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Learn about the art of bonsai with North Carolina Arboretum Bonsai Curator Arthur Joura on Thursday, May 8 starting at 6:00 p.m. at the Asheville Art Museum.
Joura will use photographs of specimens, as well as several living examples from the NC Arboretum�s collection, to delve into the mysteries of these miniaturized living landscapes as well as the process of cultivating ordinary plants into interpretive representations of the natural world. This event will be held in the Museum�s WNC Art Resource Center and is free to Museum members and to guests with Museum admission. Joura began his bonsai career in 1992 when the NC Arboretum received a private bonsai collection from the Staples family of Butner, NC. He started his bonsai education in 1993 at The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in Washington, DC under the tutelage of Museum Curator Robert �Bonsai Bob� Drechsler. In 1995 Joura continued his studies with personal instruction from Japanese American bonsai master Yuji Yoshimura, also known as �The Father of American Bonsai.� Later that same year, Joura began teaching bonsai at the NC Arboretum conducting educational classes and workshops as well as providing bonsai lectures and demonstrations across the country. During the past 16 years, Joura has built the NC Arboretum bonsai program into one of that institution�s strongest components. This event is held in conjunction with the Asheville Art Museum�s exhibition Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art which is on display through June 22. For more information on these and other events, go to www.ashevilleart.org. (Images provided by the NC Arboretum.)
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