Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
Canada

Crop Diversity Canada

Celebrating Diversity in garden, farm, and field

Welcome to Crop Diversity Canada!

Canada’s official exhibition for Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 runs until June 30, 2025.

About the exhibition

This exhibition showcases beautiful artworks of heritage crops and crop wild relatives from botanical artists across the country. From luminous fruits and vegetables to hearty grains and legumes, these paintings will delight your senses and your mind. We invite you to explore these important Canadian crops and learn about the artists and their inspiration behind the works.

Canada is the second-largest country in the world and ranges from coastal rainforest to grasslands to savannah forests and alpine tundra. Canadians rely on the abundance of the land for their harvests as well as subsistence and are working to safeguard the genetic diversity of crops and crop-wild relatives for future generations.

Heritage beets

Beta vulgaris ‘Albino’, ‘Chioggia’, ‘Golden’
(C) Kerri Weller

map of participating artists

This virtual exhibition connects audiences with renowned artists from across Canada.

virtual exhibition

https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/14036794/crop-diversity-canada

VIrtual exhibition Dates:

Opens: May 18, 2025, 4pm Eastern Daylight Time
Closes: June 30, 2025 at 10 PM Eastern Daylight Time

organizers

Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 Steering Committee for Canada: Misha Donohoe (National Coordinator), Jette Anesen, Heather Wadsworth

National Advisors: Myra Sourkes, Kerri Weller

Events

Worldwide Day of Botanical Art

Join us for Canada’s official exhibition launch for Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 and meet the artists behind the paintings.

When: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 4pm EDT

Format: Virtual

Our exciting lineup of botanical artists from across the country will showcase beautiful artworks of heritage crops and crop wild relatives. From luminous fruits and vegetables to hearty grains and legumes, artists will share their inspiration behind the works and some of the techniques used to create them.

Get tickets: cropdiversity.ca/tickets (This event has concluded)

contact

BAW-Canada@outlook.com


Diversité des cultures du Canada

Célébrer la diversité dans le jardin, la ferme et le champ

L'exposition officielle du Canada pour l'exposition d'art botanique dans le monde 2025 a ouvert ses portes en mai et se poursuit jusqu'au 30 juin 2025.

À propos de l'exposition

Cette exposition présente de magnifiques œuvres d'art de cultures patrimoniales et de cultures sauvages apparentées d'artistes botaniques de tout le pays. Des fruits et légumes brillants aux céréales et légumineuses copieuses, ces peintures raviront vos sens et votre esprit. Nous vous invitons à explorer ces importantes cultures canadiennes et à en apprendre davantage sur les artistes et leur inspiration derrière les œuvres.

 Le Canada est le deuxième plus grand pays au monde et s'étend de la forêt pluviale côtière aux prairies, en passant par les forêts de savane et la toundra alpine. Les Canadiens dépendent de l'abondance de la terre pour leurs récoltes ainsi que pour leur subsistance et s'efforcent de protéger la diversité génétique cultures et des espèces sauvages apparentées pour les générations futures.

Betteraves ancestrales

Beta vulgaris ‘Albino’, ‘Chioggia’, ‘Golden’
(C) Kerri Weller

Voir une carte des artistes participants

Voir l'Exposition virtuelle

https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/14036794/crop-diversity-canada

Commence: 18 mai 2025 à 16 h 00, heure avancée de l'Est
Fin: 30 juin 2025 à 22 h, heure avancée de l'Est

À propos des organisateurs

Comité directeur de l'exposition d'art botanique dans le monde 2025 pour le Canada: Misha Donohoe (Coordonnateur national), Jette Anesen, Heather Wadsworth

Conseillers nationaux: Myra Sourkes, Kerri Weller

événements

Worldwide Day of Botanical Art

Bienvenue à Diversité des cultures du Canada! Joignez-vous à nous pour le lancement officiel de l'exposition d'art botanique dans le monde 2025 et rencontrez les artistes derrière les peintures.

Quand

Dimanche 18 mai 2025, 16 h 00, heure avancée de l'Est

Format

Lancement virtuel de l'exposition (la présentation sera en anglais)

À quoi s'attendre

Notre équipe passionnante d'artistes botaniques de partout au pays présentera de magnifiques œuvres d'art de cultures patrimoniales et de cultures sauvages apparentées. Des fruits et légumes lumineux aux céréales et légumineuses copieuses, les artistes partageront leur inspiration derrière les œuvres et certaines des techniques utilisées pour les créer.

Obtenez des billets

cropdiversity.ca/billets

Coordonnées

BAW-Canada@outlook.com



Botanical Art Worldwide 2018

Art of the Plant, Native Plants of Canada

About this Exhibition

Art of the Plant is Canada's contribution to Botanical Art Worldwide.  The Art of the Plant exhibition will be on view at the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Stone Wall Gallery in the nation's capital, Ottawa, Ontario, from May 10 to October 14, 2018.  There are two components to the exhibition, one juried and the other invitational; the invitational component consists of artworks by Canadian botanical artists who have exhibited at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. A three-day botanical art conference will be held in May 2018, and there will be additional events throughout the run of the exhibition.  A catalogue will be published.  


artwork

Shepherdia canadensis is a shrub found across much of Canada. Its berries, initially bitter, are a food source for wildlife such as grizzly bears, black bears, and ruffed grouse. The berries sweeten a little after several frosts. First Nation people were known to have combined them with dried buffalo meat to make pemmican, a portable, long-lasting high-energy food.

 

Canada Buffaloberry, Shepherdia argentea, watercolor on paper, ©Margaret Best

Photo: ©Ian Wilson

Photo: ©Ian Wilson

One of the many dramatic landscapes that hold some of Canada’s native plant treasures. Canada yellow cinquefoil at Waterton Lake National Park. 

 

Organizer

Art of the Plant Steering Committee

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Steering Committee

Kerri Weller, Chair
Margaret Best, Advisor
Myra Sourkes, Advisor


exhibition Venue

Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario 

The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada's national museum of natural history and natural sciences. The museum provides evidence-based insights, inspiring experiences and meaningful engagement with nature's past, present and future. It achieves this through scientific research, a 14 million specimen collection, education programs, presentation of signature galleries and travelling exhibitions, and a dynamic web site, nature.ca.


Location

Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, ON, K2P 1A1

 

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