ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - An exhibition of ceramic pollen sculptures is on display this spring in the conservatory at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
“Hidden Worlds: The Universe of Pollen Revealed in Large-scale Ceramic Sculptures” starts Saturday and runs through May 8. Organizers say Susan Crowell’s sculptures, each representing a different kind of pollen, show their complexity and variety.
Some of the works are 2 feet or more in diameter.
Crowell also created agave pollen sculptures in remembrance of an 80-year-old agave plant that bloomed in 2014 and was cut down in 2015. Based on electron microscope images of pollen, the sculptures will occupy the space left behind by the American agave.
Crowell is a Fulbright scholar and professor in the university’s Stamps School of Art and Design and the Residential College.
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