Creative AfterHours: Planting Workshop

Quianah Upton, founder and programming director of Nourish Botanica, is an Atlanta based storyteller creating spaces for healing, curiosity and impact. Through Nourish Botanica, she gathers flowers, plants and people together as an artist & spatial designer.

She is Caribbean, originally from the Virgin Islands and South Florida, that informs her love of lush, emotive communal green spaces. Quianah is an army brat and part of her childhood was spent growing up in a food insecure neighborhood in South Florida.

She has worked in sales management for 10 years followed by 10 years of art, agriculture and creative event planning and programming.Her creative approach displays a combination of these disciplines with a focus on cultural integrity, historical context and greenspace.