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Month
Date
Upcoming Event
Certificate and Advanced Certificate in Native Plants
The Certificate in Native Plant Studies provides a well-balanced botany, ecology, and taxonomy curriculum that enables students to develop a greater appreciation of native flora of the southeastern United States. The program provides basic scientific background and hands-on investigative opportunities. Studies leading to the Certificate will enhance the experience of professionals as well as dedicated amateur botanists and provide strong credentials for those involved in botanical, ecological, and conservation endeavors. Classes are taught by Garden staff, UNC professors, and other area experts.
Certificate in Botanical Art & Illustration
The Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration provides comprehensive courses to people who wish to improve their skills in drawing and painting plants in an accurate and technically detailed manner. Studies leading to the certificate will enhance the experience of both the professional and the dedicated amateur artist. The program is designed to give students a well-balanced curriculum combining basic scientific background, visual arts theory, and practical experience using various media.
Botanical Art Fundamentals: An Online Program
The Botanical Art Fundamentals Program is designed to give students a foundational level curriculum combining basic scientific background, visual arts theory, and a basic level of experience using various media. Classes are taught by North Carolina art professionals and botany professionals. The program can be completed 100% in the virtual format, although individuals may also choose to take courses in-person as well. Course offerings and scheduling are designed for completion within a one and one half to two-year period.
Wreath Making with Native Plants: A Virtual Demonstration
Join Wendy Wenck as she leads you through a wreath-making demonstration using native plants. Learn which native plant species to plant for future wreath-making projects. Wendy retired from NCBG in 2022, after serving many years as the curator of the Herb Garden and Totten Center landscapes. Upon payment, you will receive a link to view the demonstration along with a specially curated plant list.
March
3/23/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Supporting Pollinator Communities in NC Agroecosystems
Pollinating insects, primarily bees, provide billions of dollars worth of pollination services to agricultural systems across the US each year. However, populations of these important insects are jeopardized by a multitude of stressors including habitat loss, land development, pathogens, pesticides, and climate change. There have been many conservation efforts towards protecting pollinator communities in agricultural areas, but questions still remain about how best to do so. Learn about examples of conservation efforts in North Carolina and how the pollinator community responds.
3/24/2023
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Among Trees: A Mindfulness Workshop
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Although much of the North Carolina Piedmont’s forest habitat has been altered, or eliminated, for housing, commerce, and highways, we remain, in a sense, forest dwellers. This workshop is an opportunity to deepen our awareness of trees and forest ecosystems at a time when the Piedmont forest is waking up from winter. This workshop will take place in a North Carolina Botanical Garden natural area (place TBA). After an introduction to the forest ecosystem, we’ll use techniques derived from forest bathing, mindfulness practice, and prompt writing to explore and share our kinship with the forest.
3/25/2023
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Creek Week Rain Garden Workshop
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
The North Carolina Botanical Garden, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the N.C. Cooperative Extension invites you to participate in a rain garden workshop hosted at the Carolina Community Garden (CCG). The workshop will be led by stormwater expert Mitch Woodward. It will cover all aspects of rain garden design, plant selection, and care, and will provide participants hands-on experience in rain garden installation on-site at the CCG. As a part of Orange County Creek Week, participants will learn how to create beautiful rain gardens as an option for dealing with stormwater in residential properties and communities. Additionally, Allison Weakley, a Town of Chapel Hill stormwater analyst and botanist, will be present to answer participants’ questions regarding choosing native plants for your own rain garden.
3/25/2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Making Herbal Liquid Soap from Scratch
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Join Deena Class for this fun workshop on how to make herbal liquid soap in your kitchen with very simple equipment. During the workshop, Deena will teach you the basics of liquid soapmaking: 1) SAFETY, 2) Formulating a recipe, 3) choosing herbs to infuse in your oils ahead of time (we’ll be using violet leaves for this batch), 4) herbs to add when you dilute your soap paste if desired, and 5) diluting your soap paste into your own unique liquid soap suitable for your skin type and any skin issues you face.
3/31/2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Excursion: Trilliums of Melrose Mountain and Surrounding Sites, Polk County
Experience the abundant Trillium diversity at Melrose Mountain and nearby sites and celebrate the incredible regional efforts in conserving these special places. We will visit three small sites together starting with Melrose Falls Trail, then Pearson’s Falls Trail, and finishing up with Norman Wilder Forest Trail. These three sites are within a 5 miles stretch along the same highway 176 and we’ll provide maps and directions to the group at the first location.
April
4/1/2023
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Penny's Bend: A Half Day Field Trip
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve is an 84-acre site that protects numerous rare plant species. It is surrounded on three sides by the Eno River in eastern Durham County, North Carolina. This half day field trip will include a visit to distinct plant communities including a remnant Piedmont prairie, rich mesic and alluvial forests, and dry shortleaf pine-dominated bluffs. Rare species found on the Preserve include the smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata), eastern prairie blue wild indigo (Baptisia minor var. aberrans), hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens), and Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria). Much of this hike is on primitive trails over uneven terrain, with one short, steep climb up from the river. Wear sturdy hiking footwear and bring insect repellent, water, and a walking stick, if you ever use one.
4/2/2023
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture - Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Land Management and the Excavation of Hidden History
Dr. Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her research focuses on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations gardened large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans. Contrary to popular belief, Indigenous Peoples leveraged immense influence on their surrounding lands, fires, and waters in ways that could heal our planet today. Whether it's periodically burning grassland ecosystems with low severity fires to maintain habitat for deer, buffalo, antelope, etc, or building intertidal rock walls that catch sediment and warmer waters to expand clam habitat, native people have a number of innovative strategies for scaling habitat for edible plants and animals whom they often view as relatives. Her work translates this poorly understood history to the Western world and highlights the connection between Indigenous land ethics, decolonial narratives, carbon sequestration, biodiversity augmentation, anthropogenic habitat expansion, and regional ecosystems connectivity. These success of the systems is believed to be due to their underlying value system of respect, reverence, responsibility and reciprocity.
4/5/2023
1:00 PM - 4/26/2023 3:15 PM
Principles of Conservation Biology
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
This course is intended for an experienced audience and introduces the principles of biodiversity and conservation. Students learn about rare plants, conservation genetics, ecological restoration, conservation landscaping, and preserve design.
4/6/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Identifying and Controlling Invasive Plants
This course is intended for a broad audience. Through classroom and field demonstrations, students learn the tools and methods needed to identify invasive species and effectively remove them. We'll discuss the most prominent invasive plants in North Carolina and how to identify them by habit and growth form. Then, we'll cover integrated methods for controlling invasive plants on multiple scales.
4/6/2023
10:00 AM - 4/27/2023 12:30 PM
Sketching Landscapes in the Garden
Have you ever wanted to loosely capture what you see in a sketch while out on a hike or sitting in your own backyard? In this class, the North Carolina Botanical Garden will become our classroom as we experience the healing benefits of sketching while out in nature. You can lower your stress levels and promote mental calmness as we sketch the landscape before us. This class is about loosely capturing the essence of the natural world, so don’t worry if you don’t have a lot of drawing experience as we won’t be focusing on all the little details. This class is for all skill levels.
4/8/2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Second Saturday NCBG Tour
From March to November, join our skilled volunteer Garden Guides on the second Saturday of the month for a guided tour of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Each month offers a glimpse into what’s happening in our unique native plant gardens – from spring wildflowers to fall color – and what makes the NCBG one of the premier conservation gardens in the US. Tours are one (1) hour and space is limited! Please register each member of your party separately.
4/12/2023
9:15 AM - 5/3/2023 12:45 PM
Beginning Colored Pencil: Virtual
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Colored pencil is a next step in advancing from drawing to painting, and introduces the full array of fine art pigments. This course is a hands-on introduction to commonly used materials and techniques such as layering, blending, burnishing and tonal gradation. No prerequisites
4/13/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual Lunchbox Talk: Climate Resiliency and Native Foodways with Dr. Alexandra Lawrence
Engaging with Indigenous knowledge to re-establish sustainable practices is an essential part of a transition to a just climate future. Hear from Dr. Lawrence about one such project, Amani akateka, which seeks to reestablish traditional cultivation practices on an Indigenous-owned land parcel within the Yesah ancestral homelands.
4/13/2023
1:15 PM - 5/4/2023 4:15 PM
Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes
This course is intended for a broad audience and explores many aspects of the evolutionary history, economic and ecological dominance, current distribution, biology, and identification of the “graminoids.” Through lectures, lab work, and short field trips, students learn to appreciate the subtle and detailed beauty of these plants with inconspicuous flowers. Students also learn materials and methods for identifying these distinctive and important members of our flora.
4/15/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Native Southeastern Medicinal Plants
Explore the beauty of native southeastern medicinal plants through field identification. Using the expansive resources of the NCBG display gardens and the Piedmont Nature Trails behind the Garden, students take in the abundant medicine that our local flora has to offer. Topics include field identification, ethical gathering and harvesting, history and lore of each plant, therapeutic and medicinal uses as well as preparations. No prerequisites.
4/15/2023
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Coker Arboretum Tour
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Take a tour of this gem on the UNC campus with a Coker Arboretum curator. This walking tour will explore the 5-acres that make up the Arboretum, allowing time for observation and discussion. Each tour differs as the gardens change through the seasons.
4/15/2023
1:15 PM - 5/13/2023 4:45 PM
Botanical Sketchbook: Virtual
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Take your sketchbook outdoors and reconnect with plants in their natural environment. In this course, students are encouraged to shed old habits and try new techniques as they travel through the variety of gardens and habitats in their home areas. Through a combination of guided exercises and free experimentation, students discover new ways of seeing plants, new problem-solving skills, and a refreshing way of thinking about layout and color. Several media are used, from ballpoint pen to watercolor to pencil. No prerequisite.
4/18/2023
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Battle Park Tour
Learn about the history and preservation of the property now known as Battle Park on the UNC campus. We'll walk through the park in the peak of its spring glory, covering hotspots visited and named by Kemp Plummer Battle himself as well as the philosophies behind the preservation and conservation of our natural areas.
4/20/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A Conversation Between Collaborators: The Weeds and Botanical Art - Hybrid
Author Katy Simpson Smith and botanical artist Kathy Schermer-Gramm discuss Simpson Smith's new novel, The Weeds, a story of love, survival, revenge, and botany set in the surprisingly verdant Roman Colosseum. Schermer-Gramm provided the art for the book, in the form of twelve eerily beautiful botanical illustrations. Now, the two speak on their creative practices, their collaboration, and all things plants.
4/20/2023
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hora de Cuentos - Spanish Story Time
Acompáñanos y disfruta de cuentos, rimas, y canciones en español con la bibliotecaria Maira. Este programa familiar es recomendado para una audiencia de 2 años en adelante. La hora de cuentos es gratis y se lleva a cabo el aire libre en el Children's Wonder Garden. Come join us for stories, songs, and rhymes in Spanish with Youth & Family Librarian Maira from the Chapel Hill Public Library. We welcome all ages and cater to a family audience (ages 2 and up). Story Time is free and takes place outdoors in the Children's Wonder Garden.
4/22/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Native Southeastern Medicinal Plants
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Explore the beauty of native southeastern medicinal plants through field identification. Using the expansive resources of the NCBG display gardens and the Piedmont Nature Trails behind the Garden, students take in the abundant medicine that our local flora has to offer. Topics include field identification, ethical gathering and harvesting, history and lore of each plant, therapeutic and medicinal uses as well as preparations. No prerequisites.
4/22/2023
1:30 PM - 5/13/2023 4:00 PM
Intermediate Drawing - Hybrid
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
In this class, students continue their journey to learn the skills needed to produce accurate tonal graphite botanical drawings from life. Covered topics include: more methods to increase accuracy, transitioning to tonal drawing, light on form fundamentals, realistic textures, and rendering fine plant details. Prerequisite: Beginning Drawing.
4/23/2023
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Native Grasses in Your Landscape
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Native grasses are tough and resilient plants that can make a great addition to any home landscape. Whether you’re hoping to provide wildlife habitat, reduce maintenance, or provide a bold statement in your landscape, there’s a native grass that can meet your needs. In this course we’ll explore the importance of grasses in our landscapes, learn how to maintain and manage these species, and look at the best native grasses for a wide range of garden situations.
4/25/2023
12:30 PM - 5/18/2023 4:00 PM
Local Trees - Hybrid
This short course is perfect for those just beginning their study of trees or for recent transplants to the NC Piedmont who want to identify the common deciduous trees in their backyard gardens and neighborhoods. Students spend time outdoors, walking in the Garden or on the Piedmont Nature Trails, learning about common trees, how to identify them, and understanding why they grow where they do.
4/27/2023
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Container Gardening with Native Plants
Are you low on outdoor gardening spaces? Perhaps you're looking to add new color or interest to your landscape, or maybe you'd like to make your porch or patio look more inviting. Join NCBG Curator Becca Wait for this class as she shares tips for growing native plants in containers and shares which plants thrive in pots.
4/27/2023
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hybrid Special Arbor Day Lecture, celebrating the 120th Anniversary of Coker Arboretum featuring Dr. Peter White - The World of Trees
Join the Garden and Dr. Peter White, former Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden and Professor of Biology (Emeritus) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for a special lecture celebrating trees in all their diversity of forms and ecological roles and, more particularly, in celebration of Arbor Day and the 120th anniversary year of the Coker Arboretum. In 2022, Peter White, as a member of a four-person team, published The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth’s Forest Ecosystems (Princeton University Press), recently named recipient of the Outstanding Reference Book of the last year by the American Library Association and presented with the PROSE Award for Environmental Science by the American Association of Publishers.
4/29/2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Distilling Plant Hydrosols and Essential Oil in Your Kitchen
Join Deena Class for this hands-on workshop on how to distill plant hydrosols right in your kitchen! What's a hydrosol, you ask? It's the product of steam distillation of plants that yields deliciously-scented 'floral water' (the hydrosol part) AND essential oils! In commercial distillation, the essential oils are bottled separately, but we leave the EOs in our hydrosol!
4/29/2023
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Spring at Mason Farm
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Take a turn around the Mason Farm Biological Reserve’s Old Farm Trail, which travels through some 260 years of cultural and natural history. Naturalist Ed Harrison will point out wildflowers and discuss how the Garden’s intense management of both field and forest benefits local biological diversity conservation. About 2.5 miles in length, the hike includes a short off-trail foray into the old-growth Shagbark Hickory forest. Wear sturdy hiking footwear and bring insect repellent, water, and a walking stick, if you ever use one.
4/30/2023
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Wildflowers in Watercolor: Buttonbush
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Join botanical artist Beverly Dyer to explore spring wildflowers including the wildflower of the year, Buttonbush. In this class Bev will demonstrate how to capture the essence of spring wildflowers with watercolor. Working with loose watercolor and wet into wet techniques participants will enjoy exploring color and line. Beginners welcome. If you have a favorite spring wildflower bring along a photo.
May
5/10/2023
1:15 PM - 5/31/2023 4:45 PM
Intermediate Expressive Watercolor: Virtual
This class introduces students to fluid watercolor techniques such as wet-on-wet. Students will learn to work with more water in the beginning and middle of the painting process and then rely on the skills learned in Beginning Watercolor to refine and add detail towards the end of the process. Students will create textures for backgrounds, work on color mixing using a limited palette, and learn to use glazing and masking fluid. Techniques for correcting mistakes in watercolor will also be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will have knowledge/skill of the following: • Working with various amounts of water and watercolor paint; • Working wet-on-wet; • Working with masking fluid; • Making a variety of watercolor textures such as salt, plastic wrap, etc.; • Glazing; • Working with a limited palette; and • Color mixing
5/13/2023
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Crafting Botanicals with Paper: Carolina Lily
This workshop will feature North Carolina’s state wildflower, Lilium michauxii (Carolina Lily), as a hands-on introduction to making paper botanicals. In the process of making a Carolina Lily, participants will learn how specific components (e.g., the reproductive system, the leaves, etc.) can be rendered in paper to make a realistic replica of this beloved flower. Materials and tools will be provided for two blooming stems.
5/13/2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Second Saturday NCBG Tour
From March to November, join our skilled volunteer Garden Guides on the second Saturday of the month for a guided tour of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Each month offers a glimpse into what’s happening in our unique native plant gardens – from spring wildflowers to fall color – and what makes the NCBG one of the premier conservation gardens in the US. Tours are one (1) hour and space is limited! Please register each member of your party separately.
5/20/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Nature Journaling in the Garden
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Develop your nature journaling skills, whether you are just getting started, want to add visual notes to a written journal, or simply enjoy drawing what you see. Through guided exercises, we’ll practice perceptual and drawing skills to quickly establish a framework for a diagram, drawing, or description in your journal, then experiment with portable drawing and painting media. We’ll also look at strategies for organizing your journal for outdoor excursions. All skill levels are welcome! Come dressed to venture outside. Bring your favorite journal and tools or refer to the provided materials list. $39 ($35 Members)
5/20/2023
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Blue Wild Indigo at Penny's Bend
This hike will provide a wonderful opportunity to see rare flora at Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve, owned by the Army Corps of Engineers, and managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Baptisia aberrans is an imperiled species at the state level and survives in only a small number of remnant Piedmont prairie or savanna patches. The Garden’s management practices at Penny’s Bend has favored a variety of prairie and savanna flora. About 2 miles in length, much of this hike is on primitive trails over uneven terrain, with one short, steep climb up from the river. Wear sturdy hiking footwear and bring insect repellent, water, and a walking stick, if you ever use one.
5/20/2023
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Coker Arboretum Tour
Take a tour of this gem on the UNC campus with a Coker Arboretum curator. This walking tour will explore the 5-acres that make up the Arboretum, allowing time for observation and discussion. Each tour differs as the gardens change through the seasons.
5/20/2023
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Honeybee Hive Tour at the CCG
Come learn about one of the world’s most fascinating insects. Bees are responsible for pollinating one third of the world’s food and produce one of the sweetest treats around. Participants explore a real live hive with certified beekeeper, Anne Glauber. Free, preregistration required.
5/25/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Climate Change and Biodiversity: How Will Plants and Animals Respond?
Global climate change is altering earth’s biodiversity in myriad ways. We will discuss how plants and animals are responding to recent climate change, how we can predict their future responses, and how our policy choices now can affect future climates and biodiversity in 2100.
June
6/3/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Native Plant Propagation
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
This course is intended for a broad audience. Students learn fundamentals of vegetative propagation and techniques for propagating southeastern native plants by means of stem and root cuttings. Class includes hands-on propagation and a tour of the vegetative propagation facilities of NCBG.
6/3/2023
1:30 PM - 6/24/2023 4:00 PM
Advanced Drawing: Botanical Plates - Hybrid
In this course, students work towards refining drawing skills in creating a plant portrait. Specifics to this class include rendering a tonal botanical plate, working with live plants, studying plant anatomy, as well as mapping and cross-contour drawing for accuracy. Prerequisites: Intermediate Drawing, Composition.
6/8/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: The Flora of the Southeast Web App
For nearly 20 years, the herbarium has produced a print and pdf flora of the southeastern United States, a guide to keying out plant species across 25 states. In the last year, we've transformed this valuable resource into a web app with dynamic keys, photographs of species, quick searches by synonyms as well as Latin and common names. We've also designed a mobile app that further assists botanists with plant identification by narrowing down options using flower color, flowering month, geographic location, and other assorted bits of botanical information. NCBG herbarium associates Michael Lee and Scott Ward will present these two apps and how to best use them.
6/10/2023
9:30 AM - 6/24/2023 12:30 PM
Entomology
This course is designed for a broad audience. Students learn insect family recognition and common species identification, insect ecology and conservation, basic life cycle biology, and how to improve insect habitat and conservation in the urban environment. No prerequisites.
6/14/2023
9:30 AM - 6/16/2023 4:30 PM
Visiting Artist Master Course with Carol Woodin: Nature’s Rarities: Painting Native Orchids in Watercolor
Orchids are one of the art world’s most treasured subjects, and we’ll find ours growing in the landscape at NCBG. Students will begin by studying their choice of subject in its natural habitat, learning to collect field information accurately and quickly through drawing, watercolor studies, and photography. Returning to the studio, we’ll finalize and transfer drawings to either paper or vellum. Through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice, artists will learn to manage multiple layers of watercolor drybrush, capturing color, shaded form and surface qualities characteristic of orchids, while retaining botanical accuracy of their subject. By the end of the three-day course, artists will have their paintings complete or nearly so.
6/22/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Therapeutic Horticulture: A Gateway to Healing & Connection with the Natural World
Who would you be and how would you be affected if you completely lost or had minimal ability to connect with the natural world physically, cognitively, or emotionally? How would it feel to live in a sterile institution, a hospital bed, or a body or mind that confines you to your own home or thoughts? We are all just an accident, illness, or a few years of the aging process away from being faced with these possibilities and millions of people are already coping with this experience every day. Therapeutic Horticulture is the professionally facilitated gateway that enables and empowers those who desire a connection with Nature to regain access and function within natural environments.
August
8/7/2023
8:00 AM - 5/13/2023 5:00 PM
Hybrid Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture
The Hybrid Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture (HCTH) provides comprehensive online and in-person instruction to professionals and students in allied health, education, and design fields who wish to incorporate therapeutic horticulture into their practice. This nine-month program allows maximum flexibility for those who need convenient, self-paced, evening, and weekend learning opportunities. Students will build foundational knowledge and explore how Therapeutic Horticulture supports human health & wellness, including physical, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, vocational, and social needs.
8/10/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: NC Certified Master Naturalist Volunteer Program
The NC Certified Master Naturalist Volunteer program, a 50-hour classroom and fieldwork education program, offered by NC Cooperative Extension, Chatham and Durham counties, prepares volunteers for stewardship, advocacy, education, and citizen science projects with leading environmental organizations in the Triangle. This new program will begin January 2024, classes will be held on Saturdays once a month at locations in Chatham and Durham counties. A key feature of this program are the Impact Projects participants develop that integrate course concepts and benefit one of the Partner Organizations. These projects challenge the program participants to answer the question, “What impact can I make on our environment?”
8/23/2023
1:15 PM - 10/4/2023 4:30 PM
Virtual Visiting Artist Master Course: Rendering Textures in Graphite with Rogério Lupo
Event is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
A drawing done purely in graphite can by its very nature provide a spectacular result. But besides that, mastering the graphite technique yields us the tools for a detailed investigation of the subject by doing previous studies, so we can grasp the essentials of light and shade before working with other media such as colored pencils, pen and ink, or even watercolors. This workshop offers the fundamentals for that as well, but focuses specifically on the richness of textures found in nature with all their diversity, and how to represent them artistically either using only graphite on white paper or else graphite plus a light-colored pencil on toned paper.