To be honest, I didn’t read the description of this event before deciding to attend it, so I was expecting an exhibit of actual poisonous plants. As a result, I was questioning the decision to place an entire exhibit of poisonous plants in the Rose dining hall.

When I did show up to the event, I realized that the exhibit was a gallery of art made by students. Because I had been expecting living, poisonous plants, I was at first disappointed. However, I found some of the prints interesting and well done (speaking as someone who isn’t much qualified to criticize art). The professor of the art class (Gregory Page) was present, as well as the man (House Fellow Todd Bittner) who had shown the art students a variety of poisonous plants at the Plantations. They were there to briefly talk about the exhibit and then to discuss and answer questions about the art.

After looking at each of the prints in the exhibit, I approached House Fellow Todd Bittner. I had some questions about the plants he had shown the students. However, I was most interested in whether he had attempted to recognize some of the poisonous plants in the students’ art. I thought that would’ve been a neat post-project interaction between the collaborators, but it seemed that this hadn’t happened.

While I was looking at the exhibit, I thought that it would’ve been nice if each of the prints had a brief description/explanation of the art written by the student. I guess since I had been expecting plants, my desire for informative facts about poisonous plants was left to be sated. I still enjoyed the exhibit though.