[Pollinator] Bee Art Show to Benefit Honey Bee Research at UC Davis

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Bee Art Show to Benefit Honey Bee Research at UC Davis

SACRAMENTO--The beleaguered bee will get its day in court on Saturday, 
May 8.

In a courtyard, that is.

The “Bees at The Bee” art show,” a benefit for the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. 
Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, 
will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. in the Sacramento Bee’s open courtyard at 
2100 Q St.  The event, free and open to the public, is part of the 
Sacramento Bee’s and annual Second Saturday celebration.

Artists from a 12-county area were invited earlier this year to submit 
their work. Submissions include acrylic paintings, watercolors, pen and 
ink drawings, metal and paper sculptures, photographs, fused glass 
plates, pendants, a fleece blanket, crocheted multimedia, collages, 
monoprint-woodcut, neckpiece, individually painted CDS, and a scrimshaw 
engraving on a mammoth ivory.

“I’m really blown away by the level of quality, the ingenuity, and the 
variety of content we’re seeing for this show,” said art show 
coordinator Laurelin Gilmore, an artist based in Sacramento.  “It’s a 
relatively narrow theme, but concern for the plight of the honey bees 
is filtered through each artist in a different way, and the results run 
the gamut from funny to beautiful to profound.  Every time I see a new 
piece for this show, I am re-energized!”

See more at
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/beeartshowartists.html







Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications Specialist
Department of Entomology
396A Briggs Hall
One Shields Ave.
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-6894
Fax: (530) 752-1537
kegarvey at ucdavis.edu
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