Plants As Portals | Inside Botany of Nations Exhibit
In this episode, Jenn and I have the distinct pleasure of covering the exhibit Botany of Nations, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, running from March 28th, 2026 through February 14th of 2027!
The exhibit offers a culturally layered view of specific North American plants once collected during the famous expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. More importantly, it beautifully centers the voices and perspectives of the Native Nations they came in contact with and explores how plants are portals- portals to lineage, stories, and traditional ecological knowledge.
This is a major exhibit, one that is reframing the expedition of Lewis and Clark and seeing it through Indigenous perspectives, with a focus on the inter-relationships between plants and people.
In the second half of this episode, we are joined by Dr. Enrique Salmon, where we talk about his perspective on why he agreed to co-curate this exhibit, what ‘plants as portals’ means to him, and how he came to coin the term ‘Kincentricity.’
Thanks so much for joining us, and enjoy Botany of Nations!
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Episode Timestamps:
Introduction: 00:15
Interview: 12:10
Show Notes:
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