About
Botanography is a Philadelphia-based non-profit focused on developing environmental literacy in children with educational programming, curriculum, and teaching tools, as well as advocacy for garden classrooms in K-12 schools.
Miranda Mote
Architect, historian, educator based in Philadelphia
Miranda Mote, PhD is a historian, artist, and educator based in Philadelphia and the 2023-24 Garden Club of America / Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize, Landscape Architecture Fellow. Her work with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities in 2021 led to the development of an arts focused literacy and botany curriculum of lessons designed especially for students in urban environments. She established Botanography as a non-profit to directly serve students and families in Philadelphia County and believes that every school should have a garden classroom where students can connect with plants every day.
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She currently teaches at University of Pennsylvania as a part of the Undergraduate Program in Architecture and Landscape Studies Minor.
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For more information about Miranda's work as the Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellow see this article:
1517-19 N. Bailey Street
Philadelphia, PA 19121
(In Brewerytown Neighborhood)
Botanography's Studio is a part of
Bailey Street Collective LLC
We are three businesses in one large warehouse in the heart of Brewerytown's growing art and design community.
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Botanography shares space with:​
Mode Moderne sells mid-century modern furniture, lighting, and accessories with over thirty years of experience working with clients developing modern aesthetics in their homes and businesses.
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Brewerytown Paperboy is a business specializing in vintage paper items: books, posters, art, photographs and vintage items for home decor.
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