Opening Remarks
Jim Folsom provides the opening remarks for the "Weird, Wild & Wonderful Symposium". Folsom is the Marge and Sherm Telleen Director of the Botanical G...
Weird, Wild & Wonderful Symposium
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The Symposium, held in the Brody Botanical Center at The Huntington, features lectures from a wide variety of fields, including the sciences, botany, photography, botanical art history, the digital world and tours of The Huntington's gardens, collections, and art galleries.
Do You ‘See’ Plants? Using Art and Technology to Teach Science
Jodie S. Holt, Ph.D., discusses why plants are essential to our existence on earth, yet most people only notice plants as a green backdrop to their da...
Painting the Wonder Plants of Borneo
Mieko Ishikawa, discusses the enormous number of living things in the tropical rain forests of Borneo: giant jungle trees rising 200 to 250 feet high,...
The Art of Orchids
Phillip Crib, discuss The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which has a magnificent collection of original botanical art that has accumulated over the past ...
Plants, Artists, Languages: A Sense of Times and Places
Alain Touwaide, Ph.D., discusses how thousands of plant representations can be found in multiple ancient books, in manuscript or printed form, in many...