Alma is a student and researcher in the Natural Resources and Environmental Science department, as well as at the Illinois Natural History Survey. She started studying bumble bees there last January after a few years as a wandering bird bander and bee wrangler.

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Alma is a illustrator who enjoys painting and drawing landscapes and animals encountered on the job. When she lives in one place long enough she is also a potter who loves to make functional but beautiful things.

A selection of prints, original paintings, and ceramics will be available.