Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
Canada
Heritage beets
Kerri Weller
About
Canada is the second-largest country in the world and ranges from coastal rainforest to grasslands to savannah forests and alpine tundra. Canadians rely on the abundance of the land for our harvests as well as subsistence and we are working to safeguard the genetic diversity of our crops and crop-wild relatives for future generations.
In an environment so varied and versatile, the Canadian exhibition for Botanical Art Worldwide will be hosted online to connect audiences with renowned artists from across the country.
The virtual exhibition will showcase plants that provide us with food, textiles, dyes, materials, and medicine. It will include online events, virtual artist talks, and opportunities to connect with participating artists in 2025.
organizers
Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 Steering Committee for Canada
Steering Committee
Jette Anesen, Misha Donohoe (National Coordinator), Heather Wadsworth
Advisors
Myra Sourkes, Kerri Weller
contact
To learn more about Canada’s exhibition and opportunities to support this initiative, contact BAW-Canada@outlook.com
virtual exhibition
A countdown link to Canada’s virtual exhibition will be posted here in January 2025. It will include a schedule of events, artist talks, and activities.
Dates
May 18 – May 31, 2025
Teaser events will be held in the lead-up to the virtual exhibition launch on May 18, 2025.
Botanical Art Worldwide 2018
Art of the Plant, Native Plants of Canada
About this Exhibition
Art of the Plant is Canada's contribution to Botanical Art Worldwide. The Art of the Plant exhibition will be on view at the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Stone Wall Gallery in the nation's capital, Ottawa, Ontario, from May 10 to October 14, 2018. There are two components to the exhibition, one juried and the other invitational; the invitational component consists of artworks by Canadian botanical artists who have exhibited at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. A three-day botanical art conference will be held in May 2018, and there will be additional events throughout the run of the exhibition. A catalogue will be published.
Find more info at: artoftheplant.com
artwork
Shepherdia canadensis is a shrub found across much of Canada. Its berries, initially bitter, are a food source for wildlife such as grizzly bears, black bears, and ruffed grouse. The berries sweeten a little after several frosts. First Nation people were known to have combined them with dried buffalo meat to make pemmican, a portable, long-lasting high-energy food.
Canada Buffaloberry, Shepherdia argentea, watercolor on paper, ©Margaret Best
Photo: ©Ian Wilson
One of the many dramatic landscapes that hold some of Canada’s native plant treasures. Canada yellow cinquefoil at Waterton Lake National Park.
Organizer
Art of the Plant Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Kerri Weller, Chair
Margaret Best, Advisor
Myra Sourkes, Advisor
exhibition Venue
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada's national museum of natural history and natural sciences. The museum provides evidence-based insights, inspiring experiences and meaningful engagement with nature's past, present and future. It achieves this through scientific research, a 14 million specimen collection, education programs, presentation of signature galleries and travelling exhibitions, and a dynamic web site, nature.ca.
Location
Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, ON, K2P 1A1