Events and Books Celebrating the Bartram Legacy

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New Books

Presents Two New Books on William Bartram

Bartram’s Living Legacy: the Travels and the Nature of the South reprints Bartram’s classic work alongside essays acknowledging the debt southern nature writers owe the man called the “South’s Thoreau.” The anthology includes contributions from sixteen of the South’s finest nature writers: Bill Belleville, Kathryn Braund, Dixon Bynum, Christopher Camuto, Thomas Rain Crowe, Dorinda Dallmeyer, Doug Davis, Jan DeBlieu, Whit Gibbons, Thomas Hallock, John Lane, Drew Lanham, Roger Pinckney, Janisse Ray, Matt Smith, and Gerald Thurmond, strikingly illustrated with Bartram-inspired landscape paintings by Philip Juras.

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The Flower Seeker is an epic poem that follows the young William Bartram on his journey in the American South and during his old age in his father’s gardens. It is truly a southern Odyssey, using techniques of fiction and poetry to get deeply inside one of the most remarkable men ever to strap on a pair of boots in America. Philip Lee Williams is the author of 14 published books and has written about the natural world most of his career and taught nature writing at the University of Georgia.

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for more about our writers

Philip Lee Williams
Bill Belleville
Kathryn Braund
Dixon Bynum
Christopher Camuto
Thomas Rain Crowe
Dorinda Dallmeyer
Doug Davis
Jan DeBlieu
Whit Gibbons
Thomas Hallock
John Lane
Drew Lanham
Roger Pinckney
Janisse Ray
Matt Smith
Gerald Thurmond
...and artist
Philip Juras

New Exhibit Book



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Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier
Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels

Presenting more than sixty stunning reproductions of oil paintings by landscape artist Philip Juras, The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s Travels offers a glimpse of the pre-settlement southern wilderness as late eighteenth-century naturalist William Bartram would have experienced it during his famed travels through the region. Juras’s work combines direct observation with historical, scientific, and natural history research to depict, and in some cases reimagine, landscapes as they appeared in the 1770s. Juras spent years researching Bartram and revisiting important sites that the naturalist wrote about in his celebrated Travels of 1791. Juras’s paintings recreate Bartram’s lost southern frontier for contemporary viewers in much the same way that nineteenth-century American landscape painters like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran brought the western frontier to the consciousness of the rapidly industrializing east.

Juras’s work explores many of the important and imperiled ecosystems that remain in the South today. These little-known remnant natural communities, depicted in well-researched and meticulous paintings, are further illuminated by essays placing them in the context of Bartram’s legacy and the American landscape movement. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of Juras’s work at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, The Southern Frontier provides readers with a rare glimpse of our frontier landscape before its essence was irrevocably altered by european settlement.

With essays by Philip Juras, Dorinda Dallmeyer, Holly Koons McCullough - poem by Janisse Ray - foreword by Steven High
Published by Telfair Books, Distributed by the University of Georgia Press
11" x 9", 128 pages, hardback. 51 color plates and many more color images.

Past Events

September 15 - December, 2011 - Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens, Georgia
Lost Species, Visions of Landscapes Past
Artwork by Philip Juras and specimens from the museum collection.

October 21-23, 2011 - Macon State University, Macon, Georgia
Bartram Trail Conference Biannual Meeting, more info at www.bartramtrail.org

October 21 - December 31, 2011 - Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Scenes from the Southern Frontier
Artwork by Philip Juras

July 31, 2:00 p.m. - Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Dorinda Dallmeyer, of the University of Georgia and editor of Bartram’s Living Legacy, moderates a panel discussion about the book and William Bartram’s history. Participating essayists include Philip Juras, John Lane, associate professor and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College, and Dr. Drew Lanham, professor of wildlife biology at Clemson University. FREE.

June 2, 2011 - Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels
6pm, Lecture by the Artist - 7pm, Opening Reception with the Artist
The exhibit runs through August 14, 2011. FREE

May 10, 2011, 7 pm "Natural History, Natural Heritage: William Bartram and the Southern Landscape" Dorinda Dallmeyer will be giving a talk to the Georgia Native Plant Society at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

April 14, 2011, 7pm. Artist and Naturalists Program Series lecture by Philip Juras. Telfair Museums will present a lecture by Juras on his paintings depicting southern landscapes described by pioneering naturalist William Bartram.

April 8, 2011, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m Opening reception for Philip Juras's exhibit and readings by John Lane and Gerald Thurmond. Juras's exhibit of paitings "Exploring the Upcountry with Bartram" will run from April 8 to June 10 at the The Sandor Teszler Library Gallery Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC .

Friday March 4, 2011 “William Bartram’s Georgia: Art and Science on the Southern Frontier.” Day-long conference held at the Jepson Center, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Simultaneous with the Philip Juras exhibition also at the Telfair Museum. See below for registration and program.

Satuday March 5, 2011 "Bartram Speak: A Workshop for Southern Nature Writers," led by Georgia author Janisse Ray.

February 3, 2011 Opening Reception for: Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels - Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA (exhibit runs January 28 - May 8)

November 9, 2010
Book launch reading and reception at historic Wormsloe Plantation, Isle of Hope, Georgia. By invitation.

October 13, 2010
Bartram’s Living Legacy book event. Reading by four contributors.
Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC

October 12, 2010
Bartram’s Living Legacy book event. Dorinda Dallmeyer and Philip Juras sign books.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3650 Atlanta Highway, Athens, GA

October 11, 2010
Reading by Dorinda Dallmeyer with presentation on Bartram-inspired landscapes by Philip Juras. Sponsored by the Ocmulgee Audubon Society, in the auditorium of the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA.

September 24, 2010
Art exhibition, readings, book signing, and reception at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia. Phil Williams reads from "The Flower Seeker" and Dorinda Dallmeyer from "Bartram's Living Legacy." Philip Juras paintings on exhibit from September 24 until October 16.

September 11, 2010
"Shoals of Time" book launch party and fundraiser for the Georgia River Network and the Ogeechee Riverkeeper. At the historic Ogeechee River Mill, Mayfield, Georgia. Bring a picnic lunch, enjoy paddling the Ogeechee River, tour the historic grist mill in the heart of Bartram Country.

September 1, 2010
Book Release

May 28, 2010
"Further Travels with William Bartram," Florida Historical Society panel discussion featuring Dorinda Dallmeyer, Philip Juras, Kathryn Braund and Thomas Hallock. - St. Augustine, Florida.

For more information, please contact Dorinda Dallmeyer: dorinda@bartramproject.com