Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
United States
A More Abundant Future
About this Exhibition
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 heartland.
Artwork
The exhibition includes original contemporary botanical artworks depicting the diversity of plant crops grown in the U.S. A catalog of the exhibition has been published and is available for sale at the venue or online from ASBA Here.
Above: Prunus maritima, Beach Plum Jam, © Karen Kluglein, Watercolor on paper, 48.9 x 41.9 cm
organizers
American Society of Botanical Artists
Foundry Art Centre
Steering Committee
Jody Williams
Carol Woodin
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
events
April 4, 2025: First Friday, exhibition opening
May 18, 2025: Worldwide Day of Botanical Art
All Day
A More Abundant Future exhibition on view
Looping slideshow of Botanical Art Worldwide artwork from 30 exhibitions on 6 continents (over 1200 works!)
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds seed sales
Seed Savers' Exchange information table
Activities for Families
Morning
Demonstrations by exhibiting artists
Gallery talk
Afternoon: 45 minute presentations
noon: Jody Williams (ASBA) Botanical Art Worldwide 2025/Carol Woodin (ASBA) Stories behind selected artwork
1pm: Briana Smorstad, Seed Bank Manager (Seed Savers Exchange:
2pm: John Brazaitis, General Manager (Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds)
3pm: Colin Khoury, Senior Scientist and Director of Food Plant Research (San Diego Botanic Garden)
More Information
Artwork, stories behind the art, and more information is available on ASBA’s website.
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.
Saguaro, Carnegiea gigantea, ink and watercolor on paper, 18” x 12" ©Joan McGann
Bigleaf Maple, Acer macrophyllum, watercolor on vellum, 26” x 19” ©Jean Emmons
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.
Photo courtesy of Carol Hamilton
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
U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory with view of the U.S. Capitol. Photo courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden
Conservatory Garden Gourt U.S. Botanic Garden. Photo courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden
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.