Evolution Art Group

The Orchid Alliance Project - Bridging Art & Science (OAP) is a project that has
national and international significance in the art and science worlds. The watchword of
this Project is "Awareness". Awareness forms the threads that are carefully interwoven
throughout the Project which bridges art and science. The selected participants for the
Project have been carefully chosen to collaborate on the Project because of their
expertise in their respected fields, their business and social objectives and their
leadership positions.

Patricia Laspino & Evolution Art Group LLC’s artistic missions are to build a bridge
between art and science using orchid art as a floral metaphor to stimulate awareness
and conversations about evolution, biodiversity and conservation through combining
historical art processes and contemporary technologies. The OAP is an important and
innovative collaborative project designed by artist, Patricia Laspino, and Evolution Art
Group LLC, and is endorsed and supported by the American Orchid Society (AOS,
www.aos.org) and sponsored by several high profile organizations.

Patricia Laspino is creating a body of artwork consisting of original paintings depicting
rare or endangered orchid species. Patricia will use the orchid flower as the “flagship” to
stimulate awareness for the Orchid Alliance Project. Orchids can serve as “flagship
species”: that is, species that draw the attention and support of the general public and,
in the process, get things accomplished for the broader ecosystem in which they occur.
The Project will occur over the next five years and travel to prominent fine art galleries,
museums, academic and botanical institutions across the United States and Abroad.

EXHIBITIONS

		AMERICAN ORCHID
		SOCIETY

Read More about the OAP
in the AOS
Orchids Magazine Article
August 2008

THE ORCHID ALLIANCE PROJECT

Bridging art & science