Botany in Action Fellow to Speak at the Three Rivers Arts Festival Tonight!

By Lorren Kezmoh, Outreach Coordinator, Phipps Science Education and Research

Tonight, Tuesday June 9th, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, one of Phipps' Botany in Action Fellows, Dr. Anna Johnson, will be giving a short presentation and demonstration about the history of invasive plants in garden design and their current ecological impacts, at a pop-up gallery located at 820 Liberty Avenue, as part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Anna acted as the "advising ecologist" on the art project "un|cultivate" developed by Addy Smith-Reiman and Joshua Reiman as part of this year's Pittsburgh Community Supported Arts program. So if you're headed downtown for the Arts Festival this evening, stop by the pop-up gallery at 820 Liberty Avenue to learn all about the invasive plant species that could be calling your garden "home" and meet one of our Botany in Action Fellows!

For more information on Pittsburgh's Community Supported Arts program and this weeks presenters please visit their site here, and for more information on Dr. Johnson's research please visit her blog here!

Photograph taken by Lorren Kezmoh.