Art teacher: Ms. Boone
School: Miami Heights Elementary
Grade: 5th

The unique combination of beauty with function is the special magic of sunflowers, symbol of the sun god in the early Americas, source of food and fuel and spring of inspiration for artists through time.   Turning to follow the sun with open faces, sunflowers suggest reverence, warmth and happiness.

This exhibition is dedicated to MIA’s beloved employee, Andrea Ferrer, who passed on May 28, 2008, and whose love of sunflowers was well-known.   She worked at MIA since 1986.  Her personality, full of good cheer and joy, is fittingly conveyed by this majestic flower. 

  to  Connector Gallery,
just past security checkpoint