September 29-\u00a0December 4, 2015<\/p>\n
FLORA is a group of Contemporary Botanical Artists.\u00a0 Flora was formed by local artists from Long Island who met while studying under the mentoring of world renowned botanical artist, Rose Pellicano in May of 2005.\u00a0 As a group, they have exhibited their botanical artwork at many venues on Long Island.\u00a0 Individual members have also participated in juried shows in New York City, Long island, Pennsylvania and other locations.<\/p>\n
Their\u00a0artwork can be rendered in various media such as watercolor, ink, colored pencil, graphite and silverpoint among others.\u00a0 The members of FLORA are also members of the American Society of Botanical Artists, founded by Diane Boucher in 1994 which has been instrumental in making the public aware of the tradition of botanical painting and how the beauty of this art form inspired the conservation of plants around the world.\u00a0 The ASBA has\u00a0grown from 200 to 1300 individual members and from 5\u00a0to 20 institutional members around the world.<\/p>\n
“Botanical Art and illustration is a living art form which has had a long tradition in both the arts and sciences and is enjoying resurgence in popularity with artists and collectors.\u00a0 There is scientific accuracy in color, scale and in the details of the plant structure while allowing the artist to portray it in an aesthetically pleasing way.\u00a0 Drawings and paintings of plants have been found thousands of years ago in the earliest civilizations and in ancient manuscripts.\u00a0 The most practical uses were for identifying plants for their medicinal properties as was done in the Middle Ages when the collections of herbals became valuable.\u00a0 During the ages of discovery and exploration, European explorers returned from their voyages with thousands of plant and seed samples.\u00a0 Most expeditions took along artists to record plants in their natural habitats which would not have survived their long voyages.<\/p>\n
Botanical Art is timeless and global.\u00a0 It has documented horticultural materials and plants throughout the ages.\u00a0 This art form allows us to leave behind a documented record of the plants of our time for future generations.” Members of FLORA are: September 29-\u00a0December 4, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-exhibits"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13515,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions\/13515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe American Society of Botanical Artists<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMarcia Galletti<\/em>
\nMary Beth Hansen<\/em>
\nMary Ann Kane<\/em>
\nPatricia Luppino<\/em>
\nIrene Messina<\/em>
\nD. Record<\/em>
\nBruna Schuss<\/em>
\nMasako Stampf<\/em>
\nSusan Strauss<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"