{"id":58007,"date":"2019-03-08T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?p=58007"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T15:42:35","slug":"celebrating-the-works-of-women-at-nybg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/03\/people\/celebrating-the-works-of-women-at-nybg\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Works of Women at NYBG"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Photo<\/a>\n

Women\u2019s History Month is underway, and here at NYBG we\u2019re celebrating countless contributions to the Garden\u2019s missions in science, art, horticulture, and so much more with several events in March. The Garden\u2019s own co-founder, Elizabeth Knight Britton, was a world-renowned botanist and advocate for the natural world, and so many other venerable women in their fields have contributed to the field of plants through their research, illustrations, landscape design, and activism. This year, we\u2019re highlighting a few who have worked with NYBG, and helping to expound on the work of others who deserve the spotlight.
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\nOn March 12, join the staff of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library and others for a #HerNaturalHistory workshop<\/a> intended to make information about female artists and scientific illustrators more open and accessible to the world. Volunteers will be bringing their own laptops to participate, transcribing text from illustrations in the Mertz Library that we\u2019ve contributed to the Biodiversity Heritage Library.<\/p>\n

This event will also be streamed on Facebook Live<\/a>, so don\u2019t miss it!<\/p>\n

The following day, March 13, come back for the #HerNaturalHistory sister event<\/a>, a workshop that teaches attendees to edit entries in Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, adding important identifier information about female illustrators and scientists to raise their profile and improve their searchability in some of the world\u2019s most active and important free information sources.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll also be highlighting the tremendous influence of one of America\u2019s most successful and revered garden designers. Register for Beatrix Farrand\u2019s American Landscapes<\/em><\/a> on March 15 to see the world premiere of a new documentary on the 50-year career of this visionary. Explore her completed design commissions at the White House, the Morgan Library, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Maine, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at NYBG, campus designs at Princeton and Yale, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and many more, and enjoy a conversation with experts immediately after the screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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