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Intro to Nature Journaling
January 18, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$45 – $50Join us for Intro to Nature Journaling with artist and educator Michelle Antonisse on Saturday, January 18 from 1–3pm.
Learn how scientists and artists have used illustrative and descriptive journaling to explore the natural world. We will start with the history, uses, and many styles of this practice.
Then, we will venture outside for a guided journaling session where we will deepen our relationship to plants in the garden through conversation, reflection, sketching, and writing.
Suggested list of supplies will be provided with the confirmation email.
$45 for members, $50 for non-members. Advance registration required, registration opens to members on December 5 at 10am and to non-members on December 10 at 10am.
About Michelle Antonisse
Michelle Antonisse is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator, and current Manager of Teen & School Programs at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
She also runs experimental environmental education workshops under the name “Into the Field,” where learners explore concepts of botany and ecology through conversation, close looking, creative writing, and arts-based exercises. She recently published a reflective workbook titled “Out of the Field.”