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The Earthen Door: Recreating Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium

“This Earthen Door” re-imagines Emily Dickinson’s herbarium—a 66-page book of pressed plants she made as a teenager—using plant pigments grown by the artists in their gardens. A renowned American poet, Dickinson was better known as a gardener and avid botany student than as a poet during her lifetime. To honor the poet’s nearly 200-year-old efforts, the artists Leah Sobsey and Amanda Marchand remade Dickinson’s flower sampler with an early plant-based photo process known as anthotype. Join the artists for a virtual presentation about this collaborative photo project at the intersection of art, science and literature.

Fee: Free; registration required.

Location: Zoom. The recording will be shared with all registrants.

Accessibility: This will be a virtual program that takes place on Zoom with the option to enable closed captioning.

 

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