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Tag: Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden

  • Tuesday, January 28 – Thursday, January 30, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Drawing Succulents: Creating Plant Portraits in Graphite

    Through the observation of the unusual forms of various succulent species Carrie Megan will help you discover the sculptural structure of these unique plants. Carrie’s demonstrations and practical techniques will guide you in using a range of graphite leads, from the hardest to the softest, to create an artistic composition of your succulent specimen. This class is suitable for artists at intermediate and advance skill levels. Three days, January 28 – January 30, 9:30 – 3:30, snow date January 31, held in the Putnam classroom at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden members $295, nonmembers $345. Register at 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

  • Friday, March 23 – Monday, March 26, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Vellum Painting Inspired by Hoefnagel

    In Wellesley College Botanic Garden’s four-day course with Denise Walser-Kolar, you will take inspiration from Joris Hoefnagel’s Mira calligraphiae monumenta and create paintings of small natural collections – plants, seashells, insects, etc.  Use the first day to work on your composition, then spend the next three days painting. Learn how to create the trompe l’oeil look of stems going through the paper, how to create shadows, and how to mix colors that glow on vellum. Create a finished piece based on the works of Hoefnagel. Friday, March 23 – Monday, March 26, 9:30 – 3:30 (snow date March 27.  Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden – $495, nonmembers $595. For more information call 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Thursday and Friday, November 16 & 17, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Celebrating the Season: Holiday Card Workshop

    Taking your inspiration from the fruits and foliage of the holiday season, create a pen and ink painting suitable for your holiday cards, gift tags, and notepaper. Wellesley College’s Sarah Roche will lead you through the process and help you get your artwork ready for reproduction. This two day class at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens will take place November 16 & 17 from 9:30 – 12:30, and is suitable for Techniques and experienced Foundations students. Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens – $90, nonmembers $110. Register at 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

  • Thursday, November 9, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Global Flora: We’re On Our Way!

    With a focus on diversity of form, and various microhabitats in the Dry House and Wet House at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, Global Flora will be a unique resource for experiencing and studying botanical wonders. Botanic Gardens Director Kristina Jones will go over the details of the project and answer questions. If you have favorite flora of fabulous form, please be ready to suggest them, as the list of taxa for initial inclusion is not yet closed. The event will take place in the greenhouses on Thursday, November 9 from 10 – 12. Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens free, nonmembers $10. Register by emailing wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu, or call 781-283-3094.

  • Thursdays, July 13, 20, and 27, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Floral Greetings

    Join Ellen Duarte in the greenhouses at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens on three successive Thursdays, July 13, 20, and 27, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm, to draw your favorite flowers, then explore ways to have your creations reproduced as notecards and other items. Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens: $115, nonmembers: $140. Register at www.wellesley.edu/wcbg/learn.

  • Wednesday, June 22, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Private Conifer Gardens of Metro-West Boston

    Wednesday, June 22, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Private Conifer Gardens of Metro-West Boston

    Travel on the road with the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens on Wednesday, June 22, from 9 – 4.  The day trip will be by College van leaving from Wellesley to visit American Conifer Society members’ gardens.  After lunch, finish the day visiting the Walter Hunnewell Estate on Lake Waban – an historic property with unique horticultural and botanical features including the 350 specimen conifers in the Pinetum.  Friends member price $85, non-members $110, including box lunch and transportation.  To register call 781-283-3094, or visit www.wellesley.edu/wcbgfriends.

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  • Tuesday, April 26 – Thursday, April 28, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Painting in Sepia

    The Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens has added a three day Painting in Sepia class to its excellent calendar of classes and events.  Lara Call Gastinger will give a detailed approach to observing and painting spring specimens with a monochromatic sepia palette.  You’ll learn how to render stems accurately, create value, detail different textures, and use brush control to attain a tight finished look.  This is a great introduction to watercolor without the added complexity of color.  The class takes place Tuesday, April 26 – Thursday, April 28, from 9:30 – 3:30.  Friends members $340, nonmembers $415. Register by emailing wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu, or call 781-283-3094.  Watercolor below copyright 2014 Lara Call Gastinger.

  • Tuesday, April 28, 4:15 pm – Growing Behind Prison Walls

    Wellesley Research Technician Mia Howard and Lab Instructor Marcy Thomas are volunteers in the newly created Horticulture Program at the Framingham Women’s Correctional Facility, where the mission of “Women Helping Women” is advanced through a shared goal to have inmates learn new skills and grow food to donate to women’s shelters.  Come to the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:15 and hear about Mia and Marcy’s experiences working alongside women prisoners, helping with the planting and transplanting, and contributing to the program’s growth.  Free for members of WCBG, nommembers $10.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

  • Thursday, April 23, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Nature Journals: Small & Simple Handmade Books

    In this Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden workshop on Thursday, April 23, from 9:30 – 3:30 with Suzanne Lee, create a book great for a diary, recipe book, special memories, or travel journal.  Choose to also make a small notepad or sketchbook holder.  Use hand-made papers, beautiful combinations of natural dried leaves, fabric collage, or combinations of old sketches and paintings.  Use tiny sketches or natural scraps you’ve collected, if you wish, but the workshop includes all materials for either project.  No previous experience needed.  Friends: $85, nonmembers $100.  Register by calling 781-283-3094 or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

  • Monday, December 1, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Nature Journals: Small and Simple Handmade Books

    In this one-day Wellesley College Botanic Garden workshop on Monday, December 1 with Suzanne Lee, make a special book – great to give for a diary, recipe book, special memories or travel journal.  Choose, also, to make a small notepad or sketchbook holder,.  Both are fun and easy to make.  Use hand-made papers, beautiful combinations of natural dried leaves, your own hand-printed ginkgo and Japanese lace leaf leaves, a unique form of fabric collage, or combinations of old sketches and paintings.  A great way to use tiny sketches or natural scraps you’ve collected, but the workshop includes all materials for either project.  One will not be enough, but easy to do more on your own after the first.  No previous experience is necessary.  The class runs from 9:30 – 3:30 in the Visitors Center of the Botanic Garden, and the cost for WCBG Friends is $85, nonmembers $100.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu. Image from www.sanctuaryarts.org.