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Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
www.arboretum.umn.edu
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum invites you to connect your life with nature! The Arboretum features plant-related classes pertaining to the botanical arts, crafts, and literature.
- Watercolor Journaling Summer Workshop: Bennett-Johnson Prairie – Saturdays, July 9, 16, 3, 30, 2011; 9:45 AM – 1:00 PM. Learn how to use a variety of media to record your observations at the Arboretum’s 25-acre reconstructed prairie. Participants will learn how to use watercolor, ink, colored pencils, markers, mono-printing, and collage. Cost: $95 members/$110 nonmembers.
- Summer Plein-air Watercolor Workshop: Bennett-Johnson Prairie Saturday, August 13, 2011; 9:45 AM – 1:00 PM. Paint accurate images of the prairie’s trees, grasses and flowers. Create quick value studies and then learn how to apply color to paint the golden summer prairie. Some experience required. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers.
- Watercolor Journaling Fall Workshop: The HRC – Saturdays, September 10, 17, 24 and October 1, 2011; 9:45 AM – 1:00 PM. Document the harvest season at the University’s Horticultural Research Center. Participants will learn how to use watercolor, ink, colored pencils, markers, mono-printing, and collage. Cost: $95 members/$110 nonmembers.
- Plant Dyes: Color from the Garden – Saturday, September 17, 2011; 10 AM – 4 PM. Learn the essentials of plant dyes and how to identify plants used to produce color. Participants will prepare fibers and cook up dyestuffs. Participants will take home two skeins of dyed wool, a color card for reference, and recipes for dye making. Cost: $85 member/$90 nonmember
- Treasures from the Andersen Horticulture Library:; Empress Josephine’s Garden – Saturday, October 29, 2011; 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM. Examine botanical illustration with librarian Karen Allen. Learn about Empress Josephine Bonaparte and how she called upon Pierre Joseph Redouté to document her garden. View examples of Redouté’s work in rare books from the library’s collection. Cost: $30 member/$40 nonmember
- Fall Plein-air Watercolor Workshop – Saturday, October 15, 2011; 9:45 AM – 1:00 PM. Create images of apples and grapes at the Horticultural Research Center. Dress for painting outdoors in the orchard and vineyard. Create quick value studies and then learn how to apply color to paint the golden summer prairie. Some experience required. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers.
Minnesota School of Botanical Art at the Bakken Museum
www.minnesotaschoolofbotanicalart.com
The Minnesota School of Botanical Art was founded by Marilyn Garber. The school’s website has a refreshing design and is a treat to visit. View student accomplishments in the Student Gallery and flip through the pages of photo albums highlighting past Master Classes taught by Jean Emmons, Katie Lee, Kate Nessler, George Olson, Sunitsorn Pimpasalee, Margaret Saul, Alice Tangerini, Alexander Viazmensky, and Wendy Zomelefer. School instructors also have photo albums of their work on display. The current 2010/2011 school schedule can be viewed in detail here. The schedule includes:
- Farmer’s Market with Marilyn Garber – Mondays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, (skip July 4), July 11, 18, 2011; 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM. Illustrate and paint produce from the farmer’s market. Bring your own specimen. Cost: $235
- Colored Pencil II with Denise Walser Kolar – Mondays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, (skip July 4), July 11, 18, 2011; 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM. Students will build upon skills learned in Colored Pencil I. Cost: $235
- Field Sketching with Tim Voigts – Mondays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, (skip July 4), July 11, 18, 2011; 9:30 AM – Noon. Sketch trees, flowers, seed heads, landscapes and more using graphite and fiber-tipped pens. Cost: $235
- Beautiful Beetles: Jewels of the Plant World with Julie Martinez – Saturdays, June 11, 18, 25, 2011; 9 AM – 3 PM. Students will receive a beetle specimen and learn illustration techniques utilizing watercolor, gouache and colored pencil. Cost: $235
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