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Katie Zimmerman has spent years researching Victorian naturalist and artist, Marianne North. She discusses her work this month and answers your questions.

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Seeing with Graphite Eyes

Students Overcome Their Fear of Drawing in Botany Lab

Eradicating Plant Blindness in the 21st Century

Using Social Media to Gather Feedback About Student Interest in Natural Resource Management

How to Draw Plants for Documentation

Investigating the Drawing Process

Making Students Aware of Errors During the Drawing Process

How do you grade a sketch?

Helping Teachers Turn Observers Into Naturalists

Empowering Children to Know What They Know Through Art

Lesson Plans in Botanical Art & Plant Conservation

Anne Marie Evans Discusses Teaching, Learning & Botanical Art

The Timeless Value of Naturalist Journals

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning the Power of Plants

Margaret Best Discusses Color in Botanical Art, Provides Tips for Informal Science Educators

Generating Interest in Boring Subjects

Public Perception of Botanical Gardens

Quality Observation is the Common Denominator in Art & Science

Botanical Wall Charts in the Classroom

Lesson Plans in Botanical Illustration

Practical Drawing as a Thinking Tool

Visualizing Plants with Botanical Symbols

Does experience in the arts lead to academic achievement?

The Value of Words Over Botanical Illustration

Biologist Learns to Draw Plants, Sees with New Eyes

Visualizing Life Cycles & Ecosystems

Niki Simpson Introduces Digital Composite Botanical Illustrations to Botanical Art

Imagery in Scientific Communication

The Last Botany Student in the UK

Humans First. Then Animals. Then Plants.

The Origin of Botanical Field Guides

User-friendly Identification Tools for Plants & Animals

Students Take First Step Towards Creating Unique Florilegium

Make Students Better Observers This School Year

The Botanical Artist as Naturalist

Remember That Plant You Saw?

The Arts & Everyday Learning

Why Integrating the Arts into the Classroom May Improve Content Retention

Watercolors of the Herbs of Britain Provide Framework for Dichotomous Key

Learning with Journals, Notes and Scrolls

What makes plants interesting?

Ecoliteracy Curriculum Emphasizes Plant Restoration, Natural Dyes

Educational Wall Charts Teach Less, Better

Plant Identification & Environmental Literacy

Outdoor Education & Plant Blindness

Scholars Study Images in the Service of Science

Botany Program for Botanical Artists Launched in UK

Olcani: When Plants Are Medicine

Botany Education in the 18th Century

Thoughtful Observation

What do textbooks teach us about plants?

Drawing Plant Life Cycles

Painting Hawaii's Endangered Plants

Researchers Study Renaissance Herbals to Preserve the Botanical Tradition of the Ancient Mediterranean

Scientific Illustration in the Elementary School Classroom

How Textbooks Contribute to Plant Blindness

The Botanical Drawings & Discoveries of Joseph Hooker

The History of Botany in the US

Seeing Plants Equally

How to Observe the Life Histories of Plants

Bringing Plants to the People

Measuring Attitudes Towards Plants

Create Your Own Florilegium

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Soldier & Naturalist

Rumphius: A Naturalist for the People

Inside 'The Ambonese Herbal'

What Don't People Know About Plants

Kitchen Counter Botany

Plants, Pollinators & Art

Guided Exploration of
Nature's Palette

Teaching About Plant-Pollinator Relationships

Botanical Illustration & Plant Morphology for Preschoolers

Nature Artists in the Classroom

Science Communication Through Art

How to Integrate Art Across the Curriculum

Art, Botany & Society: Plants in the Limelight

Using Writing to Encourage Drawing

How can botany lessons be more exciting?

Do Botany & Art Need Each Other?

Mapping the Trees of
Central Park

Scientific Illustration in Kindergarten

The Origins of Botany Education in the US

Drawings Reveal How Teachers View the Environment

Informal Botany Education Can Improve Plant Recognition Skills

Using Dioramas to Teach Biology

College Students' Knowledge of Plants

Examples of How Biology & Art Influence Each Other

No, Can't Don't

Quick & Easy Lesson in Observation

Illustrations & The Environment

A Guide to Biological Illustration

Classroom Project Integrates Plant Science and Art

Engagement, Understanding, Communication

Doodles, Learning & Attention Span

Thinking on Paper

How Children Respond to Nature

Use Trading Cards to Teach Natural History

Preschool Botany: Play, Explore, Draw

Botanical Scavenger Hunt Develops Science Communication Skills

How to Use a Pencil

How can we experience plants differently?

Keep Plants Simple

Seeing Trees: In Print & Digitally

GPS Technology & Botanical Art

Does technology make the outdoors more appealing?

Drawing & Learning in 1861

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John Muir and the Personal Experience of Nature
Riverside Metropolitan Museum
Riverside, CA
Dec. 2, 2012 - Jan. 19, 2014

Opening in 2013

Windows on Evolution:
An Artistic Celebration of Charles Darwin
Virtual Exhibition (online)
Science Art-Nature
February 12, 2013

Where They Grow Wild (at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden)
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Claremont, CA
March 9 - June 9, 2013

Extended to July
Where They Were Wild: Recapturing California's Wildflower Heritage
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA
March 9 - July 8, 2013

Jane Pinheiro Remixed: Reprints of Rare, Mid-Century Wood Blocks in the Theodore Payne Foundation Collection
Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flower and Native Plants
Sun Valley, CA
March 15 - June 22, 2013

What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions, 2007-2012
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
March 22 - June 30, 2013

The North American Experience: Early America Illustrated
with Forms of Life Art Exhibition by the 5300 Group
Lloyd Library and Museum
March 25 - June 21, 2013

Learning from Leaves
Arnold Arboretum
Harvard University
Boston, MA
April 6 - June 9, 2013

The Nature of Jewelry: Botanical Design & Symbols
Peninsula School of Art
Fish Creek, WI
April 19 - July 13, 2013

Botanical Art in the Third Millenium
Museo della Grafica
Pisa, Italy
April 20 - July 15, 2013

Nature Unfurled
Temple of Minera
Hardwick Park
Sedgefield, County Durham
England
April 24 - June 5, 2013

Following in the Bartrams' Footsteps: Contemporary Botanical Artists Explore the
Bartrams' Legacy
Bartram's Garden
Philadelphia, PA
April 26 - May 24, 2013

NEW
From the Mountains
to the Sea
Duxbury Art Complex
Duxbury, MA
May 19 - September 8, 2013

Society of Floral Painters 2013 Exhibition
National Trust Property
The Vyne
Hampshire, England
June 1-23, 2013

Following in the Bartrams' Footsteps: Contemporary Botanical Artists Explore the
Bartrams' Legacy
South Florida Museum
Philadelphia, PA
September - December 2013

When They Were Wild: Capturing California’s Wildflower Heritage
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Expected 2013

Opening in 2014

Following in the Bartrams' Footsteps: Contemporary Botanical Artists Explore the
Bartrams' Legacy
Cherokee Garden Library/Atlanta History Center
Atlanta, GA
March 1 - May 31, 2014

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Global Directory of Botanical Gardens
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National Environmental Education Foundation's Nature Center Guide.
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