Puget Sound Mycological Society 3rd Annual Art Exhibition Location: University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture Show Dates: October 16 – 17, 2010 Entries Due: September 30, 2010 Contact: Doug Birkebak Click on the poster above to view details and to download entry form.
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Call for Artists: The 47th Annual Wild Mushroom Show
Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, tagged Watercolor, exhibition, mycology, fungi, Pacific Northwest on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Take a Workshop at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
Posted in Learning Opportunities, Special Events, botanical art, tagged botanical art exhibition, Kew Garden, Shirley Sherwood Gallery, bulbmania on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New at Classes Near You > England: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org Drop-in Art Workshop at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery – Monday August 30 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Create a collaborative piece of art with artist Stuart Simler and fellow artists. This workshop will be taught in conjunction with the exhibition, Bulbmania – [...]
Exhibition About Endangered Plants Opens at The Smithsonian This Weekend
Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, natural science illustration, tagged American Society of Botanical Artists, endangered plants, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory Museum on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World opens at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on Saturday August 14. Organized by the American Society of Botanical Artists, this traveling exhibition brings attention to plant diversity, the fragile state of endangered species, and the efforts by botanists and botanical artists to document and [...]
Shadow Sculptures of California Native Plants
Posted in Special Announcements, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events, botanical art, tagged botanical garden, native plants on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Radiant Light: Shadow Sculpture of California Native Plants October 1 – December 31, 2010 Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 1500 North College Avenue Claremont, CA 91711 This exhibition features 12 translucent sculptures and gossamer textiles by Pamela Burgess, the artist behind thought-provoking shadow drawings of California native plants. Pamela combines her interest in life cycles [...]
Jane Pinheiro’s Watercolors: A Collection Lost and Re-Found
Posted in Special Announcements, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events, botanical art, tagged Theodore Payne Foundation, native plants, Jane Pinheiro, wildflowers, botanical art exhibition on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jane Pinheiro’s Watercolors:A Collection Lost and Re-Found Now through September 30, 2010 Thursday to Saturday 8:30am to 4:30pm Directions By John Wickham, President The Theodore Payne Foundation In the early ‘90s, the Foundation had to make some tough choices to keep the nursery open. One of the toughest was the decision to sell most of [...]
Get Your Fill of Contemporary Botanical Art This Fall
Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, tagged American Society of Botanical Artists, exhibition, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University on July 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Botanical artists from all over the world will gather in Pittsburgh, PA in September to celebrate the 16th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Botanical Artists. The ASBA conference will be held September 23 – 25, 2010. Three busy days of learning and networking, plus pre- and post-conference workshops, await those eager to learn [...]
Defining Positive Learning Experiences in Botanical Art
Posted in Education, Special Events, botanical art, tagged distance learning, Mark Granlund, online classes on July 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What kind of online experience would help you find and give support for learning botanical art? This was one of the questions posed by Mark Granlund last night during his Thursday office hours. The conversation focused on how to engage learners in an online community. What inspires you to engage in conversation as you surf [...]
Wendy Hollender To Discuss “Botanical Drawing”
Posted in Drawing, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, botanical illustration, tagged drawing, colored pencil, Wendy Hollender on July 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Wendy Hollender’s new book, Botanical Drawing in Color: A Basic Guide to Mastering Realistic Form and Naturalistic Color, is a book for all artists. To celebrate the release of this wonderful guide to drawing plants, ArtPlantae will host a live Ask The Artist session with Wendy on August 18, 2010. Wendy will discuss her artistic [...]
Exhibition at Calgary’s Leighton Art Centre Celebrates Plants, Habitat
Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, tagged Calgary, environment, habitat, Rayma K. Peterson on July 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Moments in Time: A Botanical Exhibition of Habitats and Species Leighton Art Centre, Gallery and Museum Botanical artist, Rayma Peterson, is one of three artists whose work is now on view at the Leighton Art Centre, Gallery and Museum. Sixteen of Rayma’s paintings capturing the plants of Alberta’s foothills, mountains, and wetlands in their native [...]
Pam Kessler Shares Her Response to Nature
Posted in Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, botanical art books, tagged Pam Kessler on June 28, 2010 | Comments Off
When she was a little girl, Pam Kessler‘s father taught her how to look at plants. These innocent observations sparked an appreciation for nature in the young naturalist and marked the beginning of a career as an accomplished botanical artist. Pam’s paintings are in private and public collections such as the Hunt Institute for Botanical [...]
Rare Plants of the Grand Canyon at Kolb Studio
Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, botanical illustration, tagged endangered plants, Grand Canyon, Kolb Studio on June 28, 2010 | Comments Off
The botanists and botanical illustrators who have worked tirelessly to document rare plants in the Grand Canyon will share their work with the public beginning Friday July 2, 2010. Fifty drawings and paintings will be on view at Kolb Studio on the Canyon’s South Rim. This exhibit is already receiving a lot of attention. It [...]
Share Your Botanical Art With Others in a Self-Published Book
Posted in Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art books, tagged art history, book publishing on June 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Write Your Own Story Have you ever thought about writing a book? How about creating a book about your work as a botanical illustrator? Many people think about writing a book and publishing it themselves. Today authors have many services available to them to make the bookmaking process easier and faster. But how do you [...]



