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June 2009

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Please help us to thank our 2009 Season Sponsors
for their support of ABG Events & Programs!

Give the gift of Membership, and / or tickets to these
wonderful ABG Events & Workshops
:

Secret Garden Series (Thursdays, 7/9 - 7/20)
Lighthouse Tea
(Friday, 7/10)

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New Workshops:

2009 Plant Sale

Wild Garden Painting for Kids
Saturday, August 1, 1 :30-4:00, $40 (member), $45 (non-
member) Kids & adults are invited to play with ink,
watercolor, brush, stick and other found garden objects to
explore easy and quite beautiful ways to create
spontaneous paintings & folding books. Age 7 and up.

Botanical Garden Field Journal Workshops
Andie will freely share her field-friendly tricks and techniques
for working outdoors to capture botanical gesture, detail and
color. Luminous quilt-like field journal pages will result. Each
day stands alone, or combines for greatest impact. For all
levels.

Garden Field Journal: Color & Design
Friday, August 7, 9 :30-4:00
We will practice straightforward ways to accurately mix the
vast range of summer's palette. Next, we will study page
design, using medieval techniques to magically compose
beautiful journal pages.

Garden Field Journal : Watercolor Illumination
Saturday, August 8, 9:30-4:00
Foundations gained in Friday's class will be applied to create
imagery in layers of watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink,
conjuring up a sense of the wild complexity of plants growing
outdoor.

Each day: $115 (member), $135 (non-member)
Take both days together: $195 (member), $210 (non-
member)


Andie Thrams is a painter and book artist whose work
focuses on wild plants and places. Her teaching combines
excitment for creative work in the outdoors with inspiring art
techniques and sound design fundamentals. Her work is
widely exhibited, collected and published . She teaches for
San Francisco Center for the Book, Sitka Center for Art &
Ecology, San Francisco State Univeristy Field Campus, and
others. Andie lived in Alaska for many years and now makes
her home in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada .

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Join or Renew your
Membership

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A Midsummer Gala in
the Garden Art Show
& Sale - Thanks!

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Himalayan Blue Poppy

Some Dates to
Remember:

Thursdays
July 9 - August 20
Secret Garden Series

Friday
July 10, 3 pm - 7 pm

Lighthouse Gardens Tea
"The Cat's Meow"

Saturday
August 8, 10 am - 5 pm
Plastic Pot Recycling Day

 

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Office Location: 3701 Tudor Rd., Suite 203 Anchorage,AK
M ailing Address: P.O. Box 202202, Anchorage, AK 99520

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