Vanishing Pollinators is an educational art exhibit that alerts us to a worldwide decline in pollinator populations. This portfolio of 34 stunning color photographs portrays the beauty and grace of flowering plants and their threatened insect pollinators in an attempt to unite the energy of one of nature’s most important biological systems with the power of visual art. An earlier version of this project traveled in Norway to municipal gardens, museums, and schools during 1998. The Norwegian project, entitled “Blomster og bier”, attracted considerable national press and received 13,000 visitors at four locations during its summer display tenure. -"I believe that visual art can help us perceive and understand the natural world. My artistic intent in the Vanishing Pollinator portfolio is to raise public awareness of a critical environmental issue and to give substance to my concern for vanishing nature consciousness." - Carll Goodpasture, Ph.D., Biologist and photographer Exhibit Sponsors National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution Thomas K. and Katherine Reed Charitable Fund Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kittredge Educational Fund Please look at The National Zoological Park’s webpage to see the rest of the exhibit: www.si.edu/pollinators