Finding Common Ground in Botanical Art Across the Continent
On June 5, 2025, the Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Circle, met via Zoom with Central Texas Botanical Artists to share and discuss their recent artwork and ongoing projects.
Mother Earth Market
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods hosted their forth annual Mother Earth Market with many festivities.
ADA Accessibility to Botanical Sites
Access and accommodations are necessary when a person is in a wheel chair, needs an on-site wheel chair or ECV (Electronic Convenience Vehicle), uses a walking aid, needs benches to take periodic breaks, needs water or a restroom. Having knowledge before going into a building or nature area is crucial for enjoyment and use of a botanical site.
A Walk in the Woods
Members of the Reed-Turner Botanical Artists gathered together at 8:00 a.m. before the monthly meeting to take a walk through the Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve with Matt Tobin, with the Lake County Audubon Society.
Field Trip to the Chicago Field Museum
March 2, 2024, Reed-Turner members outing to the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History guided by Artist-in-Residence Peggy McNamara. During the tour, Peggy gives her view of the Field Museum through expressive watercolor painting.
Nature Journaling Bunker Hill Preserve
On June 7, 2023, Reed-Turner Botanical Artists member, Maureen Murphy, led a group of members in an outdoor sketching and nature journaling workshop.
Kishwauketoe Visit
On September 3rd members of the group met at Lynne Railsback’s home in Williams Bay to lunch before taking a walking at the Kishwauketoe preserve in Lake Geneva.
Joining us was the author of the Kishwauketoe book, James Killian, as well as Harold Friestad, one of the stewards responsible for the preserve.