#WAMfamUNCG Explores

TUESDAY, APR 21, 2020

FROM THE COLLECTION

As an artist and advocate, Elizabeth Bradford both celebrates and mourns the loss of nature and its open spaces. Her paintings serve as elegies for the land as the artist remembers it from her childhood and as it can still be found in undeveloped pockets of forest. Vibrant in color, light, and detailed patterning, Osage Orange, Amherst calls attention to nature’s inherent beauty and to the value of the existing landscape. Bradford hopes her images move viewers so that they halt the demise of such spaces by industrial, commercial, and residential development.

Elizabeth Bradford, Osage Orange, Amherst, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 36 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Museum purchase with funds provided by Wells Fargo Foundation, 2014. © Elizabeth Bradford.

Staff Picks

We’ve all been taking so many walks and appreciating the outdoors. Here are some of our favorite images of nature.

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"The super moon on April 7, from a little walk on my street"

NANCY DOLL

Director

"The azaleas are just past peak."

ELAINE D. GUSTAFSON

Curator of Collections

"Enjoying all the spring blooms on my many long walks"

KRISTEN MAGOD

Special Assistant of External Affairs

"Country Park: hours on an outside journey"

VALERIE MCCONNELL

Business Coordinator

"Spending more time in my garden this spring and tending my new grapevines—ten new muscadine transplants"

LORING MORTENSEN

PR + Communications Officer

"So grateful for the walking paths in the Bog Garden at Benjamin Park."

DR. EMILY STAMEY

Curator of Exhibitions

"I've discovered my great appreciation for the Chinese Fringetree; blooming now in the Greensboro Arboretum!"

SUSAN TAAFFE

Preparator

"This cardinal has started joining me each day when I sit in my porch"

KIM TERBUSH

Registrar

"A little catch-and-release fishing from our pond"

BRAD YOUNG

Chief of Security

Ever wonder about the process that makes these blooms possible? Our colleagues at UNCG’s Plant and Pollinator Center know a lot and are constantly learning more.

Learn more about the research at the Center here.

Check out some great nature flicks thanks to Washington DC’s Environmental Film Festival online.