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Photographer Damon Wilson leads a tour through downtown Cincinnati to visit locations recorded by Curtis Gates Lloyd from over 100 years ago. Attendees will learn how to recreate Lloyd’s techniques and how to record everyday motions through their own lens. Amateurs are welcome, as are film and digital aficionados alike. Be sure to bring your walking shoes!

Registration Required.

Damon Wilson is a fine art, editorial, and portrait photographer who is the proprietor of Meta 19: Photographer LLC and a designer at KZF Design. He has had the pleasure of leading projects around the world, including Ascension Island, with solo shows from Arizona to Kentucky. While his work has found its way into several publications, he is most proud of his work with local publishers for the arts and cultural magazine Polly.

Curtis Gates Lloyd traveled the world collecting books and plant specimens during the 1890s through the 1920s. While abroad, Lloyd brought his camera to document plants in their natural habitat and record their uses. His travels included: Samoa, Mexico, Caribbean islands, Italy, and Egypt. When at home, Lloyd photographed life in Cincinnati and at his farm in Crittenden, Kentucky. He often displayed these images in photo albums where he would write about his journeys. Now the subject of ethnobotanical scholars, Lloyd’s photographs along with six recently conserved photo albums provide a unique view into the past.

Since nature is an everchanging force, capturing its splendor in the present will serve as a record for the future. The beauty of the natural world now is showcased by Rick Conner and TJ Vissing. Inspired by the work of The Nature Conservancy in Ohio, Conner and Vissing view nature as an incredible force, inviting the viewer to slow down and view life in a different way.  Images from these magnificent natural spaces illuminate and create a record of today’s everchanging environments.

Visions of Nature across Time and Place is part of the 2022 @fotofocuscincinnati Biennial. Now in its sixth iteration, the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial encompasses more than 100 projects at Participating Venues across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton, and Columbus, and features more than 600 artists, curators, and participants—the largest of its kind in America. 

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments.

Encounter ancient Mesoamerican agriculture with David Lentz, Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Learn about his discoveries through the Lloyd Library’s photography collections.

David L. Lentz is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Formerly he served as Director of Graduate Studies at the New York Botanical Garden, Vice President of Scientific Affairs at the Chicago Botanic Garden and as President of the Society for Economic Botany. He has been the fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington DC since 2021, continuing his research for a book project on ancient Mesoamerican agriculture

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For centuries, mustard–whether Brassica juncea, Brassica nigra, or Sinapsis alba–has been used by many cultures around the world for its medicinal properties, either applied to the skin or taken internally. In addition to its medical uses, mustard is employed in religious and childbirth rituals in Asia and has been a focal point of philosophy in both Eastern and Western traditions with the ubiquitous mustard seed parable. And its culinary aspects–greens and seed–position it as the most used condiment on a global perspective. Follow 2022 Lloyd Fellow Kevin Grace’s journey through all things mustard across the globe and throughout history.

This event is being offered as both an in-person and a virtual program.

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Audrey Bell, an artist and medical illustrator based in Detroit, will discuss her time on-site at Lloyd Library researching local fauna to inform her project Transformative Encounters. An exploration of multispecies interactions in Ohio, and the ways they have been documented through herbaria, botanical illustration, mapmaking and text. She will discuss her research and creative process and talk through the work created in response to the Lloyd’s collections. 

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• History of Printing in Greater Cincinnati Lecture by Jacob Simpson of the Cincinnati Print Museum, 2 p.m. Reservations required.
• Stop in and make your own botanical print using a press and images from the Lloyd’s botanical collection between noon-2 p.m. and 3-4 p.m. 

Learn basic bookmaking skills from members of the Cincinnati Book Arts Society and take home two beautiful handmade books.  You’ll leave with a pocket-size leather journal for recording your own wildlife observations, and an accordion-folded book with hard cover perfect for displaying photographs or sketches.  No experience necessary – all levels welcome.

Co-sponsored by the Cincinnati Book Arts Society.

We all know his name, but what do we know about his life? Vincent Van Gogh endeavored to tell his story through his work as a student then teacher, a minister and artist.  Join us for this presentation by Naturalist Carol Mundy, where we will look at how nature inspired Van Gogh’s art and discuss some of his unpleasant connections to the earth, such as his exposure to naturally occurring elements, minerals and botanicals that affected his physical and mental health. 

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As a naturalist, speaker and writer Carol Mundy taught for the University of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Park District, leading classes on urban wildlife issues, native plants, weed identification and the historical uses of plants. She continues to offer lectures and workshops in her “retirement.”  One of her favorite botanical projects was the design of the historical medicine display for The Ohio Governors’ Residence Heritage Garden & Lloyd Medicinal Garden.

 

Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control  pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book. Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight. For general audiences, no knowledge of mycology required. Book signing of Bunyard’s new book, The Lives of Fungi, A Natural History of Our Planet’s Decomposers published by Princeton University Press, follows the lecture.  

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Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Britt has worked academically as a mycologist his entire career, teaching at a number of university courses and writing scientifically for many research journals and popular science magazines. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guidebooks. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine, The Atlantic, Vox, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Eating Well, Hobby Farm, Women’s World, and other magazines and newspapers.