Germiante

Germinate is an intensive, week long residency for artists to study plants in Canada. Twice daily workshops, lectures and field trips will give you first hand expiriences with a broad range of botanical information.

Activities include!

Artist talk (we invite you to present your work to the group)
Lecture of contemporary artists working with living plants
Visit to the National Museum of Nature Herbarium archives
Visit to the Ottawa Seed Library to learn about seed saving and genetics
Visit to the Arboritum with a tree specialist
Hike the Gatineau National Park with a moss expert
Visit the Fletcher Wildlife Garden to talk about native vs invasive plants
Studio visit and Kirilian Photography demonstration
Plant sonification demonstration/workshop
Visit the University of Ottawa's teaching green houses and learn about mushroom/plant relationships
Forage the Wild Garden with a herbalist and learn to process edible and medicinal wild plants
Collect single celled photosynthesizing pond life to image wiht a microscope
Lecture on poisonous garden plants.