Golden Beets (Beta vulgaris), Steven J. Morris
American Botanical Society of Artists
A More Abundant Future
April 4 - May 24, 2025
Opening Reception April 4, 5-8pm
The American Society of Botanical Artists’ (ASBA) A More Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, & Field, a part of the global Botanical Art Worldwide Project, showcases 41 stunning botanical artworks depicting diverse heirloom fruits and vegetables, foraged plants, and ancient grains. This exhibition highlights the vital connection between plants and humanity, the importance of crop diversity, and the resurgence of botanical art.
Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 is a global collaboration of botanical artists and cultural institutions on 6 continents curating and hosting 32 concurrent exhibitions of botanical art highlighting the diversity of crop plants around the world. Artwork depicts heirloom fruits and vegetables, ancient grains, and other crops grown outside of mass cultivation for food, textiles, building, energy, and medicine. It includes “crop wild relatives,” plants collected from the wild that may have genetic traits useful in hybridizing with current commercially grown foods to impart new desired characteristics, like pest or disease resistance. Ongoing slideshows of over 1200 works of art from all participating exhibitions will be displayed alongside original artwork in each venue.
Worldwide Day of Botanical Art
Join us May 18th, 10am - 4:30pm, for an international day of celebration of botanical art and its unique power to educate, promote ecological awareness, and enrich lives. A celebration of the day will include artist demonstrations, activities for families, heirloom seed sales, and speakers presentations regarding different facets of crop diversity.
About the the American Society of Botanical Artists
The American Society of Botanical Artists is an international organization of nearly 2000 members and 40 institutional members including botanical gardens, horticultural libraries, and universities. ASBA provides a thriving interactive community dedicated to perpetuating the tradition and contemporary practice of botanical art.
Events & exhibitions at the Foundry Art Centre are free and open to the public. For more information, please email Jessica Mannisi, Director of Exhibitions, at jmannisi@foundryartcentre.org