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Category: News

BRIT News

Longtime Fort Worth Botanic Garden Vice President Heads to Omaha

Lauritzen Gardens has named Ennis Anderson IV its new CEO, effective May 1, 2024. Anderson currently serves as senior vice president of guest services and operations for Fort Worth Botanic Garden in Texas and holds a leadership position with the Executive Board of the American Public Garden Association (APGA). 

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BRIT News

Fort Worth Botanic Garden Hosts “Living” Sculptures by Renowned Artist Seward Johnson 

The Fort Worth Botanic Garden will be hosting Seward Johnson Sculptures in the Garden, Mar. 1 – Sept. 1. This art installation of 21 lifelike sculptures by the late artist Seward Johnson, will take Garden guests by surprise as they encounter “living” art that fools the eye and begs for double takes. Strategically placed to blend with their surroundings, Johnson’s unique creations make everyday occurrences special and bring classic art to life.  

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Butterflies in the Garden
BRIT News

EXOTIC BUTTERFLIES TO TAKE FLIGHT AT THE FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN

Leave your passport at home and come to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden to experience some of the planet’s most beautiful pollinators in one convenient place. Butterflies in the Garden, presented by Central Market, will take flight, March 1 through April 14, in the Rainforest Conservatory.

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BRIT News

Funds to Preserve Global Plant Biodiversity Awarded to Five Botanic Gardens

The Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens) a collaborative science-based effort led by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), BGCI-US, and the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) are pleased to announce five awards to botanic gardens and arboreta in five countries to collect and conserve plant diversity. The GGI-Gardens Awards Program supports activities to preserve Earth’s genomic biodiversity of plants through sampling of living collections maintained at botanic gardens around the world.

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BRIT News

SHEDDING SOME LIGHT ON THE SOLAR ECLIPSE 

The Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History are partnering for a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse experience! Both venues will offer eclipse viewing areas and exciting educational activities for guests on April 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m

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