Upcoming Art Workshops, Shows, & Lectures
Wonder what Linda's workshops are like? See Janelle's collection of photos on FLICKER.
See the attached PDF for a list of supplies used in Linda's Botanical Art Workshops, or a three
page list of references with comments.
Click here for venues where Vorobik
Workshops have been held and here
for descriptions of Vorobik Workshops.
Lectures, workshops, and shows are listed below chronologically.
Most workshops require early registration and fill on a first-come,
first-served basis. email Linda at vorobik@gmail.com
for additional information.
2016 Workshops, Talks, Field Trips, and Shows
(updated with new events)
Ongoing show of Linda's work at Chimera
Gallery, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday and Sunday, May 14-15, 9 am - 4 pm: Botanical Drawing. Learn the basics for creating botanical drawings from professional botanist, botanical illustrator, and teacher, Dr. Linda Ann Vorobik. Linda, through demonstrations and lectures, introduces participants to basic botanical drawing through shading and use of graphite and colored pencils. All skill levels are welcome. A list of required supplies will be mailed to participants. The class is limited to 12 participants, make your reservation for this special offering now! Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California.
Saturday, May 21, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market,
Saturday, May 21, 5 -6 pm (tentative). Opening reception for show of Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk Southend General Store and Restaurant, Lopez Island, Washington.
and 
. Saturday, May 28, Summer Sips: Wine & Cheese Botanic Lecture Series. Illustrating the Catalina Flora. Illustrating the channel island floras has been one of Linda's most cherished experiences, especially since it means working with Steve Junak, and now Matt Guilliams, of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. What started as "cartoon" drawings of species morphed into the illustrated volumes A Flora of Santa Cruz Island and A Flora of San Nicolas Island. In this talk Linda describes the process of botanical illustration and shares some of her experiences on the channel islands.Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California.
Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5, 9 am - 4 pm: Botanical Watercolor or Gouache. Learn the basics creating botanical watercolors from professional botanist, botanical illustrator, and teacher, Dr. Linda Ann Vorobik. Linda, through demonstrations and lectures, introduces participants to watercolor as used for painting plants. The first morning begins with a lecture and demonstrations of watercolor supplies and techniques followed by supervised painting time. Late morning and afternoon Linda demonstrates different styles of botanical watercolor and more advanced watercolor techniques. Most of the workshop will be devoted to participant painting with supervision by Linda. The workshop closes with a friendly critique of paintings produced. Recommended prerequisite: Vorobik's "Introduction to Botanical Art" or "Botanical Art: Drawing" or equivalent. The class is limited to 12 participants. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California.
Saturday, June 11, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Friday, June 17, Coping with the New Taxonomy. Did the publication of The Jepson Manual’s second edition shake your botanical world? If you’re still looking for Lewisia in Portulaceae and Penstemon in Scrophulariaceae, this workshop will help you understand why plants are renamed or reassigned to different genera or families. This one-day workshop begins with a slide lecture explaining the hows and whys of plant nomenclature, followed by studying a series of handouts that summarize the more recent name changes while looking at samples of these plants in the classroom. In the afternoon, we’re off to the field to search for plants whose taxonomic placement has changed. Siskiyou Field Institute, Selma, Oregon.
Saturday and Sunday, June 18 -19: Hiking the Botanical Wonderlands of Bolan Lake, Bolan Peak, & Poker Flat. Explore the high Siskiyous and revel in their floral diversity! The class will first explore the meadows and serpentine rock gardens in the Poker Flat area in Klamath National Forest. We will stop to key out and identify plants using The Jepson Manual and hear their stories from instructor Linda Vorobik. Sunday, we’ll head for Bolan Peak and Bolan Lake in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest, hiking the loop from the Lookout to the lake, botanizing rock gardens and meadows along the way.
Campgrounds are available at both Bolan Lake and Poker Flat if students wish to camp over the class weekend. Field course destinations are dependent on snow levels and may change. Siskiyou Field Institute, Selma, Oregon.
Monday through Wednesday, June 20, 21, 22: Crash Course in Flowering Plant Families. Have you explored the local flora on your own and wished for botanical guidance? Would knowledge of plant systematics improve your effectiveness in your job? This intensive plant identification class will enhance your skills. We’ll create a practical framework for learning by comparing traits of ~50 plant families, learn how to key using The Jepson Manual, and learn names of local trees, shrubs and flowering plants. Morning lab and slide lectures whet appetites for afternoons in the field. Some plant keying experience is strongly recommended. Scholarships available for qualified students. Siskiyou Field Institute, Selma, Oregon.
Saturday, June 25, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, July 2, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, July 9, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, July 15, 16, 17. Linda's art will be available to view and purchase art at Native Plant Society of Oregon Annual Meeting, in the Cascades of Oregon. Exact times will be posted later.
Saturday and Sunday, July 23 & 24, 9 am to 4 pm. Botanical Art Miniatures in Watercolor. Create a beautiful miniature painting of your favorite plant at the Botanic Garden. All levels welcome: for the novice Linda will walk you through easy techniques for a pleasing painting; for the more experienced, Linda will demonstrate advanced watercolor techniques. Our goal? To walk away after the weekend with a lovely painting to frame or reproduce for your own notecards. East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA
Saturday, July 30, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, August 6, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, August 13, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, August 20, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, August 27, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday and Sunday, September 2 & 3, 10 am - 5 pm (Labor Day Weekend). join Linda Vorobik at the Lopez
Island Studio Tour, location to be announced. Last year graciously hosted this year by Greene Partners, Achitecture and Design (supporters of the arts).
Get to Lopez, find a Studio Tour map
at one of the many stores in the village, and have a grand time visiting
around the island. This is one of the most popular events on the island. Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, September 10, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market. Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, September 10, 5-7 pm. Reception for show of Linda's work with Terri Roush and Ginny Neece. Chimera Gallery, Lopez Island, Washington.
Saturday, September 17, 10 am - 2 pm. See Linda's botanical art work and hand-painted silk scarves, or just stop by to say hello. Lopez Island Farmer’s Market, Lopez Island, Washington.
PENDING. October 22-23, 11 am - 4 pm. Basic botanical drawing: line and form. SKEA. $120 for weekend. Captain Cook, The Big Island of Hawaii.
PENDING. October 25, 26, 27, 6 - 9 pm: Advanced botanical watercolor. SKEA. $120 three evening sessions. Captain Cook, The Big Island of Hawaii.
PENDING. October 29 - 30, 11 am - 4 pm: Beginning botanical watercolor. SKEA. $120 for weekend. Captain Cook, The Big Island of Hawaii.
PENDING. Saturday, October 1. Lecture at Master Gardener's Fall Gardening Workshop. Friday Harbor, Washington.
PENDING. November show at Lopez Island Post Office. Lopez Island, Washington.
November 26th, Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm. Annual Lopez Island Preschool Bazaar. Each year there are number of holiday craft fairs on Lopez Island, but this one is special, in that each dollar you spend not only supports local artists, but helps support the Lopez Island Preschool, one of the integral components of the health of our community. Vorobik will have a large selection of hand-painted silk scarves, wall-hangings, and, new this year, prayer flags, along with botanical art as originals, prints, and scarves. Linda will also have a number of beautifully framed giclees of her work.
Reception December 9, 5 - 7 pm: Lopez Artist Guild Show, runs through Jan 23, 2017. Lopez Center
Saturday, December 10th, 10 am to 3 pm (date tentative). Port Stanley Schoolhouse Annual Art Fair, Lopez Island Washington. More information coming later.
2017 Events
January: Ongoing show of art at Lopez Center. Lopez Island, Washington.
February: Show of art at the Lopez Island Library. Lopez Island, Washington.
March 17, 18 & 19. Show of art. Santa Barbara International Orchid Show. Santa Barbara, California
May: Lecture and show of art. Central Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society. Seattle, Washington.
May through September: Lopez Island Farmer's Market. Lopez Island, Washington.
May through September: Botanical Art and Botany workshops.
October. Botanical Art workshops at SKEA. Captain Cook, The Big Island of Hawaii.
November. Annual Lopez Island Preschool Bazaar. Lopez Island, Washington.
November. Talk to Orcas Island Garden Club. Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington.
December. Port Stanley Schoolhouse Annual Art Fair. Lopez Island, Washington.
Write to Linda at
vorobik@gmail.com if you would like to be on her email mailing list,
or if you would
like to schedule a show or workshop in your area. Thank you!.
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