Georgia O'Keefe Volunteer Training Today

5/17/2018

Excited to attend the training for volunteers today on the special Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawaiʻi show starting at the New York Botanical Garden - Members-Only Preview Friday 5/18. Show Saturday 5/19/18-10/28/18.
Flowers of Hawai'i in the Conservatory is paired with more than 15 O'Keeffe Hawaiian paintings in the library. P.S. Hawaii is spelled with an okina ,also called a glottal stop, between the two i's. I had to get a Hawaiian keyboard on my Mac!

1 Comment

Ethel Steinberg

5/17/2018 07:29:54 am

Hello Katherine,
Well - you have certainly rung a bell with this photo! I cannot wait to see this show about Hawaii and and Georgia O'Keeffe's time there. I'd better get my tickets soon, as there's sure to be Great Interest in this exhibit at the NYBG!

Katherine Wagner-Reiss has her botany Certificate from the New York Botanical Garden, where she is a volunteer tour guide.
She has a special interest in native plants and in the scientific and the common names of plants.

She credits Botanary and Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder and Wikipedia and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners by William T. Stern ( 1992) as the excellent sources of most of the etymologies of plant names on this site.