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Enjoy Wildflowers & Art This Memorial Day Weekend

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events, travel on May 6, 2013|

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Annual Wildflower & Art Festival
Idyllwild Nature Center
Idyllwild, CA
May 25-27, 2013
9 AM – 4 PM

Visit the Idyllwild Nature Center in the mountain community of Idyllwild this Memorial Day weekend to learn about local wildflowers and native plants. This fun-filled weekend also includes guided nature walks, an art exhibition, and activities for the entire family.

Weekend visitors to Idyllwild also have the opportunity to start a personalized guide to plants at ArtPlantae.

Learn more below!

Free Workshops with Purchase of Sketchbook at ArtPlantae
Create your own personalized guide to plants! Purchase a sketchbook at ArtPlantae during the Annual Wildflower Show and Art Festival at the Idyllwild Nature Center (May 25-27, 2013) and attend any of the sessions below for free during the Memorial Day weekend. Limit 10 people per session.
Cost: $9.95 per person

Participants may repeat a session if space is available. Priority goes to first-time attendees. Waiting lists will be established if necessary. Please register early. Sessions will begin promptly at their scheduled start times.

Let’s Explore Plants
Memorial Day Schedule

Saturday, May 25

Sunday, May 26
9:30 – 10:30 – What makes fruit, fruit?
11:00 – 12:00 – What makes a stem a stem?
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:00 – What makes leaves, leaves?
2:30 – 3:30 – What makes flowers, flowers?

Monday, May 27
9:30 – 10:30 – What makes flowers, flowers?
11:00 – 12:00 – What makes fruit, fruit?
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:00 – What makes a stem a stem?
2:30 – 3:30 – What makes leaves, leaves?

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The Marianne North Gallery & Botanical Knowledge

Posted in botanical art, Education, History, Learning Opportunities, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events, travel on May 3, 2013|

Our conversation with featured guest Katie Zimmerman continues…

Part of your research explores how the Marianne North Gallery works as a built environment and how the gallery functions within the broader context of the gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Why study these aspects of North’s contribution to botany?

One of the really fascinating things to me about North’s life and work is how such an individual and solitary woman, pursuing an equally individual project, was actually a fairly ordinary part of a broader, and highly social, botanical enterprise. We can see this very nicely when we look closely at the North Gallery as a space and the ways in which that space transcended its walls to become an integrated part of the gardens and the world beyond. Looking at how the gallery functioned as a built environment allows us to chart…

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Botanical Art at The Gallery at York Hall

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Events on April 30, 2013|

Award-winning artist
Linda Miller will demonstrate how to create botanical portraits of garden treasures at The Gallery at York Hall in historic Yorktown, VA.

Watch Linda work and learn more about botanical art on Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4 from 10 AM – 4 PM.

This special event will be held in conjunction with Yorktown’s Hidden Treasures Garden Stroll in historic Yorktown Village. Visit some of Yorktown’s most beautiful private gardens and be inspired by the gardens and the two and three-dimensional art that will be on display. Plants will be available for purchase at Yorktown Baptist Church.

The garden tour costs $10 per person. Linda’s demonstration is free.
All are welcome!

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Jewelry Artists Inspired by Plants

Posted in botanical art, drawing, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on April 30, 2013|

Yuka Saito’s Spores Brooch and its plant life inspiration. Image courtesy of Peninsula School of Art.

The Nature of Jewelry: Botanical Design & Symbols
Peninsula School of Art
Fish Creek, WI
April 19 – July 13, 2013

Inspiration from plant life provides both lyrical and geometric design possibilities for 29 notable jewelry artists from throughout the United States, Ireland and Canada. Representing a range of today’s media and techniques, some of the works are also symbolic of the human experience – growth, femininity or even life itself. Artists display a sampling of process drawings and reference materials to trace the creative process for their works. A retrospective of the jewelry of master silversmith and Peninsula School of Art instructor, Sylvia Youell, is also part of this exhibition.

The variety of work presented in The Nature of Jewelry is indicated by the following partial listing of artists: Paulette Werger (metals), Jeffrey Lloyd Dever (polymer clay), Sabrina Meyns (handmade paper and metal), Yuka Saito (polypropylene), and Annie Pennington (mixed media).

There will also be a representation of the jewelry created from real plant life from the Philadelphia Flower Show by Jane Kilduff.

View a slide show about this exhibition and download an exhibition catalog and a poster at the Peninsula School of Art.

Among the media that Sarah Hood uses to create her jewelry is model railroad landscape materials. Image courtesy of Peninsula School of Art.

Jeffrey Lloyd Dever polymer clay jewelry. Image courtesy of Peninsula School of Art.

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‘Botanical Art Into the Third Millenium’ Opens in Pisa, Italy

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on April 30, 2013|

Botanical Art in the Third Millenium
Museo della Grafica
Pisa, Italy
April 20 – July 15, 2013

An exhibition of contemporary botanical art curated by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Alessandro Tosi. Now on view at Museo della Grafica, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa.

Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Alessandro Tosi co-edited Flora and Pomona: Horticulture in Drawings and Prints of the 16th-19th Centuries (1990).

Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi is the author of
The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici (2002), as well as An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time – A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon (Vol 3) (1997).

Update 5/10/13:
A reader has sent information about how to purchase the catalog from the publisher. Click on Come ordinare on the right side of the product page to view information about how to order the catalog. Then click on the English version of this page. The price of the catalog (EURO 29,75), together with shipping and dollar conversion, costs $59.14.

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Botanical Illustrator Visits Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, scientific illustration, Special Announcements, Special Events on April 24, 2013|

It’s Smithsonian Week in Riverside, CA and this week residents have the opportunity to learn from biologist David Wimpfheimer and scientific illustrator Alice Tangerini. The presentations below are being held in conjunction with the John Muir exhibition at the museum. All programs are free to the public.

Here is what’s coming to town this week:

Treasures of Yosemite

Botanical Illustration Demonstration
Thursday, April 25, 2013
3-5 pm
Alice Tangerini is the scientific illustrator in the botany department at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Stop by the museum to meet with Alice and to learn how she creates illustrations for Smithsonian botanists.

To Reach Perfection – The Challenge of Botanical Illustration
Thursday, April 25, 2013
7:00 – 8:30 pm
During this evening presentation, Alice will discuss how her work as a scientific illustrator supports research about plant biodiversity and conservation.

Visit the Riverside Municipal Museum’s Smithsonian Week page for more information.

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EcoFair and ‘How-to-Garden’ Tour

Posted in botanical art, Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events on April 17, 2013|

This weekend the Wood Streets Green Team in Riverside will host its annual How-to-Garden Tour in partnership with the Riverside Community College Eco-Fair. This special event will occur on Sunday, April 21, 2013.

The RCC Eco-Fair will be held on campus from 11 AM – 2 PM and will feature local organizations dedicated to sustainability and environmental awareness. The garden tour will highlight three private gardens and the new community garden at Riverside Community College. The garden tour will be held from 11 AM – 4 PM. Tickets can be purchased at the tour sites (a donation of $5 is suggested).

The Wood Streets neighborhood in Riverside is located south of historic downtown Riverside, home of the beautiful Mission Inn. The Wood Streets Green Team is composed of Riverside residents dedicated to promoting sustainable living in Riverside.

More than 20 local groups will take part in the RCC Eco-Fair.
Exhibitors include: ArtPlantae, Child Leader Project, community garden groups, Growcology, Habitat for Humanity Riverside, Riverside County Waste Management Master Composters, Santa Ana Watershed Association, and the Western Municipal Water District.

The RCC Eco-Fair will be held under the covered walkway between the Math and Science Building (#12 on map) and the new community garden. Parking will be available in the lot on the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Ramona (see map).

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