Mollie Doctrow’s Woodcuts Exhibited in Major Museum
The Florida Museum of Natural History will exhibit a selection of woodcut prints by South Florida Community College Museum of Florida Art and Culture (SFCC MOFAC) Curator Mollie Doctrow. Seasonal Crossings: Environmental Woodcuts of Central and South Florida will be on display at the museum in Gainesville, Fla., Dec. 17-April 18. Doctrow’s woodcut prints feature endemic, rare, and endangered plants that grow in Florida’s native habitats.
Also on exhibit is a shrine box from Doctrow’s current project, which honors the endangered and threatened plants found only on central Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge. Through a grant, nine shrine boxes with Doctrow’s carvings of endemic plants will be placed along a nature trail on pristine SFCC scrub habitat and at the Archbold Biological Station. Each box contains scientific information provided by Archbold Biological Station about the plants as well as paper and wax, so visitors can make their own rubbing from Doctrow’s carvings on the outside of the box.
“It’s exciting to have my work exhibited at the Florida Museum of Natural History,” said Doctrow. “My art is tied to the Florida habitat, and this will bring awareness to the conservation efforts.”
The woodcut print, Prickly Pear, will be on display as part of Mollie Doctrow’s exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Dec. 17-April 18.
This shrine box features a scrub blazing star, one of the 24 endangered or threatened plants found only on central Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge.
Congratulations, Mollie! What wonderful news! I love your shrine boxes. I didn’t know we had some pristine scrub habitat on the SFCC campus, but that’s very good to know.
Congratulations Mollie! Your “Prickly Pear” brings back memories of when cactus was so thick around here. There were large areas you couldn’t go through. How many of those long, sharp thorns did I pull out of my feet? Way too many, and then there’s the tale of trying out the “pear” from one! Thanks, though, for the memories of those days.