TODAY'S HOURS: 8 AM – 6 PM

*Last entry is an hour before closing

TODAY'S HOURS: 8 AM – 6 PM

*Last entry is an hour before closing

Drawing in the Garden: Poinsettias

Person drawing dried flowers

Click here to register now. Engage with Nature by discovering and polishing your drawing skills! Bring your favorite portable medium and explore a new artistic focus each month. Our award-winning artist instructor will start with a demonstration, then answer questions and provide tips and one-on-one attention throughout a free-drawing session. We will end by gathering […]

Drawing in the Garden: Rock Springs Garden

Person drawing dried flowers

Click here to register now. Engage with Nature by discovering and polishing your drawing skills! Bring your favorite portable medium and explore a new artistic focus each month. Our award-winning artist instructor will start with a demonstration, then answer questions and provide tips and one-on-one attention throughout a free-drawing session. We will end by gathering […]

Drawing in the Garden: Kokedama Forest

Person drawing dried flowers

Click here to register now! Engage with nature by discovering and polishing your drawing skills! Bring your favorite portable medium and explore a new artistic focus each month. Our award-winning artist instructor will start with a demonstration, then answer questions and provide tips and one-on-one attention throughout a free-drawing session. We will end by gathering […]

Creative Art with Olivia: Impressionistic Gouache

Watercolor of lady bugs by Olivia Garcia-Hassell

Registration for this class is now closed. We hope to see you next month! Calling all Art Adventurers! Join Olivia Garcia-Hassell, a.k.a. The OG Art Teacher, to experiment with a variety of media and techniques. These monthly classes are appropriate for all ability and experience levels and promote enjoyment over perfection. Enjoy playing with art […]

Creative Art with Olivia: Gouache as Watercolor

Watercolor of lady bugs by Olivia Garcia-Hassell

Registration for this event is now closed. We hope to see you next month! Calling all Art Adventurers! Join Olivia Garcia-Hassell, a.k.a. The OG Art Teacher, to experiment with a variety of media and techniques. These monthly classes are appropriate for all ability and experience levels and promote enjoyment over perfection. Enjoy playing with art materials, […]

Creative Art with Olivia: November Drawing with Charcoal

Registration for this class is now closed. We hope to see you for another Botanical Creative Arts class soon! Calling all Art Adventurers! Join Olivia Garcia-Hassell, a.k.a. The OG Art Teacher to experiment with different drawing mediums–graphite pencils in October and charcoal in November—and learn various drawing techniques. These classes are appropriate for all ability […]

Creative Art with Olivia: October Drawing with Graphite

Registration for this class is now closed. We hope to see you next month! Calling all Art Adventurers! Join Olivia Garcia-Hassell, a.k.a. The OG Art Teacher to experiment with different drawing mediums–graphite pencils in October and charcoal in November—and learn various drawing techniques. These classes are appropriate for all ability and experience levels and promote […]

Capture the Beauty of the Natural World through Printmaking with Plants

Woodblock print of magnolia flower by Laura Post. Copyright Laura Post.

Many people appreciate books as doors to other worlds, treasuries of knowledge and archives of human thought. But books can be more than the words or images reproduced on their pages–they can themselves be works of art. The cover, the pages, the binding, even the paper itself can be an expression of creativity. Fort Worth artist and printmaker Laura Post will share ideas and processes for creating one-of-a-kind books inspired by the flowers, trees and shrubs of the Botanic Garden in summer at a two-day workshop on Aug. 11 and 12.

Image-Making

Registration for this class is now closed. We hope to see you for another Botanical Creative Arts class soon! How do we capture a plant’s beauty and intrigue on paper? In this two-day class, the Botanic Gardens will serve as the source for material and inspiration for creating prints, and then using the prints to […]