Forest Bathing: a Walk in the Trees
Untitled, Walter Hatke, watercolor, TSCPL Permanent Collection 2009.040.003
Forest Bathing: A Walk in the Trees
March 1 - May 2, 2021
Feel your stress and worries ease, relax as you wander through a variety of forest and tree artworks and see how artists are inspired by nature in the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery.
New Procedures When Visiting the Gallery
We are pleased to welcome you back to the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery. At this time, the Gallery will be open to 6 visitors at a time. We are in the process of setting up a reservation system that will allow groups of 4-6 people to reserve a time to come in without a wait.
While visiting the Gallery, please follow the same health standards used in the library:
- All visitors must wear a face mask that covers their nose and mouth while in the Gallery or Library
- All visitors must keep a 6 ft distance from other visitors
- Please use hand sanitizer and wash your hands
Exhibition Images
What is Forest Bathing?
Spreading Maple, Luigi Lucioni, etching, TSCPL Permanent Collection 1963.288
In Japan many people practice something called forest bathing or shinrin-yoku. Shinrin in Japanese means “forest,” and yoku means “bath.” So shinrin-yoku means bathing in the forest atmosphere or taking in the forest through our senses. This is not exercise, or hiking or jogging. It is simply being in nature, connecting with it through our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.
You can forest-bathe anywhere in the world – wherever there are trees; in hot weather or in cold; in rain, sunshine or snow. You don’t need a forest to go forest bathing, you can do it anywhere – in a nearby park or in your garden. Look for a place where there are trees, and off you go! We are bringing that experience inside with our Forest Bathing exhibit.
Featured Artists
Polly Adams-Sutton | Rick Ayotte | Alicia Bailey | Sherry Best | Dorothea Bilder | Henry John Boddington | Jon Carsman | Neil Clark | Cynthia Colbert | Louis Copt | Jim Croft | Werner Drewes | Davira Fisher | Foolscap Press | Theodore Fox | Jerry Gaddis | Rachelle Gardner-Roe |Douglas Warner Gorsline | Vaughn Graber | Walter Hatke | David Hartley | Jacques Hnizcosky | R. James Hunt | Alfred Hutty | Teresa Johnson | Frank Kleinholz | Kevin Kutz | Luigi Lucioni | Peter Lvoff | Samuel L. Margolies | William MacLean | Midnight Paper Sales | Rich Miller | Norma Townsend Morgan | Matt Needham | Laura Nugent | Orient and Flume | Jill Powers | Orville O. Rice | Leon Richet | Lisa Beth Robinson | Betsy Roe | Charles B. Rogers | Chauncey Foster Ryder | Alice C. Sabatini | Birger Sandzen | Scripps College Press | Kevin Sink | Theodore Clement Steele | Robert Sudlow | Barbara Sudlow | John Talleur | Debbie and Delmo Tarsitano | Fanny Wallace Tewksbury | Lois Van Liew | Shanna Wagner | Margaret Evelyn Whittemore
Take & Make Kits in the Reed Studio
Related Programs
First Friday Art Walk
Fri, March 5 | Fri, April 2
9am - 9pm
Alice C. Sabatini Gallery
Relax and wander through our forest of trees
Tree Identification
Tue | Apr 13
7pm - 8pm
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