WAMfam Explores Apr 21 2020 - Weatherspoon Art Museum

#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.

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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

Photos by Alex Wild.

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.