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Make your Own Leaf Skeleton

Leaf skeleton art was a popular activity for Anglo-American women in the 19th century. Try making your own!

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Activity: Leaf Etching

Create leaf etchings!

Artwork shows stylized plant parts in reds, blues, and greens. Each plant part appears multiple times on the artwork.

Morris Wall Art

How can local plants and animals inspire art?

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

Printed illustration of a flea.

Micrographia

Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science

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

Nature as Artistic Inspiration

How are artists inspired by nature? How do artists combine observation and imagination to create artwork? 

Nature as Art and Artist

Does art need to be made by humans to be considered art? Is nature art? Can natural processes create art? 

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