Mollie Doctrow’s Woodcuts Exhibited in Major Museum The Florida
Museum of Natural History will exhibit a selection of woodcut
prints by South Florida Community College Museum of Florida Art
and Culture (SFCC MOFAC) Curator Mollie Doctrow. Seasonal
Crossings: Environmental Woodcuts of Central and South Florida
will be on display at the museum in Gainesville, Fla., Dec.
17-April 18. Doctrow’s woodcut prints feature endemic, rare, and
endangered plants that grow in Florida’s native habitats. Also
on exhibit is a shrine box from Doctrow’s current project, which
honors the endangered and threatened plants found only on
central Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge. Through a grant, nine shrine
boxes with Doctrow’s carvings of endemic plants will be placed
along a nature trail on pristine SFCC scrub habitat and at the
Archbold Biological Station. Each box contains scientific
information provided by Archbold Biological Station about the
plants as well as paper and wax, so visitors can make their own
rubbing from Doctrow’s carv