Bozie arrives at the National Zoo. (Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

The National Zoo will get a bit more artistic tomorrow when Bozie the painting elephant makes her public debut. Bozie, a 37-year-old Asian elephant, arrived last month on loan from the Baton Rouge Zoo in Louisiana.

And after spending a month in quarantine, Bozie will finally join the zoo’s two other female elephants, Ambika and Shanthi, in the renovated Elephant Community Center. Bozie and Shanthi are already acquainted with each other, having lived together as calves in Sri Lanka’s Elephant Orphanage Department of Wildlife Conservation.

But Bozie brings with her some special talents. While in Baton Rouge, she became known as something of an accomplished artist, painting canvases by wielding brushes in her trunk. Some of Bozie’s paintings have been sold at auction to raise money for tsunami relief in her home country.

Bozie goes on display tomorrow at 10 a.m. for Friends of the National Zoo members, and at 11 a.m. for the general public.