Needham Garden Club will host Jennifer Brown on February 25 at 9:30  at the Needham Public Library Community Room. Jennifer will introduce us to the father and son glass artists, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, who worked from 1886 through 1936. Their glass flowers, as many as 4,300, are scientifically accurate models representing 780 species, are on permanent display in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Jennifer has been the Collection Manager of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History since 2012.. Her background in art and library science combined with her experience working with glass artist Toots Zynsky has prepared her to work with this collection. She has co-authored Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art and Science at Harvard.