Exhibiting Skills
During the first week of February, The Huntington hosted colleagues from public gardens around the country who had a common educational goal: getting more value from plants.
Musical Imprint
Last week, the LA Opera brought one of its spectacular education programs for school children to The Huntington. Before the performance began, Library staffer Danielle Kramer showed the kids several vintage posters from The Huntington’s collection.
A Closer Look Inside Botany
Twenty-five volunteers gathered in the auditorium of the Botanical Center on a recent Wednesday afternoon for a lecture on plant anatomy. A slide of the apical meristem—the growing tip of the shoot—was projected on the screen as Huntington botanical educators talked about the major tissues that comprise plant organs.
Lending a (Bronze) Hand
Christopher Slatoff is a figurative sculptor who works in bronze, just like Giovanni Battista Foggini, Corneille van Clève, and the other artists featured in the exhibition “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes…
California Up for Grabs
You can download the recording—“California Up for Grabs”—from The Huntington on iTunes U. The event was sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Director Bill Deverell hosts a number of public programs throughout the year, including a luncheon series that kicked off last week with Michael Hiltzik, author of Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century.
“Value Added”
For docents in the school tour program, what they learn is as rewarding as what they teach. Big yellow buses will start rolling through The Huntington’s gates this week as the school tour…
An Artwork Blooms in the Garden
Several hundred visitors had a chance to exhibit their artwork at The Huntington on Saturday, Oct. 2. This wasn’t your ordinary art show, however. For one thing, the media these artists were working…
