Art courses at the UC Botanical Garden are inspired by the natural world and our diverse plant collection. The Garden offers regular botanical illustration courses, as well as one day workshops in watercolor, brush painting, drawing and other art forms.

The Garden hosts indoor art exhibitions each year, including our annual Plants Illustrated exhibit of Botanical Art. We have also worked with many talented Bay Area artists to present provocative installations. Visit our Exhibitions page to see past and upcoming exhibitions.

March 18, 25, April 1, 8 · Photography Workshop: Blooming in Place

April 16 · Zoom Workshop: Botanical Illustration with Catherine Watters: Focus on Tulips

The Garden loves its budding botanists, and in addition to our beloved summer day camp, Green Stuff Camp, the Garden offers  monthly family programs uniquely designed for families to learn together.

April 20 · Zoom Family Program: Flowers and Their Pollinator Friends

At the root of our programming, the Garden offers classes for the plant enthusiast, home gardener and botanist alike. Learn about the people and places that have shaped conservation and landscape design practices, and incorporate new practices in garden design into your landscape.

April 22 . Saving Rare Plants of California with Holly Forbes

April 27 . Book Release: Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change

We offer programs year-round exploring the natural world, including many of our faunal cohabitants. At these seasonal offerings, come learn more about mushrooms, lichen, birds, newts and programs on bats and owls too.

March 14 · Virtual Butterfly Talk: Rare Butterflies of the Garden

Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between plants and people. The Garden is ever inspired by the many incredible uses of plants around the world and strives to preserve this knowledge with a series of hands-on programming and cutting edge lectures to teach these skills.

April 24 · Zoom Workshop: Spring Cocktails with Michael Cecconi

April 29 · Astrobotany 101 with Director Lew Feldman

Building on the world-class research that takes place at UC Berkeley, the Garden presents work of UC faculty and scientists, as well as local and international scholars and botanists.

April 22 · Saving Rare Plants of California with Holly Forbes

Be. Here. Now. In addition to our world-class collection used by researchers and scientists, landscape architects and naturalists, the Garden, put simply, is just a beautiful place to be. To aid in cultivating mindfulness and presence, the Garden offers a new complement of programs that are designed to develop practices that inspire mind/body experiences and encourage you to be present, look more closely, and appreciate the Garden’s effect in new ways. Visit the Redwood Grove Concerts page for our Summer Concert Series.

Past Wellness Event:

March 20 . Spring Signature Sound Bath + Bonus Virtual Solstice Gathering with Inner Sounds Meditation