Daily Archives: February 27, 2012


Monday, March 19, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Bonsai: History, Facts and Myths

The March meeting of the Garden Club of the Back Bay will take place at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Monday, March 19 beginning with tea at 2 pm, followed by another of our “Japan Year” programs, Bonsai: History, Facts and Myths. Learn how bonsai are created and tips for keeping them alive as long as possible. Pauline F. Muth will present a program on the history, art and horticulture of bonsai. She will illustrate her talk with both a photographic and live collection of various types of bonsai. Pauline has been involved with bonsai for almost 40 years. She maintains a teaching studio in West Charlton, NY exclusively dedicated to the art of bonsai. Her gardens are open to the public by appointment. She sits on the executive boards of Mohawk Hudson Bonsai Society, The Mid-Atlantic Bonsai Societies, The American Bonsai Society and Bonsai Clubs International. Her studioʼs web site is www.pfmbonsai.com. The program is co-sponsored by The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written notice of this meeting, along with car pool information.  Others may register on line (Arnold Arboretum and Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture members $10, non-members $15) at www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.


Saturday, March 17, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, and Thursday, April 12, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Tree Rings: Ceramic Panoramas by Warren Mather

Artist Warren Mather, a member of the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, makes circular panoramas, presenting a simultaneous view of what is in front at the same time as what is behind. In this Arnold Arboretum exhibit, running from March 17 – April 29, he creates inverse panoramas of the bark of various trees. These images are formed into a ring and transferred to silk-screens, printed in ceramic pigments on clay, then fired and glazed. There will be an artist reception on Saturday, March 17, from 1 – 3 in the Hunnewell Lecture Hall at the Arboretum, and an artist talk on Thursday, April 12m from 6:30 – 8, also in the Hunnewell Lecture Hall. For more information visit www.arboretum.harvard.edu, or call 617-384-5209.