Education Search

Search results

38 results found. Reset Search

Olive penjing against a white wall.

Penjing

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

Plant with bright green leaves growing close to the ground.

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.

Painting of a valley with greenery in the valley basin and high vertical mountains. A waterfall is visible on one of the mountain faces.

Yosemite

Natural Beauty and National Identity: One Artist’s Impact

Painting with a reddish mountain in the background, hills in the midground, and trees and water in the foreground.

Chimborazo

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

Black and brown people wearing red, yellow, and white drape their bodies over the branches of a large tree.

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

A garden with plants in the foreground and a building in the background

Japanese Garden

The Japanese Garden is one of the oldest gardens at The Huntington. It was started over a century ago and has undergone a great deal of change over the past 100 years.

Printed illustration of a flea.

Micrographia

Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science

A comet descends through the night sky toward earth. On earth, a house with a telescope stands next to a grouping of trees.

Trouvelot’s Astronomical Drawings

“He had an uncanny capacity to combine art and science in such a way as to make substantial contributions to both fields.” Krystle Satrum, Assistant Curator, Jay T. Last Collection

Illustrated mosquito with text above and below the mosquito. The text is in different fonts and in red and black. The text reads: This is Ann she's dying to meet you.

This is Ann

Public Health with Dr. Seuss: Communicating Scientific Knowledge through Visual Storytelling.

Color illustration of a plant with narrow palmate green leaves. Some of the leaves have holes in the center or rips near at the margin. The plant has a moth resting on a leaf and a moth flying near the stem. The plant has a larva resting on a stem and a cocoon attached to a stem.  A large black yellow and red larva rests on a leaf. A cocoon rests on the stem and on a swollen root. A moth flies near the plant. A snake coils around the plant.

Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname

Merian discovered and shared new scientific information about insects, changing the way Europeans thought about entomology and ecology