BIOGRAPHY - MARILYN GARBER

Marilyn Garber is a botanical artist and founder of the Minnesota School of Botanical Art at The Bakken Museum in Minneapolis in 2001 and is the Director of the Botanical Art and Illustration School at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix.

She is a charter member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, currently serving as its President. The ASBA includes 1,200 members from across the United States and 35 countries. Marilyn chaired the ASBA’s 2005 national conference in Minneapolis and was the exhibition organizer for the international exhibition of botanical art at the Weisman Museum. The ASBA will be holding its 15th annual conference at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. In conjunction with this conference, an international juried exhibition of will be held at the Phoenix Art Museum, opening in October 2009.

Marilyn was recently named to the Advisory Board of the Guild of Asian Botanical Artists, which includes members from 19 Asian countries.

She is a member of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Florilegium Society, an invitational organization that includes fifty botanical artists from across the United States. She has taught in many venues and is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota.

Her botanical paintings have been included in exhibitions at the Royal Horticultural Society in London, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, Panama, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and the Arsenal Gallery in New York, Botanical Museum Berlin- Dahlem in Germany, and the Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden, Thailand, the Minnesota Science Museum and the Bell Museum of Natural History “Blooms” exhibit.

Her work has been published in the International Journal of Plant Science, Federal Government Botanical Field Guides, and several other publications. And, she was commissioned to illustrate rhubarb for Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Be-Bop-A-Rhubarb, Rhubarb Pie National Public Radio touring show!