Mark your calendars!
The 2013 Education Series Workshop will be held May 31 through June 3, 2013 at Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa.
The workshop will be taught by orchid artist Carol Woodin and will feature slipper orchids native to Iowa. Participants will work in watercolor and will have an opportunity to work on real vellum or can work on watercolor paper if they so choose. The class will include a field trip and conservation education.
Our 2013 Conference will be held at the College of the Atlantic, a small college occupying 35 acres and located on the ocean on Mount Desert Island in the seaside town of Bar Harbor. The college is renowned for its programs in environmental and marine studies. It is one of few colleges dedicated to the teaching of natural history, and also offers programs in art, design, poetry and writing, history and politics, etc.
Bar Harbor is nestled on the east side of Mount...
HUNT INSTITUTE PRESENTS
What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions, 2007–2012
This selection of recent acquisitions to the Art Department of the Hunt Institute, from the early 19th century through the present, will be placed in the context of the Institute’s collection practices and the history of botanical illustration. Whether working alongside botanists for scientific and horticultural publications or preparing artworks for collectors, galleries or commercial use, artists throughout the centuries have added their individual perspectives to portraying plants and have made lasting contributions to the...
