Delaware Art Museum -Wilmington:
BEYOND WORDS: The Symbolic Language of Plants

Athenaeum in Alexandria, Va.:
THE GARDEN PATH: Consistency and Change Through Botanical Art

The Athenaeum

We are delighted to have this opportunity to showcase the exceptional work of our BASCNR members!

From the pale green corkscrew tendril of vine depicting hope and promise to a beetle-chewed leaf edge that portends death and decay, contemporary botanical artists employ both art and technical mastery in their work. The Garden Path illustrates a story of consistency and change in our world through plants. With references ranging from wild spaces to historic gardens, to contemporary urban 'green spaces,' this show uses botanical art to help us understand our place in the world.

The Garden Path contains works selected from the membership of the Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region (BASNCR) curated by botanical artist, Marcia DeWitt. She will follow the BASNCR juror's guidelines, which are strongly tethered to the formal attributes of classic botanical illustration, while selecting works that best reflect the concept of the exhibit.

Additional context to the show will be provided by way of brief narratives provided by the artists explaining the significance of their subject; there will be a curator's statement discussing the highlights of the show, accompanied by a fine-art, rather than technical illustration, perspective; members of BASCNR will do several free educational demonstrations of their art in the gallery; and the Alexandria Garden Tour will occur during the run of this proposed show in April of 2012.

Brookside Gardens - Wheaton, Md.
BOTANICA — THE ART & SCIENCE OF PLANTS

May 19 through July 7, 2012

Brookside Gardens School of Botanical Art & Illustration

Annual Exhibition — Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, Wheaton, Md.

© Barbara Sweeney — Pyracantha

Botanical Artists for Education & the Environment:

• Brookside Gardens Online Gallery


• ASBA


• Smithsonian - Losing Paradise?


• Kew Gardens - The Shirley Sherwood Collection


• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation


• Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden


• Monticello Library -
  Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks :
  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the Jefferson Library at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies


• Delaware Art Museum:
  Beyond Words: the Symbolic Language of Plants


• The Harvard Museum of Natural History:
  The Glass Flowers

BOTANICA May 19 through July 7, 2012

Judy Brown's Exhibit —
October 22 - December 2

Judy Brown's Exhibit at Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, Wheaton, Md.

Lee D'Zmura's Exhibit —
Date to be Determined:

Lee D'Zmura's Exhibit at Adkins Arboretum near Ridgely, MD (Eastern Shore)

Monticello Library -
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks :

* Debbie Bankert
* Esther Carpi
* Meta Carr
* Wendy Cortesi
* Eileen Malone-Brown
* Vicki Malone

http://www.monticello.org

2013:

BOTANICA 2013: June 29 to August 10

AMERICA'S PARKS - Through the Beauty of Art - March 2013 -

Produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C. - A Message from the attached PDF:

"The 2013 inaugural exhibition will premiere in Bolivar, Missouri from March 17– April 14, 2013 at the Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art."

For more information click here .

PROSPECTUS FOR THE 2013 - INAUGURAL EXHIBITION

An exhibition competition open to all artists, the purpose of which is to recognize and promote excellence in original artworks depicting any park (national, state, provincial, county, city) in Canada, Mexico and The United States.