Cutting Up Bushes: The Art of Pearl Fryer

Join the Garden Museum, Lisa Stone, educator at The Art Preserve and Abra Lee, founder of Conquer the Soil @abraleezee, as they focus on the garden of Pearl Fryer, a self-taught topiary artist and discuss the influential stories of Black American gardens. Fryar was born a sharecropper’s son in small town Clinton, North Carolina in 1939. In the early 1980s, Fryar began developing his 2 acre yard, in an effort to win “Yard of the Month” from the local garden club. He developed a passion for topiary and began to grow living sculptures on his property and in 1985 he won Yard of the Month all the while honing his style and technique and expanding his garden. Time: 18:30 BST @gardenmuseum @jmkac

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