The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences will host Donna Mason Sweigert, chair of the art department at Rowan University and juror for the LBIF’s +Member +Student +Faculty Exhibition, for a free presentation on Saturday, Aug. 24. Sweigert’s talk – on the aesthetics of plants, decolonization, native plantings and sustainability – begins at 5 p.m.

Sweigart, also an associate professor of art and coordinator of metals, jewelry and computer-aided design at Rowan, “trained in…