Make a special Mother’s Day flower arrangement with fresh Spring flowers for yourself, moms, or a special person. The class will start with a 30 min teatime, after which the instructor will help you to make an arrangement within 1 hour (so 90 minutes total)- no experience needed, all supplies will be provided.
Yuko Inoue Darcy
Since 2005, Ms. Inoue-Darcy has been teaching Ikebana throughout Chicagoland.
She is a member of and an instructor in the Ohara School of Ikebana, both in Japan and in the U.S. Originally from Japan, Ms. Inoue-Darcy practiced Ikebana, Tea Ceremony and Incense Ceremony from a young age. Ms. Inoue-Darcy moved to the U.S. where she received a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was also an instructor of Japanese Language. In 1994, she accepted a teaching position at West Side High School, a
public high school in Gary, Indiana, striving to inspire and nurture students with Japanese art, culture and language. Ms. Inoue-Darcy has traveled to more than 20 countries, exploring her curiosity about each country’s indigenous plants, flowers and arrangement styles.
Currently, Ms. Inoue-Darcy is an active Ikebana lecturer, exhibiter, and demonstrator who travels nationally and internationally. She teaches regularly at the Japanese American Service Committee, the Evanston Art Center, the Japanese Culture Center, as well as at her own studio in Lincoln Park. Her principal teachers are the late Hougyoku Hirai, the late Kazuko Ernst, and Houhatsu Takeuchi. Ms. Inoue-Darcy is a President of the Ohara School of Ikebana Chicago Chapter.
