Lectures

Throughout the year, NYBG Adult Education offers lectures in which outstanding landscape architects and designers present their signature works and insights, and internationally recognized speakers address topics of global interest related to the study, preservation, and appreciation of the plant kingdom.


May

Unique among the world's urban botanical gardens, the New York Botanical Garden has always strived to maintain an alluring balance between the wild and the cultivated across its 250-acre National Historic Landmark landscape in the Bronx. In Gardening with Nature more...
254HRT829 05/08 Th 1:30pm-3:00pm Forrest
Lederman
NYBG

June

Celebrated artist, potter, and gardener Frances Palmer encourages the idea of planning and planting a flower garden in waves—ensuring that there is always an abundance of blooms and a continual flow of colors, heights, and shapes that provides endless inspiration more...
254GAR834 06/12 Th 10:30am-11:30am Palmer
MERTZLIBRARY

Join interdisciplinary scholar of African American & African Diaspora literature and culture and Assistant Professor at Duke University Jarvis C. McInnis as he charts a new account of Black modernity by centering the Tuskegee Institute's vision of agrarian worldmaking.
254HRT844 06/18 We 12:00pm-1:00pm McInnis
Smith
MERTZLIBRARY

August

Join art historian and plant specialist Giovanni Aloi as he presents his newest publication, Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art, a richly illustrated book that unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art. Through more...
261LEC804O 08/12 Tu 6:00pm-7:00pm Aloi
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