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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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Gothic Gardening
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Embark on a journey into the enigmatic realm of gothic gardening. Discover the art of cultivating dark-hued flowers and foliage to craft a garden shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Explore how to incorporate statuary, fencing, and other features to evoke an atmosphere of antiquity and suspense in your outdoor space.
Tue, Jun 18th, 6–8pm CDT
(2 hours)
Gardening with a Tropical Twist
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Experience the lush allure of tropical gardening amidst the Midwest's dynamic climate. Discover how to infuse your garden with vibrant textures, bold colors, and exotic fragrances by incorporating a diverse array of tropical plants. Join us to explore the possibilities of creating stunning landscapes that thrive year-round, no matter the season.
Wed, Jul 10th, 6:30–8:30pm CDT
(2 hours)
Bitter Botanicals and Gut Health: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Healthy digestion is the foundation of wellness and the bitter flavor is often the first taste that an herbalist will introduce to a client to curb a digestive upset. Bitter herbs stimulate digestion, limit sweet cravings, reduce inflammation, release tension, and elevate the mood. Learn why this forgotten flavor is vital to your gut health as we discover unique ways to add this valuable taste to your foods, home apothecary, and even cocktails....
$40
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Color Mixing
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Discover the secrets to creating stunning and vibrant colors in your artwork with the Color Mixing course at Chicago Botanic Garden. Master the art of blending hues found in flowers, leaves, and shadows, and apply your newfound knowledge to create beautiful paintings. This course is designed to enhance your color mixing skills and elevate your artistic creations.
Online Cooking: Herb-Infused Spirits
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Use fresh herbs from your garden, kitchen, or the market to make new and delicious alcoholic beverages. In this online cooking class, you will learn about the history of fermented alcohols, get tips and tricks to create your own curated cocktail cabinet, and learn how to make a delicious, seasonally inspired beverage. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.
$30
Lightroom 1
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Lightroom Classic is a great tool for organizing and developing your digital images to be the best they can be. Learn about importing images from your camera; organizing them into folders and collections; adjusting color, exposure, and detail; and exporting them for a variety of uses. A personal laptop with a current version of Adobe Lightroom Classic (not the cloud version) is required for all classes. The online class will be taught via Zoom. All...
Introduction to Professional Practice
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Online and On-site Hybrid Gain a working understanding of the initial phases of a landscape design project. Learn to begin and carry the project through conceptual design, including site measurements, base maps, site analysis, programming, functional use diagrams, conceptual design plans, and preliminary cost estimates. This class will be taught online via Zoom (11 sessions) and on-site (2 sessions). All registrations must be submitted online...
Garden Design Implementation
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
You have the design, the client, and the funding—now what? Learn the steps necessary to carry a project from a finished design through to a built landscape. Course projects will include the preparation of construction details and documents, technical specifications, and cost estimates.Prerequisites: Graphics Introduction to Professional Practice Hardscape Basics Introduction to Grading and Draining Principles of Garden Design Planting...
Abstracts in Nature: Online
We will begin by looking at the early history of painters in abstraction. This project-orientated workshop will be spent applying photographic techniques to create a portfolio of abstract fine art photographs. Using design concepts, you will craft creative images with a mood and message. A review of technical SLR tools will help you capture abstracts of your very own, while also developing your creative eye. Digital SLR camera and tripod required....
Close Focus Pastel
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Whether painting a single botanical subject or a complex still life, pastel is a perfect medium for expressing the beauty of the subject. Your style can be either loose or detailed. You will explore color, composition, and intention in this class. Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing 1.
Hardy Bulbs: Online and On-site Hybrid
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Gain the confidence and knowledge to use a wide variety of bulbs to enhance your clients’ gardens or your own. Explore the many bulbs that brighten the spring, summer, and fall garden. Learn to identify more than 60 hardy bulbs, corms, and tubers. Bloom sequences, cultural requirements, and bulb selection will also be discussed. OPC, PGL 1, PGL 2, and GDC requirement 7 sessions of this class will be taught online via Zoom and 6 sessions on-site....
Self-Portraiture
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Explore what is uniquely artful about you in this class on self-portraiture. You will use color, camera techniques, and ideas about self-portraiture to create contemporary and unique imagery. Push your creativity to new heights, add some drama to your images, and see self-portraiture in a new way. Discover your internal world through photography and experimentation and find the theater that is within you. This class will be taught...
Spring Blooms in Colored Pencil: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Celebrate spring with colored pencil and delve deeply into working with dry and wet media of colored pencil. Develop your drawing skills while exploring color relationships, layering and burnishing, plus other techniques to take full advantage of colored pencil’s unique, versatile properties. Work from live specimens, starting with tulips and then moving to the spring flowers of your choice. Composition choices in preparation for finished...
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The Landscape in Pastel 2
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online landscape in pastel class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Build on the principles you learned in The Landscape in Pastel course. Focus on several methods of underpainting, emphasizing strong values and rich color, to create a finished piece. Demonstrations and individual instruction will be given. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisite: The Landscape in Pastel or another landscape-focused...
History of Photography: Postmodernism
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online photography class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Explore the history of postmodern photography, from the 1960s to the present. Start with pop art, assemblage, conceptual art, and the social landscape. Create photographs like the great masters of this period such as Andy Warhol, Syl Labrot, Gary Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, and others. This class will be taught online...
Chinese Art and Photography: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Nourish your creativity and artistic process by immersing yourself in the aesthetics and visual cultures of China. We will survey the history of photography in China, analyze the style and approach of exemplary Chinese artists, and learn about elements of Chinese art and design. Weekly assignments will be inspired by poems and quotes. Classes will also include image reviews, discussions of tools and techniques, and developing a final portfolio....
Botanical Drawing 1
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Strong drawing is the cornerstone of botanical art. In this class, we will work in pencil, covering the fundamentals of proportions, line, tone, dimensionality, and expression. We will work from live specimens, flowers, seeds, and fruit.
Plant Health 1
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn to identify, diagnose, treat, and prevent some of the most common diseases, insects, animal pests, and environmental problems encountered by our region’s landscape industry. Topics include Integrated Pest Management (IPM), cultural care, basic entomology and pathology, pesticides and alternatives, and animal management. A supply list will be sent. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online...
Color and Design in Pastel: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Paint landscapes or still lifes in pastel with particular attention to creating striking design and color, using spectacular fall color as inspiration if desired. You will work using shapes and analogous color. A supply list will be sent. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.
Creative Fine Art Digital Photography
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Discover how to see and convey your creative vision of the world in photographs. In this introduction to fine art photography for beginning and intermediate photographers, you will learn to use the features of your camera and the principles of design to make stunning, creative images. A digital SLR or mirrorless camera with manual controls for aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and a previous photography class or familiarity with basic camera...
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