University of Missouri students placed first at the American Institute of Floral Designers National Symposium Student Competition this summer. Each year, students compete with other floral design programs within the U.S. and Canada in a four-hour-long competition designed to give students tangible use for their floral design skills. One hour is given to each of the four categories, which vary…
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Floral design students represent CAFNR at Visual Art and Design Showcase
A few times per year, floral design instructor Lesleighan Kraft Cravens (B.S. ’13, M.S. ’15) takes a group of students to Baisch and Skinner, a wholesale floral distributor in St. Louis. Students assist in production of floral arrangements in a real-world, high-pressure environment. It was during one of these trips when she received the email. “I was just through the…
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Mizzou floral team competes in the Windy City
The Mizzou Student American Institute of Floral Designers (SAIFD) sent a team this summer to Chicago to compete and network with more than 800 fellow floral design artists at the annual national symposium. The team competed against 12 other colleges and universities in the Annual Student Design Competition to create inspiring floral arrangements for a variety of occasions. Mizzou team…