Rosalie Haizlett: Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains

AUGUST 31–DECEMBER 8, 2024

Author and illustrator Rosalie Haizlett kicks off her new book tour with this traveling exhibit featuring watercolor paintings from her manuscript. The illustrations feature a combination of vibrant landscapes, hand-drawn maps, and close-up views of the tiny plants, animals, and fungi that Haizlett observed during a six-month trip through the entire Appalachian Mountain range (from Alabama to Newfoundland) in 2022. The exhibit replicates stepping into a whimsical field guide.

Rosalie Haizlett is an illustrator who creates captivating paintings that celebrate the hidden wonders of the natural world. Haizlett has been the Artist-in-Residence with Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the National Audubon Society, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. In 2022, she was awarded the Eckelberry Fellowship for distinguished wildlife illustrators. The author of Watercolor in Nature: Paint Woodland Wildlife and Botanicals with 20 Beginner-Friendly Projects and Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains: An Artist's Journey, she lives on the edge of Monongahela National Forest in Elkins, West Virginia. 

Rosalie Haizlett: Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains is presented with support from the Bernard H. & Blanche E. Jacobson Foundation, Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation, Daywood Foundation, Elliot Family Foundation, Fund for the Arts, and Herscher Foundation, Inc. The Clay Center’s performing and visual arts offerings are presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.