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Come Join BAGSC Members at The Huntington through Sunday, 9 August

by Deb Shaw

Close on the heels of the “Weird, Wild & Wonderful” Symposium at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California (BAGSC), opened their supplemental exhibition of botanical oddities, in the Brody Botanical Center’s Banta Hall at The Huntington.


The reception for the BAGSC adjunct exhibition was packed with family, friends, colleagues and the public. Weird, Wild & Wonderful Second New York Botanical Garden Triennial Exhibition was also open for viewing and enthusiastically received. Photo © Gayle Uyehara, 2015.

The reception for the BAGSC adjunct exhibition was packed with family, friends, colleagues and the public. Weird, Wild & Wonderful Second New York Botanical Garden Triennial Exhibition was also open for viewing and enthusiastically received. Photo © Gayle Uyehara, 2015.


The opening reception on Saturday, 1 August was well-attended and great fun. BAGSC members have been rotating shifts, providing botanical art demonstrations and talking with the public all week, including:

  1. Bonnie Born Ash

  2. Cristina Baltayian, colored pencil

  3. Nancy Beckham, colored pencil

  4. Melanie Campbell-Carter, colored pencil and watercolor

  5. Jan Clouse

  6. Diane Daly, watercolor

  7. Estelle DeRidder

  8. Kate Gaman

  9. Cynthia Jackson

  10. Susan Jackson

  11. Clara Josephs, watercolor

  12. Suzanne Kuuskmae

  13. Tania Marien

  14. Patricia Mark

  15. Terri Munroe, graphite and watercolor

  16. Kathy Morgan, watercolor

  17. Marilyn Parrino

  18. Lesley Randall

  19. Gilly Shaeffer, w