Signed Photograph of Jose Altuve, Houston Astro - 2017 All Star and American League MVP. Signed & Framed in a Custom Houston Landmark Gallery 8 X 10 Black Frame.

1.Family Studio Portrait Session including a 14" museum quality canvas portrait.

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2.Child Studio Portrait Session including a 14" museum quality canvas portrait.

Enjoy this one of a kind, hand-carved wooden hatchling turtle! The famous local tree trunk carver, James Phillips, sculpted this original piece for our gala. As a friend of the Nature Discovery Center, James is known for his creation of our unique owl seat, carved out of a tree, and located in our side lawn. 

Wear a Nature Discovery Center turtle T-shirt when you win this hand-carved masterpiece!

Signed Photograph of George Springer, Houston Astro - 2017 All Star and World Series MVP Houston Astro. Signed & Framed in a Custom Houston Landmark Gallery 8 X 10 Black Frame.

2017 Houston Astros Championship Celebration Photograph with World Series Ring. In a 16 X 16 Custom Houston Landmark Gallery Frame.

Signed Photograph of Carlos Correa, Houston Astro - 2015 Rookie of the Year and 2017 World Series Champion. Signed & Framed in a Custom Houston Landmark Gallery 8 X 10 Frame.

Gouache watercolor painting by famed local birder and naturalist, Cin-Ty Lee
Featuring three plumages of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak - adult male, adult female and juvenile

Take your family to the Nature Discovery Center and enjoy a professional photo session in the park with Nikky LaWell!  Plus, receive a 16x20 gallery portrait after the session!

“We consider Nikky apart of our family.  She has been photographing our lives for the past 15 years.  She always seems to capture the personality and essence of both of our children.  She has an eye for detail–from lighting to framing the photograph perfectly.  Nikky is incredibly professional and great at interpreting our ideas into the perfect moment on film.   From the first picture of our daughter at the age of 3 years old to her recent senior portraits, we have never been disappointed!”

~ Kristin and David Finklea

Enjoy a unique piece of art created but Lina Dib, the famous multidisciplinary artist, and anthropologist.  Images are of the front and back of a gold leaf drawing of a Sicilian Fir. This piece is a special part of a series Dib has started of species nearing extinction. http://www.linadib.com/works/sicilian-fir/

Sicilian Fir, Abies nebrodensis, 2017, 9″ x 7″ Ink, graphite and gold leaf on paper

LINA DIB

Lina Dib's installations and compositions range from the experimental to the ethnographic and investigate socio-technical and ecological change. Dib is an affiliate artist at the TML – Topological Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal and is a teacher and fellow at Rice University in the Program in Writing and Communication and the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences. She is co-founder of Fossilized Houston and the Solar Studios.

Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, AMIDA’s European training program, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Moody Center for the Arts among others. Recent publications include Audible Observatories: Notes on Performances (Bloomsbury); Sonic Breakdown, Extinction and Memory (continent.), The Forgetting Dis-ease: Making Time Matter (differences), and Of Promises and Prototypes: The Archeology of the Future (LIMN). Her work has been presented at venues including Lawndale Art Center Houston, Yerba Buena Gardens San Francisco, MOP Projects Sydney, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Day For Night, Galveston Arts Center, Governors Island NY, the Whitney Biennial 2017, and Johnson Space Center NASA.

Enjoy this beautiful original watercolor of the 1925 Henshaw House antique door. 

Painted by local artist Kara Timmons to commemorate the Nature Discovery Center's 30 years of nature programming.