Since retiring from an administrative job at the U of M she has focused on creating botanical art. Visiting art museums is still one of her favorite activities. Jane holds a bachelor degree in French and a doctorate in art history for many years she taught evening art history classes at the University of Minnesota. The challenge of rendering plant forms accurately and beautifully is fascinating and endless. Jane Hancock took her first botanical art class on a whim the year that the Minnesota School of Botanical Art was founded, and she gradually fell in love with the art form. She has been taking classes at the Minnesota School of Botanical Art for a number of years in order to connect more closely with plants and to gain an art perspective on the subjects of her research. She regularly teaches plant biology and plant physiology courses, and has recently jointly designed and taught a class, call the Art of Biology, with an art colleague. Catherine Univeristy, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1993. Lynne Gildensoph is a Professor of Biology of St. Nancy has shown with the Royal Horticultural Society and her work has been including in exhibitions at the New York Botanical Garden, the ASBA.HSNY International Exhibit, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Gallery at Fioli in Woodside, California, with the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and regionally in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. Owning a small hobby farm developed her passion for botany and the natural world. Her career started in medical illustration and graphic design. Nancy Gehrig is from the rural Midwest and loved drawing from early on which led to a degree in Fine Arts. She holds a bachelor and masters in art education and just retired from teaching art in the public schools. Ronda is an avid gardener and enjoyed sharing information about plants for 15 years as a Minnesota Master Gardener. She has continued to take classes and show her work through the Minnesota School of Botanical Art, Great River Chapter, Eloise Butler Florilegium, and Flora and Fauna at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. It was a perfect fit of merging her love of art, plants and nature. In the fall of 2009, Ronda Dick took her first botanical class through the Minnesota School of Botanical Art and fell in love with this art form. Her illustrations are included in several publications. Kathy’s work has been exhibited at the Weisman Museum, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and the Royal Horticultural Society in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was awarded a silver-gilt medal. She is the Past President of the Minnesota Orchid Society and judge for the Orchid Society of America. Kathy Creger is a botanical artist and an avid orchid collector. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society in London, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, Panama, the Queen Sirikit Royal Botanical Garden in Thailand, the Dahlem Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, the Bell Museum of Natural HIstory and the Science Museum of Minnesota. She is a Past-President of the American Society of Botanical Artists. Marilyn Garber is the founder of the Minnesota School of Botanical Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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