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On view September 25–November 19, The Planter Show is an exhibition of sculptural planters, flower pots, and abstract containers in which plant life can grow, created by contemporary artists and designers. Fort Makers invited artists to mine various traditions and anomalies—from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pottery to the more contemporary Chia Pet—and create sculptures that hold and sustain plant life, approached holistically so that the planters and their corresponding plants compliment and complete each other. The Planter Show stems from humanity’s enduring effort to establish meaningful, nondestructive relationships with the natural world, and examines the power of the vessel as a sacred container and conceptual metaphor.