Garden Mapping Workshop

Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 12:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Learn how to draw your own map of the San Antonio Botanical Garden with Texan cartographer Emma Schmidt! In this workshop you will spend time walking the Garden gathering inspiration and be led through Map Making 101 (no experience required!). All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorite drawing tools if you’d like to! Class will be held inside and outside so dress appropriately for the weather. Registration ends when class is filled.

Fee: $35 ($30 member)
Instructor: Emma Schmidt

About the artist: As a native Texan artist with a deep love for nature, Emma draws inspiration from the world around her to create hand drawn designs that tell meaningful stories. With a background in painting from Savannah College of Art & Design, she has grown her art practice through a range of mediums, including intricate inked maps, watercolors, illustration and large-scale painted murals.

Her primary medium is cartography, creating maps that tell stories, give direction and chart memories. In recent years, her maps have taken a nature focus with a range of subjects from bird migration flyways, state aquifers and springs, hiking trail maps and native species illustrations. Emma approaches her work as a cartographer, naturalist and storyteller, creating artwork that uplift a landscape in hand drawn inked lines.