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Jee-Yeon Koo (she/her) is a botanical artist and watercolorist based in the Republic of Korea. She is currently the President of the Korean Society of Botanical Illustrators and has been a principal art director for the Korea National Arboretum’s project for illustrating rare and endangered and poisonous Korean plants and others since 2006. You can see her work on Instagram.
Margaret is a professional studio artist, designer, and teacher working from my home studio in Mt. Penn, Pennsylvania. Her subjects are plants, fungi, and the wider natural world — the twigs, leaves, wild plants, and landscape details that most people walk past without stopping. She works in watercolor and graphite on vellum, and egg tempera on panel, building detailed, layered work that emphasizes shape, form, and close observation.
https://www.margaretsaylor.com
Lee began her work in botanical illustration in London and has recieved medals from Royal Horticultural Society. Currently she is based in California, where she is a member of the Northern California Society of Botanical Artists.
Crystal is a botanical and scientific illustrator based in Alberta, Canada. She has been involved as a botanical illustrator for over 20 years, specializing primarily in colored pencil and oil paints.
Mary is an Irish botanical artist who prefers working in large formats. As a founding chairperson of the Irish Society of Botanical Art, Mary's work has been exhibited in Ireland as well as throughout Europe and at American Society of Botanical Artists, 25th International Exhibition in New York.
Alessandro is a botanical illustrator based in the Southeastern state of Paraná, Brazil. His formal education in Biology help to inform his artwork, which depicts flora of Brazil and central South America.
Mary Ellen is a botanical artist based in London and, like Helen, Diploma in Botanical Painting at the English Gardening School located in the Chelsea Physic Garden. She continued on to serve as the Diploma Manager there for 7 years and traveled to the Galapagos where she had previously lived. View her work on her website and on Instagram.
Coming to botanical illustration after training as a textile designer, Helen received Diploma in Botanical Illustration from the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Her work has been exhibited in London, other parts of England as well as internationally.
Omar Mendoza is an artist from Mexico City whose practice is based on the creation of paintings with natural colors as a form of poetic resistance. Over the last few years, Mendoza has developed a body of work that criticizes the eradication of ancestral knowledge in Mesoamerica due to colonial processes, still present today.
Mendoza conceives his works as living entities, as he creates colors from plants, tree bark and flowers collected in Tlacuilotepec, his father's hometown, along with organic pigments obtained from local markets. These coloristic techniques are inspired by those used in pre-Hispanic codices and murals. The artist prepares the canvases by hand using cotton and extracts inks through a process in which water, heat and time intertwine. Previous drawings are based on dreams and personal experiences that connect with symbolic elements of pre-Hispanic art.
Some of the pigments remain immutable, while others may change over time, reflecting the artist´s intention to evoke the universal nature of change and transformation. These living works dialogue with historical memory and Native American worldviews.
Paula Bohince is the author of four poetry collections: A Violence (Princeton, 2025), Swallows and Waves (Sarabande, 2016), The Children(Sarabande, 2012), and Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (Sarabande, 2008).
Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The TLS, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Liberties, Australian Book Review, Granta, The Telegraph, Raritan, Best American Poetry, and widely elsewhere.
She has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar, a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in both Creative Writing and Translation, the Amy Clampitt House resident, the Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place, an affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist in residence at the Dora Maar House, Hawthornden Castle, MacDowell, Green Box, and Oak Spring.
She has received the "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra's Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and second prize in the UK's National Poetry Competition.
She has taught at New York University, the New School, University College Cork as the John Montague International Poetry Fellow, and elsewhere. She served as the guest editor of Best New Poets 2022(Samovar, 2023).
She lives in Pennsylvania.
Violinist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer Abby Swidler spins sound into immersive dreamscapes that invite listeners to explore and reflect upon the natural world. Abby’s music thoughtfully weaves together organic and electronic textures to create sonic landscapes which are both of the earth and other-worldly. Abby’s music fluidly lives between categories, with threads of contemporary classical, minimalism, folk, ambient, electronic, and experimental music.
Since 2017, Abby has been connecting with the natural world and exploring environmental themes in their music. Their piece Arbor for baroque violin and electronics (2023), explores the theme of deforestation in the United States, and the dualities of past & present, grief & hope, and nature & technology. Horizon & Retrospect (2021) examines snapshots of evolving landscapes in Portland, ME. Botanical Portraits (JACK Quartet Studio, 2020) is a series of miniatures for string quartet focused on plant life. Abby hopes to inspire listeners to feel affirmed in their own unique identities, and to encourage care for one another and the planet.
Their solo project tonguetide will be releasing from the outside EP Oct 4, 2024. Their first release under this project, from the outside is a prismatic collection of captivating soundscapes and intimate songs. Instrumentals, vocals, electronics, and sounds from daily-life and nature are interwoven into wondrous sonic collages.
A violinist, violist, vocalist, and passionate collaborator, Abby is a founding member of Diaphanous Ensemble, a genre-bending composer, improvisor, performer collective started with Che Buford & Aimée Niemann. Diaphanous co-composed, produced, and recorded a work for visual artist Deborah Jack’s seven-panel video installation which will be on exhibit in fall/winter of 2024 in the New Orleans Triennial. Diaphanous premiered four new string-quartets by its members in Aug, 2023, and performed with Ioanna Gika as part of Jacolby Satterwhite’s A Metta Prayer, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Sep, 2023.
Abby is a touring member of the band Iron & Wine, playing violin, viola, and singing. Abby’s work is also featured across a variety of collaborations, including ruby, a dream-pop duo with songwriter kim mayo that Bandcamp Daily described as “a striking, evocative work full of hushed beauty,” and Tsubaki, a collaboration with Courtney Swain & Kyle Harris, which released the short film Ripe featuring the group’s layered and haunting compositions. They have also composed film scores for “THE THAW” directed by Sean Temple and Sarah Wisner, “HOLDING BACK THE TIDE” directed by Emily Packer, and “I Await the Devil’s Coming,” directed by Jeff Verlanic. As a composer, Abby has written works for Palaver Strings, BBC Shortcuts, Dance Visions INC, O Miami Poetry Festival, and the Peabody Essex Museum.
Abby has performed and recorded with artists including Hamed Sinno, Japanese Breakfast, Angel Olsen, Kishi Bashi, L’Rain, Lady Lamb, Billy Martin, Carla Kihlstedt, Shattered Glass, Mirah, Darlene Love, Jherek Bischoff, Ava Luna, I’m With Her, Band of Horses, Bent Knee, Palaver Strings, and The Jessica Pavone String Ensemble. They have performed on The Tonight Show, at SXSW, Newport Folk Festival, Winter JazzFest, Panama Jazz Festival, Halifax Jazz Fest, National Sawdust, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center. They are featured on over 40 studio albums.
Abby has been an artist in residence at the Banff Center for the Arts, Art Omi, Subcircle Residency, the Turkey Land Cove Foundation for the Arts, The Panama Jazz Festival, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Abby was a JACK Quartet Studio Artist, an Experimental Institute fellow at Antenna Cloud Farm, a New Amsterdam Records Genre-Fluid Composers Lab fellow, and a Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music fellow. They received a B.M. in Violin Performance from Eastman School of Music and an M.M. in Contemporary Improvisation from The New England Conservatory. Originally from Missoula, MT, they currently live in Brooklyn, NY.
Michelle Robinson received her Bachelor of Environmental Design in 1991 from Texas A&M University and continued with graduate studies at Texas A&M’s program in Visualization, producing animated short films that were shown at the Walker Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, Imagina in Monaco, and The AFI National Video Festival. She completed her MFA in Visual Art at New Hampshire Institute of Art and exhibited her thesis work at the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH in 2019. She has had her work published in The Hand, Diffusion of Light, Precog, and Frames. She has exhibited her work in solo shows at LAUNCH LA, the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, CO, The Wright Gallery at Texas A&M University, and the Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery at Coker University in NC. She has been awarded residencies with the Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, PLAYA, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. She has juried shows for the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Shoebox Projects, and is currently co-curating an exhibition about the Los Angeles River for summer of 2025 at Shatto Gallery.
She has also been an artist and supervisor with Walt Disney Animation Studios for 31 years, most recently serving as Head of Characters on the Oscar-winning Encanto. She has been a mentor in Disney’s Artist Development Program, taught computer lighting and texturing at the California Institute for the Arts, and is a regular visiting instructor at Texas A&M University. She was nominated for a VES award for Animated Character on Wreck-It-Ralph and was named an Outstanding Alumni for the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, in 2013. She volunteers with several organizations and advisory boards, including Exhibitions Director for International Encaustic Artists, and is a member of the curatorial collective Monte Vista Projects in downtown Los Angeles.
Valentina Soto Illanes (b. 1988, Santiago, Chile) is a Latin American artist currently living and working in Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work mainly in South America and partaken in interdisciplinary residencies and research projects, interested in how disciplines of knowledge categorize the encounter of flora and fauna.
She holds a BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Universidad de Chile. In 2020, she received the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation.
Rachael Catharine Anderson is a 2022 MFA graduate from the Painting and Printmaking program in the Yale School of Art. She makes thematic oil paintings that relate emotional affect to environmental stimuli. Made intuitively and by direct observation of things in space, the paintings blur distinctions between thinking and feeling. Anderson’s care-full approach revels in enchantment and nuance, uncertainty, wonder, and worldly fascination.
In the fall of 2023, Anderson had her first solo exhibition at signs and symbols, followed by part two of this exhibition in the spring of 2024. Her work has been shown in Italy, Canada, and the United States, including at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York. Her paintings are also included in major private collections in the US and Europe. She currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 2024, signs and symbols published Rachael Catharine Anderson: Paintings, the artists's first monograph featuring essays by Barry Schwabsky and Dr. Kathy Battista.
Roxanne Everett is a contemporary landscape painter who is inspired by wilderness areas of the US and abroad. Roxanne received a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Idaho and a Masters degree in Forest Sciences at the University of Washington. Following a career as an Architect, she spent many years as a US National Park Backcountry Ranger, living and working months at a time in remote alpine environments. She was selected as an artist in residence for many private arts organizations (US, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Greece) plus six US National Parks.
Roxanne divides her time between the urban environment of Seattle and a tiny, remote mountain community in the North Cascades of Washington state. She shows her work regularly throughout the Pacific Northwest and is a member of Women Painters of Washington in Seattle. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of six National Parks or Monuments including: Zion (UT) Isle Royale (MI), Acadia (ME), Badlands (SD), John Day Fossil Beds (OR) and Agate Fossil Beds (NE). In addition, Kings Canyon National Park (CA) has her backcountry journal on permanent display in the Grant Grove Visitor Center.
Kirk Gordon is a landscape architect and environmental graphic designer with a background in zoology, plant biology, and horticulture. His work explores the poetic tensions between new technologies and the biophysical world, with special attention to the ways information and cultural memory are derived from and embedded within the landscape.
Jenny Chamarette is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at The Open University, as well as a writer, curator, and artist. Originally trained in modern European languages at University of Cambridge, she earned a PhD in French continental philosophy and visual cultures and has previously held academic positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Leicester, Reading, and Queen Mary University of London.
Chamarette’s work is driven by ethical-political, feminist, and equalities-based values, with a focus on nurturing socially engaged interdisciplinary research. Drawing on intersectional feminist, ecological, disability-informed, and systems-based methodologies, her research addresses critical questions in filmmaking, exhibition practices, archives, museums, and contemporary art. Across her work, she is particularly interested in the relationships between bodies, technologies, environments, and forms of agency, including self-fashioning, creative practice, digital access labor, and cultural power.
Alongside a substantial body of single-authored scholarship on film, artist moving image, phenomenology, archives, museums, and issues of gender, sexuality, disability, and race, Chamarette continues to collaborate on innovative projects in social practice, curation, and programming. She also writes nonfiction, fiction, and experimental art writing for a range of independent and trade publications, with work that has been shortlisted and longlisted for national and international writing prizes.
From 2018–2022, Chamarette served as Co-Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema, dedicated to preserving and expanding access to the archive of Stephen Dwoskin. Working with a multidisciplinary team of artists, historians, and technology specialists, the project developed a “360-degree model” of analysis combining archival research, disability studies, forensic visualization, data imaging, and machine learning techniques.
Chamarette also works extensively with the screen and cultural industries to advocate for more equitable and compassionate working practices. Through projects such as How Do You Feel Cinema?, co-designed with interdisciplinary artist Gaylene Gould in collaboration with the British Film Institute and the Independent Cinema Office, she has helped create restorative spaces of care for cinema workers and audiences. She has also collaborated with the advocacy organization RAISING FILMS on industry research exploring the experiences of parents and carers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and continues to work with creative industries on accessibility, equity, and compassionate cultural practice.
Sheila Scoville is a doctoral candidate in art history at Florida State University, where she studies Mesoamerican ecological knowledge in visual and material culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras to the present day. Sheila holds an MA in Art History from the University of Houston and a BA in English from Rollins College. She was a 2024–25 Peter Buck Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Her doctoral research on colonial Mexican illustrations of the mutualism between people and agave plants has also been supported by residencies at the Huntington and John Carter Brown libraries and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. In 2022, she was a Plant Humanities fellow at Dumbarton Oaks.
Sheila is the doctoral recipient of the 2022 I. N. Winbury Essay Award, the 2021 Emerging Scholars in Object-Based Learning Award from the MFA, Houston, and a 2021 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship. Past and future meetings featuring her as a presenter include College Art Association, American Society for Ethnohistory, Modern Language Association, Social Theory, Politics & The Arts, Midwest Art History Society, Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Materializing Race initiative, and symposia at University of California, Santa Barbara, and FSU. Her writing has been published by Quaderni Culturali IILA, Against the Canon Art, Feminism(s) and Activisms XVIII to XXI Centuries, and the Plant Humanities Lab. As a master’s student, she was the assistant art editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.
James Ojascastro is an origamist, papermaker, and botanist, with a Ph.D. in ethnobotany at Washington University in St. Louis in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden. Ojascastro employs a combination of methods – including fiber trait measurements, experimental papermaking, species distribution modeling, and semistructured interviews – to explore the history, biogeography, and conservation of papermaking traditions (especially of Nepal and Vietnam) through a botanical lens. Outside of academia, Ojascastro uses his research background to guide and inform what plants and which processes will yield paper suitable for origami art.
Asuka Hishiki was born in 1972 in Kyoto. She earned a Master’s degree in Abstract Oil Painting from Kyoto City University of Arts and today lives and works in Hyogo.
Hishiki has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the Diane Bouchier Award in 2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues and exhibitions around the world, including in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and New York City. Through her abstract paintings, Hishiki explores texture, movement, and atmosphere, creating works that evoke both emotional depth and a strong connection to the natural world.