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Bonsai

How can a tree be structured to look like a miniature version of its natural form?

Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

Fern

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at ferns, and explore how different artists have been inspired by ferns.

Yosemite

Natural Beauty and National Identity: One Artist’s Impact

Chimborazo

How can artists express their understandings of the natural world through composite landscape paintings?

Apariciones/Apparitions

"The body of the dancers, or phantoms, become sources of knowledge, and their gaze holds the viewer accountable, something that is too often missing from history and art; holding space in historically white spaces in ways that they have never been inhabited before.” -Carolina Caycedo, artist

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The Land of Little Rain

Environmental Exploration and Environmental Storytelling

Desert Garden

Over the past 100 years, gardeners have transformed the Desert Garden into a 10-acre expanse with over 2000 species of succulents and desert plants.