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Ixchel González Ramírez is a PhD candidate in the departement of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley in the Bryolab. She is a biologist who focuses on the diversity and evolution of fruit-free plants, especially (but not exclusively) liverworts and conifers. Visit her website to learn more about her research.
Phoebe Springstubb is a PhD candidate in Art and Architectural History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current doctoral research is a comparative study of the visual cultures of the North American and Russian Arctics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Jessamine is a Research Botanist at Native Plant Trust in Framingham, MA. She explores research through applied investigations of the environmental tolerance ranges for plants and the intersection of seed ecology, ecological restoration, and climate change. You can learn more about her on our blog.
‘Pleiochiton ebracteatum’ by Fátima Zagonel
Fátima Zagonel is a Brazilian artist who worked as a graphic designer for about 20 years before becoming a botanical illustrator. Her current work primarily consists of scientific illustrations of native Brazilian plants, but without forgetting commercial artwork. In 1999, she won the Margaret Mee Foundation Fellowship and was instructed by Christabel King at the Royal Botanic Gardens for six months. She is the Founder Associate of the Botanical Illustration Center of Paraná – CIBP and is a botanical illustration teacher for beginners. Learn more about her at www.fatimazagonel.com.br.
‘Monstera deliciosa’ by Maria Alice Rezende
Maria Alice Rezende is currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she works as an art teacher as well as an illustrator on projects with researchers at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Her main creative practice is her personal work of illustration of native species of Brazilian flora. Her awards include receiving the "Margaret Mee Foundation Award" at the Royal Botanic Gardens in 2004. She is currently working on an illustration project on the biodiversity of the South Atlantic Islands.
‘Somei Yoshino Cherry’ by Keiko Nibu Tarver
Keiko Nibu Tarver was born in Japan and is currently based in Philadelphia, PA. Her artistic interests includes plants native to the United States and Japan, especially plants of the Aesculus genus. She is a member and board director of both the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators. Her awards include receiving Best Student Painting at the Friends Hospital Grounds: A Living Legacy exhibition in 2012. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US.
John Ryan is a writer based in Western Australia. His poetry and prose focuses on the plant life of Australia, particularly Southwest Australia and the New England region of New South Wales. He has authored and co-authored multiple books centered around plants and the environment, and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England in Australia. To read John’s writing, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.
Ariana Benson is a poet with an interest in this connection through the lens of black history. She is the recipient of the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for her manuscript Black Pastoral. Scroll down to read our Q&A with Ariana, and visit her website to learn more about her projects and publications: https://arianabenson.wordpress.com/about/
Saretta is a writer and poet, currently based in Mohave Valley, AZ. In her poetry, she “challenges the images produced and normalized through anti-Black economic, biological, and mythological narratives.” Her work is heavily influenced by place, and she is greatly inspired by the Mohave and Sonoran deserts.
Jacob is an environmentalist and multidisciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They work with textiles, fashion, and living plants.
Willow is a journalist, essayist, and narrative strategist who was raised and currently works in Houston, TX. Her writing addresses the “misrepresentation and suppression of Black lives,” especially in relation to environmental racism. To learn more about her work visit https://www.willowncurry.com/
Brien is a bookbinder and toolmaker. He draws inspiration from European books from the 17th and 18th centuries, and often his work features designs inspired by plants. To learn more about Brien’s work, visit https://www.beidlermade.com/
Katie is an ecologist and PhD candidate at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. She researches “ how plant-microbe interactions influence ecosystem processes, specifically decomposition and nutrient cycling.”
Yi Hsuan is a textile artist, raised in Taiwan and currently working in Forest Hills, New York. Her work “integrates materials innovation, handcraft and technology to create sustainable textiles systems. My goal is to bridge art, nature, science and technology in the design and making of textiles.” To learn more visit https://yihsuansung.com
Angela creates garden installations and she describes her practice in this way, “My practice is about offering hospitality, guidance, care, and gestures of love.” Her work is a response to social and societal injustices that disproportionately impact marginalized and at-risk communities. Her installations respond by creating spaces of “respite, calm, relaxation, beauty and knowledge sharing.” To learn more about her work, visit www.angeladrakeford.com.
L. is a poet, currently based in Columbus, OH. Her poetry “[engages] with Black identity, lineage, the body, Appalachian landscape and nourishment.” She draws from oral histories, archives, and genealogical research, and “Black joy” is a central theme in her work.
Connie is an interdisciplinary visual artist and PhD Candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines “diverse manifestations of propaganda, possibilities for expanding the language of climate apocalypse, and the racialization of contamination narratives, as told through visual and text-based forms.” To learn more about Connie, visit http://www.conniezheng.com
Janisse is a writer “whose subject most often falls into the borderland of nature and culture.” She lives on an organic farm near Savannah, GA, and has written five non-fiction books as well as a book of eco-poetry. Currently, she is working on a book about pine-meadow bogs that occur within Southern coastal plains and their diverse plant life, particularly carnivorous plants. To learn more about her, visit https://www.janisseray.com.
Torrey is a fiction writer, based in Brooklyn, NY. She describes her writing in this way, “A sense of movement haunts my fiction; my stories are often written through the lens of a visitor, and they address the question of how personal history connects and diverges from cultural history, how we appropriate (rightly or wrongly) identity from the places we inhabit.” Learn more about her work at www.torreycrim.com.
Jordan is an ecologist and PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech University. Her dissertation focuses on grassland ecology, and aims to “improve our understanding of grassland restoration ecology and management in Virginia using long-term ecological data from plant, arthropod, and soil communities collected across three field sites.”