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Chocolate & Botanical Art at Arizona SciTech Festival

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 30, 2012|

Art and chocolate go together.

This weekend, they are paired yet again at the Arizona SciTech Festival.

The Arizona SciTech festival is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see, hear, taste, and experience first-hand, the best Arizona offers in science, technology, innovation. There is something for everyone from three-years to 103!

In historic downtown Glendale, botanical art and chocolate will reign as the West Valley Arts Council welcomes visitors to their first annual exhibition of botanical art and Arizona candy maker Cerreta hosts the Glendale Chocolate Affaire.

Artists, naturalists, gardeners and families are invited to the Gaslight Inn to view the botanical artwork of regional artists.

Just down the street from the Gaslight Inn, visitors can attend the Glendale Chocolate Affaire where they can learn about the science of chocolate and learn about chocolate’s medicinal properties. They will also have the opportunity to speak with chocolatiers, go on a factory tour at Cerreta Fine Chocolates, listen to music, eat, shop and take part in many activities.

Each year, the chocolate festival is held the weekend before Valentine’s Day. Over the years, it has become the largest gathering of romance novelists in the Southwest. Festival goers who enjoy romance novels have the opportunity to meet their favorite authors. Aspiring writers will have the opportunity to take writing workshops about a variety of topics including self-promotion, e-publishing, ghostwriting, and writing books for young adults. A complete schedule of writing workshops can be viewed here.

The Arizona SciTech Festival continues through March 14, 2012. Visit the festival’s website to view upcoming events, resources for teachers and to read their blog.

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Seminar to Address Evolution & Scientific Illustration

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, scientific illustration, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 25, 2012|

The second session of the lecture series, Images in the Service of Science, will be held this week at the University of Burgundy. Presenting will be Richard Somerset from the University of Nancy 2 (France). Somerset focuses on the relationships between science and literature and the history of ideas in the 19th century. On Friday, he will discuss the work of Arabella Buckley in Telling the Story of Evolution in Images: The Popularising Work of Arabella Buckley.

An article written by Somerset about this topic can be read online at
Scientific Illustration Dijon, the informative new website created specifically for this lecture series by project coordinator, Marie-Odile Bernez. Please note that Somerset’s article is written in French. Fortunately, reading his article is easy thanks to the wonderful tools that help us translate text online.

While his paper may be in French, Somerset’s presentation will be given in English. As will the presentation by Marie-Odile Bernez about Richard Bradley’s
A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature (1721).

Event Information
Images in the Service of Science
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Room 3)
University of Burgundy
January 27, 2012
10:15 AM – 12:30 PM

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Exhbition of Edible Botanicals Opens Tomorrow

Posted in botanical art, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 25, 2012|

Colored pencil paintings and drawings of edible plants, both wild and cultivated, are the focus of Botanical Edibles…Wild and Cultivated, a new exhibition featuring the work of SUNY ULSTER Artist-in-Residence, Wendy Hollender. Tomorrow’s opening festivities will include a special slide presentation by Wendy that will be followed by an opening reception in the Muroff Kotler Gallery.

Wendy Hollender is a botanical artist, teacher, author and organic farmer living in New York. Learn more about the exhibition and the programs Wendy will conduct during her residency on her website at Drawing in Color.

Botanical Edibles…Wild and Cultivated
January 26 – February 17, 2012
Ulster County Community College
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
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Opening Reception
Slide presentation by Wendy Hollender, 7 PM (Student Lounge VAN 203)
Gallery Reception in Muroff Kotler Gallery begins after Wendy’s presentation

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Sought-after Lithographs by Botanical Artist Pandora Sellars Recovered from Storage

Posted in botanical art, Special Announcements on January 23, 2012|

Traditional Botanicals Gallery is honored to announce the offering of signed and numbered archival quality lithographs of four sought-after works by Pandora Sellars recently recovered from where they had been in storage for the past 22 years. Each print has also been embossed by the British Fine Arts Trader’s Guild.

Included in the collection is Laelia tenebrosa, the very first original acquired by Shirley Sherwood for her now extensive collection of botanical art that hangs in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens.

These limited edition lithographs are being offered by agreement with Pandora Sellars who is regarded by many as today’s finest living botanical artist. Further details about Pandora’s extraordinary work and background can be found in an article on the Traditional Botanicals Gallery blog.

Traditional Botanicals Gallery is a unique online botanical art gallery offering the work of accomplished, internationally-recognized contemporary botanical artists who adhere to the traditional roots of botanical art. Not only have they all exhibited extensively, they have also been featured in various publications and botanical art books, they have taught, and their original works hang in collections around the world.

In the interest of the maintenance of high standards for the genre, and as reassurance for botanical art purists, patrons and collectors, the gallery has articulated a guiding definition of botanical art. This definition by which it operates can be found in the About Us section of the web site as well as in an article on its blog.

In addition to the work of Pandora Sellars, the work of other acclaimed botanical artists is to be added to the gallery in the course of the next few months. Appropriate announcements will be made with each addition.

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Winter Exhibition Features Portraits in Bloom

Posted in botanical art, gardening, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 23, 2012|

Portraits in Bloom
January 3 – March 28, 2012
Westport Public Library
McManus Room

Forty-one floral portraits by Connecticut artist, Mary Ann Neilson, are now on view at the Westport Public Library in Westport, CT. Mary Ann’s work has been featured in publications about art and illustration, including the Splash series of books published by Northlight Books. Her paintings are included in the collection at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a garden where Mary Ann taught for nine years.

Mary Ann says that plants “convey a sense of place“. She continues to say:

Flowers in a still life highlight the “set-up”. Botanical and floral paintings are in their essence portraits of plants. To me, portraits of plants and people hold in common the dual challenge of creating a likeness and expressing their spirit in being alive.

The Westport Public Library is located at Westport Public Library, 20 Jesup Green, Westport CT 06880. View map

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It’s All About Mushrooms at the LA Arboretum

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 23, 2012|

First, learn about mushrooms…

Mushroom Identification
Saturday, February 4, 2012
10 AM – 12 PM

Learn how to identify mushrooms and which mushrooms are safe to eat with mycologist and plant pathologist, Dr. Jerrold Turney. Participants will also look for mushrooms on the grounds of the Arboretum. Cost: $25 members, $30 non-members. View Details/Register

Then, go to the Wild Mushroom Fair!

Wild Mushroom Fair
Sunday, February 12, 2012
10 AM – 4 PM
Cooking demonstrations, mushroom growing demonstrations, books, art, activities and more at the annual mushroom fair hosted by the Los Angeles Mycological Society. The fair will be held in Ayres Hall. Click on the poster to learn about keynote speaker, mycologist and author, Gary Lincoff and how to purchase tickets for his presentation.

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Hunt Institute Hosts Botanical Art Exhibition Dedicated to Pennsylvania’s Wildflowers

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Education, general botany, History, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 18, 2012|

Habenaria fimbriata peramoena, Large purple fringed sic orchis Platanthera peramoena (A. Gray) A. Gray, purple fringeless orchid, Orchidaceae (orchid family), watercolor on paper by Richard Crist (1909–1985), HI Art accession no. 6615.309. © 2012 Richard Crist Estate. All Rights Reserved

Native Pennsylvania,
A Wildflower Walk
Hunt Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
March 2 – June 29, 2012

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the Botany department at Carnegie Museum of Natural History will celebrate the native wildflowers of Pennsylvania in a collaborative exhibition opening in March.

Native Pennsylvania, A Wildflower Walk allows visitors to take a virtual walk through a southwestern Pennsylvania growing season and become more familiar with some of the native wildflowers that are integral to so many relationships. Information about Pennyslvania’s many parks, woodlands and wetlands is provided throughout the exhibition. Visitors are encouraged to follow their visual walk with a physical one in many of the state’s wildflower habitats.

Thirty-six wildflower watercolors by Richard Crist (1909–1985) from the Institute’s collection illustrating the simplicity and beauty of Pennsylvania’s native species will be on view. Coupled with Carnegie’s significant herbarium specimens, these pieces combine to create a visual wildflower walk through Pennsylvania’s blooming seasons with a focus on endangered, rare and threatened species within Pennsylvania. Additional watercolors by artists Lyn Hayden and Andrey Avinoff (1884–1949) also underscore the exhibition’s emphasis on the importance of herbaria and their contributions toward research, education and conservation.

Thoughout spring and early summer, visitors can learn more about Pennsylvania’s native plants through a series of public talks that will occur at the Hunt Institute on Sunday afternoons. All talks are free and begin at 2 PM. Plan ahead to attend the presentations below:

Why Do Plants Bloom When They Do? Spring Ephemerals and Other Seasonal Flowering Patterns – March 18; Steve Grund, botanist
Pressing and Mounting Specimens for a Personal Herbarium – March 25; Jeanne Poremski, landscape designer/botanist
Wildflowers of Pennsylvania – April 15; Dr. Mary Joy Haywood, botanist and plant pathologist
Wildflowers in the Home Garden – April 22 (Earth Day); John Totten, landscape architect
Gallery tour of Native Pennsylvania, A Wildflower Walk (in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon commencement ceremonies), May 20
Rare Plants of Pennsylvania – June 24; Bonnie Issac, collections manager at Carnegie Museum of Natural History and exhibition co-curator. This presentation will be held in conjunction with the Hunt Institute’s Open House.
Early Pennsylvania in Writing and Images – June 25; Angela Todd, Hunt Institute Archivist. This presentation will be held in conjunction with the Hunt Institute’s Open House.

The exhibition 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 a.m.–noon and 1–5 p.m.; Sunday, 1–4 p.m. (except 11 March, 6–8 April, 6 and 27–28 May). The library’s hours of operation are occasionally subject to change, please call or email before your visit to confirm their hours. 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. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.