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Chicago Botanic Garden
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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.
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Principles of Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn how to apply your design skills to create stunning garden spaces. Discover the spatial properties of landscape materials and how they can enhance your concept plans and construction-level drawings. Take your design knowledge to the next level with this professional course.
Seasonal Tree Walk
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature as you embark on a captivating journey through the changing landscapes of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Discover the hidden stories and secrets of the unique trees that grace each section of the Garden in this enlightening morning walk.
$30
Natural Dyes Color Mixing
Students will learn how to make a range of colors by mixing just six different natural dyes that are both light- and wash-fast. We will begin by reviewing the mordanting process and then learn about the properties of each of these dyes and how to combine them in the dye bath. Students will work with their own materials to create a color book of samples. A supply list will be sent to students two weeks before the beginning of class. Open to all l...
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Tao of Photography: Finding Balance
Explore creativity through our need to investigate balance in many different forms as it applies to art and photography. Inspiration will be sparked by a balance of on-line discussions and critiques, assigned readings, poetry, and writing exercises. Our time in-between sessions will be spent working on photo exercises and assignments and then editing and uploading those photos to share before our next class session. You should have a good working...
Minimalism and Photography (Online)
Minimalism is as subjective in photography as in any style of art. What appears simple and soothing to one viewer might strike another as deep and complex, or have no meaning at all to another. Explore and develop techniques to investigate the principles of composition and aesthetic design to convey meaning and emotion. Learn elements of minimalism that help you capture the strength and essence of your subject, and take your images from mundane...
Green Thumbs Camp
Campers will explore the Garden, conduct science experiments, dabble in art, play games, and learn about nature through socially distanced, outdoor activities. Please only register for one week, as activities will repeat weekly. Pack a water bottle, a nut-free snack, and lunch daily.
Explorers Camp
Campers will explore the Garden, conduct science experiments, dabble in art, play games, and learn about nature through socially distanced, outdoor activities. Please only register for one week, as activities will repeat weekly. Pack a water bottle and nut-free snack and lunch daily.
Adventurers Camp
Campers will explore the Garden, conduct science experiments, dabble in art, play games, and learn about nature through socially distanced, outdoor activities. Please only register for one week, as activities will repeat weekly. Pack a water bottle and nut-free snack and lunch daily.
Green Sprouts Camp
Campers will explore the Garden, conduct science experiments, dabble in art, play games, and learn about nature through socially distanced, outdoor activities. Please only register for one week, as activities will repeat weekly. Pack a water bottle, a nut-free snack, and lunch daily.
Photography Explore Use of Time: Online
Through the use of long exposures, you will explore techniques to encode the element of time into what would otherwise be static images. This process reveals a world that, while very real, is not experienced in real time. With the camera, we will translate this hidden world into a visible form for us to contemplate and make memorable images. Note: This class will be taught online using Cisco Webex. All registrations must be submitted...
Mindful Photography
Many of the great masters talk about photography as awareness of the present moment in which we forget ourselves. We let go of goals, desires, expectations, techniques, and anxieties to more fully immerse ourselves into the experience of seeing. You will gain a new perspective through meditative photo exercises, discussions, and weekly reviews. Note: This class will be taught online using Cisco Webex and email. All registrations...
Watercolor Floral Still Life
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Paint in the studio from life to capture the freshness, colors, and beauty of selected flowers. Explore a looser, painterly fashion with emphasis on composition, color, and values. Still life allows you to achieve your desired outcome by controlling many of the external factors. A supply list will be sent.
Sketchbook Skills in the Greenhouses
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Sketchbooks are rewarding, personal, and a way to hone drawing skills. You will draw from nature, plein air-style, in the Greenhouses, using various portable media. Give yourself the freedom to sketch unique specimens without the pressure of producing a final plant portrait—instead, creating a record of your artistic journey. A supply list will be sent.
Frame Loom Weaving Studio
Explore ways of using surface, image, and text within woven forms to create an independent project under instructor guidance in this course for intermediate students. Delve into the construction of fabric and apply these skills to your own artistic practice. Weekly presentations on contemporary weavers will complement this studio course. Notes: Bring your own frame loom or use a provided loom. You may also participate in this class online to...
Urban Photography
There are endless photographic opportunities with the architecture and city scenes of Chicago. We will visit Chinatown, Millennium Park/Lurie Garden, and North Michigan Avenue to capture the sights of the city. Explore new camera settings while learning to integrate landscape and hardscape photography.
Expressive Color in Pastel: Online
Pastel is a perfect medium for exploring exciting color harmonies, subtle or bright. Working with landscape and botanical subjects we will start with color scheme preliminaries and move on to the finished piece, which can be detailed and polished or loose and abstracted.
Orchids and Bromeliads Art Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Follow in the steps of intrepid explorer of the Amazon River basin and superb botanical artist, Margaret Mee, by working with her favorite plants—bromeliads and orchids. While they share the same ecosystem, bromeliads are much rarer as specimens for botanical artists. Use artist instruction to accurately and strikingly depict live orchid and bromeliad specimens in the medium of your choice. A supply list will be sent.
Street Photography
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Along every street are fleeting moments waiting to be captured to create intriguing images. Explore and analyze the various methods used by some of the best known street photographers and put those techniques to work using your own perspective. Discover backgrounds, lighting, shadows, subject framing, and much more.
Looking at Gardens: Photography Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Lee Anne White will lead this two-day photography workshop on looking at gardens with an eye toward capturing a sense of place and telling the story of the garden. We’ll begin the workshop by exploring gardens together—learning how to look at them from different perspectives and discover their intent and uniqueness. We’ll also discuss ways to maximize your time and work with changing light in the garden. Everyone will have an opportunity...
Deciduous Flowering Shrubs
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Study more than 60 different deciduous flowering shrubs (and their cultivars and related species) suitable for commercial landscape and home garden use in the Chicago region. Identification, cultural information, aesthetic qualities, and landscape uses of both common and more unusual shrubs will be emphasized. Upon completing this course, you will be able to select the most appropriate shrubs for your garden space and gardening style.
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