Beaty Nocturnal – Drift: from the forest to the sea

Event Details

Start: 20 April 2023 5:00 pm
End: 20 April 2023 8:30 pm
Categories: Evening Events

Headshot of Bettina Harvey Join us for a special Beaty Nocturnal with Bettina Harvey, the artist behind the current feature exhibition, Drift: from the forest to the sea.

Bettina will talk about her artistic journey, as well as the role of citizen scientists in monitoring biodiversity, and environmental grief and resilience. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with artists and scientists exploring some of the same themes in their work.

Schedule:

5:00 pm: Doors open with ADMISSION BY DONATION
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Presentation by Bettina Harvey
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Panel discussion
7:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Half-Hour Highlight Museum Tour
8:30 pm: Museum closed

Panelists:

Bettina Harvey, Laara Cerman, Linda PJ Lipsen, Sarah Ronald, and Holly Schmidt

Bettina Harvey’s art is deeply informed by her relationship with the natural world. From her earliest years, Harvey has devoted herself to the outdoors, exploring, studying, and playing in nature. After working on a BFA at Montreal’s Concordia University, she spent years working as a horticulturist and as a gardener for the City of Vancouver, where she applied her visual art skills designing floral displays for major parks. Eventually, she merged her interests, returning to fine arts as a means of investigating ecological systems and their connections to the human world.

www.bettinaharvey.com | instagram.com/bettina_harvey

Laara Cerman‘s work explores the intersection of art and science through investigating patches of wildness that survive within urban landscapes. Her explorations continue into the forests of British Columbia where she is learning to see the diversity of the forest floor in the midst of an era where this knowledge has lost its priority but not its importance.

www.laaracerman.com |instagram.com/laaracerman | https://facebook.com/laaracermanart

Linda PJ Lipsen (Linda Jennings) is the Collections Curator at the University of British Columbia Herbarium, Beaty Biodiversity Museum and author of Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium. Linda is passionate about uncovering and illuminating plants story’s through research, exhibitions, on-line videos and images, collection tours, activities and hands-on workshops.
instagram.com/pressedplants

Sarah Ronald is a multidisciplinary artist living in the Pacific Northwest in the ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem First Nation). Ronald’s diverse upbringing in the rural Okanagan shaped her future as an ecologically concerned artist, whose work surveys human behaviour and impact on wildlife and the natural world.

www.sarahronald.com | IG: sarahronaldartist | FB: sarahronaldartist

Holly Schmidt is a Vancouver artist with a research-based practice that engages processes of collaboration and informal pedagogy. Moving across disciplinary boundaries, she explores the relationships between practices of making, knowledge creation and the formation of temporary communities.

www.hollyschmidt.ca | instagram.com/haanschmi

Learn more about the exhibition Drift: from the forest to the sea.