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Drawing Workshop: Drawing for the Planet
Create portraits of some of the amazing species that inhabit The Huntington and the surrounding region with artist Jane Lee McCracken. This intergenerational workshop is suitable for adults and children 5 and up.
Family Workshop: Accordion Books
Learn how to make an accordion-style artist book, featuring your own panoramic drawings or written compositions. This workshop is perfect for bookbinding beginners and no prior experience is needed.
K-12 Educator Saturday Workshop: Maintaining School Gardens over the Summer
Learn how to maintain your school garden during the summer break with expert advice from Andrew Lepore, Career Technical Education agriculture teacher.
The Betye Saar Art Box
Celebrate Betye Saar's artistic legacy and learn more about her work as you make art inspired by five of her artworks. Available in English and Spanish.
A Resurgence of Victory Gardens
In an effort to increase self-sufficiency and reduce trips to the grocery store during our current pandemic, a growing number of people are adding vegetable and herb gardens to their own yards.
Library Collectors’ Council Acquisitions for 2024
The Huntington has acquired six extraordinary collections through the generosity of the Library Collectors’ Council, a group of supporters who help fund the purchase of new items to add to the Library’s holdings.
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Six Works, Expands the Range of the American Art Collection
Spanning nearly 300 years, the acquisitions include works by Edward Mitchell Bannister, Agostino Brunias, Letitia Huckaby, Lilly Martin Spencer, Tiffany and Co., and Tyrus Wong.
Pollinators Investigation
What is the population of pollinators in your garden space and what is their role in a plant’s life cycle? Work individually or collaboratively to produce data on pollinators in a garden, compare data collected by different groups and make inferences about the role of pollinators in a plant’s life cycle.
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Betye Saar’s “Drifting Toward Twilight”
Betye Saar’s “Drifting Toward Twilight,” a site-specific installation commissioned by The Huntington, poetically connects the external realm to interior territories—The Huntington’s grounds to its galleries and the life of the body to the mind—and has also been a way to manifest the artist’s personal history.
Who’s Behind the Curtain?
Kathleen Quinn's elegant drapes accent the renovation of a grand staircaseIn advance of The Huntington’s Centennial celebration, which gets under way in the fall of 2019, Catherine Hess, chief curator of European art, decided that it was time to reimagine the décor...
Lessons Learned: Mulholland's Fatal Dam
Two historians assess Mulholland's responsibility for one of the nation's worst civil engineering disastersIn the critically acclaimed book Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster, historians Norris Hundley, Jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a detailed account and analysis of the collapse of the St. Francis Dam
Mapping a City on the Move
Pioneer cartographer Laura L. Whitlock captured a megalopolis in the makingIn August 1919, Henry and Arabella Huntington drafted documents converting their San Marino ranch into a "library, art gallery, museum, and park."
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The Year Was 1970
The Huntington's bimonthly newsletter has been in print for more than a half-century.
News Release - The Huntington Announces Riders for 2020 Rose Parade® Float
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that its "Cultivating Curiosity" float in the 2020 Rose Parade® will host eight riders and will be followed by six walkers as it makes the 5.5-mile journey down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on New Year's Day.
2020-21 Awarded Fellowships
The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.
Three Artists, Three Visions
African-American Art at The HuntingtonThe Huntington continues to fill in gaps in its collecting areas, most recently by homing in on works by African-American artists.
A Fascination with Flax
When Kelly Fernandez, head of the Herb and Shakespeare gardens, revived The Huntington’s Fiber Arts Day program in 2013 and saw expert craftspeople dyeing, spinning, and weaving fibers into incredible textiles, she couldn’t help but be intrigued.
Another West: Ecologies of Photography
An exploration of photography’s ecological dimensions provides an opportunity to reexamine the role that photography has played in documentation as well as environmental degradation. By examining photographs other than those of classic Western landscapes, we reconsider how Indigenous persons and settlers perceived and interacted with the environment.
Chinese Garden Tea House Complex
The Chinese Garden Tea House Complex is the most natural intimate setting in the expansive Chinese Garden, Liu Fang Yuan.
California Gold Rush Landscapes
In January of 1851, John R. Fitch, a gold prospector, penned these words to his brother: "The wear and tear of the mines is very great."
John Ogilby’s English Restoration Fantasy
John Ogilby was born in Scotland in 1600, died in London in 1676, and was, at various points in between, a dancing master, a theatrical impresario, a translator of Virgil and Homer, and a widely read geographer.
News Release - Exhibition to Reveal Abstract Painter Frederick Hammersley's Unique Creative Process, Meticulously Outlined in Personal Archives
A fall exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on the American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings.
Let Us Entertain You
Fanchon and Marco's big "Ideas" revolutionized the 1920s theater worldChances are you've never heard of Fanchon and Marco. But in the 1920s, millions of Americans had.