Join us for a night of drawing in the Benjamin Rush Medicinal Plant Garden, at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Staff at the Museum will give a short lecture on the folklore and historical uses of medicinal plants in the collection, then Carol will give a brief lecture/demo on the basics of drawing botanical subjects. Participants will then head out into the garden to draw! At 8pm participants will create cocktails with herbs from the garden! Find info here.
The Yellow Baton (Ranunculus)
Artists at work in the Benjamin Rush Garden at the Mutter Museum.
Benjamin Rush, (1745 - 1813) a Founder of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, was a doctor, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and teacher. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and a Surgeon General of the Continental Army.