Daily Archives: August 3, 2020

Sunday, August 9, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Ornamental and Edible Native Plants Online

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Join horticulturists, garden designers, and artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano on August 9 from 11 – 1 to explore outstanding and edible native plants. They will share the magnificent diversity of American plants, showcasing highly ornamental and edible varieties that ought to be used widely in American gardens but are often not seen anywhere but botanical gardens and arboreta. This Berkshire Botanical Garden online program will include a lecture with visuals as well as a question and answer period. 

Allyson Levy & Scott Serrano are two obsessed gardeners who garden all year long. Their goal has been to create a botanical garden that can serve as an educational resource for the public, as well as a “living textbook” of the diversity of plant life that can be grown in the Hudson Valley. Both are botanical artists who began buying plants for their artwork. When they realized they were buying and planting the same plants, they began to design a garden that is now the Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden.

BBG members $10, nonmembers $15. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/ornamental-and-edible-native-plants-online

Through October, 2021 – Engulf, 2019

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The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy’s public art program has paved the way for The Greenway to become a premier destination to see contemporary works of art in downtown Boston. The public art vision is to bring innovative and contemporary art to Boston through free, temporary exhibitions, engaging people in meaningful experiences, interactions and dialogue with art and each other. The Conservancy gives artists unique opportunities to exhibit bold, new work that considers the possibilities of 21st century Boston.

Now through October, 2021, view Juan Travieso’s Engulf. Juan Travieso creates visually complex worlds through combining realist painting techniques with surreal and geometric juxtapositions. Travieso presents the endangerment of species, such as the tiger pictured, as an allegory for the consequences of society’s shifting priorities and the pitfalls of issues from climate change to gentrification. Travieso’s imaginative scene presents a graphic topography and invasive plants intertwined with two tigers. A recently felled tree and overwhelming grid system evoke human involvement, suggesting a narrative of loss and isolation. His surrealist environment evokes questions of who can thrive, whose needs are prioritized, what values have created this dystopian scene, and at what cost.

To locate this work on a map, visit https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/engulf