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Free Writing Workshop at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Posted in botanical art, Education, gardening, History, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 28, 2013|

Look at what’s new at Classes Near You > Southern California!

Paula Panich – The Literary Gardener
www.theliterarygardener.com
Paula Panich is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Gastronomica, and Better Homes and Gardens. She is the author of four books, including Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing About the Plants & Gardens You Love. She teaches at museums and botanical gardens across the US and currently teaches in the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program.

Art, Table, Taste, Memory: A Writing Workshop
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Journalist, teacher and writer, Paula Panich will teach a special writing workshop for Los Angeles Art Muse, a community of historians, artists and educators who lead small private group tours in the Los Angeles area. Join Paula at LACMA and engage with the food-and-table related art in the museum’s galleries. Participate in writing exercises and awaken your senses and memory to unveil your history as it pertains to food, memory, family and history.

Cost: FREE
LACMA Admission: $10
LACMA Parking: $10

For more information and to register, contact Clare Kunny. Limit: 12

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Habitat for Humanity Online Art Auction Begins at Noon

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 27, 2013|

Today is the day!

Forty-six unique works of art created by local artists will be auctioned off to raise money for Habitat for Humanity Riverside and the communities it serves in southern California’s Inland Empire. Proceeds will help to build and rehabilitate homes in Riverside, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley, Norco and Corona. As Habitat for Humanity Riverside explains in the exhibition program for the Artist Showcase:

Bid on these unique works of art and support Habitat for Humanity Riverside as we look to the future serving more low-income, working families with a hand up, not a hand out; and as we work to make affordable housing a matter of conscience throughout the communities we serve.

The Artist Showcase Homes Tour event at the Riverside Public Library came to a close last week. The exhibition can now be viewed at the Riverside Restore, Habitat’s home improvement store (map). The custom dollhouses and plaques in the exhibition can also be viewed online in the Artist Showcase Gallery.

The auction begins today at 12 PM (Pacific) and ends at noon on
September 27, 2013. The winning bidders will be notified on September 28, 2013.

Are you ready to place an opening bid?

Go to the Artist Showcase Online Auction
(www.RiversideRestore.org/showcase)

Tell Your Friends
Please share news about the online auction with friends, family and colleagues. On behalf of Habitat for Humanity Riverside, the Riverside Restore, Showcase Artists and the families who will one day build their own homes — thank you.

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Create Botanical Art with Striking Realism at Wellesley Botanic Gardens

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 27, 2013|

Australian botanical artist John Pastoriza-Piñol will teach in Massachusetts in October. Details about this special learning opportunity have been added to
Classes Near You > Massachusetts.

Here is what’s new:

Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens
Certificate Program in Botanical Art and Illustration
www.wellesley.edu/wcbgfriends
This program offers several weekly and two- or three-day classes on botanical art and scientific illustration with Sarah Roche and Jeanne Kunze and visiting instructors. The courses offered through this program cover all aspects of botanical art. Here is a peek at the 2012-2013 schedule:

Graphite Fundamentals: Basic Drawing Skills
Learning Botany by Drawing
Leaves 101
Plant Painting for the Petrified
Photoshop Demystified
Extreme Lumps and Bumps
smART Business
Colored Pencil Fundamentals

Fall 2013 Classes
DON’T MISS!
Fall’s Finer Details with John Pastoriza-Piñol
October 11-14, 2013
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Learn how to build botanical realism in your art in this four-day class with Australian botanical artist, John Pastoriza-Piñol. An accurate realism artist based in Melbourne, Australia, John will share the intricacies of achieving fine detail with watercolor masking fluid and NEEF ¼ Comb, invaluable tools for contemporary botanical artists. Over the four days John will assist you with composition, painting techniques, and color theory as you accurately render the chosen subject. As a result, your paintings will be brought to a new level of realism and detail. This class is for artists with intermediate to advanced drawing and watercolor skills.

WCBG Friends Members, $550
Non-Members, $660

To register: wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu or call (781) 283-3094

Learn more about Wellesley’s certificate program.
View current schedule

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Communicating Science, Technology, Innovation and Art in Arizona

Posted in Art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, Technology on August 20, 2013|

Contributor, Arizona SciTech Festival

Hundreds of Arizona’s business, science and education leaders will gather in Scottsdale for the Second Annual Arizona SciTech Festival Kickoff Conference on September 4, 2013. The conference will be held 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts located at 7380 E. Second Street (map). The free, day-long event is open to those wanting to learn more about integrating STEM education into their communities. STEM education, which focuses on science, technology, engineering and math, is the backbone discipline of Arizona’s new economy.

The Arizona SciTech Festival Kickoff Conference will include 16 thought-provoking panel discussions, a keynote address and roughly 50 interactive stations, where collaborating organizations from the Arizona SciTech Festival will demonstrate STEM activities. The conference offers a unique opportunity to network with some of the state’s top STEM professionals, learn best practices in communicating STEM, as well as strategies to engage communities, local schools and businesses.

“The conference is an intersection point for leaders to form partnerships and build upon STEM activities they can implement in their communities during our annual spring festival,” said Jeremy Babendure, Executive Director of the Arizona SciTech Festival. “It offers a platform to engage new collaborators and links content providers with venues throughout the state, which translates into a stronger network and a more impactful Arizona SciTech Festival.”

“A statewide commitment to STEM education is critical to developing an ongoing pipeline of future talent to build and sustain Arizona’s workforce and strengthen its economy,” said Sandra Watson, President and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority, who is a panelist at this year’s conference. “Bringing the private and public sectors together in this forum to collaborate and lead on this issue is vital for our state’s success and global competitiveness.”

Conference sponsors include Cox Communications, Challenger Space Center, the City of Scottsdale and EventInterface.

The Kickoff Conference begins with a 7:30 a.m. breakfast mixer. Programming begins at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 6 p.m. The conference keynote presentation beginning at 3:45 p.m. will feature Geoff Notkin, star of TV’s “Meteorite Men” and Skylab Astronaut Dr. Ed Gibson. Notkin and Gibson will team up to provide unique perspectives on how they’ve worked to make the understanding and appreciation of science part of mainstream living.

Conference Schedule:

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Morning sessions and networking

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch break (enjoy one of dozens of restaurants steps from the conference)

1:00 – 3:45 p.m.
Afternoon sessions and networking

3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
Keynote address

4:45 – 6:00 p.m.
Reception (visit 50 interactive tables hosted by collaborators and partners)

Panel discussions scheduled for the Arizona SciTech Festival Kickoff Conference include:

Festival Events & Best Practices
Festival Boons, Barriers and Dreams
Finding the Teachable Moment in Your STEM Activity
The Maker Movement: Connecting Innovation, STEM and Creativity
How to Evaluate Your Festival Event
In Schools
Supporting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in Arizona
How Parents Can Support Their Kids in STEM
Student Panel: What Makes Science Exciting for Kids?
Bringing Science Festival Events to Your Schools
In Society
Using TV to Communicate Science
Teaching Science through Sports
How Do Interdisciplinary Arts Foster Creative Thinking and Discovery?
Vision 2020: Sustainability Challenges for Our Future
In the Workforce
Arizona: Step Up to Meet the Challenges of a Global Economy with STEM
Enhancing Business: Educator Relationships with STEM
Arizona Cities @ Work: How Cities Can Showcase STEM and Innovation to Their Communities
“Balancing Acts: Women Role Models in STEM”

About the Arizona SciTech Festival
The Arizona SciTech Festival is a six-week, statewide celebration of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) held annually in February and March. Through a series of more than 300 expos, workshops, conversations, exhibitions and tours held in diverse neighborhoods throughout the state, the festival excites and informs Arizonans age 3 to 103 how STEM will drive our state. Spearheaded by its Foundational Partners the Arizona Commerce Authority, Arizona Science Center, Arizona Technology Council, Arizona State University, and The University of Arizona, the Arizona SciTech Festival is a grassroots collaboration of more than 350 organizations in industry, academia, arts, civic, community and K-12. Visit azscitechfest.org for more.

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Contra Costa Master Gardeners Sustainability Fair

Posted in botanical art, Education, environmental education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 20, 2013|

The Contra Costa Master Gardeners (CCMG) invite you to the Sustainability Fair celebrating their 30th anniversary of promoting healthy gardening. The Sustainability Fair will be held
September 7, 2013 from 10 AM – 3 PM at the CCMG garden in Walnut Creek, CA on the corner of N. Wiget Lane and Shadelands Drive (map).

“Growing your own vegetables can be a first step in a sustainable, healthy lifestyle that connects you in new ways to the food you eat”, according to Jackie Kennedy, CCMG Association President of the all-volunteer organization.

Visit the Sustainability Fair to learn about canning and preserving, growing winter vegetables, raising chickens, beekeeping, and making compost. You can also learn about sustainable strategies such as recycling, sheet mulching, smart-water usage and how to replace a lawn using the drought-tolerant UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars. Attend lectures, buy plants, go on a self-guided tour of the garden, enjoy healthful food and have fun with the kids in the Children’s Activity Center.

Sounds like a grand celebration and the perfect launch to a new school year!

Master Gardeners are educators trained by the University of California in horticulture, pest management and home gardening. Among the program’s goals is to produce an annual crop of educated volunteers to join the ranks of seasoned Master Gardeners. This year, Contra Costa Master Gardeners (CCMG) celebrates 30 years of providing research-based, sustainable gardening advice to home gardeners.

View Fair Schedule, Get Directions

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The Rise of Women as Botanical Illustrators

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 14, 2013|

Image courtesy of Lenhardt Library, Chicago Botanic Garden. All rights reserved.

The Feminine Perspective:
Women Artists and Illustrators
Lenhardt Library
Chicago Botanic Garden
August 23 – November 10, 2013

Next week an exhibition of rare and beautiful works by some of the first women to achieve prominence in the field of botanical illustration will go on display at the Lenhardt Library in the
Regenstein Center of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Illinois, this exhibition is the library’s first exhibition exclusively about women. Leora Siegel, Director of the Lenhardt Library, will give a presentation about the lives of these pioneering women and their detailed illustrations. This presentation will occur on Sunday, September 29, 2013 and begin at 2 p.m.

Volumes from the library’s rare book collection provide a published record of the advancement of women as botanical artists and illustrators. The exhibition will include the work of Lady Harriet Ann Thiselton-Dyer, who took over as illustrator for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1878. Also featured will be an earlier British artist, Henrietta Maria Moriarty; Frenchwoman Henriette Antoinette Vincent, who was connected to the royal court of Napoleon; and Americans Ellen Robbins and Helen Sharp.

This exhibition of illustrations is part of the library’s ongoing effort to make digital copies of its collection available to the public through the Illinois Digital Archives. To view the library’s digitized rare books, visit the page for the Chicago Botanic Garden Lenhardt Library.

About the Chicago Botanic Garden
The Chicago Botanic Garden opened to the public in 1972 and is managed by the Chicago Horticultural Society, accredited by the American Association of Museums and a member of the American Public Gardens Association (APGA). It is the 12th largest tourist attraction in Chicago and is the area’s sixth largest cultural institution. The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre living plant museum featuring 26 distinct gardens and four natural areas. Admission is free; select event fees apply. Parking is $25 per car; free for Garden members.

Follow the Garden on these social media sites:
Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr, YouTube.

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Leaf Lab to Open at Brenton Arboretum

Posted in botanical art, botany, Education, Learning Opportunities, nature, Reference, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 13, 2013|

Attention teachers, naturalists and artists near Dallas Center, Iowa!

The Leaf Lab at the Brenton Arboretum will open on August 20, 2013 and will be open every Wednesday from 1-4 PM through November 13, 2013. Visitors to the lab will learn about leaf morphology and plant identification. They will also be able to compare leaves in their personal collections to leaves in the lab and to leaves on the trees in the Arboretum’s living collection.

Cost: $5 lab contribution per visit

Learn more about the Brenton Arboretum, their classes and other services at www.thebrentonarboretum.org. Follow them on Twitter (@brentontrees) and Facebook.