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Phillippa Pitts is a Horowitz Foundation Fellow for American Art at Boston University. Her research questions social, political, and racial borders within American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the aspirations and anxieties around expansion, immigration, xenophobia, and Indigeneity that underpin such constructions.
Dr. Ingmar Staude is Senior Scientist of the group "Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity" at Leipzig University. Ingmar’s research focus is centered around understanding nature’s strategy to cope with anthropogenic global change using theoretical, inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches.
Shastri Akella's is a writer and teacher. His debut novel "The Sea Elephants" has been published by Flatiron Books (USA, Canada) and Penguin (India). He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center (2021) and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation (2023). He's winner of 2022 FracturedLit Flash Fiction Contest and the 2023 Best Microfiction Contest. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, CRAFT, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, World Literature Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and PhD. in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He's an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University.
Anna Wyngaarden is a population ecologist and botanist interested in the population dynamics driving the persistence of rare and endemic plant species. She is currently focusing on three globally imperiled species endemic to granite outcrops in the southeastern US, utilizing observational studies and modeling approaches to tease apart the broad and local drivers of the species’ observed patterns of abundance and occupancy.
Nazafarin Lotfi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and her BA from the University of Tehran in 2007. Lotfi is a multi-disciplinary artist who studies how the self and notions of identity formation are understood in relationship to architecture, landscape, space, and place. She explores humanness in relation to nonhuman bodies and places that are defined by practices of map-making and gardening. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Regards, Chicago, IL; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; MOCA Tucson, AZ; Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL, among many more. She is the recipient of 2023 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence.
Lotfi’s practice has received support from Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Grant, Night Bloom: Grants for Artists, and CAAP Grant from the City of Chicago. Lotfi was a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University in 2021-22.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, John considers himself a contemporary visual artist whose practice sits within the genre of botanical art yet rebels against its continued traditional representations and tropes. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in solo and group exhibitions for the last 22 years in private and public galleries exploring these tensions along with the complex and dynamic interrelationships of man and nature/science and art. This has evolved into a commitment to painting as both a method and as a form of deeper inspection which continues to draw upon the power of close observation. Using rich luminous hues in gorgeously exotic and rare botanical specimens epitomise his work, however these are more than representational flower paintings. Closer inspection unearths a certain ambiguity of form and intent towards a dark and complex narrative which is born of the association between eye and hand, and sense and thought.
Corymbia ficifolia, watercolor on paper, 49 x 40 cm, 2018 - Beverly Allen
Beverly worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, before moving to botanical art practice. She has shown annually at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney ‘Botanica’ Exhibition since 1999, and exhibits internationally.
Her work is held in private collections including the Shirley Sherwood Collection, the Peter Crossing Collection and the Isaac Sutton Collection as well as at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation USA, the Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium Library at Kew Gardens, the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, the Highgrove Florilegium for the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Trust, The Transylvania Florilegium for the Prince of Wales’s Foundation Romania and The Florilegium, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
Carol took a circuitous route to botanical art. A one-time draftsman, surveyor’s cartographer, and tractor-trailer driver all were steps along the trail that contribute to her work in the field and studio.
A freelancer for over 30 years, Carol's main obsession has always been orchids, but rare wildflowers, heirloom fruits and other interesting plants are fair game. Living in the Hudson Valley provides perfect opportunities for exploring plant diversity. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected around the world. Among recent venues are Jonathan Cooper Gallery, London; Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew, UK: UBS Galleries and Newhouse Galleries in New York; Museum de Zwarte Tulp, Lisse, the Netherlands; and the Marciana Library, Venice, Italy. Her work is in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hunt Institute, and numerous private and corporate collections throughout the Americas and Europe. She recently was invited to contribute to the Grootbos Florilegium, a project to document and raise awareness of the Cape Floral Kingdom in South Africa. A book has been published documenting the project.
Carol is Exhibitions Director of the American Society of Botanical Artists,, curating and coordinating exhibitions throughout the US. She teaches workshops around the country and internationally in person and online devoted to techniques of watercolor painting on vellum.
Emmons has won many awards including two Gold Medals and a “Best Painting in Show” from the Royal Horticultural Society, London. Also, the prestigious Diane Bouchier Founders Award for Excellence in Botanical Art given by the American Society of Botanical Artists.
She has exhibited at the Smithsonian; the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; the New York Botanical Garden; Wave Hill, the United States Botanic Garden and the Horticultural Society of New York.
Recent awards include the Jurors’ Award at the 20th Botanical Art Exhibition at Filoli and “Best in Show” at the American Society of Botanical Artists 21st International Exhibition, Wave Hill.
Her work is included in numerous collections including the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Kew; the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; and the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection.
When not painting, Emmons spends her days gardening and walking the trails of Vashon Island, Washington State. She volunteers at Vashon Island Pet Protectors.