Gallery Exhibit Opening: The Artistry of Herbariums

Date: Friday, December 12
Location: Montana Natural History Center
Time: 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE and open to the public

Join us for a new gallery opening at the Montana Natural History Center, featuring work by Missoula photographer Peggy Christian!

In conjunction with the new Naturalist Field Station exhibit featuring the University of Montana Herbarium, this show contains a collection of photographic prints that explore the beauty of botanical forms found in three different herbariums.

From UM’s, 16 of the most popular Montana wildflowers, chosen by the Missoula Native Plant Society, as well as a selection of specimens from Glacier Park’s Belly River herbarium are rendered in cyanotype. This is one of the earliest photographic printing processes and was used by Anna Atkins for her images of her seaweed collection in the first photographically illustrated book in 1843. In addition there is a collection of hand-painted photographs using botanical inks from John Pierce’s herbarium of the Rattlesnake.

Peggy Christian is a Missoula photographer, writer, and book artist who works in a variety of historical alternative printing processes and is an herbarium aficionado.

Light refreshments provided.

You may also like the following events from Montana Natural History Center:

• This Wednesday, 10th December, 06:00 pm, Missoula’s Cultural Heritage and the Clark Fork River – An Ever-Changing Landscape in Missoula
• Next Wednesday, 17th December, 07:00 pm, Sip & Sketch: Create a Phenology Wheel in Missoula
• Happening on, 14th January, 07:00 pm, Create Your Own Chimera: A Mixed Media Animal Mash-up with Courtney Blazon! in Missoula

Also check out other Arts events in Missoula, Literary Art events in Missoula.