The plant kingdom has provided both the means of creating art and the impetus to do so for millennia. “Plants on Paper” reveals artists’ varied relationships with this more-than-human world, including Victorian works of nature printing and plant collecting, plant-based dyes and papers, and artists’ books looking closely at beneficial weeds, tenacious lichens, medicinal plants, and more. Together these works ask questions—about wildness and order, individualism and community, slowness and speed—and invite us to reflect on our place in plants’ green world.
Curators: Adrienne Pruitt, Archivist, Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections, and Jessica Pigza, Associate Director, Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections
This event is on display at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library on the lower level.