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Mar. 13, 2023

In the Media: Scripps College Art Exhibition on Display at Descanso Gardens, Pasadena Now Reports

Descanso Gardens

March 13, 2023

In the Media: Scripps College Art Exhibition on Display at Descanso Gardens, Pasadena Now Reports

The exhibition is from the Scripps College collection and was previously on display at the College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery in 2021.

May 6, 2021

In the Media: Wendy Cheng Discusses the Heritage of Descanso Gardens on Fox 11

Associate Professor of American Studies Wendy Cheng discussed how Descanso Gardens’s collection of camellias can be traced to Japanese American flower growers of the 1930s, who were later interned during World War II. “Japanese American flower growers right before the war made up 50 percent of the LA flower market,” she said.