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Entomology workshop introduction to exhibition about Maria Sibylla Merian

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on February 17, 2016|

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The Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati will host an entomology workshop in partnership with Meddling with Nature, an organization known for their educational theatrics and hands-on DIY workshops whose specialty is creating opportunities for individuals to experience art within the natural sciences. Guests will be encouraged to “touch with their own hands and see with their own eyes”. Meddlers big and small, armed with their new-found knowledge, will mount and take home their very own large exotic specimen.

This workshop is a precursor to the Lloyd Library’s Summer 2016 exhibition showcasing Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. Meddling with Nature will bring this epic work to life by presenting Surinam native plants and insects alongside the Lloyd Library’s original copies.

Learn about entomology and gain new insight into the work of Maria Sibyl Merian. Register for Meddling with Nature’s entomology workshop. The workshop will be held on Friday, February 19 (7-9 PM). Doors open at 6:30 PM.

General adult ticket: $49 advanced purchase
Additional child ticket: $22

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About Meddling with Nature
Meddling with Nature is dedicated to exploring the connection between art and natural science. Starting with a love for medical illustration, Meddling with Nature quickly incorporated naturalistic, artistic, and anthropomorphic taxidermy. Meddling with Nature’s goal includes a mandate to educate the public on both biological and naturalist themes through direct, hands on experience. Meddling with Nature is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2016 and is producing a number of events throughout the year.

About Lloyd Library and Museum
Lloyd Library and Museum is committed to providing engaging public programming through lectures, exhibitions, instructional events (for students of all ages) and symposia, that highlights the breadth and depth of the collection in all new ways. Offering a collection of botanical, medical, pharmaceutical, scientific books and periodicals, the library offers services and programming that bring science, art, and history to life.

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Painting Meetings with Barbara Oozeerally

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities on February 16, 2016|

Award-winning botanical artist Barbara Oozeerally will teach botanical art workshops this spring and summer in Poland. Three painting meetings are planned. They are:

Painting Delicate Spring Flowers & How to Achieve an Interesting Composition (May 8-15, 2016)
Summer Greens: Smooth, Shiny, Hairy and Wrinkled and How to Paint Them (August 7-14, 2016)
The Brilliant Autumn Colors of Leaves, Fruit and Seedpods (September 4-11, 2016)

All painting meetings will be organized by Welcome Tourist and will be held at a 4-star luxury resort near Krakow, Poland.

For more information, go to Painting Meetings.

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Exhibition about native plants of the United States at Philadelphia Flower Show

Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events on February 12, 2016|

By Sarah Maxwell, PSBI

The beautiful and precise botanical paintings of the Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators (PSBI) are on display at the Philadelphia Flower Show from Saturday, March 5th through Sunday, March 13th. The artists will be giving live demonstrations of their illustration techniques each day between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm, as well as between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm.

In keeping with the Flower Show’s theme of “Explore America: 100 Years of the National Park Service,” the 2016 theme of the botanical artists is “Our National Treasures: Native Plants of the United States.” All the artwork had to be of plants that are native to our country — like oak trees, red buds, and dogwoods as well as trilliums, sunflowers, and black-eyed Susans. A large poster shows the location of these native plants along the Scenic Trail System of the National Parks.

Both the exhibition and the demonstrations are by the 75 members of PSBI. All the botanical art works are originals. PSBI artists spend many hours, weeks, even months to produce each one. They take great care to make certain that the depiction of the specimen is faithful to nature as well as a thing of beauty, something to be passed down with pride to coming generations.

The PSBI artists have been demonstrating the techniques of botanical art at the Philadelphia Flower Show since 1998, one year after PSBI was formed. Their demonstrations are part of the PSBI mission to educate the public on the intricacies of botanical art. It is an art form that is a tradition particularly in the Philadelphia area: in the 18th Century John and William Bartram founded and illustrated North America’s first botanical garden.

For more information, check the PSBI website, follow PSBI on Twitter (@PSBI_artists) or contact Sarah Maxwell.

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Learn to paint orchids on vellum at US Botanic Garden

Posted in Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities on February 12, 2016|

Carol Woodin
www.carolwoodin.com
Carol is an award-winning freelance artist whose specialties include orchids, rare wildflowers, heirloom fruits and garden plants.

Painting Glowing Orchids in Watercolor

After an overview of the special botanical characteristics of orchids, and a primer on the unique qualities of vellum, students will learn to combine the two. Creating rich color through multiple layers of watercolor dry brush, artists will capture shaded form and surface qualities such as gloss, veining, and warts so characteristic of orchids. Using vellum’s special surface to its greatest advantage, artists will gain comfort in working with this beautiful and translucent material.

For more information, contact Carol Woodin.

This information has also been posted to the Classes Near You sections for New York and Washington, DC.

Did you know?
George Washington thought that U.S. capital should have a botanic garden promoting the importance of plants to our young nation?

Established in 1820, the United States Botanic Garden is one of the oldest gardens in North America.

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Summer workshop at Hortus botanicus Leiden

Posted in Learning Opportunities, travel on February 5, 2016|

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Hortus botanicus Leiden
www.hortusleiden.nl
Founded in 1590, the Hortus botanics Leiden is the oldest botanic garden in the Netherlands. Included in its historic collection are plants from Asia, Europe and South Africa. Research on plant species continues to this day and the Garden plays an important role in the cultivation and preservation of endangered species.

Summer Botanical Art Workshop with Anita Walsmit Sachs

Day 1 – Introductions, garden tour, afternoon focus on pencil drawing
Day 2 – Learn about materials used by botanical illustrators, receive instruction about paint, color mixing and composition.
Day 3 – Transfer drawings to watercolor paper, begin painting
Day 4 & 5 – Continue painting, daily discussion, individual attention.

Cost: €395,00
Includes morning coffee, brasserie lunch and afternoon drinks. Information about payment and lodging will be provided upon registration. A small optional assignment will be assigned before the workshop begins.

To register, contact Anita.

About Anita Walsmit Sachs
www.anitawalsmitsachs.nl
Anita Walsmit Sachs is the former director of the art department and former scientific illustrator at the National Herbarium in the Netherlands at the University of Leiden. She is an award-winning artist who has received two gold medals from the Royal Horticultural Society and whose work is included in the Highgrove Florilegium, a historic collection featuring selected plants growing at HRH The Prince of Wales’ home at Highgrove in Gloucestershire. In 2006, Anita and some of her students formed the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists.

Anita was the featured guest in January 2013. Read an interview with Anita and her conversation with ArtPlantae readers here.

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Medical traditions for the 21st century is focus of weekend conference at UCLA

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Events on February 3, 2016|

This month the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA will host a weekend conference focusing on the traditional knowledge of the therapeutic uses of plants. Co-organized by Alain Touwaide, this conference will bring together specialists from various disciplines involved in the study of medical traditions and will foster cross-disciplinary studies between medicine and the humanities.

The weekend conference will begin on Saturday, February 27 with a keynote lecture by Alain Touwaide titled, “Medical Traditions: Knowledge in the Making”. This will be followed by sessions about medicinal plants, herbals, culture and medicine. The conference concludes on Sunday, February 28.

A summary of planned presentations follows.

Conference Highlights:

Aspirin in Antiquity? Or Principles and Practices of Retrospective Pharmacognosy
Medicine Box and Dining Table: Uses of Exotic Plants in Ancient Greece and Rome
Medicinal Plants from Monastery Medicine for the 21st Century
Tracing Drug Trajectories in the Early Modern Netherlands: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements
The De la Cruz-Badiano Manuscript of 1552: America’s First Herbal in the 21st Century
More than Chemistry: Cultural Contexts for Healing and Well-being for First Peoples of Northwestern North America
Ayurveda Pharmacology: An ancient paradigm, modern relevance
The Chinese Botanico-Medical Tradition
Imperialism, Modern Pharmacology and Traditional Medicine: Rudolf Kobert (1854-1918) and the Pharmakologisches Institut in Dorpat
Traditional Chinese Medicine: An Ancient Treasure for the World Beyond Artemisinin
Future application of Traditional Medical Knowledge intrinsically linked to Conservation of Culture and Biodiversity in Geographical Origins of Wild Medicinal Plants: The case of Nanwuweizi from the Giant Panda Habitat

For conference details and to register, go to Medical Traditions for the 21st Century.

This event if free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Seating is limited.

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Study botanical art in Norway

Posted in botanical art, Learning Opportunities, travel on February 2, 2016|

For the past three years, Gaynor Dickeson has worked diligently to raise the profile of contemporary botanical art in Norway. She has done so successfully through the botanical art holidays she leads on the banks of the Oslo Fjord. Gaynor invites you to join her on the next holiday workshop scheduled for this summer.

Here is what’s new at Classes Near You > Norway:

Botanical Art Workshop Holiday in Norway 2016
June 24 – July 1, 2016

Award-winning botanical artist Gaynor Dickeson will lead a botanical art workshop in Norway in 2016. Travel to the banks of the Oslo Fjord and spend your mornings immersed in botanical art.

Study botanical art every morning after breakfast from Saturday through Thursday. Afternoons are free to explore. During the afternoon, Gaynor will be either in the studio and available for advice, or will be out guiding an afternoon visit to an UNESCO Geopark Area with masses of wild flowers.

Description of the class:

Botanical art/illustration demonstrations and individual instruction.
Maximum: 12 students
Suitable for new beginners and highly experienced botanical artists who want to improve in specific techniques. As classes are kept deliberately small, everyone can be accommodated.
Media: Colored pencil, watercolor and/or graphite

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