Events
Upcoming and Past Events (2011-2012)
Events may include chapter meetings, member exhibits, field trips, illustration workshops, sketching trips, potlucks and more!
We generally produce several member exhibits annually including at such venues as the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum, Lindsey Wildlife Museum, Tilden Park Environmental Education Center, Diablo Valley College, the Thomas Theatre Gallery and the AWE Gallery.
I Love Science Illustration Party
February 11, 2012
at noon
Bring your sketching materials, portfolio and a smile! RSVP to Emily at: emilycoren@gmail.com
Field Trip-Monterey Bay Aquarium-
Saturday, January 14, 11 AM.
Our own Cecelia Azhderian will lead a tour and a behind-the-scenes sketching opportunity with the resident sea otters that she helps to care for. Cost is $30 and is limited to current chapter members. RSVP to Cecelia at:
cecelia@cfaillustration.com
Artist's Reception for Nature's Jewels-
Saturday, December 3, 2011. 3-4:30 PM
Tilden Park Environmental Education Center
Grizzly Peak Blvd and Wildcat Canyon Rd.
Berkeley, CA
There will be food, live animal sketching, and a demonstration by Guild member Erin Hunter.
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden
Deadline for entries to our upcoming show-
Art of Nature, at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum
Deadline: January 31, 2012. The show runs April 7-June 9, 2012 with an opening reception on April 6th.
Download Entry Form Here
I Love Illustration Party-
February 11, 2012, Noon, at Emily Coren's House
514 Barson Street, Apt C
Santa Cruz
Come visit with your fellow science illustrators. Bring your portfolio and sketching materials. Please RSVP by Feb. 7 to emilycoren@gmail.com.
GNSI Fall Meeting & Lecture-
Saturday, October 22, 2011. 10:30 AM
CSU Monterey Bay, Science Illustration Classroom.
Click here to download lecture description and directions
Come hear Eva Chrysanthe talk about her upcoming graphic novel Garibaldi and The Farallon Egg War. In the spring of 2010, Eva Chrysanthe began research for a graphic novel about the 19th-century poaching battles on San Francisco’s Farallon Islands. The monumental devastation wrought by that poaching – and the deadly battles that ensued – eventually led to federal protection of the islands’ fragile ecosystem.
Garibaldi and the Farallon Egg War takes a panoramic view of the forgotten progressivism of 19th-century San Francisco – and its obverse. From abolitionist Italian aristocrats to groundbreaking amateur scientists to French arms dealers to the desperate skirmishes on the Farallon Islands, the question is asked: If we had fulfilled Garibaldi’s goal of taking greater care of mankind, would mankind then have taken greater care of the wild?
Chrysanthe’s illustrated reports have previously been published in The New Yorker Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Observer. You can read more at: http://www.faralloneggwar.blogspot.com/
2011 National Conference
The GNSI national conference was finally back on the west coast, in Washington State at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, July 10-16th. It was a wonderful conference, with perfect weather and excellent attendance. Plan for next year's national conference to be held at the Savannah College of Art and Design in historic Savannah, Georgia.
See photos from the 2011 Conference HERE
2011, May 15th
Tour of the California Academy of Sciences Library
On Sunday May 15, 11 a.m. Northern-CA GNSI members will get a tour of the California Academy of Sciences Library, and visit rare books of early natural history illustrations. Catesby, the Temple of Flora, Frances Willughby's Ornithology, Audubon, flowers, birds, engravings... special requests welcome! No tickets needed!
We'll meet inside the rear entrance at 11 a.m., then go up with the librarian as a group.
Art of Nature Show-
Our annual exhibit at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum will take place April 9-June 4, 2011.All current paid GNSI members are encouraged to enter. Entries must be received by February 4th.
July 11-17,2010 GNSI National Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina (www.gnsi.science-art.com/2010NC)
May 8-June 5,2010. Illustrating Nature, student works from the Science Illustration Program at CSUMB (formerly at UC Santa Cruz). Opening reception May 7th, 5-7 pm. Pacific Grove Natural History Museum. (www.pgmuseum.org)
