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Boerhaave Museum Participates in Seminar About Medical Illustration at Dijon University

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, scientific illustration, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 10, 2012|

Marie-Odile Bernez, project coordinator for the seminar series about images used in the service of science, has announced the 2012-2013 seminar schedule. Seminars will be held at Dijon University in France and will be given in English and in French.

Detailed descriptions about each seminar can be viewed on the Calendar page at the Illustrating Science website.

Scientific Illustration Seminars 2012-2013

October 26, 2012: Medical Illustrations

“The Eye and The Hand: Anatomist-Artist Co-operation on Two Dutch Anatomical Atlases (1685-1742)” – Tim Huisman, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands (English)
“Seizing the Cultures of ‘Medical Physics’ in the Nineteenth Century” – Josep Simon, University Paris Quest (English)
“Representing Delivery and Creating Obstetrics in Nineteenth-Century Spain Through Medical Textbooks” – Alfons Zarzoso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Medical History Museum of Catalonia (Engligh)
“Perception of Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis Through Their Visual Representation” – Elisa Campos, Lisbon (English)

January 25, 2013: Anatomical Illustrations

“Les petites lettres de l’anatomie” – Hélène Cazès Montreal (French)
“Entre mémoire et métaphore, le corps humain comme maison” – Etienne Lepicard, Jerusalem (French)

March 22, 2013: Engineering Designs

“Delineating a Rational Profession: Engineers and Draughtsmen as ‘Visual Technicians'” – Frances Roberson, Glasgow (English)
“Displaced Representation and Nationalistic Appropriation: Illustrating the Atlantic Cable of 1858” – Mark Niemeyer, Dijon (English)

May 24, 2013: Biased Images?

“Scientific Images in the Logical Empiricist Tradition” – Richard Gawne, Duke University (English)
“Aesthetics and News Values in Online Imagery of Space” – Phil MacGregor, Bournemouth (English)

June 7, 2013: Les Sciences et Leurs Vulgarisations par L’image

“Graver des figures de géométrie au XIXe siècle: procédés, acteurs et enjeux éditoriaux” – Norbert Verdier, University of Paris-South (French)
“Les illustrations dans les livres scientifiques pour enfants au 19e
siècle comme objets communicationnels” – Daniel Raichvarg, Dijon (French)

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Wildflowers and Native Plants in Line and Color

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 8, 2012|

Laura Stickney: Aspects of Theodore Payne Foundation in Line and Color
Theodore Payne Art Gallery
Sun Valley, CA
Oct. 12 – Dec. 29, 2012

The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants (TPF) invites you to the opening reception of the art exhibition celebrating the work of artist-in-residence, Laura Stickney. Luminous watercolors, richly colored oil paintings and seed-packet artist’s books will be on view. Created over the course of Laura’s one-year residency, each piece was inspired by the nursery, gardens, and other discoveries made at the Theodore Payne Foundation.

Laura Stickney is a graduate of USC with a major in printmaking. In addition to her work as an artist, Laura has taught art to all ages for 25 years at the well-known Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, and the art of printmaking at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Here are examples of the wonderful work Laura created during her residency. View the entire collection and learn from Laura yourself during the opening reception on Saturday, October 13, 2012. The reception will be held from
2:00 – 4:30 PM. The Artist Talk begins at 3:00 PM.

Many thanks to the Theodore Payne Foundation for this early look at the exhibition. Images and descriptions courtesy of The Theodore Payne Foundation.

Seed Packet Artist’s Books
Laura’s artist’s accordion books are based on Theodore Payne seed packets. Unfolded, they reveal delicate graphite drawings of selected native plants, a tiny clear bag of seeds, and a poem written by Laura and inspired by that plant.

Pod Paintings
Painted from life, Laura’s series of small oil paintings of native seed pods at TPF are densely packed with information, texture and color. The images are painted on repurposed, rectangular Polaroid metal film canisters. The use of discarded film containers is linked and refers back to Laura’s concept of light. In some way, the paintings refill those empty Polaroid vessels with new memories.

Watercolors
Laura’s iridescent watercolors capture the beauty of sunlight and the colors of TPF. Conceptually layered, they focus on the place where nature and culture collide, where the nursery plants and the evidence of their caretakers intersect: a plant cart, a plant pot, a secluded corner of the garden. “All of my work is about still life,” Laura says. One could call these watercolors of nature and culture “environmental still lifes.”

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Art and Botany at ‘Long Night of Arts & Innovation’

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 2, 2012|

Every first Thursday of the month, the city of Riverside hosts its “Arts Walk” celebration. During this monthly celebration, museums, galleries and art studios open their doors to the public.

The celebration planned for the first Thursday of October, however, will be a little different.

This week, Riverside launches the first ever Long Night of Arts & Innovation, an event showcasing some of the best Riverside has to offer. Members of Riverside’s business, university and arts communities will take part in this special evening. More than 130 exhibits will be set up in downtown Riverside. The 24-page event program includes information about art demonstrations, theatrical performances, musical performances, presentations for entrepreneurs, and a long list of interesting conversations led by faculty from local colleges and universities.

Conversations such as the one led by Dr. Jodie Holt, UC Riverside botanist and consultant for the James Cameron movie ‘Avatar’. Dr. Holt will present Do you ‘see’ plants? Raising Plant Awareness through Art, Science and Media at the
UCR California Museum of Photography from 7:30 – 8:15 PM.

The Long Night of Arts & Innovation will take place this Thursday, October 4 from 6 PM – Midnight. This event is free. All are invited!

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Artist Explores ‘The Road Not Taken’

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 2, 2012|

The Road Not Taken
Nature Art Gallery
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Raleigh, NC
October 5-28, 2012

Ruth Ava Lyons will be the Nature Art Gallery’s featured artist for October. Lyons’ oil paintings and an ongoing body of work inspired by her travels and field studies of oceans, wetlands, national forests and wildlife preserves will be featured in the exhibition, The Road Not Taken.

A Fulbright Fellow, Lyons has exhibited continuously since 1982 in group and solo shows nationwide. She has received several grants and awards, including one from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the NC Arts Council, and has received Artist Residencies including her most recent residency at Everglades National Park (2011).

Meet Ruth Ava Lyons at the opening reception this Friday, October 5, from
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is located at 11 West Jones Street in downtown Raleigh (Directions/Map).

Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9 AM – 5 PM and Sunday 12-5 PM.

Admission: Free

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Reminder: Raffle for ‘An Approach to Botanical Painting’

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 1, 2012|

Last month the nonprofit group Botanical Artists for Education & The Environment, announced that a copy of the hard-to-find and very expensive book, An Approach to Botanical Painting, will be raffled off on October 28. Proceeds from the raffle will be used to help cover the publication costs of their book, American Botanical Paintings: Native Plants of the Mid Atlantic.

Raffle tickets for a brand new, autographed copy of Anne-Marie and Donn Evans’ book can be purchased for $10. Interested parties can download a Raffle Ticket Order Form on the BAEE website.

Learn more about the BAEE book project

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Project Art for Nature Celebrates ‘Earth, Air, Water, Life’

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on September 28, 2012|

Earth, Air, Water, Life
Sept. 8 – Oct. 29, 2012
Stillwater, MN

Fourteen artists from
Project Art for Nature are participating in Earth, Air, Water, Life an exhibition now on view at the Stillwater Public Library Gallery in Stillwater, MN. The artists of Project Art for Nature work independently and with each other to create art promoting awareness of threatened natural areas in Minnesota and Wisconsin. They host educational art exhibitions every year at art galleries, nature centers, libraries and other venues in both states.

Visit the Stillwater Public Library

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Fall Plant Sale at UC Berkeley This Weekend

Posted in Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on September 26, 2012|

The annual fall plant sale at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley will be held this weekend.

The garden’s native plant sale is also coming up soon. Read more about this annual celebration, the upcoming iPhoneography class, and the last Butterfly Walk of the year below.

University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu
This 34-acre garden was established in 1890 and is now a non-profit research garden and museum. The botanical art classes at UCBG are taught by Lee McCaffree and Catherine Watters. View a detailed schedule and register on the Garden’s website.

Sick Plant Clinic – First Saturday of Each Month, 9 AM – 12 PM. Free.
No reservations required.
Monthly Butterfly Walks – Fourth Tuesday of each month (March – October); 3 – 4 PM. Garden volunteer, docent, and caterpillar lady, Sally Levinson, will lead walks through the garden in search of butterflies. Space is limited. Children welcome. Free with admission.
Garden Strollers – Second Wednesday of Each Month,
11 AM – 11:45 PM. A 45-minute tour of the garden for adults with young children (3 and under). Tour will end on the lawn for play and snacks (bring your own). Children must be in a stroller or carrier during the tour. FREE with garden admission. Meet in front of the Garden Ship. For more information, call (510) 642-7082 or email garden@berkeley.edu.
Fall Plant Sale – Sunday, September 30, 2012; 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM. Get a head start at our eagerly anticipated fall sale. We specialize in regionally appropriate, Mediterranean-climate plants including California natives, and plants from South Africa, Australia, the Mediterranean region, and South America. We also have the exotic and unusual. Our wide variety of plant offerings will appeal to everyone. See the UCBG Fall Plant Sale page for more information.
iPhoneography: Create Great Garden Photos Using an iPhone October 6, 2012; 9:30 – 12:30. Get the photos you want with iPhone photographer, Yoni Mayeri. View Details/Register
Native Plant Extravaganza – October 7, 2012; 10 AM – 4 PM. Lectures and plant sale. View Details