THIRD HOUSE NATURE CENTER PRESENTS
A Pressing Plants for Art and Science Workshop.
Saturday July 27, 2024 from 10:00- 2:00 pm.
At Historic Third House
(Next to Deep Hollow Ranch, Montauk)
From the field to the herbarium and studio, botanist Daniel Atha covers the essentials of making museum-quality preserved plant specimens suitable for research, education and the arts. Students will gain the knowledge and skill to add to existing herbaria or develop one for use as a permanent floristic record, study-aid or graphic art project.
Drawing on extensive experience at one of the world’s premier botanical institutions, this course is designed for the anyone who wishes to document plants for biological inventories; taxonomy and systematics
(including DNA studies); wetland and rare plant surveys; regulatory compliance; natural products discovery; ethnobotany; teaching; and decorative art.
Students will learn how to select the best material for preservation; how to use a
plant press; how to arrange the specimen to optimize analysis and aesthetics;
how to dry; what to record in the notebook; how to write and format the most
informative specimen labels; and how to arrange and mount plants using archival
materials for long-term preservation.
$125 for the class (includes materials fee)
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