Fifteen years ago, Curtis Jones and Judy Seaborn came up with an idea for a seed packet. After 15 years of almost unbelievably difficult situations, Botanical interests now ships over 5 million seed packets to over 2500 independent garden centers and health food grocery stores nationally.
Thursday February 18 - Morrison Center
Fifteen years ago, Curtis Jones and Judy Seaborn came up with an idea for a seed packet. After 15 years of almost unbelievably difficult situations, Botanical interests now ships over 5 million seed packets to over 2500 independent garden centers and health food grocery stores nationally.
Thursday, January 28 - Morrison Center
Brian Elliott has had a life-long interest in plants and ethnobotany. He has worked as a landscaper, nurseryman, native seed collector, botanist for the Forest Service, and is currently self-employed botanical consultant focusing on rare plant conservation in the western United States. In 2009, he published his first book, the Handbook of Edible and Poisonous Plants of Western North America.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Each person is a nation unto himself, and what he does with that nation is up to him - Renaldo KuhlerRenaldo Kuhler is a scientific illustrator with a lifelong project: his own nation, Roccaterania. With the same detail he uses to record the scale patterns of snakes or the curves of microscopic bones, he has designed an alphabet, fashion, architecture, movie industry, and all the other possible details of his imaginary country.
Rocaterrania is a feature-length documentary journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Kuhler, a visionary artist who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth, and illustrated the nation’s history for six decades.
“Fantasy is like fruit and dessert, and reality is like meat and potatoes and green beans” -Kuhler
Formerly a journalist, physics teacher and electrical engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Program, Brett Ingram has been making films since 1990. His short documentaries and animated films have screened at more than 150 festivals, winning 30 awards collectively.
Denver Botanic Gardens –
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - Morrison Center
F. R. (Dick) Yeatts is a Professor Emeritus in Physics at the Colorado School of Mines. While employed, his research was mostly in geophysics. Since retiring, his interest is in the mathematics and physics of plants.
October 22, 2009, GATES HALL
Influences of Landscape and Climate Change on the Clan of the Parry primrose
By Tass Kelso, PhD, Colorado Collage, Colorado Springs, CO
Tass Kelso is a professor of biology at Colorado College, where she has been teaching botany since 1987. Her research specialties are the evolution, diversity and biogeography of the western flora, especially the Primulaceae.
Denver Botanic Gardens – Gates Hall
6:30 – 8 p.m.
October 1st, 2009, Morrison Center
Jan Boyd Haring is a life long artist devoted to nature. Now retired from a twenty-three year career in the Information Technology industry, she has fulfilled her goal to be an artist full time.Jan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Northern Arizona, and has attended classes at the School of the Art Institute at Chicago. She graduated from the Denver Botanic Gardens Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate Program in 2006. She is currently creating botanical illustrations primarily in watercolor and colored pencil. Her work is in numerous private collections and has been the recipient of several awards in juried shows.
Café Botanique is a part of the Botanical Art and Illustration Program and is open to everybody. The 30-40 minute talk starts at 6:30 p.m. and is followed by a discussion. Café Botanique meets every first and third Thursday of the month, each time with a different topic relating to Denver Botanic Gardens exhibits and Botanical Illustration classes. There is no admission fee and pre-registration is not required. BYOS.
This lecture offers one elective credit hour in the BI-program.
Denver Botanic Gardens – Morrison Center
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Thursday, September 17- Morrison Center
By David Pyle, VP/Division Publisher for Art, Jewelry and Yarn Interweave
David Pyle is the author of What Every Artist Needs to Know About Paints and Colors (Krause, 2000), as well as more than 100 published articles about art materials and techniques. A painter, he has served as the director of technical education for a major art materials manufacturer. He now is publisher for the American Artist group, which includes American Artist, Drawing, Watercolor and Workshop magazines.
Denver Botanic Gardens – Morrison Center
6:30 – 8 p.m.



