President’s Message

Warm greetings, Readers!

As we wrap up 2023, it’s the perfect time to reflect on some most recent happenings in the Pacific Northwest Region!

We held our second online design competition titled, “Foraged & Found for Fall”. Participants helped to make it a success, doubling the number of submissions from the previous year. We had some generous industry sponsorship for our prizes awarded to our 1st, 2nd, 3rd & People’s Pick winners. We appreciate all who participated in this fundraising event!

There were many of our Northwest members present at the United Wholesale Flowers event in San Jose, CA in October that celebrated the company’s 14th anniversary. The 3-days of festivities included design demonstrations, an exciting live competition, and a beautiful floral couture runway show. We provided an AIFD awareness table and were able to connect with all of the show’s attendees. Congratulations to the winner of the “Bay Area Floral Design Cup”, Olha (Olga) Savchenko CFD, of Dragonfly Floristic, who will be inducted this July at the Emerge Symposium in Orlando!

In November, our region contributed to a resurging event, the last time being in 2019 at Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon. The Chrysanthemum Festival is a new rendition of the previous Ninth Moon Design Showcase with local floral artists creating work featuring many varieties of the chrysanthemum flower. Their featured guest designer was NW member and educator Donald Yim AIFD, PFCI, while supporting awareness demonstrations in the garden for the event were Michelle Dummer AIFD and myself, Brenna Quan AIFD!

I would like to congratulate our chapter member Lea Romanowski AIFD, CFEJ, CAFA, CAFD of Calgary, Alberta for representing Canada and AIFD so well at the Interflora UK World Cup in Manchester! We are so proud of her performance during one of the most prestigious floral design competitions in the world!

Now that the holidays are upon us, I love seeing all the floral joy and tree decorating going on within the community. Here are a few shots of the annual Burnaby Winter Lights Ecosculptures project, led by Hitomi Gilliam AIFD and the City of Burnaby Team”, with a handful of us Canadian AIFD members designing alongside. Happy Holidays to everyone and we look forward to sharing more of what we have in store for the coming year!

Until next time, Cheers!

Brenna Quan AIFD

Northwest AIFD Chapter President 2023-24

Until next time,

Brenna Quan
NW AIFD Chapter President 2023-24

 

 

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