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Linda Anderson Miller
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Art Teacher at Yale Peabody Museum
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/education/natural-science-illustration-courses
http://www.linda-a-miller.com
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staying alive and whole in a world of hurt is best served by cultivating, practicing, and integrating our ability to bounce back, push back, and have our backs, together.
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Alive and Whole in a World of Hurt: the below and beyond of well-being - John Paul Lederach
Reflections on the dynamics of resilience, resistance, and accompaniment as they constellate a deeper and expansive imagination of well-being in peacebuilding.
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August 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Beginning soon! Join online - recording available after the session 🙏

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FREE In-Person Teaching August 17th: Terry Tempest Williams and Roshi Joan “EARTH” (also online)
This special session will invite us to reflect on our deep relationship with the Earth, as Terry and Roshi Joan…
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August 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This moment, I was reminded
that there is hope and beauty
in this world.
May 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Daily dose of beauty: An Eastern bluebird.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #bluebirds
February 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Eastern Bluebird

Delicate beauty always reminds us to slow down and notice the details...
A blue, tan, and white male Eastern Bluebird is perched on a white branch. There are a couple of small twigs. The background is snowy white.
February 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Feature from the latest Journal of Natural Science Illustration: Dorie Petrochko wrote an article on Yale Peabody Museum's Natural #ScienceIllustration Program! The program celebrated its 15th anniversary in late 2024.

Img: Violet-tailed sylph hummingbird, colored pencil, © 2024 Marylou Connolly
A colorful illustration of a Violet-tailed sylph hummingbird on a white background. The hummingbird is mostly green and yellow, but has a very long blue and violet tail. Image © 2024 Marylou Connolly
February 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Originally held at the museum, it now serves a global audience with students from 38 U.S. states and 12 countries via online and in-person classes in many mediums and sciart topics.

GNSI members can the full article for free by logging into your account and viewing JNSI 2024 Vol. 56, No. 2.
February 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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This looks amazing...
jackdashby.bsky.social Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Dec 5
COVER REVEAL!
Here's what my upcoming book, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History #Museums" will look like. I couldn't guess what image my publishers at Penguin would select to represent ALL SPECIMENS IN ALL MUSEUMS, but I think this snail is perfect. #CoverReveal
The book cover, with the title top right, and a bright green tree snail covering most of the page, with its opening bottom right. The text below the cover reads "Coming April 2025"
February 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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PLEASE SHARE: poets Jane Hirshfield and Jimmy Santiago Baca, artist translators Ian Boyden and Kaz Tanahashi, and Roshi Joan. Feb 21-23 at Upaya.
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February 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🌲🦉❄️

Long-eared Owl in the Snow, Central Park, February 2025
February 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A Barred Owl hunting crawfish at Congaree National Park, South Carolina.

#owls #birds #nature
A majestic owl with deep, dark eyes and intricate brown and white plumage gazes intently. Its finely patterned feathers create a mesmerizing texture, and its sharp beak adds to its striking presence.
February 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Close up of a rehabilitated great horned owl on Family Bird Festival Day at the Botanic Gardens.

#raptorrescue #sandimascanyonnaturecenter #californiabotanicgarden #greathornedowl #californianativeplants #birdsofcalbg #birding #birds #birdfestival #sandimascanyonnaturecenter #omsystem #om1markii
February 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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A chill wind in the heart of things.
The season mirrors the country.
We need poetry these cold days of late winter.
February 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Congratulations to the SCBWI Portfolio Showcase Winners 🎉

BRONZE
Shannon McNeill
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Amelia Bothe
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SILVER
Melissa Gardner
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GOLD
Karen Stanton
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February 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.

I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

~Robin Wall Kimmerer

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#TalonTuesday #Raptors 🪶🌿
A moment of wonder and joy with the lovely Mrs. Cooper, backlit in morning light while perched in my Emory Oak about 8 feet away from my back deck.
February 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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this winter morning
light spilling everywhere
into the silence
(photo by josh)
February 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Working on this page brought back great memories of attending the bumble bee workshop at Nachusa Grasslands back in 2021. We were able to get close looks at many different species, but the conclusion was that our native bees are precious and need care.
#SciArt #insects #naturejournal #prairie
Watercolor and ink paintings of 5 different species of bumble bees plus a miner bee and a leafcutter bee. Handwritten ink notes are interspersed among the illustrations. August 7, 2021, Nachusa Grasslands, 88 degrees- felt like 95+, hot and humid with some clouds. Five species of bumble bees are depicted. Bombus pensylvanicus- American Bumble Bee- found on early goldenrod, Bombus auricomus male- Black and Gold Bumble Bee- big eyes! Territorial. Below that is the female feeding on beebalm. Then Bombus vagans-Half-black Bumble Bee- hairy looking! In the middle is Bombus affinis-Rusty-patched Bumble Bee feeding on Joe Pye Weed. Below that is a Bombus citrinus female- Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee and the male feeding on Joe Pye Weed. The queen invades host colony, kills other queen, eggs and larvae and forces workers to care for its own eggs. Hosts-B. impatiens and B. vagans. At the top right are 2 smaller native bees- Andrena aliciae- yellow-faced miner bee and Male leafcutter bee- brushy front legs. Note at bottom- Rusty-patched Bumble Bee workshop (federally endangered) - looked for B. affinis, B. pensylvanica, B. vagans, B. citrinus male and female and others. Between all the groups, 15 Rusty-patches were seen! Preferred habitat- border between woods and prairie
February 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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The GNSI Carolinas Chapter presents The Nature of Drawing Birds, a two-day workshop with instructor Linda Feltner—with live birds! This event has been sponsored by the GNSI Education Fund.

March 15-16, 2025, North Carolina State University's David Clark labs, Raleigh. $160. https://buff.ly/40bvyHs
An informational flyer for Linda Feltner's Nature of Drawing birds workshop. There are three photographs of owls and falcons on the top, along with beautifully illustrated #sciart sketch pages from Linda's own work on the side. The text reads: Carolina's Chapter/The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators presents The Nature of Drawing Birds March 15 & 16, 2025 North Carolina State University's David Clark Labs Raleigh, NC Linda M. Feltner, Instructor. Birds catch our imagination and inspire creativity. Beginning with foundation basics, our study will encompass their unique characteristics and distinguishing traits. Drawing both form and detail, we'll compare types, coloration and adaptations that allow them to survive and flourish. Live birds in the classroom allow us to observe movement and balance, as well as adds freshness and inspiration to our experience.
February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Why I Read Picture Books ... for Myself
A picture book is any day reading, no grandkids required
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February 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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"In 2022, burnt out from the slow pace of social justice, I realized that I was beyond my measure: doing far too much and some of it not in the right spirit. From worship, I discerned (individually and with others) that I needed to take a break from half of what I was doing."
The Delight of Being Alive
A walking prayer meditation for healing.
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February 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Finished the right page on this spread from my IL prairie nature journal... each prairie has its own special communities!
#prairie #SciArt #naturejournal #insect
Handwritten notes at the top of a nature journal page with ink and watercolor sketches filling the rest of the page. Lavender blazing stars and nodding onion are on the left and center bottom. A swirl of white flowers goes up a stem and a black wasp is feeding on them. A white nodding onion with a yellow and brown dragonfly is on the right with a brown common wood- nymph below it. A bright pink purple prairie clover hugs the right side of the page. Handwritten notes- July 31, 2021, Bluff Spring Fen, 78 degrees, sun with clouds, lovely day. Saw Halloween Pennant, male and female Calico Pennants, saw weird group of flowers winding around stems-rope dodder! Saw silvery checkerspots, surprised to see purple prairie clover still blooming, lots of whorled milkweeds, nodding onions, beebalm, gray-headed coneflowers, and compass plants.
February 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Robin Wall Kimmerer imagines a system where resources circulate through communities, creating webs of independence that nourish both humans and nature.

Her latest book, The Serviceberry, is "like a beautiful poem filled with love," says Ruah Swennerfelt.
REVIEWED: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer's followup to Braiding Sweetgrass is a hopeful book, an ecology book, an economy book, and a spiritual book.
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February 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM