Mission: Project Art for Nature (PAN) helps artists apply their creative processes and visions to share inspiration they find in nature, curiosity about how nature works, and passions to preserve natural ecosystems for the wellbeing of the earth and all its inhabitants.

Workshop Summary: In this outdoor sketching/art workshop, choose from two options for gathering clues from plants or animals, and exploring their relationships with each other, us, and their surroundings: 1) Delve into plant secrets by sketching with traditional materials and techniques; or 2) Arrange gathered natural materials (twigs, leaves, stones) in 2- or 3-dimensional patterns, guided by their characteristics and your intuition. 

Intrigued? Try both! 

Project Art for Nature (PAN) artists Vera Ming Wong, Christine Olson and Bonnie Ploger will guide these practices, in Mines of Spain conservation area around E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center. Open to all experience levels, whether you’ve never made art or are an experienced artist.  Ages 13 and older.  Registration encouraged but not required.”

Description of PAN: Project Art for Nature (PAN) is a gathering of artists inspired by nature, and dedicated to reciprocating through their art for gifts from nature. Through diverse creative processes and media, the artists explore and interpret subjects, from species or places, to processes or threats, applying their skills and insights to inspire and encourage conservation of native species and ecological systems. Engaging human communities, the group presents exhibitions and programs to promote curiosity, awareness, and understanding of native ecosystems and their inhabitants, and to spur protection and restoration of natural communities.

Description of Sketching in Nature: 2-D & 3-D Workshops: Project Art for Nature (PAN) artists Vera Ming Wong, Christine Olson and Bonnie Ploger offer two creative activities through which participants can connect directly, personally and intimately to nature. Sketching in 2 dimensions, we’ll try various drawing techniques to examine and reveal evolutionary characteristics, processes and relationships of plants or insects. Sketching in 3 dimensions, we’ll gather natural materials, letting their characteristics guide us in constructing intuitive forms. Try either activity, or switch between them to try both!

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