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UC Botanical Garden — Explore + Sketch — Private Garden + Collections Tour

  • UC Botanical Gardens 200 Centennial Drive Berkeley, CA, 94705 United States (map)

(Close-up of Kataro Shirayamadani, Vase with California Poppies, 1937. Collection at the Crocker Art Museum; courtesy image)


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Plants offer rich inspiration for ceramicists exploring both form and surface design, and UC Berkeley’s Botanic Gardens’ extraordinary gardens and research collections are a wonderful resource right here in Berkeley.

Join a private tour of select areas of the collection including plants, flowers, and seed pods with PS Member and UCBG Assistant Curator Sophia Warsh. Sophia will share samples from her own collection and will take you on a tour to explore some of the Garden’s different — and fascinating! — plant types and ecosystems.

Bring a sketchbook, anything you like to draw with, and your questions.

Free to July PS Members || Limited availability



Getting There

Meet at the UC Botanical Gardens, 200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley

Public Transit — UCBG is accessible via AC Transit and UC’s Bear Transit (Bear Transit is open to the public).

Car — The garden is in the Berkeley Hills. Paid public parking ($1.50 pr hour) is available nearby.

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Earlier Event: July 19
Cyanotype Printing on Ceramics