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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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iPhone Photography
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover the secrets of capturing stunning nature photographs using your iPhone. Learn how to use popular photography apps and enhance your images in this hands-on course at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Unleash your creativity and take your iPhone photography to the next level.
Meditations in Ink: Zen Bamboo
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Bamboo is the symbol for flexibility, longevity, and strength—a true dance of energy and ink! This workshop will be a relaxing, meditative exploration into learning the nature and techniques of Asian brush painting and calligraphy. Through step-by-step demonstrations and hands-on brush painting projects using the "four treasures" (bamboo brushes, ink, inkstone, and rice paper), students will explore the ancient and elegant art of painting bamboo....
$187
Thanksgiving Tablescape
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Celebrate the bounty of the season and create a rich, textural setting for your guests using floral as well as edible elements such as figs and grapes. In this workshop you will take home a lush, seasonally inspired floral centerpiece as well as many ideas for creating a memorable holiday table for your own holiday entertaining. Are Materials Provided and Included in the Cost of the Class? Yes, All materials are included.
$179
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Introduction to Beekeeping
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn all the basics needed to start keeping bees. This includes what to expect, how to put together equipment, how to get bees in your hive, finding the queen, feeding, what to look for after the bees are installed, and seasonal chores. There will be hands-on exercise in the field. All participants are required to bring their own bee-suit. No extra suits will be available at the class.
$99
Portraits in the Nature
Walk into the Garden and discover portraits that reveal a message. We will practice the tools of photography that allow you to go beyond a snapshot and into the zone of creation. A digital camera with aperture priority and shutter speed priority is required. This class is open to any level, but requires an artistic mind.
Intermediate Photography Portfolio Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
The Garden will serve as a natural laboratory as we explore a variety of photographic techniques to take you from an ordinary snapshot to botanic art. Heavy emphasis will be put on finding your own artistic style while advancing your photographic skill set and beginning to create your own botanic art portfolio. This course is designed for intermediate photographers. You will walk away with your own set of professionally produced images. Digital SLR...
Business of Gardening
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? Learn from a former Chicago Botanic Garden certificate program student who started 15 years ago and now has two successful, profitable companies. This course will teach you what you need to know to form your company, estimate to make a profit, marketing and advertising and much more. Everything begins with a dream and a plan. Enrollment is limited for this course. Note: The School's CEUs=...
Lighting Techniques
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road Annex 2, Chicago, IL
This introduction to artificial lighting includes both manipulating light from continuous sources (hot lights) and working with flash and strobe. Through technical exercises and demonstrations, this class will explore a variety of lighting strategies for still life, botanical arrangements, and portraits. The class will cover on-camera flash techniques, capturing motion with flash, off-camera syncing, light painting, and more. The School's CEUs =...
Sketchbooks as an Artist Resource
Explore examples of several artists’ sketchbooks from throughout history while developing your own. Sketchbooks can be collections of ideas, experiments, studies, notes, ephemera, and inspiration. In addition to exploring other artist’s sketchbooks, we will develop a variety of techniques to create and enhance your own sketchbook as a resource. Participants will be sketching natural subjects in pencil, fine permanent marker, watercolor pencil,...
Nature Photography: Texture and Pattern
Develop your artistic vision by using natural and artificial light to discover textures and patterns. With your SLR camera’s flash, flashlights, the sun, and other light sources, create a 3D world showing the rhythm of nature. This intermediate-level class will include an opportunity to use strobe lighting, light tables, and backdrops for the study of textures in composition.
The Philosophy of Photography
Explore how the medium of photography has affected society and how it continues to evolve as it compresses recent history into a series of images and creates a sense of false memory. How do photographic images represent truth, and how do the trillions of photographs taken each year affect our daily communication? Reading assignments and class participation are required. Bring your camera, your mind, and your opinions. The School’s CEUs=12.5...
Botanical Watercolor: Exquisite Orchids
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Intricate shape, intense color, elegant line…an orchid has all that charm. Excited by orchid fever and inspired by 19th-century orchid painter, Miss Drake, students will be able to create a botanical watercolor painting with old world charm. Instructor will show how to prepare palette for easy and efficient painting to create rich colors of orchids.
$289
Photographing Wildflowers
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
FPC fundamental course, nature and wildlife track Students will learn about capturing images of both native wildflowers and garden flowers. The emphasis will be on color and tonal balance, close-ups, backgrounds, natural lighting, and composition. Wildflowers change quickly in the spring, so each week will offer a new array of subjects. Please dress for the weather. Digital SLR cameras plus a standard and macro lens are mandatory, as is a...
Introduction to Oil Painting
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Open to all levels, this class will immerse you in the painting process from day one. Students will learn how to select, compose, and paint based on strong design, values, and colors. This wonderful medium allows for extended manipulation and nuances of interpretation. Required Supplies: Paints, 37 ml tubes • Alizarin crimson • Cadmium red light hue • Cobalt blue • Ultramarine blue • Cadmium yellow light • Yellow ochre • Viridian...
Demonstration Cooking: Sourdough Bread
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
New! If you love the flavor of sourdough bread but think you could never make it at home, this class will change your mind. Learn how to maintain a sourdough starter and the process of using it to create home-baked bread. Get ideas and recipes for other ways to use the starter, such as biscuits, pancakes, and pizza dough. Take home a portion of starter and get started baking.
$70
Demonstration Cooking: Warm-Season Veggies
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover recipes and techniques for preparing fresh summer produce. You will learn four different preparation methods: roasting blanching marinating sautéing to create: eggplant with bell pepper vinaigrette roasted pepper and tomato bake stir-fried corn and beans marinated cucumbers with chili and peanuts
$56
Painting with Light Photography
When the sun drops below the horizon, bring the Garden to life by photographing your subject with a beam of light. Moving a light source during long exposure creates a look that can only be obtained by using light as a brush. DSLR camera (no phones or tablets, please) and a sturdy tripod is required. A cable or remote shutter release is helpful but not required.
Advanced Black and White Photography
Black and white photography helps you create stunning images. Learn cover printing on a variety of papers, the use of black and white adjustments in Photoshop, and enhanced tonal variations within the final image. You will also learn from the work of three iconic twentieth-century photographers. Prerequisite: Black & White Photography or approval of instructor. The School’s CEUs=15 hours FPC elective, master...
Digital Perspectives on Fall Color
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover how to capture the brilliance of fall color! Celebrated photographer Allen Rokach will share his expertise creating exciting images and will explain how to expand your photographic horizons by developing an artistic vision. Learn to improve your images, including the use of after-capture techniques that can help you transform competent images into truly great ones. Lunch is on your own. Digital cameras and laptops for the...
Color in the Spring Landscape
Study the colors of nature as the Garden comes alive with the emergence of spring. You will explore painting techniques that reveal color in the landscape and review color theory to guide you to create rich, vibrant landscapes. Learn to work from photographic references and, as weather permits, work outside. All skill levels and media welcome. A supply list will be sent.
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