APRIL MONTHLY MEETING

Name: APRIL MONTHLY MEETING
Start: 2025-04-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-02T21:00:00-04:00
Location: BlackRock Center for the Arts

Schedule

Wed Apr 02 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

BlackRock Center for the Arts | Germantown, MD

Photographer Amy Lance
Amy Lamb’s career as a scientist and artist spans over 50 years, with its origins embedded in her family’s immersive love of nature’s beauty as well as her life-long interest in the natural sciences. Her current professional career unites the intriguing aesthetics of art and science in botanical forms.
After graduating from University of Michigan with a PhD in cellular biology, Amy pursued research in mammalian protein synthesis and RNA transcription at the Basel Institute for Immunology and National Institutes of Health. Her transition to an artistic approach to science springs from the power of imagery to broadly convey the connection of botanical form and structure with function, namely pollination and survival. Amy honed her expertise in studio photography at the Montgomery College, the Corcoran School of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Amy photographs plants with scientific precision and curiosity, creating botanical portraits that reveal the beauty of form and color. Most of the plants she photographs are grown in her garden, where she observes and captures seasonal transitions: spring buds, summer blooms, autumn seeds, and the dormant stage of winter. Amy’s work is collected by both private collections and public institutions such as National Museum of Women in the Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Dallas Arboretum, and National Science Foundation.