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Celebrate the Holidays and Launch of New Resource

Posted in botanical art, Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on December 12, 2012|

See what’s new!

This weekend ArtPlantae will take part in the First Annual Holiday Party at Aurea Vista, Riverside’s newest shopping destination. The holidays aren’t the only thing to celebrate this weekend, however.

ArtPlantae is celebrating the launch of a new plant-based education section featuring resources for children, parents, and teachers. Dedicated specifically to botany and botanical art education, this section features curriculum by the National Gardening Association, children’s books about plants (in English, Spanish and many under $10!), instructional books about drawing and botanical art, plant identification guides, and the Colorful Edibles coloring book published by the American Society of Botanical Artists.

Discover more this Saturday during the holiday party. The festivities begin at
4:00 PM and continue until 9:00 PM. Meet local artists and designers and finish your holiday shopping too. Visit ArtPlantae’s new area about plant-based education and receive a free gift. It is located downstairs across from the children’s boutique.

Stop by on your way to the Festival of Lights and the Artists Collective located just down the street on the Main Street Pedestrian Mall.

Free gifts available while supplies last.

Visit Aurea Vista

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Draw from Nature in Thailand

Posted in botanical art, drawing, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, nature, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements, Special Events, travel on December 10, 2012|

Info at Sirindhorn Science Home

Drawing from Nature
Sirindhorn Science Home
Thailand Science Park
February 14-15, 2013
9:00 AM -5:00 PM, plus evening event

Natural science illustrator Gretchen Kai Halpert and two Thai artists will lead this class designed for scientists, non-scientists, teachers, and anyone with an interest in nature and the environment. This two-day workshop includes the tools and techniques of drawing nature in and around the Sirindhorn Science Home and includes an evening lecture about botanical painting as fine art vs. scientific illustration.

Cost: 6,500 Baht ($210 USD; 180 Euro) includes two-day workshop, meals and accommodations. Discount cost before January 10, 2013 is 5500 Baht ($162 USD; 137 Euro).

For more information, go to Sirindhorn Science Home to download a beautiful 12-page brochure. This brochure contains information about each instructor, a course syllabus, payment information and a registration form.

This information has been added to the Classes Near You sections for New York and Thailand.

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Florida Society of Botanical Artists Hosts ‘Finishing Touches’ with Hillary Parker

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on December 5, 2012|

Begin the new year learning how to add finishing touches to your botanical paintings. See what’s new at Classes Near You > Florida!

Florida Society of Botanical Artists
www.floridasocietyofbotanicalartists.com
A chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the FSBA hosts workshops with visiting instructors and conducts public demonstrations at group exhibitions. Visit their website to learn more.

Finishing Touches with Hillary Parker

Award winning botanical artist Hillary Parker will teach a three-day course that will cover the finishing techniques used to complete your artwork. Topics and demonstrations include details, texture, sharpening and cleaning edges, and contrast balancing. For registration information, please contact Susan Benjamin.

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Exhibition of Botanical Art Opens at Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on November 7, 2012|

On Saturday, the 11th Biennial Exhibition of Botanical Art opens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Featuring over 150 pieces of art by Australian and international artists, this show will be on view through November 23, 2012.

Lectures and special classes will be held in conjunction with this exhibition:

Seeds: Why What You Eat Matters – November 14
Botanical Art Masterclass with Hillary Parker – November 18
Exhibition Tea & Tour – November 13 & November 22

For more information, visit the exhibition page of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

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CALL TO ACTION: 2013 Arizona SciTech Festival

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 24, 2012|

Last year we saw how the West Valley Arts Center in Arizona brought botanical art to the first annual Arizona SciTech Festival.

This year, it could be you!

Event coordinators are accepting applications from Arizonans interested in hosting events during the 2013 Arizona SciTech Festival. This is a great opportunity for those in the arts to demonstrate the value of incorporating art across the curriculum.

The Arizona SciTech Festival is a partnership between Arizona Science Center, Arizona State University, Arizona Technology Council Foundation and the Arizona Commerce Authority. The festival was created to inform Arizonans of all ages about how science, technology and innovation affect their everyday lives and how each will expand their economic future.

The Arizona SciTech Festival has gained a lot of momentum since last year’s launch and event organizers want to involve as many Arizona residents as possible. Festival director Dr. Jeremy Babendure says, “The 2012 inaugural Festival was a great success with over 200 amazing expos, celebrations, exhibitions, discussions, and tours delivered to over 220,000 young people and adults at venues located not only in Greater Phoenix and Tucson, but also in communities such as Casa Grande, Flagstaff and Showlow. We’re calling on all Arizona citizens to help us reach our goal of doubling those numbers by submitting their ideas and spreading the word about the Festival through their networks.”

Become a Collaborator Today!
Although the 2013 Arizona SciTech Festival will take place throughout the state from February 9 – March 17, 2013, all ideas for activities year-round are welcome. A Collaborator Portal on the Arizona SciTech Festival website serves as a place to submit events that are already organized, as well as a repository to match the needs between individuals and organizations that have ideas for content or venues to offer.

Specifically, the Collaborator Portal allows individuals and groups to do the following:

Sign-up as an official Collaborator
Post an official Arizona SciTech Festival event that will go on the website and program schedule.
Post a venue – if you have a location and are looking for content, the Collaborator Portal can help those with content find your location.
Post your content – if you have content and are looking for a venue, the site can help match you with those who have locations.

To become an official Collaborator and submit your events or ideas, please visit the portal today. The deadline for posting is November 10, 2012.

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Last Chance to Win ‘An Approach to Botanical Painting’

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 24, 2012|

Time is running out!

You have only a few more days to submit a raffle ticket to win a copy of the botanical art classic An Approach to Botanical Painting by Anne-Marie and Donn Evans. Proceeds benefit Botanical Artists for Education & The Environment (BAEE), a nonprofit corporation of botanical artists who are documenting plants from the mid-Atlantic region. Proceeds will be used towards publication costs of their book, American Botanical Paintings: Native Plants of the Mid Atlantic.

Raffle tickets to win a copy of An Approach to Botanical Painting cost $10 each. This is much less than the $1,500 price tag of a near-fine used copy for this book. On October 28, 2012, a brand new, autographed copy of this book will be awarded. This has been made possible by Anne-Marie Evans who is generously donating one of the few remaining new copies of her book in support of this very special project.

Support BAEE artists and their efforts to document the native plants of the mid-Atlantic region.

Buy a raffle ticket today!

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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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