11:15 am D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
12:15 pm Springfield Science Museum
1:15 pm GWV Smith Art Museum
2:15 pm Wood Museum of Springfield History
3:15 pm D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
RELATED PROGRAMMING
Museums a la Carte: Botanical Illustration Then and Now
April 4 @ 12:15 pm–1:30 pm
Presented by Alice Tangerini, Staff Illustrator, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
This lecture will offer an overview of botanical illustration, showing drawings from the past and how those illustrations and techniques carried into the present, as well as changes over the past 30 years. Alice Tangerini, Staff Illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History, will show how specimens are collected to be accessed into the Smithsonian herbarium, along with techniques for illustrating those collections for the audience of scientists, for the new digital media used for on-line journals, and some ways that illustrations are done for a more general audience.
Festival of Flowers: After Hours
April 4 @ 5:00 pm–8:00 pm
Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and cocktails while touring the interpretive floral arrangements in all four museums. Experience floral fashion, make your own mini bouquet, and get creative with floral printmaking and origami. Live music, complimentary food, and cash bar.
Festival of Flowers: After Hours is sponsored by Westfield Bank.
Museum Class: Floral Art in Pastels
April 5 @ 10:00 am–3:00 pm
Working from live flower arrangements in the gallery, learn how to capture still life in pastels. Beginning with a demonstration, explore the application, effects, color massing and tonal values, as you complete a drawing from start to finish. For all levels. Please bring lunch. Supply list provided.
Museum Class: Creating Botanical Illustrations Using Layered Media
April 5 @ 1:00 pm–4:00 pm
Join Alice Tangerini, Staff Illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History, for an afternoon of botanical illustrations. Working with a combination of pencils, participants will create a detailed drawing of a flower on drafting film from living plant materials. An additional layer of opaque watercolor supplies the color on an underlying sheet of drafting film. The result of the layered media for the illustration gives the appearance of a hand-tinted photograph.
Festival of Flowers: The Flower Lab
April 5–7 @ 10:30 am–4:00 pm
Hands-on learning with real plants in Spark!Lab. Pull-apart dissections, a please touch table, and sculpture building with recycled floral packing materials. Free with museum admission.
Festival of Flowers Family Day
April 6 @ 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Tour the galleries to view extraordinary floral designs inspired by objects in the Museums, then explore the world of flowers through hands-on activities. Free with museum admission.
Museum Travel: New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
May 8 @ 9:00 am–3:30 pm
Just in time for carpets of daffodils, tulips, and the long-awaited fragrance of spring blooming trees and shrubs. Spend the day at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill with a guided tour of the conservatories, formal and naturalistic gardens. Located in the town of Boylston, MA, the 171-acre botanic garden and arboretum features 18 distinct gardens, preserved woodlands, and miles of walking trails. A group lunch at the Garden Café is included.
