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Wings of Wonder: Towering Works of Nature

March 27, 2021 - October 31, 2021
Atlanta Botanical Garden, GAINESVILLE, 1911 Sweetbay Drive
Gainesville, GA 30501 United States

Known as The Myth Makers, Massachusetts-based artists Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein are inspired by events in the natural world and the mysterious nature of animals. The artists have presented more than 20 public works throughout the world at art museums, sculpture parks and urban centers from Taiwan to New York. For the Gainesville exhibition, […]

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Virtual Alston Lecture Digital Viewing: Jamaica Kincaid

September 30, 2021 - October 12, 2021

For a limited time, view the incredible Virtual Alston Lecture with Jamaica Kincaid in conversation with Teresa Weaver. Learn more about the celebrated author's fascinating and, at time, dangerous trek through the foothills of the Himalayas in search of native plants to grow in her Vermont Garden. Get your copy of "Among Flowers: A Walk […]

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7:00 pm

Alston Lecture – The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines

October 12, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30309 United States

Join us in the Day Hall Tuesday, Oct. 12 for this Alston Lecture. Cassandra Quave, PhD, is the herbarium curator and an associate professor of dermatology and human health at Emory University. She is also the co-founder and CEO/CSO of PhytoTEK LLC, a drug-discovery company dedicated to developing solutions from botanicals for the treatment of […]

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