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  • Thursday, September 14, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Seeding Change: The Politics of Plants

    Plants provide a medium for the creative expression of individual identities, shared narratives, and collective memories, yet they are also inherently political, and never more so than in the midst of our rapidly warming climate. As changes to the climate become more volatile, how are designers, gardeners, and others who work directly with plants developing adaptive strategies to changes both environmental and social?

    This September 14 conversation at 7 pm in Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will convene landscape architect Rosetta S. Elkin of Pratt Institute, Stephanie Morningstar of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, and Erika Rumbley, and the Gardner’s Stanley P. Kozak, Director of Horticulture, in dialogue with Charles Waldheim, the Gardner’s Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Together they will consider the cultural, social, and political meanings of plants, and share approaches to adaptive strategies, particularly as these relate to seed-keeping and sharing. This program is organized in connection with the current exhibition Presence of Plants in Contemporary Art. Tickets may be purchased at https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/seeding-change-politics-plants

  • Saturday, September 10, 11:00 am – 4:30 pm – Japanese Chrysanthemums, Online

    Learn the basic watercolor techniques used by botanical artists while painting Japanese chrysanthemums from a provided photograph. A photograph will be provided for reference. Flat wash, layering and dry brush techniques will be covered. This New York Botanic Garden online course on September 10 from 11 – 4:30 will offer live demonstrations, videos, and individual feedback in an enjoyable and supportive atmosphere.

    You will need all required materials listed in the link below. The instructor will send you a line drawing of a rose that you will also need to print before class. Click HERE for materials list. Adele Rossetti is the instructor. Adele, recently awarded the 2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant, studies and paints the flora of the Mata Atlantica in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Adele was previously named a Fulbright Scholar in 2016, has been honored by the Hunt Institute, and earned the American Society of Botanical Artists’ Excellence Award and the Royal Horticultural Society’s Grenfells Science Medal. She has taught art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and a Master of Science in History of Art, Design, and Architecture. Adele has taught in Pratt Institute’s Venice Program, as well as at Vassar College, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Adele illustrated the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Discovery Garden interpretation consoles and is a fellow of the BBG Florilegium Society. Additionally, Adele is a lecturer, published scientific illustrator, private art tutor, and exhibiting artist.

    NYBG members $95, nonmembers $105. Register at www.nybg.org.

  • Monday, April 11, 7:00 pm – Arnold Arboretum Director’s Series: Birth- The Early History and Meaning of the Arnold Arboretum, Live and Online

    Join the Arnold Arboretum’s Director William (Ned) Friedman for the annual Director’s Series! To celebrate the Arboretum’s sesquicentennial, this year’s series will explore the Magic and Meaning of a Garden of Trees. Over the course of four sessions, we will trace the Arnold’s significance in the landscape architecture movement, value for the people of Boston, and leadership in creating global connections between plants and people. This session will include brief presentations and a moderated panel. The program is free and is offered both in person and livestreamed.

    Panelists:

    • Dr. Ethan Carr, Director of the Master’s of Landscape Architecture Program, University of Massachusetts
    • Dr. Rosetta Elkin, Academic Director of the Master’s of Landscape Architecture Program, Pratt Institute
    • Lisa Pearson, Head of the Library and Archives, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

    To sign up for the virtual presentation, click HERE. To sign up for the in-person event at the Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street in Boston, click here.

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  • Through July 3 – TimeLine(s): Drawing Nature

    As an Artist-in-Residence at Caldera in Deschutes National Forest, Oregon and the White Mountain National Forest Artist-in-Residence program, New Hampshire, Kyle Browne investigated the organic world of nature with the simplicity of drawing, observation, and meditation. In her Time-lapse Drawings, Browne seeks to unearth and capture the unobserved moment and change that occurs within a site-specific setting. Once a site is chosen, the shadows are duplicated repeatedly on paper, building levels of graphite to catch the intangible, fleeting moments of time. Her Time-lapse Drawings were born from spending time at the Arnold Arboretum before she began her residency at the White Mountain National Forest, where they were continued.

    Browne’s work, Hidden Cartography of Beetles, encourages the viewer to examine a world of secret dialogues, symbols, and the map-making of wood-boring beetles. Deep in the Deschutes National Forest, Browne utilized charcoal, graphite, and pastel, printing in the field, then creating stark and stunning designs on paper.

    Browne has been awarded six residencies, received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and is a candidate for an MFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. Her work will be on exhibit in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University through July 3. For more information call 617-524-1718, or email arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu.

     

  • Friday, June 17, 2:00 pm – Tiffany & Co.: Flora and Fauna: 170 Years of Tiffany Excellence

    John Loring will present an illustrated lecture Tiffany & Co.: Flora and Fauna: 170 Years of Tiffany Excellence as part of the 2011 World Flower Show on Friday, June 17, at 2 pm in the Cityview Ballroom of the Seaport World Trade Center (Plaza Level.)  Mr. Loring is Design Director Emeritus of Tiffany & Co. and the author of numerous books on Tiffany, and art in general. He graduated from Yale University and has an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute. He has served on the acquisitions committee of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Tickets to the lecture are $10, and may be purchased on line at www.wafausa.org.