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.

Description of PAN: Project Art for Nature (PAN)  is a group of 12+ artists whose works in various media focuses on natiive flora, fauna, fungi and their ecosystems. With their work they aspire to educate, celebrate and inspire viewers to develop a reciprocal relationship with nature, and to encourage protection of our shared environment. Works include traditional media such as painting, including plein air, as well as drawing, printmaking, paper cutting and experimental collaborations with ephemeral processes. Our artists include individuals from various backgrounds, including educators, museum curator, biological illustrators, biologists, healthcare, graphic designers and writers.

Make Your Mark with Nature! – Workshop

June 26 | EB Lyons Interpretive Center | 10 AM – Noon

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 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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