The Madeline R. Samples Exhibit Hall

Fort Worth Botanic Garden and Botanical Research Institute of Texas are thrilled to participate as a Fort Worth Spring Gallery Night stop!  Fort Worth Gallery Night is hosted by the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association. Join us at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) for Dornith Doherty: Illuminations: Past, Present, and Future of Fern […]

Come celebrate the opening of Dornith Doherty’s Illuminations: Past, Present, and Future of Fern Research in the Madeline R. Samples Exhibit Hall.  This event is open to all with no registration required. Dornith Doherty: Illuminations: Past, Present, and Future of Fern Research is a tripartite environmental art exhibition emerging from a research-based creative collaboration with […]

With works spanning back almost 500 years, “The Opulence of Orchids” features contemporary and historical depictions of orchids in conjunction with the Fort Worth Botanic Garden’s “World of Orchids” display. This selection of artworks includes watercolor paintings, pen and ink drawings, and lithographs from BRIT Library’s Arader Natural History Collection of Art as well as […]

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 […]