Event Archive

November 6-25
Rubicon Textiles Artists
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Rubicon textiles artists present a diverse and exciting collection of new work inspired by the local landscape as it changes through the seasons, in particular the trees of Westonbirt Arboretum. Each artist in their own way captures the vistas, silhouettes, tracery, colour and textures of the countryside in this vibrant show.

Rare & Elusive Birds of North America
Roger Tory Peterson Institute
of Natural History
Jamestown, New York, USA
" William Burt is a perfectionist whose photographs of rails and other shy and elusive birds of the wetlands are unquestionably the finest ever taken. He has set a new standard." Roger Tory Peterson, August 1989

Our next exhibit, Rare & Elusive Birds of North America, opened Friday, November 9th, 2007, and runs through February 10, 2008. This spectacular exhibition will give visitors a chance to view photography by William Burt, of Old Lyme, CT.

Late on a June night, in the middle of a vast Spartina marsh in eastern Maryland, William Burt achieved his long-time goal: to photograph the Black Rail, a mythic red-eyed bird so rare and secretive, so deftly elusive in the fine grass of its meadow home, that few ornithologists had ever even seen it. But this was just the first of many picture quests, and the first phase of a mission that would occupy him for some 16 years in the marshes, swamps and bogs and other wild lands all over North America. His mission: to photograph all 20 of the most elusive 'ghost birds' on the continent - and to photograph them well, as never before, close up and undisturbed in the fastness of their secret haunts.

The fruition of those 16 years was featured in his book, Rare & Elusive Birds of North America, published by Rizzoli/Universe in 2001. This book combined Burt's photographs with his stories of the searches, the places and the secret birds themselves, and the old-time naturalists who searched before.

On display at RTPI will be a selection of 20 fine prints, with accompanying text quotes also from the book. Like Burt's earlier exhibition, Shadowbirds - which rented to 26 museums across the US and Canada - Rare & Elusive features museum-quality prints of extraordinary detail.

William Burt will be coming to the Institute to do a program on the exhibit on Tuesday, December 4th, at 7 PM. This event will be free and open to the public.

Our annual exhibition presenting work by some of the UK's finest nature-inspired makers. The exhibition will encompass a wide range of styles and media, including glass, ceramics, textiles, wood, metal, mixed media and original prints. This year, as part of the celebrations marking 1000 years of the county of Gloucestershire, we will also be making a link with the past by exploring the crafts that were practised in the county a millennium ago. We hope to have some early examples of these crafts on show as well, next to their modern counterparts.

art November 17 - January 20
Rivers, Sea and Shore: American Reflections on Water
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Fifty dramatic paintings explore more than a century of American life on the water, including 19th century ship portraits and seascapes, New England seaside towns, riverboats and barges plying major waterways, and industrial and leisure images of life on the water.

November 19-20
POLAR: Fieldwork & Archive Fever Symposium
The Arts Catalyst
London, England
Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global climate and society.

The symposium is organised by the Open University in association with the British Library and The Arts Catalyst with international partners as part of a wider multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-08). It incorporates the 2-day Polar symposium, a publication, and a series of public lectures taking place at the British Library.

Keynote speakers: Professor Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles, editor of High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice (2008); Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, co-editor of Narrating the Arctic (2002); Professor Rachel Weiss, Art Institute of Chicago, curator and author of Imagining Antarctica (1986); and Simon Faithfull, artist and author of Ice Blink (2006)

October 2-28
Tunnicliffe's Nature
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
With 40 pictures (some gathered from private collections), this is a rare chance to see a collection of original work by one of the 20th century's most influential nature artists. A very skilled and versatile artist, Tunnicliffe developed a career as an etcher and engraver and illustrated books, magazines, advertisements and cigarette cards. Having built up a superb collection of measured drawings of birds, he was awarded the Gold Medal by the RSPB in 1975. He became a Royal Academician in1954 and was also awarded an OBE in 1978.

October 27-28, 10am - 5pm
Craft Fair
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Wide range of individually hand-crafted gifts, direct from the makers, including:
Stained glass – Pewter gifts – Intricate wooden items and pyrography – Ceramics – Leatherwork – Country crafts – Willow-work – Textile purses, bags and boxes – Woodturning – Patchwork and quilting – Window hangings and Collages – Aromatherapy and soaps – Wildlife photography – Handcrafted Jewellery – Gothic mirrors – Puzzles – Handmade confectionary
Plus:
Craft demonstrations
Birds of prey in the sculpture garden
Beer stand from a local brewery
Meet two artists at work
Museum galleries open as usual – see special Tunnicliffe exhibition
FREE parking
Coffee shop
Children’s activity areas
Children & members FREE; adults only £2 this weekend!

September 6 - October 2
Interactions: Peter Krebs, drawings
Migration: A Gallery
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
The show will feature two bodies of work, which are intimately related via the materials used and the images themselves. The first is "The Chairs of Bryant Park." The Bryant Park Restoration Corporation in New York City has taken the novel approach of eschewing benches for portable chairs that visitors may easily arrange to suit their needs--then leave behind. As Krebs notes: "The arrangements that park users unselfconsciously create are records of body language; footprints that record the various interactions that take place there. The visual stories the chairs tell can often be quite touching; they record the small dramas that define our experience as social beings. All of the depicted arrangements are authentic--exactly as their occupants left them--and the drawings are visually faithful. Yet, everything about these studio drawings--their scale, composition, execution, and particularly color--reflect my own sentiments and observations about human relationships." These drawings tell stories about what happened much more clearly and universally than if the people were still in the chairs.

The second body of work is a series of "Tree Portraits". These drawings are quite large--up to eight feet--and elaborate, executed directly on sheets of plywood that are then mounted directly on the wall or ceiling without need of framing. They appear as a window to a better outside than the one that is often outside our real windows. They may recall childhood afternoons spent lying on the grass or walking in the park and afford a rare serenity to urban dwellers by connecting with primeval memories. To Krebs, these trees are "[f]ar from inanimate objects, they are more like ancient individual personages of great age and wisdom. The canopy drawings depict interweaving tree branches, foliage and the sky beyond. They are meditations on pattern, nature, history, and memory. Like any meditation, their effect can either be soothing or stimulating, depending on the viewer's frame of mind. I love the connection between the arboreal subject matter and the materials: charcoal and birch plywood, which is as radiant and active as gold leaf."

September 8-9
Wausau's Artrageous Weekend
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Wausau's Artrageous Weekend on September 8-9, 2007, delivers the best of the visual arts at three free events – Art in the Park, Festival of Arts, and Birds in Art – held at three different sites spanning the Wisconsin River. Free shuttle buses that run every 15 minutes make it easy to park and ride to all three locations.

Free handicapped-accessible shuttle buses between all three locations run every 15 minutes from 10 am – 5 pm from designated locations. Wausau's Artrageous Weekend is supported in part by The City of Wausau Room Tax Fund, Wausau Paper, Fiserv Health, M&I Bank, Rosemurgy Auto Mall, Wausau Signature Agency, Midwest Communications, and the Wausau Daily Herald.

September 8 - November 11
Birds in Art
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
All birds bright and beautiful. All birds great and small. All birds wise and wonderful. Birds in Art has them all! The Woodson's eagerly anticipated autumn exhibition is all about art, too, boasting a variety of styles ranging from exacting realism to painterly impressionism and fanciful expressionism. An incomparable artistic and birding adventure awaits visitors this fall to the most unconventional waypoint on the Great Wisconsin Birding & Nature Trail.

September 8 - November 11
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Caldecott Award Book author/illustrator David McLimans' bold and playful alphabet – from the Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra – addresses the serious subject of animals at the brink via twenty-six black-and-white letters based on animal characteristics. McLimans lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin, and will be at the Woodson Art Museum on Saturday, September 29, for a book signing during OctoBIRDfest (below).

September 26 - October 7
Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition
SWLA - The Mall Galleries
The Mall London SW1 (Near Trafalgar Square)
The Capmark Europe Art Awards winner Harriet Mead will be exhibiting her imaginative scrap metal sculpture Sea Turtle at the Mall Galleries, London, in the 44th annual exhibition, along with leading exponents of the wildlife art genre and other lesser-known successful artists selected from the open submission. This year's guest artist is Guy Taplin, celebrated for his beautiful driftwood sculpture.

Mead says she is "thrilled" to have won after getting the inspiration for the piece from her trip to Borneo last year where she saw green sea turtles in the wild. The sculpture is made entirely from 'found objects' – the shell is made up from a tractor seat, the neck from horseshoes, the flippers from combine harvester blades and the eyes from old harness clips. Mead describes her work as "creating natural history from agricultural history".

Saturday, September 29, 11 am – 3 pm
OctoBIRDfest
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
This family-friendly festival offers a feathery four hours of fun and it's mostly free. Entertainment, balloon clowns, face painting, art projects, ten-cent games (like Larry Bird, Parachuting Penguins, and a child-safe pumpkin catapult) and prizes, a pumpkin patch, and food add up to a busy day.

Saturday, August 4
An Illustrated Talk by Darren Rees
(coinciding with the White Worlds exhibition)
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Award-winning wildlife artist Darren Rees talks about his trips to the arctic and shows his latest DVD presentation with some remarkable footage of polar bears. He says that life is different now that he has witnessed the plight of these bears…

August 14 - October 28
Rivers, Sea and Shore:
Reflections on Water
R.W. Norton Art Gallery
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
It has been said that America – a continent between two oceans – has had a love affair with the sea since its earliest beginnings. This exhibition clearly shows the changing emphasis of this love affair as the represented artists explore more than a century of American life on the water, a history reflected in ships and boats, seascapes and river scenes, as well as images of life along the shore. It also offers rare examples of water scenes west of the Appalachians.

The exhibition begins chronologically with the earliest form of American maritime painting – ship portraits – as represented by John S. Blunt's 1828 homage to the U.S.S. Constitution. It concludes with paintings of depression-era industrial waterfronts (as in Reginald Marsh's cathedral-like Lift Bridge, Jersey Marshes) and an update of the ancient genre of naval warfare art (Anton O. Fisher's World War II Convoy).

Within this continuum, the exhibition explores the post Civil War era, when ships became more a part of the artist's story than the whole story itself. As steamboats came to dominate water transportation, we see a steamboat making a night landing on the Mississippi, by Charles M. McIlhenny, from an era best described by Mark Twain. In other romantic 19th century art, we see the challenges for realistic painters in depicting the power and motion of waves, as in William Trost Richards' Reflection in the Surf (c. 1895).

A large group of works in the exhibition focuses on the stunning paintings that came out of the artist colonies established on the Northeast Coast once Impressionism crossed the Atlantic in the early 20th century. Many notable artists working near Old Lyme, Connecticut, are represented, including Robert Vonnoh, Guy Wiggins and Gregory Smith. Other New England artists painted seaside towns long associated with whaling or commerce, reflecting nostalgia for a pre-industrial time. As Impressionism spread the idea that art should show the common man's lifestyle, people were increasingly depicted enjoying the beach, such as in paintings by Edmund Graecen and E. Percy Moran; engaging in sport, suggested in Frank Benson's Afternoon Ducks; and yacht racing (Summer Seas by Anton O. Fischer).

By the 1930s, artistic subjects began to turn to industrialization. Concerns about joblessness created greater interest in industry as depicted in Fayerweather Babcock's Industrial Waterfront – Great Lakes, and in transportation, such as iron ships (Anton O. Fisher), bridges (Reginald Marsh), and even trains (Preston Dickinson's Locomotive).

Collected over 40 years by Arthur J. Phelan of Chevy Chase, Maryland, these paintings express his own passion for paintings about water that can be traced to summers spent in Connecticut where he raced sailboats and watched large commercial sailing ships pass through Long Island Sound.

August 25 - September 2
The 15th Annual Exhibition of Works of Art
By Award Winning and International Artists
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Each year The Wildlife Art Society International have their annual workshop weekend at Nature in Art. This year, they will be showing a selection of their members' works in a special exhibition to extend beyond their weekend. The show will be open to the public offering visitors a good opportunity to see work by some of the up and coming as well as more established wildlife artists of today.

Many of the works on display will be by national and international award winning wildlife artists and will include original paintings in all media, plus sculpture and photography.

Active since 1992 the society now has an international membership including artists from around the U.K., Europe, Canada, Africa and the Americas. Close links have also been formed with The Wildlife Art Society of Australasia. Membership is open to both amateur and professional artists, sculptors and photographers.

All original works will be for sale, together with a variety of prints and cards by the participating artists.

July 14 - October 14
Paws and Reflect: Art of Canines
The Wildlife Experience
Parker, Colorado, USA
Paws and Reflect: Art of Canines features artwork in acrylic, mixed media, oil, pencil, watercolor, gouache, scratchboard and bronze sculptures celebrating the canine. Artists and artworks were chosen by curator and tour director David Wagner for their diverse subject matter and creative combinations of elements and principles of composition and design, extraordinary technique and resulting style. The exhibition includes several pieces from each artist to demonstrate his/her versatility and range of artistic treatment.

July 17 - September 2
White Worlds
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Coinciding with International Polar Year, this exhibition will consist of paintings, prints and sculpture celebrating the Polar regions. The display will feature contemporary work revealing the beauty and mystery of these threatened and unique areas of the world and some of the wildlife that can be found there. A wide range of artist will be represented, some of whom actually live and work in the arctic. As well as showcasing work from our own collections, the exhibition will bring together fascinating works from the British Antarctic Survey, the Scott Polar Research Institute and the Government Art Collection as well as from private collections.

July 27 - August 25
13 Stones: The Artwork of Steve Kestrel
Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe is pleased to announce our upcoming July exhibition 13 Stones: The Artwork of Steve Kestrel. The exhibition will premier new stone sculptures by Kestrel as well as new and existing work in bronze.

An exhibition catalog will be available with essays by nature writer Stephen Bodio and Robin Salmon, Vice President for Collections, Curator of Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

Although Kestrel's artwork falls within the category of animal sculpture, stylistically his work is difficult to categorize. As a sculptor working in stone and bronze, Kestrel's special mastery is the direct carving technique in which the sculpture is suggested by the shape of the stone block or evolves as the artist works into the block. As Kestrel writes:

"This technique provides wonderful opportunities that present themselves during the carving process to change evolve, and solve aesthetic or practical problems. I work very intuitively. These are not exercises in what I already know, but are explorations of what is unknown and mysterious to me."

Kestrel's inspiration comes from ancient art -- Assyrian, pre-Columbian, Paleolithic cave paintings -- which is why some of his compositions evoke a feeling of timeless and a strong spiritual connection to his subject matter. Kestrel's work is a bridge to the direct carvers of the 1920s and 1930s such as John Flannagan and William Zorach. Kestrel allows the raw material to be co-creator and is a master at fully interpreting his design without materially changing the medium. The infinite shapes of his favorite medium -- riverstone -- are found on his 43-acre property in Redstone Canyon near Fort Collins, Colorado.

June 12 -
Impressions From Nature: A Collection of Original Landscapes, Wildlife and Western Art
Roger Tory Peterson Institute
of Natural History
Jamestown, New York, USA
This June RTPI has the unique opportunity to host one of the most diverse private collections of art in the eastern United States. Impressions From Nature: A Collection of Original Landscapes, Wildlife and Western Art will open on June 12th, 2007. On display will be nearly 40 original works by a variety of artists from several schools of painting including 5 pieces from the Hudson River School. These particular paintings mark the first time that RTPI has exhibited works from the Hudson River School of Painting.

The Hudson River School was a mid 19th century America art movement of landscape paintings that reflected three themes of America: discovery, exploration and settlement. The landscapes depict a pastoral setting where human beings and nature coexist peacefully. Works by Albert Bierstadt and Raymond Yelland will be included.

Wildlife paintings will include works by Raymond Harris Ching and Robert Bateman as well as two recently purchased watercolors by Roger Tory Peterson. The Peterson pieces were painted in the 1950's and have never been on display at the Institute. Other wildlife artists showcased in this exhibit include Charles Frace`, Dino Paravano and John Seery-Lester. Paravano, a native of South Africa, highlights the importance of wildlife and the natural environment. He strives to preserve on canvas what is fast diminishing.

Rounding out this exhibit will be an outstanding look at Western Art by such artists as Thomas Lovell and Howard Terpening. The art of Native Peoples, whether of them, or by them, is symbolic of their ability to live in harmony with their environment. These paintings commemorate the rituals, beauty and the hardships of the American West.

A walking tour of this exhibit will take the visitor through a time period that spans the mid-19th century to present day. Art and nature are blended together in all of these works. Painting, like other art forms, captures spirit, essence, and subtleties and holds them in suspense for the viewer to examine. This cannot always be achieved in reality. Please plan to visit RTPI this summer to enjoy and experience Impressions from Nature.

June 16 - August 26
An American Story: The Wyeth Family Tradition
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
This diverse and dynamic exhibition of 80 paintings and drawings highlights three generations of the Wyeth family, including patriarch N. C., son Andrew, and grandson Jamie along with five siblings and in-laws, all of whom contributed significantly to realism in twentieth-century art. The legacy of this masterful family began with N.C. in the early 1900s and continues today in the bold, evocative paintings of Jamie. The close contact that this tightly knit family maintained for more than a century resulted in strong intergenerational artistic cross-pollination and the creation of an unequalled artistic legacy.

June 16 - August 26
Jamie Wyeth: Birds
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Since the late 1960s, Jamie Wyeth's fascination with birds has resulted in more than 200 paintings and drawings. Wyeth has lived with geese, nurtured a fledgling vulture, lured ravens, and raised chickens, ducks, and emus -- at times going to extreme lengths to provide habitat and haven for his subjects. Jamie Wyeth: Birds reveals the artist's take on the infinitely varied look and habits of the avian world.

June 26 - August 26
Forged Nature
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
A summer display in the garden focusing on forged metal sculpture (as opposed to cast sculptures). Explore the grounds and enjoy discovering dramatic art forms by some of the UK's foremost nature-inspired artist blacksmiths as well as some lesser-known sculptors. A special selection of work by local artist Alan Jack, who died in 2006, will be a feature of this display; he was renowned for his sculptures made from recycled horseshoes, tools and engineering items. As with previous garden shows, there will be a number of changes during the course of the exhibition.

Tuesday, June 26
A Concert by Jonny Coppin, with Paul Burgess
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
A singer/songwriter, composer and poetry anthologist, Jonny Coppin is back at Nature in Art by popular demand. His many solo albums include Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill (songs of Gloucestershire) and Edge of Day, which is a collaboration with world-famous writer Laurie Lee. His clear voice together with his ability to write fine songs make his music essentially English in character while having universal appeal. A wonderful evening by one of the land's finest singer/songwriters - not to be missed!

May 15 - June 24
Human Nature
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
As part of National Museums Month, we have assembled a body of work that explores the impact of people on the landscape, environment and wildlife. Embracing paintings, prints, sculpture and some photographs, this exhibition will include a broad range of illustrations ranging from species now extinct to aerial photographs recording patterns on the landscape. One exhibit included is Carry Akroyd's five-foot-wide acrylic painting showing the undrained fen as a wildlife oasis amidst the arable fen which has dramatically made its mark on the landscape. Also included is Nick Bibby's life-size bronze sculpture of a dodo, which became extinct in the 1660's as a result of human occupation and activity.

Each year we use one of our shows as a vehicle to highlight the work of a conservation organisation. For 2007 this exhibition is being linked to The World Land Trust whose focus is on protecting habitats.

Thursday, May 24
An Illustrated Talk by Emily Bricknell of The World Land Trust
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Since its foundation in 1989, The World Land Trust has helped to purchase and protect over 30,000 acres of threatened wildlife habitats across the word from Brazil, Belize and Ecuador to the Philippines, India and the UK. Come and spend an evening experiencing some of these wonderful and important places. Linked to the Human : Nature exhibition.

May 29 - July 22
Birds in Art
R.W. Norton Art Gallery
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
When Birds in Art opens on Tuesday, May 29, at Shreveport's R.W. Norton Art Gallery, 60 artworks will grace gallery walls and pedestals and offer a bountiful abundance of both birds and art for those with a ravenous appetite for ravens, a longing for loons, or a yen for wrens.

The exhibit is part of an annual competition held for the past 31 years at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin. As a group, the paintings, sculptures, batiks, woodcuts, etchings, and graphite drawings comprising Birds in Art prove that flights of fancy are always in store during this exaltation of birds and the global artists who depict them in varied mediums and styles.

With birds being an international "language," the roster of 13 countries represented in the exhibition comes as no surprise: Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and Zimbabwe, in addition to the United States.

Visitors who come along for the ride can expect avian art adventures at destinations ranging from the pastoral, such as Zimbabwe native, David Langmead's arrangement of birds, water, and shimmering light as seen in Florida's Big Cypress Basin, to the exotic as in Dino Paravano's bald eagle soaring through the spectacular Little Colorado River gorge. In between are familiar birds in familiar settings depicted in styles ranging from plein air sketches to fool-the-eye realism in genres that include landscapes, seascapes, still life, and portraiture.

Several titles refer to specific places like Roger Folk's beach scene at Corona del Mar (Crown of the Sea), nestled at the foot of California's San Joaquin Hills. Kerri Burnett places her coots in an intimate bay on Astotin Lake in Alberta, Canada's Elk Island National Park, and Beth Erlund's flotilla of terns in the Golfo Dulce region of Costa Rica. Whether the subjects are backyard feeder favorites or exotic species from around the world, an international cast of artists interprets avian themes and habitats employing diverse styles and mediums.

May 31 - September 6
Women in Printmaking: A Variety Show
Betty MacDonald, Foust, Margie Crisp
Migration: A Gallery
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
This show celebrates three women who have elevated the art of printmaking and use it to tell personal stories that resonate with all of us. Since it is a group show, it will be on display all summer. Betty MacDonald and Foust are from Virginia, and Margie Crisp is a Texan. Between them, these three women have work in many major museums and collections around the world. Best of all, their art is fun while still being technically excellent and historically important.

April 7 - June 10
Carousel Animals: Art in Motion
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
Visitors can relive favorite memories and make new ones during a visit to Art in Motion from the International Museum of Carousel Art, Hood River, Oregon. A striking and historically significant mix of hand-painted wooden animals and chariots straight out of a child's dreams recalls the golden age of the American carousel. Equine examples include parade horses and armored steeds while animals of the jungle, plains, farm, and forest complete the roster of creatures and mythical beasts on view. The young and young at heart will find this homage to art in motion to be as tantalizing as cotton candy.

April 10 - 15
Textiles in Action
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
This short exhibition of nature-inspired work has been assembled by the Gloucestershire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. It aims to reflect the diversity of techniques and styles that are used in a variety of creative processes: weavers use a wide range of looms and fibres to produce anything from rugs to fine braids; natural and synthetic dyes are used on a wide variety of fibres, which can then be woven, knitted or made into felt; felt making is another creative craft in itself. Some of the exhibits show how experimentation presents challenging and endless possibilities, whilst others reveal how the disciplines can be overlapped.

Each day there will be demonstrations of dropspindle spinning, braid making, tapestry weaving and crochet etc. plus a chance to try your hand at a four shaft loom, rigid heddle loom, inkle loom and drop spindles etc. There will also be a range of workshops.

April 17 - May 13
Meg Stevens: A Breath of Fresh Air
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Trained as a wood-engraver, Meg turned to landscape painting in oils. Her brush was used with the accuracy of a draughtsman's, to which she added her delight in her surroundings. Atmosphere, light, and even fresh air seem to be conveyed by the natural colour harmonies of her work.

March 13 - April 1
Nature's Decay
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
Art students at GloucestershireUniversity (past and present) explore how nature recycles its own waste and how nature makes use of the process of life and death.

March 20 - April 15
The Art of Infinity
Nature in Art
Twigworth, Gloucester, UK
This is another 'first' for Nature in Art - an exhibition by some of the world's finest 'fractal' artists who use mathematics and computer technology as their creative tools. Tina Oloyede, one of the UK's foremost fractal artists and a participant in this exhibition, explains: "Fractal Art is a relatively new form of visual art that is derived from a type of complex mathematics. Naturally occurring fractals include branching structures such as snowflakes, trees and blood vessels; spiral structures such as those seen in shells; the shapes of mountains, coasts and river basins as well the clustering of galaxies. Their common properties include self-similarity and infinite detail. Although fractal art is inherently abstract, it can possess an uncannily strong impression of nature, either literally or as a reflection of the natural fractal patterns seen in the structures that exist all around us.

March 30, 6 - 8 pm
An Evening of Art and Music
Galveston County Historical Museum
Galveston, Texas, USA
Classical Music Performance begins at 7:00 p.m.
Light refreshments will be available.
Photography Exhibit will continue at the Museum through June 1, 2007
This music for this magical evening will be a 10 minute piece composed by Dr. Kenneth Booker and played by the Houston String Quartet. "A Revelatory Place" represents Dr. Booker's interpretation of the sounds of nature. Since 1998 Kenneth has been the Director of Instrumental Music at the Awty International School in Houston and founder and director of the Awty Wind Ensemble and the Awty Jazz Combo. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition from UT-Austin, and a Masters from the University of Houston.

In the accompanying exhibit, "Faces of Flight," photographer Ted Eubanks has created extremely detailed close-up photographic portraits of birds he has encountered through bird-banding activities over the course of his career as a naturalists and CEO of Fermata Inc. a company that provides consultation service in the area of natural and cultural tourism development. Ted grew up in the Houston-Galveston region. He is the senior author of "Birdlife of Houston, Galveston and the Upper Texas Coast," which has just been published by Texas A&M University Press.

Eubanks said, "I hope these photos capture the art, spirit and individual beauty of these birds."
"Faces of Flight" will be an exhibit created to first and foremost illustrate the remarkable birdlife of the region, but equally will offer insights and observations from historical figures about the same birdlife in past times. The hope is that viewers will come to view and appreciate better the nature of Galveston Bay from a different perspective, that of a natural patrimony to be celebrated, nurtured, and conserved.

February 24 - May 6
Birds in Art
Lindsay Wildlife Museum
Walnut Creek, CA
Birds in Art is a juried exhibition, organized by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. As a group, the paintings, sculptures, batiks, woodcuts, etchings and graphite drawings comprising Birds in Art prove that flights of fancy are always in store during this exaltation of birds and the global artists who depict them in varied mediums and styles. With birds being an international "language," the 2006 roster of 15 countries represented in the exhibition comes as no surprise: Belgium, England, France, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden in addition to Canada and the United States. California is represented by XX artists. Andrea Rich, a woodcut artist who resides in Santa Cruz, California, is the honored Master Wildlife Artist and is represented with fourteen works. Rich, a Racine, Wisconsin, native, has participated in fifteen previous "Birds in Art" exhibitions, beginning in 1989.

At Lindsay Wildlife Museum, visitors can get up close and personal with live, native California animals! The museum also features a hands-on discovery room for children, daily animal presentations, classes and trips focused on nature, changing art and natural history exhibits and a hospital for injured wild animals. Closed most Mondays and Tuesdays.

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The Good Tern Foundation: Telephone: 409.763.0106 Mail: 3823 Avenue P 1/2, Galveston, TX 77550 publisher@natureartinfo.info

The Good Tern Foundation:
Telephone: 409.763.0106
Mail: 3823 Avenue P 1/2,
Galveston, TX 77550
publisher@natureartinfo.info