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Art in the Garden ART EXHIBIT AND SALE

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Art is part of our mission! We are proud to support local artists through rotating monthly art exhibits at the Visitor Center. Many of the art pieces showcased in exhibits are for sale. Our exhibit schedule is currently booked through the end of 2027. We are not currently accepting applications for future art exhibits.

Current Art Exhibit: Botanica ’26: Enduring Plants from Colonial Times

The Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region presents 54 original works by 21 artists depicting plants that would have featured in gardens and landscapes in Colonial America.

June 15 through July 27, 2026

A watercolor with a white background featuring three fully bloomed hellebore. In the lower left corner is 6 green leaves which all meet at one end. Another grouping of six leaves meet together on the right side of the watercolor. A brownish stem comings from the center of the bottom edge growing upward branching into three different stems. Each stem features one fully opened deep pink/burgandy bloom and three additional mostly closed blooms of a similar color.

The Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region (BASNCR), the local chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA), is a non-profit organization incorporated in Maryland and composed of over 100 botanical artists and illustrators, primarily from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. Its mission is to promote horticulture, botany, scientific illustration and botanical art through programs and exhibitions for members and the general public. Learn more at www.basncr.org.

Coming Soon: Artists Phil LeVee & Joanie Grosfeld

July 27 – September 14, 2026

This rectangular work features stalks of white petaled daffodils, gathered mostlly at the top of the work. There is one lone blossom in the lower right corner amounst the green stems of the other daffodils. The top third of a the work features a cluster of dozens of daffodils with white petals and orange/yellow centers.

Phil LeVee is a landscape artists working in acrylic paintings, photography, and pen and ink drawings. he paints in several styles from a graphic realist style to abstract and various combinations of those two styles. Now working as a full-tie fine artist, Phil formed his company, Phil LeVee Art & Photography, in 2017. He specializes in designing art installations for public spaces.

To learn more about Phil, visit him website Phil LeVee Art & Photography.

“Joanie does not pay attention in class.” These words, from Joanie Grosfeld’s grade-school report card, were true, but only to a point. She was paying attention- to the colors, the sounds, and the emotions around her. At home, with the permission of her artistic mother, she would color on her walls. All her life, she gravitated toward art.

She feels her art is most like the Impressionists who were trying to capture the ever-changing moments of the day. She is especially drawn to color for its beauty and the way the complimentary colors come alive next to each other.

To learn more about Joanie’s art, visit her website Art of Joanie Grosfeld.

The rectangular oil on canvas painting features an abstract distant bridge goiing over a reflective body of water flanked by green. On the left bank is a vibrant tree with a brown trunk and bright red and dark red folliage. On the right bank features a dark green tall tree with no visible trunk.

Art works will be on display at the Brookside Gardens Visitor Center and available for purchase in the Gift Shop.

Art is part of our mission! We are proud to support local artists through rotating monthly art exhibits. The Visitor Center is open 9:00am to 4:00pm daily. Sale of art is arranged directly through Brookside Gardens Gift Shop. To purchase art visit us in person, call 301-962-1448, or email ArtintheGarden@MontgomeryParks.org.