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A nice review of my work at Synergetic Press. Volume 2 of The Nature of Drugs by Alexander Shulgin will include more of my watercolor paintings. Thanks Synergetic and Fernanda!
The Botanical Illustrations of Donna Torres: An illustrative journey into The Nature of Drugs
First Born
March - April, 2023
Steven and Dorothea Green Library
Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Fruition
April 25, 2023 - June 1, 2023
Keys History and Discovery Center
Islamorada, Florida
Bioarte Kumanday
Exploraciones Estéticas en el
Biogeoterritorio Kumanday
May 18 - 28, 2023.
Biodiversity Festival Kumanday
Centro de Museos,
Universidad de Caldas
Sede Palogrande
Manizales, Colombia
Many thanks to the Coral Gables Foundation, Corral & Cathers Artist Fund for their support.
Congratulations to all my fellow artists.
The Nature of Drugs by Alexander Shulgin
17 of my botanical paintings are full page in volume 2. The cover art is also mine.
Synergetic Press
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Plants & Places. Considerations and Procedures for mounting an exhibition 4,000 miles from home.
Story by Donna Torres with Susan Cumins
Published in the section Botanical Art Today.
The Journal of the American Society of Botanical Artists. June 2023. pages 22-23.
The Botanical Artist LIVE
ASBA introduces a new members-only webinar series exploring a feature article from the ASBA Journal. The one-hour sessions allow 40 minutes of presentation, and 20 minutes for a Q & A. Sessions can be viewed live or on demand for the week following live airing.
Plants & Places with Donna Torres
Join ASBA member Donna Torres for our first TBA LIVE! Moderated by Programs and Operations Coordinator Emmaline Nathans and Journal Editor/Designer Margaret Saylor, we invite members to register for our LIVE program and take a closer look at the story "Plants & Places: Considerations and Procedures for Mounting an Exhibition 4,000 Miles from Home", published in the June 2023 journal on page 22.
ASBA members register here:
The Art of Shamanic Plants @ecoartspace
Thursday, April 13, 2023
United States: 10am PDT, 11am MDT, 12pm CDT, 1pm ED
For this event we will hear from members Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber who will present their confocal botanical art project Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas and works included in the exhibition Shamanism: Visions outside of time curated by guest speaker Constantino Manuel Torres. In the exhibition Shamanism, Torres presents 140 archaeological and ethnographic pieces and audiovisual documents, representative of shamanism in Europe and North America up to Tierra del Fuego, at the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, Santiago, Chile, through June 2023. We will also hear from guest speaker Donna Torres, a Miami artist and illustrator who will present her paintings and drawings of medicinal botanicals. Together these artists and academics will discuss a shared passion for plants and their habitats as well as plans for future art exhibitions.
Pollinators
June 1 - 30, 2023
The Wirtz Gallery
First national Bank of South Miami
South Miami, Florida