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Anne-Marie Evans will teach a two-week course about botanical drawing and composition this Fall. Here’s the latest at Classes Near You > Virginia!


Botanical Artists for Education & The Environment

www.baeecorp.org
The Botanical Artists for Education & The Environment (BAEE) is a non-profit organization in Falls Church, VA created by a dedicated group of botanical artists in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Members wrote and illustrated American Botanical Paintings: Native Plants of the Mid Atlantic.

    Botanical Watercolor Class By Anne-Marie Evans

    Anne-Marie Evans returns in September 2015 to Falls Church, Virginia, to teach another of her popular classes in botanical art. Class space is limited. Classes expected to fill quickly.

    This two-week class will concentrate first on gaining intimate familiarity with the plant, sketching it from many different aspects while striving for botanical accuracy. Then, students will practice various arrangements using the individual sketches to make an effective composition. Finally, they will proceed to paint application, using Anne-Marie’s six-step method. We regret that we cannot accept registration for a single week.

    This two-week session will be held September 21 – 25, 2015 and September 28  – October 2, 2015 (10 am – 3 pm, daily).

    Location:
    Columbia Baptist Church, Room 100
    103 West Columbia St
    Falls Church, VA 22046

    Fee:    
    $1,100 – Not refundable unless the class is cancelled or someone takes your spot.  
    A $100 deposit will hold your place. Balance due by August 1.

    For more details see Classes page on the BAEE website.
    Questions? Please contact BAEE.

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The ART+BIO Collaborative has announced a professional development workshop for educators teaching in formal and informal learning environments. Program participants will have special access to art work from the public and non-public collections of the new Harvard Art Museums, as well as areas not frequently accessed by the public.

Information about the new workshop, plus information about upcoming trips to Puerto Rico and the southwest are listed below. This information has been added to the Classes Near You sections for Massachusetts, Texas and New Mexico.

After reading about the new classes, be sure to move on to the conversation with the instructors of the professional development workshop.


    ART+BIO Collaborative

    www.artbiocollaborative.com
    The ART+BIO Collaborative in Cambridge, MA fosters the integration of science, nature, and art through novel collaborations, research, and education. They design innovative art+science curriculum and turn public spaces into interactive learning environments.


    NEW! Professional Development Workshop for Educators

    Combining Comparative Anatomy & the Visual Arts:
    A Professional Development Workshop for Educators

    Dates: April 20- 22, 2015 from 1-4:30pm

    Location: Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
    
Fee: $25, Does not include museum admission

    This ART+BIO Collaborative workshop introduces educators to creatively combining visual art and life sciences to engage students in creative art-making and deeper learning of advanced scientific concepts. Working from museum collections and exhibits at the Harvard Art Museums and Harvard Museum of Natural History, participants will use biological illustration to learn about comparative anatomy and evolution. Participants will design creative art+science collaborations for their own classrooms and participate in collaborative art-making.  This workshop is ideal for 6th-12th grade Art and Science teachers, however, all grade levels and informal educators welcome, along with any artists, naturalists or students interested in creative, interdisciplinary teaching and learning approaches. No previous drawing or science experience necessary.  This workshop is part of the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival. 
    Pre-Registration required. Participants will earn 10 Professional Development points.

    Sign-up Today!

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    ISLAND LIFE: Tropical Field Studies of Art+Nature in Puerto Rico, March 8-14, 2015- Spring Break

    Embark on an artistic exploration of the diverse tropical wildlife of Puerto Rico, including rainforest, mountain, beach and coastal environments.
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    DESERT LIFE: Field Studies of Art+Nature in the Southwest
    June 26-July 2, 2015

    Discover the unique beauty of the desert in this one-of-a-kind artistic journey through white sand dunes, black lava rock, desert caves, and mountain landscapes of West Texas and New Mexico.
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A Conversation with Stephanie Dowdy-Nava and Saul Nava

Stephanie Dowdy-Nava, primary instructor of the professional development (PD) workshop and co-founder of the ART+BIO Collaborative would like to start a conversation with you about science and art. You can join in the conversation by responding to her prompt below. Please respond by typing your comments in the Comment box.

Integrating biology and art helps students understand advanced scientific concepts more deeply and fully engage their creativity through informed, thoughtful artmaking. The PD program focuses on designing creative collaborations between natural history and the visual arts using comparative anatomy and biological illustration.  What are some creative ways you have successfully integrated art and science in your classroom, studio or lab? Share your ideas here and they could become part of our workshop discussion.

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© Beverly Allen, all rights reserved Born Sydney, Australia, 1945
. Doryantes excelsa (Gymea Lily), Watercolour on Arches paper
 39 x 28 ins (99 x 71 cm)

© Beverly Allen, all rights reserved
Born Sydney, Australia, 1945
. Doryantes excelsa (Gymea Lily), Watercolour on Arches paper
,
39 x 28 ins (99 x 71 cm)

The Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery invites you to view new works in the Shirley Sherwood Collection.

Botanical art has for centuries been closely linked to exploration, travel, and adventure, aiding and inspiring scientists in their quest to understand the natural world. The best botanical artists have always combined technical skill in producing a faithful likeness of a specimen with their own artistic flair.

The Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of new works by 18 outstanding contemporary artists in Work from Botanical Artists in the Collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood: Celebrating 25 Years of the Collection. This exhibition will be on view April 23 – May 30, 2015. All works are for sale.

Interested in plants and art since childhood, Dr. Sherwood earned her undergraduate degree in botany from Oxford University and her D.Phil working in a team which discovered the important drug Tagamet.

She started the Shirley Sherwood Collection in 1990, and it now includes 900 paintings and drawings, representing the work of over 240 contemporary artists from 30 countries around the world. Alongside curating exhibitions of works from her collection specially hung for the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, she has exhibited her collection in many other prestigious locations including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Marciana Library in Venice and the Real Jardín Botánico Madrid. She has also written six books and many articles on botanical art.

The Sherwood family have all generously supported Kew with the building of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, the only purpose-designed botanical art gallery in the world. The gallery opened in April 2008, and has between 2 – 3,000 visitors a week. Awarded the OBE for services to botanical art in early 2012, Dr. Sherwood is a Fellow of the Linnaean Society, was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society and is an Hon. Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Artists participating in this exhibition are: Beverley Allen, Francesca Anderson, Phansakdi Chakkapak, Annie Hughes, Ingrid Finnan, Monika de Vries Gohlke, Coral Guest, Mieko Ishikawa, Rachel Pedder-Smith, Kate Nessler, Brian Poole, Jenny Phillips, Rosie Sanders, Jessica Tcherepine, Carol Woodin, Fiona Strickland, Susan Ogilvy, Susannah Blaxhill.

The Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery is open Monday – Friday (10:00 am – 6:30 pm) and Saturday (11:00 am – 4:00 pm). Admission is free.

Celebrate 25 Years of the Shirley Sherwood Collection!

Visit Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery

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The UCR Botanic Gardens invites local artists to take part in the annual Primavera in the Gardens Poster Art Contest.

The artwork of the two first-place winners will be used as the artwork for Primavera. First-place winners will each receive four tickets to this annual food, wine and art event. Second-place artists will each receive two tickets to the event.

Original artwork will be accepted for two categories: 1) Photography and
2) Other Media. This contest is open to all artists. The only stipulation is that all original artwork must be of the UCR Botanic Gardens and be no smaller than 11″ x 14″.

Did you take a show-stopping photograph of a plant or landscape scene from inside the Garden? Do you have a drawing or painting of a plant in the UCRBG collection of which you are especially proud?

Download the entry form and submit your original artwork to the Primavera Poster Contest. Submissions are due March 6, 2015.


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2015 Winter Workshop Announcement Botanical painting workshops will be taught at Jeanne Debons’ studio in February and March.

Now at Classes Near You > Oregon:


Jeanne Debons Studio

www.jeannedebons.com
Botanist and botanical illustrator, Jeanne Debons, teaches small student-focused painting workshops at her Oregon studio. Dr. Debons received her Ph.D. in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. She graduated from the diploma course in Botanical Painting at the English Gardening School in 2005.

    Botanical Painting Workshops
    Learn the fundamentals of botanical painting in watercolor, including an introduction to necessary supplies, drawing and painting techniques, composition, choosing and mixing colors, creating colors, and more. Work with the group to learn a multi-step method that helps you master specific skills required, or bring a project you are working on and get help and advice. This is an opportunity to learn the techniques required to capture botanical subjects on paper in a series of straightforward steps.

    Upcoming Workshops:

    Jeanne Debons Studio, Bend, OR
    February 21-22, 2015 and March 21-22, 2015

    Sunriver Nature Center, Sunriver, OR
    Botanical Painting – June 13-14, 2015
    Discovering Color – September 12-13, 2015

    Cost: $65 per day or $120 for 2 days
    Materials will be provided

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Join Margaret on the island of Fiji!

The information below has been posted to Margaret’s main listing at
Classes Near You > Canada and on the new page for Fiji.


Margaret Best

www.bestbotanical.com
Margaret Best is an award-winning artist and respected teacher. Her artwork has been shown in many exhibitions about contemporary botanical art and is featured in the book, Today’s Botanical Artists, by Cora Marcus and Libby Kyer. Margaret teaches in Canada, England, Bermuda, Italy, Morocco, Fiji, South Africa and the United States. Her work is held in both public and private collections, including the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Margaret teaches both watercolor and colored pencil.


    Botanical Art Workshop with Margaret Best

    September 19-26, 2015
    Daku Resort

    Learn botanical art in the morning and take part in afternoon excursions to experience Fijian culture. This seven-day botanical art holiday will be based at Daku Resort and includes plenty of time for relaxing and painting at your own pace.

    Visit local shops, villages and an organic herb garden. Explore Flora Tropica Botanical Gardens, learn about palms and coconuts and experience Fijian culture.


    Program Includes
    :

    • 
Return airport transfers from Savusavu to Daku Resort.

    • 7 nights accommodation at Daku Resort in traditional bures with private facilities

    • Breakfasts, lunches and dinners
    • 
Workshop fees
    • Lectures and excursions as indicated


    Program Excludes 
Travel
    :

    • Comprehensive Travel Insurance
    • 
Optional activities not listed on the program
    • 
Costs of a personal nature such as laundry, massages, private trips
    • 
Meals taken in transit at the airport


    Cost
    :
    $1,700 US (single room)
    $1500 US (twin share room)
    $830 US (non-painting partner)


    Travel Information
    :
    Fiji Airways flies directly to Fiji from Los Angeles and Vancouver.


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    About Fiji

    The Republic of Fiji is a country in the island region of Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean. Explore this part of the world below:

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Botanical Art Workshop Holiday in Norway 2015
June 28 – July 5, 2015

Award-winning botanical artist Gaynor Dickeson will lead a botanical art workshop in Norway in 2015. Travel to the banks of the Oslo Fjord and spend your mornings immersed in botanical art.

Demonstrations and one-on-one instruction will occur after breakfast between Monday June 29 – Saturday July 4. Afternoons are free to explore. Gaynor will be available in the studio for advice on most afternoons. This workshop is suitable for new beginners and highly experienced botanical artists. Class limit is 12 students. Students will work in graphite, colored pencil and watercolor.

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More about Asgardstrand and the Oslo Fjord

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