Events › Drawing Botany Home: Author Reading

In a world made precarious by human mobility, all of us can learn from those who root in place. In her beautifully illustrated memoir Drawing Botany Home, Lyn Baldwin explores the outward beauty and quiet inner complexity of the plants that surround us, while meditating on human and scientific ambition.

Lyn Baldwin is an award-winning teacher and plant conservation biologist who uses art and science to help mitigate society’s extinction of experience with the botanical world. From her home in the sagebrush steppe and coniferous forest of the South Thompson Valley, Lyn teaches botany at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. For more than two decades, she has worked to cultivate care between the people and plants of place by sharing the stories she discovers, in her illustrated field journal; in art galleries and science museums; and in the pages of publications such as The Goose, Camas, Hamilton Arts and Letters, The Fourth River, Terrain, and The Journal of Natural History Education and Experience.

Free. This is a drop-in program. No registration required.