EXHIBITS
Since 2010, as part of her on-going work at Gateway Science Museum and in collaboration with plantsman, garden designer, and photographer John Whittlesey of Canyon Creek Nursery & Design, Jennifer Jewell has produced and co-produced natural history exhibits designed for small to mid-sized science and natural history museums. These include exhibits on Dendrochronology, Clouds, and three educational and interactive natural history exhibits with Exhibit Envoy.
POLLINATORS: KEEPING COMPANY WITH FLOWERS
An exhibit portraying the relationship between flowers and pollinators. The exhibit is based around 50-some photographs of pollinators in wild and garden settings. These images vividly portray the intriguing lives of many kinds of pollinators. While many people recognize the European honeybee as an important pollinator, Keeping Company with Flowers primarily highlights native pollinators - native bees, butterflies, beetles, flies and others, which play a key role in the ecology of California.
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Pollinators: Keeping Company with Flowers aims to increase awareness and appreciation of the incredible beauty and diversity of pollinators. Of the 4,000 known bee species in the US, 1,600 occur in California. Through close-up photographs and supplemental materials, this exhibit introduces a diversity of pollinators, the various processes of pollination, the needs of pollinators, the obstacles their populations are facing, and what can and is being done to support them.
MUSHROOMS: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM FUNGI
An exhibit exploring the fascinating life cycles, biology and important roles of fungi in our environment. While the Fungi Kingdom includes more than one million species, this exhibit primarily focuses on the mushroom-producing fungi. The exhibit is based around 30 photographs of mushrooms (the fruiting bodies of fungi) in the wild, taken by John Whittlesey and Jennifer Jewell.
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Mushrooms aims to increase awareness and appreciation of the incredible beauty, diversity and critical importance of mushroom producing-fungi in our environment. Through large, detailed photographs and supplemental materials, this exhibit introduces viewers to a wide range of mushroom-producing fungi (gilled, pored, jelly, etc.), and their valuable roles in the environment (saprophytic, symbiotic, etc.)
SEEDS: NATURE'S ARTFUL ENGINEERING
An exhibit exploring the science of seeds and seed dispersal is a vast field of botanical study known as seed ecology, or carpology. Seeds, with their various support structures and dispersal mechanisms, are critically important to all of life – as the future of the health and diversity of the world’s plants, and as an important food source for wildlife and humans alike. Seed structures and their many ingenious dispersal strategies are elegant in their simplicity or their intricacy.
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Seeds introduces visitors to basic seed ecology and a range of amazing seed structures seen in some of California’s native plants through vivid photography, in-depth interpretive and interactive materials.
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For more information on hosting these exhibits, please contact Exhibit Envoy:
(415) 525-1553 | info@exhibitenvoy.org
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While I am happy to speak with you about customized presentations or workshops, I have a variety of existing talks/interactive workshops based on the interest and needs of previous groups, they range from 30 - 90 minutes in length:
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CULTIVATING PLACE: Gardens/Gardeners as Intersectional Agents of Change
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WOMEN IN HORTICULTURE Changing the World (including you in your garden)
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DECOLONIZE Y(OUR) GARDENS
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PUBLIC GARDENS and the Power to Lead Change
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THE EARTH IN HER (OUR) HANDS - 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
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VISIONARY GARDENS/GARDENERS of PLACE - Starting in the West
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SEEDS: Nature's Ancient/Artful Growing of the World
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JEWELLGARDEN
MISSION STATMENT
The word garden does not mean just one thing – and there's not one way or right way to get to what they are and how they’re best achieved. Gardens are both more and less obvious versions of our selves, our fingerprints, our signatures, our reflections, our legacies– as individuals and as cultures.
Jewellgarden is the canopy name under which you will find the various botanically-minded creative pursuits of me, Jennifer Jewell. I love gardens, I love nature, I love gardeners and nature lovers. As a corps of passionate, caring and connected people, I think we make a difference for the better in this world. We make a difference to our own mindsets, to our families, to our communities, economies and the environment - all of which need us to show up as our best selves every day. Gardens, gardening and gardeners matter.
Founded in 2007, Jewellgarden's mission is to explore and celebrate a deeper connection to the world around us through the cultivation of our gardens.
I raise my daughters, work in my own little suburban garden with natives and non-invasive non-natives, visiting weeds and lots of birds and bugs and gophers. I write, photograph, create and co-create natural history exhibits about plants and people.
But mostly I work my heart out at my weekly public radio program and podcast: Cultivating Place, on which I have the great pleasure and privilege of speaking with fascinating people involved in the science, art, craft, and culture of plant, garden, and natural history love. My guests and my listeners expand my own understanding of the world every single week.
Everything I do is founded on these beliefs:
Gardens are some perfect combination of history, culture and nature, of meditation, celebration and prayer. They are produce and they are poetry. Gardens are refuge from the world and, in my life, gardens are among my deepest, best connections to the world.
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Sourced in and contributing to our evolving natural history, gardens hold vast potential. The impulse to cultivate the land for beauty and utility is timeless – the Ancient Egyptians cultivated their places, early Native Americans cultivated theirs, we – whoever we may be - cultivate ours. This primal impulse transcends gender, age, politics, socioeconomics and religion. I am a firm believer that in this impulse to cultivate and garden in the places we live, we find meaning. In this cultivation of place, we can possibly find solutions we have found nowhere else to the problems of the world, which we find everywhere.
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Join me in this on-going conversation and let it make a difference to your gardening practice and life, too.
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The Cultivating Place Garden-Variety World View:
Gardening at its best is a long-term, committed, and loving relationship between all living beings great and small (animal, vegetable, mineral - seen and unseen) and our places.
Its first principles include: do no harm and honor all the diverse parts and players in this dynamic, interdependent process -
a process that calls on all our powers of hand, mind, and heart.
To be a Gardener is beautiful, but not always pretty.
To be a Gardener is profoundly satisfying, but it is neither easy nor perfectable.
It is muddy, scratchy, fragrant, flavorful, fun, heartbreaking, and heart-fueling.
To be a Gardener asks us to embrace our smallness and to live more lightly, and yet expands us daily and beyond measure.
A Garden/Gardener relationship is symbiotic - to be practiced and shared with respect, humility, and pride.
A Garden/Gardener relationship is a full-contact, wholehearted, co-evolving, true love.
Our Garden/Gardener relationships, which connect us so deeply to the nature of this world, hold the potential to change everything for the better -
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ourselves as citizens of this generous planet, our families and what they hold to be true and valuable,
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our larger human communities - their very social fabric and cultural, environmental, political, and economic priorities,
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the health and well-being of our surrounding places full of more-than-human air, water, soil, animal and plant-life-all that bridges us here to us over there… and over there…and down there, out there, and up there.
We are all in this together and Gardens and Gardeners make a difference.
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- February 2019
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