Past Exhibits
Paintings and Drawings by W. Gary Smith
Weaving together drawings, paintings, and sculptural installations with landscape design, W. Gary Smith creates artistic connections with the landscape.
X-rays combined with a unique artistic approach bring to light the usually unseen inner structure of flowers. Retired radiologist Merrill C. Raikes has produced magnificent images that allow visitors to see flowers as if they had x-ray vision.
A photographic view of Asian peoples and their relationship with plants.
Compelling color photographs by Paul W. Meyer tell vivid stories about the importance of plants in the lives of Asian peoples.
Smith Students in ARS 285, studio: Introduction to Architecture: Language and Craft, taught by Jim Middlebrook, were asked to reinterpret the spatial language of a flower.
Richly colored graphic panels tell the story of this beautiful and enigmatic flower, which ultimately becomes the object of obsession in 17th century Europe.
The Fall Chrysanthemum Show provided the theme for this exhibit showcasing Japanese kimonos and obis, volunteer and staff artwork, the Chrysanthemums Hall of Fame, and student artwork from the exhibit: Chrysanthemums: Lithographs and Monotypes.
This exhibition explores the diversity of bananas, and who uses them and for what. It also shows how research can help us use this diversity to increase options for both small-scale farmers in the developing world and consumers in industrialized countries.
Exhibition by Smith Art Students and Professor Dwight Pogue
Students followed the development of chrysanthemums in the Lyman Conservatory from the beginning of the semester in September through the Chrysanthemum Show in November.
The World in a Garden exhibit explores ways in which botanic gardens since the early Renaissance have endeavored to represent our increasing awareness of the plant life of other continents and climatic regions.
The Travels of Elizabeth K. Roys
As a student of Botany at Smith College, Elizabeth K. Roys toured Asia with her mother in 1926-27, exploring gardens in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, and India. She kept detailed records and compiled her observations in a collection of five notebooks. These notebooks constitute a unique historical chronicle, providing an irreplaceable firsthand account of Asian gardens in the early twentieth century.
