About the Founder
Nourish Botanica is a greenhouse and cafe slated to launch in the South that aims to be a space for sustainable green entertaining, gathering and storytelling through fresh food and botanicals. The eatery will serve Caribbean and Southern deli-style vegan offerings by day and open in the evening for public and private events. It will also operate as a nursery, selling plants, flowers and herbs as well as offering gardening education and services through our farm partners.
Nourish Botanica’s Coconut Curry Soup, vegan-based ingredients made with locally grown veggies produced by Black farmers.
About the founder.
Quianah Upton is an Atlanta-based creative entrepreneur, food justice advocate and story gatherer creating a space for healing through Nourish Botanica. She is an artist working with floral arrangement & spatial design, event producer, & food justice advocate.
She is Caribbean, originally from the U.S. Virgin Islands and South Florida, that informs her love of lush, emotive, art and communal green spaces. She is an army brat and part of her childhood was spent growing up in a food insecure neighborhood in South Florida. She found her story gathering voice and creative and artistic self through gestural painting and drawing.
Her creative approach displays a combination of these disciplines with a focus on cultural integrity, historical context and greenspace.
Art Exhibitions
If I Told You, Artist and Curator, 2019
Her Ritual at the WISH Gallery, Artist, 2018
Signs of Solidarity, Living Walls, 2017 & 2018
Hambidge Hive at Colony Square, Corner Store Pop Up, Artist and Curator, 2017
ELEVATE Atlanta, Curatorial Assistant, Living Walls, 2016
Central Atlanta Progress’s Streetcar PopUps, Gallery and Curator, 2014
Black Art Renaissance, City Of Ink, Chilly-O, Miami Art Basel, 2013
Festival Creations
Friends and Neighbors, Art On The Atlanta Beltline, 2019
Simmer Down Picnic, Arts Exchange, 2016-2018
bEarthday Fest, 2017
Vintage In The Village, 2018
Alchemy ATL, Sweet Auburn, 2016
ThinkShop, Interior Design Workshop, 2014
Threadcount ATL, 2013
