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Dear Friends:
People are always amazed to learn that botanical art has been around since the Paleolithic period (35,000 BC) with crude examples of plant life drawn on cave walls. Mostly used as decorative elements, plants appeared during the Minoan period (3000-1500 BC) on jars and murals.
The inaugural recording of plants for medicinal use can been found on the bas relief at the Temple of Tuthmosis III at Karnak (15th Century BC) which has been established as the earliest florilegium, followed by a treatise by Aristotle’s pupil, Theophrastus "Enquiry into Plants" around 300 BC. But the first major work of early herbal recordings which were to influence pharmacy until the 17th century was De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in 1st Century Greece.
The stagnation of the middle ages and deterioration of early plant recordings fertilized the artistic energy of the Renaissance painter who began to record with wonderful realistic accuracy plant material for scientific use. The age of exploration (13-17th Century) brought plants from various parts of the world and eventually into the gardens of the wealthy.
With a plentitude of plant material to develop the most glorious gardens and information to record, analyze, and enjoy, botany and botanical art blossomed. Gardens all over the world have contributed to a magnificent body of information and botanical art in service to science and man.
From cave walls to museum walls, for design, science, beauty... botanical art...the intricate drawing of something seemingly insignificant has survived in many ways through the centuries.... it is a testament to endurance and perhaps to the hope that life's ability to adapt, adjust, and prosper makes way for the future
Our need to understand the botanical world around us and its influence on our society, our health, our sensibilities has not changed since the beginning of time. What has changed over time is the expression of that information and the methods by which it has become available to its audience.
Although Europe holds a significant portion of the history of botanical discovery, America's contribution has altered the face of medicine. We are fortunate today to have a wealth of this historic information available to us in the various museums and libraries throughout the world. The Gardens of Doris Duke’s is just one such place.
Gardens which have contributed and continue to contribute must find ways to continue the legacy of botany on view that started in the Paleolithic period (35,000 BC). We cannot continue to sacrifice the old for the new. Instead, we must find ways to adapt that which has played such a significant role in our cultivation as human beings.
You are asked to participate in a last effort to save the Gardens of Doris Duke.
ON MAY 25th DUKE FARMS IS GOING TO CLOSE AND DESTROY DORIS DUKE'S BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY GARDENS.
If you have been to Duke Gardens you know just how wonderful and unique the International-themed Gardens are. People come from all over the world to visit them, and learn about the botanical world of other countries without leaving New Jersey!!
Now the people who have taken charge of Duke Farms want to close and destroy them because they don't think that the Display Gardens are 'their focus'. Their interest is in natives and the environment, and they don't want to see anything else but that. The Duke Trustees will go down in history as destroying one of our state's great legacies if we let them.
WHAT CAN YOU DO:
Please visit their website for more information and pre-written emails to send out in protest of the horrific destruction of one of New Jersey's most beautiful attractions.
If you feel strongly about this issue, then please let your families, friends, and co-workers know what they, too, can do to help preserve history.
www.savedukegardens.org
Happy Spring....God Bless....OM
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Academy of Botanical Art @
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2008 Schedule
Botanical Drawing & Watercolor – Noon to 5pm
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July 21, 22, 23 w/ TBA
Aug. 18, 19, 20 w/ TBA
Aug 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Five Fridays Calligraphy with Victoria Kibildis - Copperplate Script
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Academy @ Selby
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2008
Course 1: Copperplate Script: Fri, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22, 29,
Course 2: Roman Capitals: Fri, Oct 17, 24, 31 Nov 7 & 14
2009
Course 3: Humanist Bookhand: Fri, Jan 16,23,30 Feb 6,13
Course 4: Formal & Semi-Formal Italic: Fri, Mar 20, 27 Apr 3, 17, 24
Course 1: Copperplate Script: Sat, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Course 5: Illuminated Manuscript: Fri, Oct 16, 23, 30 Nov 6 & 13 (includes art instruction in composition for manuscripts w/ Olivia Braida
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Botanical Art & Illustration
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Summer 2008 Term
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Beautiful Botanicals w/ Olivia Braida
June 9, 10, 11 - 5:30pm to 9:30pm
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53 The Circle
East Hampton, NY 11937
631-324-8680
South Florida Museum
201 10th Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34205
(941) 746-4131
http://www.southfloridamuseum.org/
John and Mable Ringling Museum
5401 Bay Shore Road,
Sarasota Florida 34243
(941) 359-5700
http://www.ringling.org/
Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Drive NE, St.
Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 896-2667
http://www.fine-arts.org/
Salvador Dali Museum
1000 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-4901
(727) 823-3767
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
(412) 268-2434
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-3970
(202) 783-5000
1-800-222-7270
http://www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian Institute
10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW in Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-1000
http://www.si.edu/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
(212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
Modern Museum of Art
11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400
http://www.moma.org/
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 733-HIGH
Receptionist: 404-733-4400
http://www.high.org/
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
(312) 443-3600
http://www.artic.edu/aic/
Bruce Museum One Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-869-0376
http://www.brucemuseum.org/
Harvard University Museum of Natural History
Home of the famous Glass Flower Sculptures
by Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895)
and his son Rudolf (1857-1939)
22 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2365
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
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