Essentials for Design and Decorative Arts Program

The Academy of Botanical Art presents Essentials for Design & Decorative Arts an ABA Certificate Program   The Academy has received many inquiries into this new design program and as a result has made many changes that will now offer students a greater opportunity to explore the world of design and decorative arts.  The program can be taken for fun, or for a Certificate.  The Certificate can be combined with the...

Visionary Pursuits

Dear Friends: Recently a colleague gave me a very interesting little book about Maria Sybilla Merian entitled, Search for Sibylla – The 17th Century’s Woman of Today by Patricia Kleps-Hok.  I found this story about one of the pioneers in botanical art to be filled with interesting little tangental stories the surround the life of this very special scientist artist.  Below is an edited version that focuses mostly...

February Soul Biz – 2012

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”  Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)   ******   “If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”  Henry David Thoreau...