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Evening Tour of Chelsea Physic Garden

Posted in botanical art, Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements on July 23, 2015|

Enjoy a special evening event at the Chelsea Physic Garden with Head Gardener, Nick Bailey.

On Thursday August 13, Bailey will give a guided tour of the Garden that includes visits to the Garden of Medicinal Plants and the new World Woodland Garden, a garden focusing on medicinal plants from forest environments.

Artist Nici Ruggiero will talk about her installation “Curse or Cure”, an installation of apothecary jars in the Garden of Medicinal Plants. Also included in the evening tour is a visit to London’s Secret Garden: Plant Portraits from Chelsea Physic Garden.

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Sketch the Landscape of Southern France

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel on July 23, 2015|

Botanical Art and Tours in PROVENCE, France
May 27 – June 02, 2016
Arles, France

Four botanical art/drawing sessions and tours during the week.

Learn botanical drawing and watercolor in Southern France with Lisa Coddington. Experienced artists and bashful beginners are welcome. Scheduled classes and personal attention will refine your botanical art skills. There will be unique and wonderful opportunities to sketch and photograph Southern France in the blush of spring.

This workshop includes:

Five nights accommodations with bath ensuite in Arles.
One night accommodation with bath ensuite in Marseille.
Two formal and two informal painting classes and a “Welcome” wine and cheese reception.
Two half-day tours and one full-day tour; picnic at the Pont du Gard.
Breakfast daily and more!

FEES include:

Cost based on share lodging
*Limited single supplement $275.00

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL:
Place your deposit by August 31 to receive complimentary art supplies.

For itinerary details, please contact Lisa Coddington. For travel information, please contact Harriet at Cultural Encounters or call (505) 982-8264.

View Lisa’s online gallery at LisaCoddington.com

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Exhibition about mysterious fungi at The Hunt Institute

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements on July 15, 2015|

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation invites you to explore the amazing and mysterious world of fungi!

Boletus calopus Fr. [Boletus calopus Persoon, Boletaceae], watercolor on paper by Aurel Dermek (1925–1989), 1965, for Dermek and Albert Pilát, Poznávajme Huby (Bratislava, Veda, t. Tlač. SNP-Neografia, Martin, 1974, pl. 58), 30 x 21 cm, HI Art accession no. 6084.2.

The Mysterious Nature of Fungi
Hunt Institute for
Botanical Documentation
Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 17, 2015 – Dec. 17, 2015

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation presents
“The Mysterious Nature of Fungi” from 17 September to 17 December 2015. This exhibit gives an overview of these mysterious organisms that are found almost everywhere on this planet and are the cause of both bliss and blight.

Join us Thursday, 17 September 2015, 5-7 pm for an opening reception.
At 5:30 pm the curators will give a short introduction to the exhibition in the gallery.

We will also open on Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 October, 1-4 p.m., during Carnegie Mellon University’s Cèilidh Weekend festivities.
On Saturday join our curator throughout the afternoon for tours of the exhibition. On Sunday (1:30-2:30 p.m.) Richard Jacob, a biochemist by trade and president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, will present the talk “Mushroom clubs: Citizen science in action!”

The Cabinet of curiosities in the Hunt Institute lobby will display lithographs from a limited-edition portfolio in our Library collection. The 20th-century American avant-garde composer, writer and visual artist John Cage (1912–1992) also was an avid, amateur mushroom forager who was so enthusiastic about mushrooms that he and his friend, visual artist Lois Long (1918-2005), co-founded the New York Mycological Society in 1962. Together they published The Mushroom Book (1972), with the taxonomic assistance of the mycologist Alexander H. Smith (1904-1986).

“The Mysterious Nature of Fungi” will be on display on the 5th floor of the Hunt Library building at Carnegie Mellon University and will be open to the public free of charge.

Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 AM–noon and 1–5 PM; Sunday, 1–4 PM (except 22 November and 26–29 November). Because our hours of operation are occasionally subject to change, please call or email before your visit to confirm. For further information, contact the Hunt Institute at 412-268-2434.

About the Hunt Institute
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation.

Click on first image to view images as a slideshow.

: [Pilobolus Tode, Pilobolaceae], watercolor on paper by Carmen Sylvia Zocchio-Fidalgo (1941–), 54.5 x 40.5 cm, HI Art accession no. 4830.

: French and Italian Truffles [Tuber melanosporum Vittadini and Tuber magnatum pico Vittadini, Tuberaceae], watercolor on paper by Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh (1941–), 2009, 33.5 x 39 cm, HI Art accession no. 7782.

: Boletus calopus Fr. [Boletus calopus Persoon, Boletaceae], watercolor on paper by Aurel Dermek (1925–1989), 1965, for Dermek and Albert Pilát, Poznávajme Huby (Bratislava, Veda, t. Tlač. SNP-Neografia, Martin, 1974, pl. 58), 30 x 21 cm, HI Art accession no. 6084.2.

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Create a nature journal of autumn leaves

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling on July 15, 2015|

Fall leaves © Linda C. Miller, all rights reserved

Believe it or not, the end of summer is beginning to appear on the horizon. School begins next month and the seasons will change once again.

If you live in the vicinity of Williamsburg, Virginia, you have the opportunity to capture the changing seasons with botanical artist Linda C. Miller.

Here is what’s new in the Classes Near You sections for Virginia and
North Carolina.

Linda C. Miller
www.lindacmillerbotanicalarttoday.com

Linda is a botanical artist from Virginia and the artist in residence at The Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, NC. Learn more about this special honor. Linda teaches in North Carolina and in Virginia. Visit Linda’s blog, Botanical Art Today to learn about her classes and upcoming gallery appearances.

Fall Botanical Workshop

The Elizabethan Gardens, Odom Hall. © Linda C. Miller, all rights reserved

Use your artistic skills to illustrate and create a Botanical Portrait working with flora from The Elizabethan Garden’s greenhouses and grounds. Learn basic drawing skills, observation, and watercolor techniques to create a botanical painting. Beginner and advanced students welcome!

Materials list provided by instructor. For additional information, please contact Linda. To register, contact The Elizabethan Gardens at
(252) 473-3234.

Two Day Workshop Option:
$100.00 member, $120 non-member

Three Day Workshop:
$150.00 member, $180 non-member

Class limit: 10

Fall Nature Journal Class
Freedom Park Interpretive Center Building
Williamsburg, VA
November 14, 2015
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Learn how to keep your own nature journal. Instructor Linda Miller will demonstrate ways of journal-keeping including drawing flora, making quick landscape studies and nature poetry. No experience necessary. Please bring your own journal, pencil, and a small package of colored markers.

Class Fee: $15 per person
Class Limit: 10

Painting Fall Leaves in Watercolor
Freedom Park Interpretive Center
Williamsburg, VA
Wednesdays: October 28, November 4 & 11, 2015
10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Learn how to draw and paint fall leaves. Instructor will provide watercolor paper. Please bring your own journal, pencil and watercolor paints.

Workshop Fee: $75 per person
Class Limit: 6

Private Watercolor Lessons with Linda C. Miller
Limited to four guests each session, designed especially for you.
Learn more about Linda at Linda Miller Botanical Art.
Half-day: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. or 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. ($75 per person).
Full-day: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ($125 per person).

Related
When in Williamsburg, don’t miss Birds, Bugs, and Blooms: Observing the Natural World in the 18th Century, now at Colonial Williamsburg through January 2, 2017.

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Introduction to botanical illustration with Gilly Shaeffer

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities on June 17, 2015|

New at Classes Near You > Southern California!

Gilly Shaeffer
www.gillyshaeffer.com

Gilly Shaeffer is an award-winning artist and a graduate of Anne-Marie Evans’ certificate program in botanical art. A member of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA), Gilly served as president of the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California, a chapter of the ASBA, from 1999-2005. Her work has been in juried exhibitions across the United States and is in the permanent collection at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University.

Drawing Basics

Learn the fundamentals of botanical illustration with Gilly at her Los Angeles studio. Students will practice exercises and techniques that will improve observational skills. This is a great opportunity for beginning and intermediate artists to perfect their drawing skills. Students will also learn how to prepare watercolor paintings of botanical subjects.

Cost: $160

To register, please contact Gilly.

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Summer School for Artists, Naturalists and Educators

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, Teaching & Learning on June 3, 2015|

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Interested in learning more about the history of botany and botanical art?

A fantastic learning opportunity is coming to Southern California this summer that you don’t want to miss.

The eccentric beauty of the plant kingdom will be celebrated in a traveling exhibition of contemporary botanical illustrations and will be on view
June 13–Aug. 23, 2015 (Saturdays and Sundays only), at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. “Weird, Wild & Wonderful: The New York Botanical Garden Second Triennial Exhibition” is curated by the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA). The juried show includes 47 works, selected from a field of nearly 240 submissions, created by ASBA artists from Australia, Canada, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The show will be on view in the Flora-Legium of the Brody Botanical Center and is included with general admission to The Huntington.

“Botanical artists have traditionally depicted conventionally beautiful flora,” said Robert Hori, gardens cultural curator and program director at The Huntington. “This exhibition is meant to showcase nature’s oddities—plants of charismatic quirkiness that have a bizarre beauty all their own.”

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Huntington will co-host a symposium
July 23–26, 2015, offering a broad view of all that is weird, wild, and wonderful in the plant kingdom. The symposium is presented in partnership with the ASBA and the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California (BAGSC, the local ASBA chapter). Learn about plants, explore the history of botany, take a botanical art class and learn about photography too. You can view the complete schedule on the Symposium website.

In addition to an exciting selection of classes, there will be special keynote presentations by botanists, artists and historians. The schedule of Symposium keynote lectures is as follows:

Do You ‘See’ Plants? Using Art and Technology to Teach Science

Painting the Wonder Plants of Borneo

The Art of Orchids

Orchid Digest

The Beauty of Ancient Plant Representations:
Weird or Wonderful?

From Field to Print: Botanical Art and Photography for Conifers Around the World and the Dendrological Atlas

An adjunct exhibition of approximately 60 works by local BAGSC members will be on view in the Brody Botanical Center Aug. 1–9. This supplemental show will extend the theme of weird and wonderful plants through educational outreach activities for children and families, demonstrations in different media, informal workshops, displays of botanical curiosities, and “Find Me in the Garden” links between the exhibitions and the botanical collections. During the week of this display, both exhibitions will be open to visitors daily (Wednesday through Monday) during public hours.

Summer school has never ever been this exciting!

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Study classical botanical art on the island of Kauai

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel on May 27, 2015|

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The Art of Flowers
Princeville, HI
August 3-7, 2015
9 AM to 3 PM

A five-day botanical art workshop about the Renaissance techniques of the French Court Masters with Olivia Braida-Chiusano, founder and director of OM Art Designs and the Academy of Botanical Art in Sarasota, Florida.

This workshop will be held at the Princeville Community Center on the island of Kauai.

Designed for beginning to advanced artists, this insightful class in classical botanical art technique offers individual instruction and includes:

Slide presentation of “A Brief History of Botanical Art.”
Plant subject, paper supplies, pencils, erasers, syllabus, and handouts.
Daily refreshments
One complimentary group dinner during the study week.
A FREE copy of a botanical art publication by James White and Lugene Bruno, past and present curators at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University.

Participants wishing to paint their subjects must bring their own painting supplies.

Cost: $875 per person

Tuition does not include travel and hotel. Please contact The Academy for hotel information and for information about the Princeville area. Participants must to make their own hotel reservations.

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This information has been added to the “Classes Near You” sections for Hawaii and Florida.