Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations

FAIN: GI-278303-21

Para la Naturaleza, Inc. (San Juan, PR 00902-3554)
Ivonne Sanabria (Project Director: September 2020 to present)

Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the history, science, and politics of botanical illustrations of Puerto Rican flora.

Para la Naturaleza (PLN), an operational unit of The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, seeks support in the amount of $290,750 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Humanities Projects Program, for the Exhibition: Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations. This is an exhibition of traveling nature under the Implementation Category of the program. Through botanical illustrations, historic documents and objects from the 18th to the 20th centuries, the exhibition fuses art, history, science, politics, education and culture to explore how the story of the acquisition of knowledge and understanding about Puerto Rico’s natural surroundings informs the history of modern Puerto Rico as a whole.

Associated Products

Flora Borinqueniana: three centuries of botanical illustrations (Exhibition)
Title: Flora Borinqueniana: three centuries of botanical illustrations
Curator: Dr. Eugenio Santiago Valentín, botanist
Abstract: Merging humanities and science, the major goal was to explore the gaps in botanical historiography, and their relationship with local history. Towards that end, studies of local flora were intertwined with Puerto Rican history, while the work of known naturalists was placed alongside work omitted by historiography. While the project did not intend to present a comprehensive history of the island for the periods of XVIII, XIX, and XXth centuries, it sought to underline a series of main events to help understand and place into context the naturalists and their work.
Year: 2023

Flora borinqueniana (Catalog)
Title: Flora borinqueniana
Author: Dr. Eugenio Santiago Valentín, botanist
Abstract: Catalog to the exhibit Flora Borinqueniana.
Year: 2023
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog

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