I’ve got botanicals on my mind!
Three botanical art-themed exhibitions – Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art;
Rhythm of Life: Watercolors by Richard Bolingbroke; and Nature Observed:
Wendy Brockman Watercolors – will fill the Museum’s galleries from June 23
through August 26.
I’m focused on docent training, which takes place bright and
early Monday morning, June 25, and so I get to immerse myself in artworks as
well as the history of botanicals. My typical research process gets a real
boost with these exhibitions because collector Isaac M. Sutton, whose artworks
comprise Botanicals: Environmental
Expressions in Art, along with Botanicals
curator, Susan Frei Nathan and artist Wendy Brockman will be at the Museum this
week.
In tandem with the summer solstice, the Museum will
celebrate the opening of the new exhibitions with a live Wisconsin Public Radio
broadcast from the galleries on Thursday evening, June 21, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
WPR’s Glen Moberg, host of Route 51, will interview Isaac Sutton and take
questions from those in the audience and from callers.
I, for one, will be taking notes!
You can listen to the Route 51 on 91.9 FM/WPR’s Ideas
Network on your radio or on the web at http://wpr.org/webcasting/live.cfm
.
The Museum will be in full bloom this summer, both in the
galleries and throughout our grounds. We’ve planned an array of
botanical-themed programs . . . check them out on our web site at www.lywam.org or stop in to pick up an events
calendar.
I’m partial to roses, which also are blooming outside the
Museum’s main entrance. What’s your favorite flower?
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