heART Garden Café

Welcome to our heART Garden Café at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. This unique, art-filled sanctuary where creativity meets calm invites you to embrace everything that’s going well—like this beautiful Miami weather—and, for a moment, to set aside the anxiety, exhaustion and disappointment of all that that is not.

Upon arrival, each guest will choose their own creative experience: sculpting ceramics with air dry clay; painting with acrylic on a canvas; or glazing a ceramic piece.

These experiences are fully self-guided, so feel free to explore at your own pace—although we highly recommend arriving on time for the session you reserved, as we hope to accommodate guests and give everyone enough time to enjoy the Garden.

Consider this the perfect gathering for friends or to enjoy as a peaceful solo session.

This year has been a challenging journey for many of us, yet our resilience and commitment to kindness and radical optimism remain powerful antidotes. Let’s turn to art as a form of resistance against the endless demands of screens, the overstimulation of social media, and the sense of disconnect from our community.

How it works:

1. Purchase a ticket.

We have 2 different time slots (11:00 am or 1:00 pm). Please sign up and commit to arrive at our check-in around that time. We encourage you to come early or stay after and explore the Garden.

1. Check in and choose your medium

We will have all the materials and tools necessary to create under the trees, and when you check in with us you will be able to choose between the following:

Sculpting Ceramics with Air Dry Clay – create fun ceramic pieces that you can take home with you

Painting on Canvas – look around and get inspired or bring your own inspo photos—and paint on an 8″ x 10″ canvas with acrylics

Painting Pottery (Glazing) – pick 1 piece of functional bisqueware (choices will be a vase, a bowl, or a mug) and your choice of underglaze colors to personalize your favorite design. We will keep the piece and fire it for you. Pick up will be coordinated with you via email (it may take between 2 to 3 weeks for the piece to be ready).

Cost:  $34