Paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and historic objects reflecting the world of wild and domestic animals, native plants, and the history of the Brookgreen property comprise the inaugural exhibit in the Brenda and Dick Rosen Galleries.  The works are drawn from the collection of Brookgreen Gardens and works on loan from renowned artist Sandy Scott and the Kaminski House Museum.  Among the artworks in the exhibit are those by and attributed to 18th and 19th century luminaries Washington Allston, William Curtis, John Gould, George Whiting Flagg, and Rosa Bonheur. Great illustrators and intaglio printmakers in the field of sporting art are included such as A. B. Frost, Churchill Ettinger, Richard Bishop, Reinhold Palenske, William Schaldach, and Hans Kleiber.  Artists who focused on dogs and horses as subjects – Marguerite Kirmse, Diana Thorne, and Marilyn Newmark – are in the exhibit.  A list of notables in contemporary animal art include John Seerey-Lester, Bob Kuhn, Heiner Hertling, Sandy Scott, Walter Matia, and Bart Walter, to name a few.  Lastly, 18th and 19th century stories of Laurel Hill, Springfield, Brookgreen, and The Oaks are told through fine art, decorative arts, and material culture from the Allston, Alston, Flagg, Jordan, Ward, and Weston families.

Rosen Galleries 1, 2, 3 and 4

Kicking off Brookgreen Gardens 90th Anniversary celebration over a two-year period. Included with garden admission.

Rosen Galleries, 1, 2, 3 and 4

Kicking off Brookgreen Gardens 90th Anniversary celebration over a two-year period. Included with garden admission.

This exhibit was made possible with the generous support of

Robert and Lou Rainey

Evans and Diane Whitaker

Join Viki Richardson, Cincy Kerr and Gilma Caslin and build your own tiny ecosystem to enjoy at home. We will walk you through the steps of building a small terrarium. Supplies and plants will be provided.

Limit 10 people. Cost: $60.00 for non-members $45 for members.

This workshop is sold out.

Installing and maintaining a landscape may seem like an overwhelming task but, it doesn’t have to be. There are many ways we can work smarter and lighten the load in our yards. Join us as we discuss low maintenance landscapes and how we can make our life easier when it comes to installing and maintaining our outdoor space. 

About the Speaker: 

Brad Fowler is the Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator for Horry and Georgetown counties. Prior to working for Clemson Extension, he worked as a horticulturist for Brookgreen Gardens and as the manager for a local landscape company. Brad has a strong interest in helping homeowners and landscape professionals learn and maintain proper horticultural practices.

Get acquainted with some of our most misunderstood animals, the reptiles! Ranger Mike Walker from Huntington Beach State Park will introduce you to some of our scaly friends, including snakes, turtles, lizards, and alligators. Learn how these animals have far reaching impacts on our local ecosystems, including acting as bodyguards for wading bird chicks, helping marsh residents survive catastrophic droughts, and protecting you from vermin by acting as natural pest exterminators. What has a reptile done for you lately? A lot more than you realize! A few live animals will also be on hand. 

About the Speaker: 

A native of South Carolina, Mike Walker received his Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology at the University of South Carolina. He has occupied various positions with the South Carolina State Park System and is currently an Interpretive Park Ranger for Huntington Beach State Park. He oversees educational programs and resource management. Mike’s continuous pursuit of preserving and promoting South Carolina’s natural resources has led to the most satisfying career he could ask for.  

Join Brookgreen Gardens’ horticulturist, Gina Davis and Vice President of Horticulture and Conservation, Miles Arnott, for a tour of the Children’s Garden. Gina and Miles will discuss adding color to shady gardens, using tropicals in warm-season displays, and how to incorporate shrubs with varying flower times to ensure continual color in the garden. 

About the Speakers: 

Gina Davis is the Horticulturist in charge of the Children's Garden, Palmetto Garden, Passageway, Daylily Walk, Bob Jewel Garden, and the butterfly topiary at the zoo. She has a B.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina.  She has worked at Brookgreen Gardens for 8 years and is training to be an arborist. 

Miles Arnott serves as the Vice President of Horticulture and Conservation at Brookgreen Gardens. He is responsible for the institution’s cultivated and natural landscapes and supervises the horticulture, landscape, and natural areas staff. He directs the horticultural development and maintenance of the Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington Sculpture Garden, and oversees the environmental stewardship of Brookgreen’s significant natural areas.

This workshop has been cancelled.

Animal Sculpting with Paul Rhymer.

This 4-day workshop will concentrate on sculpting animals from models and other reference. Anatomy, armatures and understanding how to interpret your reference will be our focus as we sculpt a subject. Models available will include several mammals, birds, and reptiles. Taxidermy, casts, and photos will be our models. $550 plus materials.

Paul Rhymer comes from a family of artists and has drawn and painted his whole life.  After receiving an Associate of Arts degree from a local college in 1984, he accepted a job at the Smithsonian Institution doing taxidermy and model-making and retired in 2010.  As a result of so much three-dimensional work in his museum job, his own personal artwork gradually began to transform from painting and drawing into sculpture.  Being an avid birder, waterfowl hunter, and taxidermist gives him constant anatomy and behavioural learning experiences that inspire his sculpture. 

Paul’s work has been exhibited in such prestigious art shows as the National Sculpture Society, the Society of Animal Artists, and Birds in Art. His wildlife sculpture is at the National Zoo, National Museum of Natural History, the Denver Zoo, Woodson Art Museum, Hiram Blauvelt Museum, and various public buildings, parks, and private collections throughout the U.S. Paul serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Animal Artists and the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art. 

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Sculpting the Figure in Motion with Brittany Ryan.

Please join us for a five-day journey in sculpting the human form in motion. We will focus on how to best create a sense of believable movement and weight in your sculpture. We will talk about how to work with a model and the creation of props and supports for the pose. There will be lectures and demonstrations on anatomy, gesture, and composition. We will touch on some historical references and look at some contemporary figurative sculptors who make great use of motion in their work, both as a beautiful form and cultural content. $650 plus materials and model's fees.

Brittany Ryan was born in 1983 in San Diego, California. She received her formal education at the Laguna College of Art and Design. Graduating in 2005 with a BFA degree, majoring in Illustration and a minor in Sculpture. After working as an illustrator for two years, Brittany began work toward her MFA degree in drawing and painting at the same institution. In 2008 Brittany had the opportunity to study portrait painting at Florence Academy in Florence, Italy as part of her MFA program which graduated in the spring of 2010 with a MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design. Brittany has a strong relationship with local museums, and local, national, and international art associations. Recently Brittany was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, a prestigious award created to support the success and development of emerging representational artists.  In the spring of 2018, Brittany completed a three-year-long monumental sculpture project consisting of four walking figures at heroic scale cast in bronze. The sculptures are placed at the historic main campus of Laguna College of Art and Design. Brittany currently lives and works in Southern California, is periodically involved in group shows as well as being an instructor and sculpture department coordinator at Laguna College of Art + Design since 2014. 

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Beginning sculpting, with Bryan Rapp.

This course is especially tailored to beginners, but it is open to all levels. Students will learn about the different clays and tools available to us, as well as a brief introduction to mold-making and casting processes. Students will also learn how to build armatures and how to quickly rough-in and proportion human forms utilizing a live model. We will also tour the grounds and talk about Brookgreen’s collection and the artists represented. On the last day, we will create an alginate mold of our hands, as well as a plaster casting to take home with you. Students may bring in personal work to continue or start from scratch. $325 plus materials and model's fees.

Bryan Rapp is a figurative sculptor and the Director of the Wallace Master Sculptor Program at Brookgreen Gardens. From 2016 to 2019, Rapp was the first Artist-in-residence at Coastal Carolina University, where he taught all processes in the ancient clay to bronze tradition known as “Lost Wax” casting. In 2016 Rapp received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma, studying under the mentorship of sculptors Paul Moore, FNSS, and Sohail Shehada. Prior to graduate school, Rapp attended Muskingum University for Studio Art, and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for computer animation. From 2004 to 2006, Rapp worked with sculptor Alan Cottrill in his studio and foundry, Coopermill Bronzeworks, in Zanesville, Ohio, as a mold and wax tech, and assisted on numerous large commissions for Cottrill and his clients. Rapp has produced work for both private collectors and public commissions and has exhibited his work in several states.  

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Make Your Own Brookgreen Medal, with Heidi Wastweet.

A single-sided art medal is a bite-size project that can be done in five days. On the first day, Heidi Wastweet will take students around the grounds to take their own reference photos. Then there will be two-and-a-half days of sculpting and a day-and a half of mold-making and plaster casting. For an additional fee of $100 to cover the cost of casting, patina, and shipping, she will send your piece to a foundry and ship to you a finished bronze medal. Those who don’t want a bronze can take home a plaster cast. 

Heidi Wastweet is a leading American medalist and sculptor specializing in bas-relief bronzes. In conjunction with a wide variety of private mints she has produced over 1,000 coins, medals, tokens, and rare coin replicas since 1987. She was chief engraver for Sunshine Mint for 11 years and lead designer/sculptor for Global Mint for five years. In 2001, she opened her own studio, relocated from Idaho to Seattle in 2003, and then to the San Francisco Bay area in 2013. She serves as president of the American Medallic Sculpture Association and is former president and founder of Seattle Sculpture Guild as well as a member of the Federation Internationale de la Medaille. Her Work has been shown in Coin World and Coinage magazines and she exhibits her non-commissioned work with the National Sculpture Society in New York and the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington. She served two, four year terms on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee for the U.S. Mint in Washington, D.C. Medal and coin credits include a seven-coin set issued by the Sultanate of Darfur, Asian Hall of Fame Award Medal, the Dean’s Award for Seattle University School of Law, Alumnus Award Medal, the Dean’s Award for Seattle University School of Law, Alumnus Award for Stephen F. Austin University, Mayo Clinic Visiting Physicians Medal, Stanford University Alumni Medal, and Island Records Willie Nelson portrait. In addition to medallic art, she has also created public art including a commission for the University of Washington’s Medal of Honor Monument in Seattle and eight bronze relief panels for 12-foot high church doors at St. Paul’s in Pensacola, Florida. 

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Nature's Geometry: Sculpting the Figure in Planes with Rick Casali.

Sculpt the figure under the guidance of renowned sculptor Rick Casali. Artists will create a 24” standing nude in oil-based plastilina on a wire skeleton armature, working directly from the live model. Each day will feature several demos by Casali explaining the essential knowledge for making life-like figures with sound anatomy. Topics covered: “action” of pose, human proportions, geometric planes, gross anatomy, and the organic rhythms that tie it all together. Recommended for portrait painters, sculptors, wood carvers, students of drawing, and computer animators. All skill levels welcome. $650 plus materials and model's fees.

Rick Casali is a figurative artist based in Maryland. Both an oil painter and sculptor, Rick’s work expresses an appreciation for nature and his love of the figure. “It is the honest study of nature that leads one to beauty,” says Casali. His style embraces classicism, Impressionism, and elements of modern design, aiming to fuse the timeless geometry of the Greeks with a fresh Impressionistic vision of reality. Rick attended the Maryland Institute of College of Art in Baltimore, and then a close apprenticeship with renowned portrait artists Cedric and Joanette Egeli at their farm in Edgewater, MD. It was John Ebersberger who introduced Rick to the Egelis, and Rick credits John for opening his eyes to color and developing a command of drawing the portrait and figure. Casali has also studied extensively with sculptor Stephen Perkins, an expert in human construction and anatomy. Additional mentors include colorist George T. Thurmond and portrait artist Michael Shane Neal. 

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