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Botanical Prints and Art for sale and on display thru December 14 at the
Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, 1155 Q Street

"Flora of Nebraska" botanical prints, order form for multiple prints

About the Winning Botanical Artists
Botanical Mousepad
Botanical Notecards
Order form for Gift Shop items

Cost of botanical prints: $10 non-members
$8.50 Nebraska Statewide Arboretum members

2008 GreatPlants Botanical Prints
Prairie smoke by artist Becky Uhler
Quaking aspen by artist Gretchen Peters
About the Winning Artists

2007 Native Grass Botanical Prints
Artists Karina Helm and Katrina Methot-Swanson (illustration on right)
Botanical prints created with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council

2006 Sunflower Botanical Prints
Artists Karina Helm and Gretchen Peters (illustration on right)
Botanical prints created with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council

2005 Spiderwort Botanical Prints
Artists Yoshiko Kamei and Carol Rustad (illustration on right)
Botanical prints created with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council

Spiderwort Mousepad
(spiderwort print on right also available as mousepad,
$10 for non-members and $7 for members, plus $3 shipping)

2004 Purple Coneflower and Hydrangea Botanical Prints
Artist Yoshiko Kamei

2003 Milkweed Botanical Print
Artist Bobby Sward

2002 Wild Rose Botanical Print
Artist Bobby Sward

2001 Redbud Botanical Print
Artist Anne Kennedy

2000 Prairie Coneflower Botanical Print
Artist Diane Murphy

1999 Shell-leaf Penstemon Botanical Print
Artist Diane Murphy

BOTANICAL NOTECARDS
Four different sets of botanical notecards available.
"Traditional Botanical Print Notecards" has 10 traditional illustrations.
"Interpretive Botanical Print Notecards" has 2 each of the "interpretives."
"Sunflower" and "Grasses" notecards are shown below.
Notecards are 4 1/4 x 5 1/2", blank inside, and come with envelopes.
Set of notecards with envelopes is $15 plus shipping to non-members; $12.75 plus shipping to members.

2009 Botanical Print Competition

Subject matter for 2009:
Baldcypress, Taxodium distichum
Black alder or common winterberry, Ilex verticillata
Bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa
Chinkapin oak, Quercus muehlenbergii
Catalpa, Catalpa speciosa
Concolor fir, Abies concolor
Kentucky coffeetree, Gymnocladus dioicus
Osage orange, Maclura pomifera
Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana
Sugar maple, Acer saccharum

Categories:
TRADITIONAL BOTANICAL PRINT: An accurate and detailed plant portrait, blending artistry with scientific accuracy.
BOTANICAL INTERPRETATION: Botanical subject matter rendered with artistic freedom.
Guidelines: Slides or high-resolution jpegs of paintings, drawings or prints, etc. will be considered.
Slides or jpegs need to be labeled clearly with the artist's name.
The original artwork should NOT be submitted.
If sending slides, artists should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of slides, otherwise slides will not be returned. Competition is open to all artists (local, national and international) age 18 or older.
Full-color media is preferred. The final print will be reproduced to 8 ½ x 11".
Awards: The winning artist will receive a $150 prize and 10 copies of the finished print.
Judges: The competition will be judged by representatives from the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum and the Nebraska Arts Council.
Deadline: November 1, 2008
For questions or to send a JPEG: Call 402/472-7923 or email klarsen1@unl.edu. (Please call or email if you don't receive a quick reply since spam filters may intercept it.)

To submit an illustration, attach a jpeg of your illustration in an email note to klarsen1@unl.edu (Call or email if you don't receive a quick reply.)
Include the following information...
Name of submitting artist:
Address, city, state and zip:
Phone:
E-mail address:
Subject matter (one of the plants listed above):
Media:

Entries must be received in the NSA office on or before November 1, 2008.

Questions? Email cpaxton1@unl.edu
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
P.O. Box 830715
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0715
402-472-2971