The Madeline R. Samples Exhibit Hall

With works spanning back 300 years, “Flora of Latin America” features contemporary and historical depictions of plants native to the Latin American world.  This selection of artworks includes watercolor paintings, pen and ink drawings, lithographs, and other types of prints, all hailing from BRIT Library’s Arader Natural History Collection of Art and from botanical artists’ […]

The Fort Worth Weavers Guild (FWWG)  invites you to attend an exhibition displaying beautiful woven art created by fiber artists from across the state of Texas. The exhibition is titled Texas Botanicals in Warp and Weft and presents a unique opportunity to see native Texas botanicals as the source of inspiration for handwoven pieces. What […]

Do you appreciate Texas plants in bloom? BRIT Library’s latest art exhibition, Traveling through Texas’ Treasures, features watercolor paintings of Texas native plants by botanical artist Marie Wesby.  Many of these paintings would go on to be included in Wesby’s A Treasury of Texas Flora (2001), a comprehensive book detailing many native Texas plants’ growing seasons and […]

Join us to celebrate our current exhibition, Erika Huddleston: Prairie. The artist will be in attendance and give an insightful talk about her time painting our pocket prairie and the powers of observation. Prairie walks are encouraged. This event is open to all, with no registration required. Image courtesy Artspace 111, Erika Huddleston, Landscape Recording […]

Artist talk and reception: March 3 (5:30-7:30 pm) Erika Huddleston’s paintings take site and place as their subjects, specifically nature in urban public settings. Her oil paintings of the natural world stem from her training in landscape architecture; she investigates how people use outdoor space to better understand how observing changing natural processes in urban park […]

Imagine the many plants that populated the Aztec empire – its cities, courtyards, and countryside. Flora and fauna had deep meaning in the lives of the Aztecs: flower gardens were ubiquitous; large sculptures of plants abounded; and plants were used to make fibers for a variety of items, both utilitarian and artistic. While much of […]