Artist Talk: Laura K. Brubaker

Join us for for an intimate look at selected works from Laura's botanical photography collection and discover the remarkable, ingenious, and sometimes surprising strategies native plants use to survive in harsh and rapidly changing environments. Plants are extraordinary mentors, and this talk offers an opportunity to examine some of their finest lessons.

These are stories of flamboyance and restraint, abundance and patience - one annual invests extravagantly in petals with the spectacle of a burlesque artist, while another may wait several years, as demurely as a postulant, before risking its first flower. Through her work, Laura explores the cycles that dictate the limits of life and the gamble inherent in each plant’s survival strategy. With nature as a mentor, plants have much to teach us about adaptation, risk, timing, and resilience.

Laura will take participants behind the scenes of her unusual creative process, revealing how…