Brought to you by NEBG’s Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee.
"How has the history of botanical illustration influenced the way we
perceive plants, gardens, nature, and environment in the present day?”
Join
Tracy Qiu as she explores the complex stories unearthed from botanical
renderings and colonial plant collection during her doctoral research at the
Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew and Edinburgh. Taking participants on a journey
through global histories of art and science, Tracy's research considers how our
current understandings of botanical art are actually co-produced across
dividing lines of gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
Horticulturist and lecturer Tracy Qiu discusses botanical illustration from her perspective as a researcher, focused on how botanical gardens acknowledge and deconstruct their roles in the history of colonization in her talk, “Art or Science? The Co-Construction of Botanical Illustration”.
Meet Your Speaker: Tracy Qiu
Tracy
Qiu is a researcher, consultant, facilitator, and artist of Chinese descent and
settler-Canadian acculturation. Through Tracing the Roots, Tracy navigates
difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics in order to help public
gardens and environmental organizations reconcile their inherited colonial
histories with their desire for a modern and inclusive organizational
identity.
Tracy’s
multidisciplinary background includes experience as a visual artist at Sheridan
College Institute of Technology and Learning, an ornamental horticulturist at
the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture, a public garden leader in the
Longwood Graduate Fellowship, and her doctoral research at Concordia University
in Montréal (QC), where she explores what it might mean for botanical gardens –
as inherently colonial entities – to ‘decolonize’.
Tracy’s
commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (I.D.E.A.) in
public gardens spans the length of her career, including research on ethnic
community engagement in botanical gardens, a master’s thesis on the experiences
of racialized public garden leaders, serving on the APGA
Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Committee, chairing the APGA Awards and Honours
Committee, and teaching for the I.D.E.A. Center for Public Gardens.
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