Botanical Artists Mini-Expo Features The Wright Scoop
Expo takes place on June 6 at Tuckahoe Area Library in Henrico, Virginia
The Botanical Artists Mini-Expo will be held on June 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tuckahoe Area Library, located at 1901 Starling Dr. in Henrico County, Virginia.
Featured artist, The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright, will greet and talk with visitors. 'Redbud Tree,' one of two of her illustrations in the exhibit on plants and pollinators, is an identified " Plant of CARE.'
Other participants will demo the tools and techniques of the botanical artist trade as well as help attendees draw a plant from real specimens with watercolor pencils. For kids, there will be plenty of activities, including butterfly coloring sheets, make-a-flower-and-bee craft, learning how mushrooms save bees, and making botanical zines and acquiring botanical tattoos (in lieu of face painting).
A video playing in the background—beekeepers at work—is provided via courtesy of Sylvia Hoehns Wright.
Artist, author, and lecturer Sylvia Hoehns Wright has been featured for her woodland gardens by Birds & Blooms magazine and in Richmond newspapers and is recognized nationwide as an eco-sustainability advocate, backpage columnist, and TV radio personality. To inspire others, Wright exhibits her art during Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden events and uses it to illustrate plants in her 'Plants of CARE' program.
The expo is sponsored by Central Virginia Botanical Artists, an affiliate of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA).
For details visit: https://asba-art.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=92618&module_id=727964
About The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright
A graduate of the Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute program and a recipient of the 'Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic' award, The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright urges all to keep America beautiful and become people who CARE—have a perspective of conservation, accountability, recovery and eco-efficiency. To inspire others, she offers one-on-one consulting, speeches and workshops and has published a series of eco books.
For more information, visit www.thewrightscoop.com, email sy[email protected], or follow her activities on social media through Facebook group The Wright Scoop or @WrightScoop on Twitter/X.
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