SEEING / NOTICING COLOR / BOTANICALS
SEEING / NOTICING COLOR / BOTANICALS
To arrange flowers or to draw them is to practice ATTENTION.
In this week-long high summer investigation of beauty and interpretation we’ll get good at noticing.
We’ll be paying close attention to characteristics of line, light, color but also to perception in general. Why do we see some things and not others? Why do we interpret reality differently than the person sitting next to us?
Monday June 29 - Sunday July 5, 2026
Worlds End School | Esperance, NY
PREPARATIONS / CONSIDERATIONS
SCHEDULE
Day 1 ✴︎ Arrival
Students arrive after noon on Monday, are settled in and are then asked to be at dinner at 7:30pm. We typically eat together in the large breezeway of the barn.
Day 2-6 ✴︎ Instruction
The week will be structured around garden walks and spending the mornings translating the season into floral arrangements in the studio. Afternoons will be spent working on translating those flowers, plants and compositions to the page.
Day 7 ✴︎ Departure
Students are welcome to end the week with lunch at coyotecafe, the farm’s monthly drop-in cafe, leaving by 4pm.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Worlds End School’s campus is nestled within a diversified, handscale working farm. We raise Icelandic sheep and chickens in addition to growing vegetables and flowers.
As you consider attending this workshop - know that you will be fed three meals a day by our excellent kitchen team. If you reserve a bedroom in the communal barn we will provide all the bedding and blankets you need.
LODGING
LODGING OPTIONS ARE FIRST COME/FIRST SERVED
1) COMMUNAL BARN - with three shared bathrooms and full electricity. There are 3 private bedrooms each with one double bed and 2 single beds in bunk-house style loft room.
2) CAMPING - there is a flat camping area in a field 5 minute walk from the COMMUNAL BARN. Bring your own tents, tarps, gear.
3) Stay OFFSITE and COMMUTE to Worlds End Farm. There is a Quality Inn & Suites 10 minutes away in Central Bridge, NY or a handful of airBnB rentals within 30min driving time.
All students will have access to shared bathrooms and our communal kitchen. There is wifi and excellent cell phone service for most networks.
COST
$1,850 includes instruction, all meals and lodging onsite (private bedroom, shared bathrooms)
$1,400 includes instruction, all meals and students will camp or arrange their own lodging offsite
Payment plans available upon request; please write admin@saipua.com.
A 50% deposit will be due now with the remainder due a month before the class start date.
FACILITATORS
Anjali Shankar
Anjali is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist whose practice consists of painting, sewing, tattooing and metalworking. She believes the process of play is key in how we make. To play is to experiment, and to experiment is to learn without the pressure of a destination. The more that is learned, the more enjoyment comes out of the physical and emotional act of making. Anjali’s artistic journey has been shaped by her commitment to experimentation, reflection and education. Through her work, she seeks to challenge perceptions and encourage a deeper understanding of different artistic mediums. Anjali holds a BFA in Painting and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Outside the studio she enjoys writing, caring for her plants and aquarium, and taking long walks in the sun.
Sarah Ryhanen
Sarah Ryhanen is a farmer, florist, and educator working at the intersection of beauty and utility. In 2006, she opened the first Saipua studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, selling her mother’s olive oil soap and developing a self-taught floral practice.
Over the following decade, Saipua became internationally known for its event design, helping inspire a generation of florists to work with seasonal, local, and foraged materials in asymmetrical forms.
In 2011, Ryhanen purchased Worlds End Farm to grow flowers for Saipua and to house her floristry teaching programs. By 2022, the farm had evolved into a campus supporting students engaged in land-based work, from shepherding to soapmaking.
Ryhanen now lives and works primarily at Worlds End alongside her parents and an evolving cohort of artists and farmers.
