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Exhibition by Pacific Northwest Botanical Artists Opens Tonight

Posted in botanical art, Cookbooks, Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on April 5, 2013|

Pacific Northwest Botanical Artists, a chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists, will open a month-long exhibition and sale at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture’s Miller Library this evening.

The exhibition by Pacific Northwest Botanical Artists will feature original paintings by 13 artists. Prints and cards will be available for purchase. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, May 4, the date of the Master Gardener plant sale at the Center for Urban Horticulture. A portion of proceeds from all sales will benefit the library.

This event will be held in conjunction with the 8th Annual Garden Lover’s Book Sale Preview Party, a wine and cheese event featuring hundreds of gardening books and cookbooks. Doesn’t this sound like fun?

To purchase tickets for tonight’s book sale and preview party, contact the library.
The annual book sale will be open to the public tomorrow from 9 AM – 3 PM (free admission).

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Tell a National Audience About Your Classes, Exhibitions

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements on April 3, 2013|

Do you have botanical art workshops, botany classes, book arts classes or sketchbook adventures to announce ?

How about an exhibition of your work? Is your organization hosting an exhibition related to plants, natural science illustration, botany or botanical art?

Put yourself or your organization in front of a national, environmentally minded audience this month. Take a moment to send information about upcoming classes for the Classes Near You section or to send exhibition information for the Exhibits to Visit section located in the right hand column of this page.

When sending information, please write “EE Week” at the beginning of your subject line.

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Earth Day Event Includes Tour of Water Reclamation Plant

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on April 3, 2013|

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You are invited to an Earth Day celebration hosted by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County!

This free community event promotes environmental awareness and sustainable living. Tour a water reclamation plant and/or landfill, enjoy music and dance performances, create eco-friendly arts and crafts, and visit over 50 exhibitors while learning about environmental issues.

The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (LACSD) will also be accepting donations of old shoes and eyeglasses on this day and will donate these items to those in need. If you have shoes you do not use or a drawer full of old glasses, please bring them and contribute to this worthy cause.

The LACSD Earth Day event will be held at their main office in Whittier, CA. Here are the details:

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The Backyard and Beyond

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, Technology on April 1, 2013|

ArtPlantae is proud to again participate as a partner of National Environmental Education Week (EE Week). Hosted by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), EE Week is the nation’s largest celebration of environmental education. Held each year the week before Earth Day, this annual event inspires environmental learning and stewardship among K-12 students.

This year educators will explore how technology can be used to enhance environmental learning both inside and outside the classroom. The theme for EE Week 2013 is Greening STEM: Taking Technology Outdoors. The acronym “STEM” stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

As part of Taking Technology Outdoors, EE Week will highlight how to connect kids with nature through new technologies that enable scientific research and 21st century skills including creativity, innovation, communication and collaboration.

During the month of April, we’ll explore how technology can be used to encourage an interest in plants and botanical art. Using the new “Tips & Tools” feature, we’ll find out how artists, naturalists and teachers use technology (get ready to share!). We’ll also take a traditional look at botanical art. We won’t step too far away from technology when we do this, however, because it’s technology that makes enlightenment possible.

All of this, plus outreach events too. Hope you’ll join us!

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Artist Showcase Celebrates the Importance of Home

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on March 27, 2013| 1 Comment »

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In celebration of Habitat for Humanity’s 25th anniversary, the Riverside ReStore is celebrating 15 years of building partnerships by hosting the
Home is where our story begins… artist showcase. Organizers explain they “envision an event that spotlights our strong community partnerships and communicates our gratitude for the support we have received over the years. It is a celebration of these unions; a grand recognition of efforts to eliminate substandard housing and make adequate shelter a matter of conscience.”

This showcase event is open to all artists 16 years or older. Forty artists will be selected to participate. Event organizers reserve the right to give selection preference to artists living or working in the communities served by Habitat for Humanity Riverside. These communities are Riverside, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley, Norco and Corona.

Artists chosen to participate will be provided with either a dollhouse kit and a $100 Riverside ReStore gift card or a wood plaque and a $25 gift card. Entry specifications are explained in the application. Applications must be completed and submitted by April 13th, 2013 to be considered. Interested artists should contact Artist Coordinator Kristii MacEwen to receive an application. Artist applications are also available online at www.RiversideReStore.org/15years.

Interested in sponsoring a dollhouse or wood plaque?
Please contact Sponsor Coordinator Cindy Tyrolt.

Also See
Riverside ReStore – Retail with a Mission

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Free Shipping Specials at ArtPlantae

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, Special Announcements on March 27, 2013|

Free Shipping Specials

A new category of resources has been created at the store.

The new Free Shipping category features items that qualify for free shipping. The selection of items in this category will change frequently, so check this new section often.

All items qualifying for free shipping will be sent via USPS Standard Post or the most economical shipping option available. This free shipping offer applies only to orders sent to an address within the contiguous United States. Please allow extra time for delivery.

Are you viewing this on a mobile device? Visit the mobile store.

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What was North America like in the 1700s?

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on March 19, 2013|

The North American Experience: Early America Illustrated
with “Forms of Life” Art Exhibition by the 5300 Group

Lloyd Library & Museum
March 25, 2013 – June 21, 2013

Next week an exhibition featuring the written and artistic works of naturalists eager to describe the unexplored territory of North America will open at the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

View early works and learn what the Ohio Valley and other parts of North America were really like before European settlers immigrated to the continent. Rare and fascinating books from the 18th and 19th centuries will be on view.

Also on view will be Forms of Life, an exhibition featuring the work of the 5300 Group. This group is comprised of local artists and kindred spirits who have been together since 2008, working in a variety of media and exploring a wide assortment of subjects. Individual members have shown their work locally, regionally, and nationally in juried exhibitions. This is their first appearance at the Lloyd Library.

The Lloyd Library and Museum invites you to attend the opening reception for these two shows on Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 4-7 PM.

A presentation about John James Audubon and the early Ohio Valley begins at 4:30 PM. This presentation will be given by Devere Burt, formerly of the Cincinnati Natural History Museum. A reception will follow.

About the Lloyd
The Lloyd Library and Museum, a 501 (c)3 not‐for‐profit organization, began in the 19th century as a research library for Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists, Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the period. The library’s mission is to collect and maintain a library of botanical, medical, pharmaceutical, and scientific books and periodicals, and works of allied sciences that serve the scientific research community, as well as constituents of the general public, through library services and programming that bring science, art, and history to life. For more information, visit the Lloyd website at www.lloydlibrary.org.