Tag Archives: “Natural Discourse”
Digital Nature; Artist Talk at LA Arboretum 7/28/18
Digital Nature Artist Talk at LA Arboretum 301 North Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007 4 pm, Saturday, July 28, 2018 free with Arboretum entry The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden and Natural Discourse present Artist Talk with Mia … Continue reading
Natural Discourse 2018 update
photo by MB Maher Natural Discourse, the series of lectures and accompanying exhibits that started back in 2012, focusing on collaborative efforts among scientists, naturalists, and artists to illuminate our increasingly fraught relationship with the natural world, is ongoing through … Continue reading
Posted in artists, design, garden travel, inspire me, MB Maher, science
Tagged "Natural Discourse", deimatic behavior, Gail Wight, Jenny Kendler, MB Maher, Shirley Watts, Space 151
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Natural Discourse January 13-February 26, 2018: Living Proof; flora, fauna & fossil fuels
“Radiant Flux,” Nami Yamamoto, 2009, hand-made paper leaves, engineered for phosphorescence “Living Proof; flora, fauna & fossil fuels,” opens Saturday, January 13, 2018, 5-8 p.m. Space 151 Levy Art + Architecture 151 Potrero Ave. San Francisco, California This month artist … Continue reading
clippings 1/3/18
What do you think? Can 2018 possibly get any crazier than 2017? Early evidence certainly points to 2018 getting a running head start. Here’s my own personal, crazy-killing antidote. Finding landscapes like this. And this. And more of this. Elemental, … Continue reading
some upcoming dates October 2017
I was at the Huntington last Sunday to attend a talk by author Andrea Wulf (“The Invention of Nature“) on Alexander von Humboldt. If Ms. Wulf has scheduled speaking engagements in your area, I urge you to attend. She is … Continue reading
Posted in artists, clippings, plant sales, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged "Natural Discourse", a, Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature, Artistic License Fair, Cornerstone Sonoma, Dr. Alejandro de Avila, Dustin Gimbel, Fullerton Arboretum, Huntington Botanical Garden, LA County Arboretum fall plant sale, Mediterranean Garden Society, Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Garden, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, San Diego Botanic Garden, Shirley Watts, Theodore Payne Foundation Nursery, U.C. Riverside Botanic Garden, Visual Voyages
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Digital Nature at the Los Angeles County Arboretum 10/21 & 10/22/16
When: 6-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2016 Where: Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Tickets: $16 adults and $14 children 5-12. Information: 626-821-4623, www.arboretum.org. Read more here. Digital Nature opened … Continue reading
“Gardens: An Essay” by Robert Pogue Harrison (reposted from 10/7/11)
I’m more than a little overexcited at the prospect of hearing Professor Harrison speak at the latest iteration of Natural Discourse entitled “Culture & Cultivation,” to be held October 10, 2013, in Berkeley, California. The previous Natural Discourse programs were … Continue reading
Posted in artists, books, Department of Instruction, design, garden travel
Tagged "Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition", "Natural Discourse", architect Julia Morgan, art, gardens, historic hotels, Natural Discourse: Culture & Cultivation 10/10/13, Robert Pogue Harrison, science, Shirley Watts, The Berkeley City Club, The New York Review of Books, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
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anatomy of a late-summer road trip
Is there a tinge of desperation in the road trips of late summer? By the end of summer are we stuffing itineraries with an absurd number of places to see in the dwindling opportunities to experience daylight until 8 p.m.? … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, design, edibles, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, plant nurseries, succulents
Tagged "Natural Discourse", 2013 Heirloom Exposition, Agave 'Cornelius', Agave americana var. striata, Agave celsii var. albicans 'UCB', Andy Cao, Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Cornerstone Annual Tomato Tasting, Cornerstone Sonoma, Cottage Gardens of Petaluma, Gladiolus papilio, Gunnera perpensa, James Van Sweden, John Greenlee, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, Sheila Brady, The Ruth Bancroft Garden, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Xavier Perrot
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a much anticipated visit to the garden of Shirley Watts
I’ve been home for over a week, but I left my heart in….okay, not my heart, because that’s solidly esconced here at home in the LBC, but I think I may have left my sensorium in San Francisco. On the … Continue reading
Posted in artists, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged "Natural Discourse", Bay Area gardens, Begonia grandis, Echeveria nodulosa, Leslie Bennett of Star Apple Edible Gardens, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mathiasella bupleuroides, Mimulus naiandinus 'Mega', Nicotiana sylvestris, The Rose Grocery garden, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, verbascums
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UCBG’s Natural Discourse; an epilogue
I was reminded by some recent network news stories on UCBG’s “Natural Discourse” that I’ve yet to post photos from opening night back on July 14, 2012. Did you have to read that sentence twice for full comprehension? “Recent network … Continue reading
Posted in garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, science
Tagged "Natural Discourse", Forbes: "Solyndra's Failure Is No Reason To Abandon Federal Energy Innovation Policy", Fox News, Mother Jones: "Hydrogen's Dirty Secret", Rael San Fratello Architects, SOL Grotto, Solyndra, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Washington Guardian: "Republicans pressed for hydrogen money while attacking clean energy funds"
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