a vibrant, blooming garden in Midland (location to be announced in May!), representing the power of art to bring people together, nurture growth, and transform public spaces.
Purpose:
Public Arts Midland’s 2025 community art installation, How Does Your Garden Grow?, is a celebration of creativity, connection, and shared expression. As part of our Art Grows theme, this project invites people of all ages and abilities to contribute to a vibrant, collaborative garden made of individually designed flowers.
Like a garden, a thriving community requires care, collaboration, and a shared commitment to growth. Through this installation, we aim to highlight the unique voices within our community, transforming public space into a collective expression of our values, stories, and aspirations. How Does Your Garden Grow? embodies the power of art to cultivate understanding, nurture relationships, and bring beauty to our surroundings.
By engaging individuals, families, and organizations in a shared creative experience, we hope to deepen connections, spark inspiration, and plant the seeds for a more vibrant, inclusive Midland.
Pick Up Blank Shapes:
Pick up a blank flower or butterfly at the following community partners.
- Creative 360
- Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
- Midland Area Community Foundation
Create With a Group:
Join one of our community partners for a group creating session!
- 04/29/25 – Dow Diamond at the Loons Game – 6p-8p
- 05/03/25 – Midland Miracle Field Community Day – 8:30-11:30am
- 05/17/25 – 3:30-5:30p – 1in6 Support Abilities Parade at Grove Park
- 05/31/25 – 10a-5p – Art Seen Festival at Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
- 07/13/25 – 1p-3p – Loons Inclusion Day at the Midland Area Cultural Awareness Coalition Table
- 08/01/25 – 5p-8p – Midland Area River Days at the Public Arts Midland Tent
- 08/02/25 – 10a-6p – Midland Area River Days at the Public Arts Midland Tent
Drop off Completed Work:
If you participate in a paint night, leave your completed flower or butterfly at that location. If you take a blank home to create please return to one of the following locations:
- Creative 360
- Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
- Midland Area Community Foundation
Installations will happen in June, July, and August with our last painting opportunity being at River Days, so please get your shapes back to us by August 1st.
Questions?
Reach out to publicartsmidland@gmail.com