Pittsburgh Botanic Garden is excited to welcome David Rogers’ Big Bugs + Pollinators during summer 2024! Big Bugs + Pollinators calls attention to some of nature’s smallest and most incredible creatures. These little animals help our world in big ways and David Rogers invites you to explore their mysteries. This exhibition has been touring botanical gardens, arboreta, and nature centers throughout the United States since 1994 in various configurations, but this will feature the Big Bugs series alongside The Pollinators series.
Read more about David Rogers’ Big Bugs + Pollinators on davidrogersbigbugs.com
Big Bugs + Pollinators is made possible with funding from Grable Foundation and Laurel Foundation. Sculpture sponsors include: Calgon Carbon, LANXESS and Richard A. Zappala Family Foundation.
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Untangling Our Roots is a collaborative project that includes two distinguished Pittsburgh artists of diverse practice and style. Peggi Habets and Lauren Braun will exhibit their artwork together in a two-person exhibition of paintings, mixed-media collages, mobiles, and handmade objects. Their diverse styles and media complement and play off each other in a unique way. Peggi and Lauren both have experience in blending meditation with nature and art and see Pittsburgh Botanic Garden as an inspiring and beautiful collaborative setting and environment for their work. Individually and together they will offer the Garden a variety of options for additional programming including artist talks and tours of the art, mindfulness and nature workshops, and artmaking demonstrations or painting workshops.
Read more about Peggi Habets on peggihabets.com
Read more about Lauren Braun on thelaurenbraun.com
Carbon Cycle: An Earth Art Exhibit connects the serpentine line and the circle — two of the most powerful symbols throughout human culture — to tell a story of transformation and rebirth, symbolizing the healing and evolution of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden’s site from coal mine to garden. This large-scale installation is designed by W. Gary Smith, an internationally known environmental artist.
W. Gary Smith has a simple mission: creating meaningful encounters between people, plants and the natural world. Gary has exhibited works in botanic gardens across North America, including exhibitions in Toronto, Montreal, California, Arkansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and more. Gary is the author of From Art to Landscape: Unleashing Creativity in Garden Design and lectures frequently on art and nature.
Carbon Cycle: An Earth Art Exhibit opened on October 1, 2021 in the 5-acre Exhibit Garden. For more information about the work of W. Gary Smith, please visit wgarysmith.com.
