 Sunday, August 15
1 – 4pm
Travel Sketching
with Nina Weiss
Art Class
You love to draw, and you love to travel. How best to combine the two? Set in the beautiful forested grounds of Ryerson Woods, this class will teach you to maximize your drawing experience drawing the landscapes of your travels. Emphasis includes: how to extract your vision from the landscape using elements of composition; how to render basic forms of the landscape; how expressive line and gesture are used to capture the landscape; and how color can be used as an exciting addition to your drawing. Using water-based pens and colored pencils, students will begin their own travel sketchbooks using inspirational local landscapes. Water-soluble Sketch pens will be available for purchase from the instructor (www.ninaweiss.com).
Brushwood. $70.
To register, call North Shore Art League at 847.446.2870.
 Wednesday
September 15
7:30 - 9pm
Ryerson Reads
Monster of God:
The Man Eating Predator
in the Jungles of History
and the Mind
by David Quammen
Book Discussion
Quammen travels to research the fate of man-eating predators in dwindling habitats from the Carpathian mountains of Romania to Australia's Arnhem Land. Join others in an engaging and reflective discussion of the book led by Ben Goluboff, professor of English at Lake Forest College. Goluboff’s “razor sharp insights take one’s appreciation for the book to the next level” says one participant.
Brushwood. $15 ($10 FRW members).
Click here to register.
To register by phone or take advantage of FRW discounts, please call
847-968-3321.
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Art
Exhibition:
GIMME GREEN:
Commercializing Nature
What role does the commercial world play in shaping our understandings and experiences of nature? The artists in the Gimme Green group show articulate a tension, at once anxious and reverent, at the intersection of those two worlds. Artists include Stephanie Dean, Jennifer Fleener, Holly Holmes, Regin Igloria, Eric Kaepplinger, Megan Leong, Nancy Steinmeyer, Evan Wondolowski.
Brushwood.
Exhibition runs
July 11 – August 30.
Upcoming
Art
Exhibition:
The Observer:
artwork by
Antonia Contro
In the exhibition, The Observer, Contro creates installations of her art throughout Brushwood that heighten awareness of the site’s history as a place of investigation and discovery of nature and science.
Brushwood.
Opening Reception
Sunday, September 19
1-3pm
Exhibition runs
September 19 –
October 31.
Call for Art:
FRW is looking for artists working with wool for an upcoming show.
Deadline for submissions is September 30.
Click here for more information.
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