{"id":5730,"date":"2016-09-19T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2016-09-19T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T22:00:23","slug":"on-campus-event-plants-and-flowers-of-maine-kate-furbishs-watercolors-mon-926-4pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/on-campus\/on-campus-event-plants-and-flowers-of-maine-kate-furbishs-watercolors-mon-926-4pm\/","title":{"rendered":"On Campus Event: Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors (Mon 9\/26 4PM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Launch and Reception: ‘Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors’\"kate-furbish\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Monday, 9\/26 4:00-5:15
\nKresge Auditorium, VAC<\/p>\n

From 1870 to 1908, artist and botanist Kate Furbish traveled Maine, collecting, classifying, and illustrating the native flora of her state. Pl<\/em><\/a>ants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors<\/em><\/a>, a new two-volume set produced by Bowdoin College Library and Rowman & Littlefield publishers and in collaboration with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, faithfully reproduces some 1,300 of Furbish’s drawings.<\/p>\n

The team behind the book will discuss Furbish and the importance of bringing her work to a wider audience.<\/p>\n

A reception and opening of the exhibition, Botanizing America<\/em>, will immediately follow on the second floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.<\/p>\n

Books will be available for purchase at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Launch and Reception: ‘Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors’ Monday, 9\/26 4:00-5:15 Kresge Auditorium, VAC From 1870 to 1908, artist and botanist Kate Furbish traveled Maine, collecting, classifying, and illustrating the native flora of her state. Plants … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}