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May Issue 2009
The NC Arboretum
in Asheville, NC, Features Works by H. Douglas Pratt and John
C. Sill
The North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, NC, celebrates the art and science of birds with the exhibit, H. Douglas Pratt and John C. Sill's BIRDS: The Science of Illustration, a new exhibit opening May 21 and continuing through Nov. 1, 2009, at The Baker Exhibit Center.
In conjunction with the Arboretum's celebration as an official part of the NC Birding Trail Guide, the exhibit explores how art and science work together in Pratt and Sill's artistic illustrations of birds.
Pratt is an ornithologist, artist, and photographer as well as Research Curator of Birds at the NC State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. As a widely respected zoological illustrator, author and illustrator, Pratt has contributed to publications such as National Geographic Society's Field Guide to the Birds of North America and the multi-volume Handbook of Birds of the World.
John Sill
Sill has worked as a freelance artist and illustrator since 1971 and has been exhibited in highly acclaimed shows and appeared in a number of books and magazines. He has been the illustrator for the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird Identification Calendar since the project began in 1980 and he is an instructor for the Institute for Field Ornithology sponsored by the American Birding Association.
The mission of The North Carolina Arboretum is to cultivate connections between people and plants.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery
at 828/665-2492 or visit (www.ncarboretum.org).
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