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Explore Cincinnati’s legacy of nature-based medicine in the 19th- and early 20th-century Eclectic medical tradition through archival research and contemporary art in Flora’s Daughters: Seven Plants Through the Lens of Eclectic Medicine, Contemporary Herbalism, and Botanical Illustration. Developed during their 2025 Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship, collaborators Meghan and Julia studied seven medicinal plants of the Ohio River Valley, drawing on historical herbal practices, modern sustainability perspectives, and the overlooked contributions of women botanists and illustrators. The project culminates in a zine that combines research-based writing with cyanotype prints enhanced by watercolor and ink, creating an accessible resource that connects The Lloyd Library’s collections to contemporary conversations about botanical knowledge, history, and representation.

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Learn about botanical color magic using common ingredients from the kitchen! Each student will receive a tea towel pre-dyed with hibiscus or butterfly pea tea which we will modify using lemon juice and washing soda to shift the pH of the colors, creating vivid tie-dye effects. We will be discussing various tie-dye techniques, learning the basics of botanical dyes, and talking chemistry as we use modifiers to shift color. Students will leave with their own creation in a to-go container which can be untied the following day.’

Registration required; $45 Non-Members, $35 Members

 

Devan Horton is a Northern Kentucky–based fiber artist whose work explores environmental impact, activism, and collectivity through botanical and handmade materials. She holds a BFA in Painting from Northern Kentucky University and has exhibited work locally and nationally, including a recent solo exhibition, Tending Stems, at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center through the New Woman Residency. Devan has completed residencies with United Plant Savers and Friends of Black Rock, serves as art curator for the Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit, and is a recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Art as Activism grant, using her practice to engage communities in ecological restoration.

Kent Krugh’s multi-exposure images in Beyond the Gate invite viewers to experience time as layered and interconnected, linking past, present, and future through evocative portraits of trees. Expanding on his acclaimed series Inside the Gate, Krugh superimposes moments at sites deeply rooted in the Lloyd Brothers’ history from the woods of Crittenden, Kentucky, to Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, and Ithaca, New York. His organic, botanical imagery conveys reflection, patience, and a sense of calm while honoring place, history, and memory.