Art Museum Was In Full Bloom for 20th Annual Celebration

Art in Bloom, the Saint Louis Art Museum’s annual celebration of fresh flowers and fine art, drew a record-breaking 35,000-plus visitors from February 27 through March 1. This year marked the museum’s 20th Art in Bloom. The festival featured 30 local floral designers’ interpreting works from the museum’s collection. In addition to the floral arrangements on view, the Art in Bloom weekend included a successful Preview Party, the ticketed Flowers After Hours event, family programs and a drop-in demonstration by Rachel Cho, a New York–based floral designer who created a large-scale installation in Sculpture Hall for the festival. The 2026 Art in Bloom was presented by Bank of America. The Preview Party was chaired by Friends Board members Monique Levy and Nicole Bailey.   

The Celebration in Pictures  

People’s Choice Best in Show winner—arrangement by Lucy Louis, Lisa Gruska and Harlow Johnson (Moody Blooms) interpreting the painting “Edge of the Forest” by Charlotte Buell Coman