Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
United States

A More Abundant Future

About this Exhibition

Opening in April of 2025, the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) will present a juried exhibition of artworks depicting crop diversity, in collaboration with the Foundry Art Centre, and staged in its glorious gallery space in the heart of America’s agricultural region. The exhibition will include original contemporary botanical artworks depicting the diversity of plant crops grown in the U.S.  It is slated to remain on view through May, 2025, including on the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, May 18th. A catalog of the exhibition will be published. For full information, go to ASBA’s website.

Venue

The Foundry Art Centre will host the opening of the exhibition in April, 2025 with a celebration on the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art on May 18, 2025. The Foundry Art Centre is located in historic Saint Charles, Missouri conveniently located near Lambert St. Louis International Airport. The beautiful expansive gallery was host to The Third New York Botanical Garden Triennial with ASBA, Out of the Woods, Trees in Public Gardens.

Dates

April 4 - May 24, 2025

Botanical Art Worldwide 2018
America’s Flora

About this Exhibition

Opening in May of 2018, the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) will present a juried exhibition of artworks of native plants, in collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden, and staged in its glorious gallery space in Washington, D.C. The exhibition will include 46 original contemporary botanical artworks, juried in by Susan Pell and William McLaughlin from the US Botanic Garden, and Susan T. Fisher andPatricia Jonas from ASBA.  Slated to remain on view at the U.S. Botanic Garden through October, 2018, the exhibition will then travel through the end of 2019.  U.S. Botanic Garden and ASBA will work together to develop interpretive materials for the exhibition. A catalog of the exhibition will be published. For full information, go to ASBA’s website HERE.

artwork

The Saguaro is an iconic plant of the southwest, and is one of thousands of plant species native to the U.S. This cactus occurs in Arizona and southern California and straddles the border into Mexico. The artist, Joan McGann, lives in Arizona and has depicted many species of Cactus, in pen and ink, sometimes combined with colored pencil or watercolor.

Artist Carol Hamilton working on a field sketch of a native wood lily, Lilium philadelphicum, in Connecticut.

Jean Emmons’ glorious painting of bigleaf maple includes its fresh and dried samaras, and its flowers emerging just before its leaves. She shows its leaf in autumn in this lively composition on vellum. This maple is a western US native, favoring moist woods, forests and canyons, and it is the largest maple in North America, growing typically to 50’ high, but sometimes as tall as 80’. Its leaves, from which its name derives, are the largest of any North American maple as well, ranging from 4 - 10” in width.

Organizers

American Society of Botanical Artists and United States Botanic Garden

Steering Committee

Patricia Jonas
Jody Williams
Carol Woodin

exhibition Venues

The U.S. Botanic Garden was established by the U.S. Congress in 1820 and has been open to the public since 1850. Its Lord & Burnham conservatory, constructed in 1933, displays changing collections of living plants from around the world, as well as exhibitions in its beautiful West and East Galleries.

United States Botanic Garden
100 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20001
May 4 - October 15, 2018

Travel Venues

Missouri Botanical Garden
Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum
4344 Shaw Boulevard
St. Louis, MO  63110
February 1 - May 5, 2019

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
700 North 12th Street
Wausau, WI  54403
June 8 - August 25, 2019

Botanical Research Institute of Texas
1700 University Drive
Fort Worth, TX  76107
September 26 - November 27, 2019

Location

United States Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C.

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