ArtPlantae Today

Cornell University’s CyberTower enables Web visitors to learn from Cornell faculty any time of the day or night. The CyberTower website is located at www.cybertower.cornell.edu. Upon entering this site, visitors can choose to enter any number of rooms. Each “room” actually refers to a special topic taught by a faculty member. Visitors can learn about any topic from autism to marketing to nutrition to English garden design. Of particular interest to botanical artists is Marcia Eames-Sheavly’s presentation of rare botanical books and still life floral paintings. Click on the Fine Art and Horticulture room to learn how botanical illustrations and botanical motifs have been used through the centuries.

When you arrive at the Fine Art and Horticulture room, click on the Introduction video to begin the sequence of short video clips. There are nine clips, however Clip #7 is not functioning at the moment. To watch all video clips in one sitting, you’ll need about 47 minutes of quiet time.

Many thanks to Marcia Eames-Sheavly, librarian Linda Stewart, and curator Cathy Rosa Klimaszewski for taking botanical art history out of the library and making it accessible to a wider audience.