St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt
Come join us to search for green things across the Garden! Our scavenger hunt is available with regular admission. We offer the scavenger hunt from Thursday, March 19, to Sunday, March 22.
35 Years at Paradise Garden Exhibit: March 7th – May 24th, 2026
A photographic meditation on Paradise Garden, captured over 35 years through a lens of long-term observation, intimacy, and time.
Mikel Yeakle is a photographer based in the Southeast whose work explores memory, intuition, and long-term engagement with place. A graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta, he established a portrait studio in Atlanta in 1982 and was deeply involved with the Atlanta Photography Group through exhibitions and fifteen years of board service.
His photographs are not intended as straightforward records, but as interpretations—honoring the complexity found within seemingly simple spaces.For more than 35 years, photographer Mikel Yeakle has revisited Paradise Garden—across seasons, stages, and changes. His work draws from decades of photographs to create images that reflect not only the physical site but also the accumulated experience of being there.
Rooted in direct observation, these works go beyond simple documentation to offer a felt, interpretive understanding of Paradise Garden—one shaped by memory, repetition, and ongoing engagement with the place.
Saturday, March 7 | 2:30 PM
Join us for an opening reception with light refreshments and an artist talk with Mikel Yeakle.
Included with regular admission.
Plein Air Class: April 18th
Join us at Paradise Garden for an outdoor guided painting session at Paradise Garden, led by Summerville artist and Paradise Garden staff member, Donnie Davis. It starts at 1 pm and ends at 3 pm.
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Behind the Brain of a Genius Exhibit: ONGOING
When walking through the paths of Paradise Garden or walking through the halls of a Howard Finster exhibit, multiple questions come to mind. One of the questions that is almost certain to appear is, “How did he do all of his work?” With 46,991 pieces of sacred art and over two and a half acres of an art environment, Finster has one of the most quantitatively intense careers of a folk artist.
Finster’s process is still relatively unknown to the public. In both his painting cut-outs and his garden, Finster generated a unique process to produce art. In the garden, he used molds and patterns to create the cement wonder that is known as the Mosaic Garden. With his painting cut-outs, he used original templates he crafted to produce the sheer volume of work that he needed to fulfill the demand for his art.
With previously unseen items from Howard Finster’s own archives, Paradise Garden Curatorial Archivist Fellow, Mary Shewan, has created an exhibit entirely dedicated to the amazing art process Howard used to create his art. From templates to cut-outs to molds, come take a look into the brain of the visionary artist, Howard Finster.