Artist Reception with Ricardo Kriebel

This is a free community program. Please consider supporting the Gardens of Golden Gate Park with a donation of $5-20. Your support helps us connect people to plants, the planet, and each other.

Sunday, February 8, 2026
3-5pm
San Francisco Botanical Garden — Helen Crocker Russell Library

About the Program

Join us in the library on Sunday, February 8 from 3-5pm to celebrate our new art exhibition.

The Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture is pleased to present a new exhibition, Revealing Biodiversity: Poster Art by Ricardo Kriebel.

The diversity of plants at the San Francisco Botanical Garden and Golden Gate Park is truly remarkable, providing an exceptional open classroom to learn about plant biology. Sharing the hundreds to thousands of species in the area in a small space for comparison and learning is challenging. Using what he calls biodiversity posters, curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences Dr. Ricardo Kriebel portrays as many species as possible from the garden together in two posters, as well as stand-alone posters highlighting particularly diverse groups in the garden such as Fuchsia, Rhododendron, Salvia, and Magnolia. Additional posters in the exhibit will include the native plants of San Francisco at SFBG and the mosses and plants of Golden Gate Park.

Tucked into the posters, the observer will find fascinating plant biology, including how flowers move during their life and how some species can present pollen not directly with their stamens but with their petals and stigmas in a phenomenon called secondary pollen presentation. All posters are made with photographs taken by the artist during the past 4 years, and this is his first time exhibiting his art.

Revealing Biodiversity: Poster Art by Ricardo Kriebel is on exhibit at the Helen Crocker Russell Library February to May 2026. Artwork is available for purchase and proceeds benefit the Library.

No admission is required to visit the art exhibit in the Library. The Library is located inside the Main Gate of San Francisco Botanical Garden on the left-hand side.

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RSVPs are appreciated but not required. Admission to the Garden is free for San Francisco residents, veterans, Museums for All/EBT participants, and Gardens members.