May “Meeting” of Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Circle
For the May meeting, Reed-Turner Botanical Artists members will be enjoying a tour of the herbarium at Morton Arboretum by Herbarium Coordinator, Lindsey Worcester. Luncheon will be at the Bistro!
ASBA Denver Conference - Sign Up for Early Registration
The ASBA Conference in Denver is in October. Mark you calendars for early registration as tours and classes can fill up fast!
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Summer Pot
The Board will meet with committees, followed by the members show-and-tell. Members will then enjoy a luncheon of their favorite homemade summer salads and desserts.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting and Studio Secrets
The Board meets with committees, followed by the members show-and-tell. Later, members share “Studio Secrets" — bring your favorite papers — including unique alternatives to Arches and Fabriano.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting and Studio Secrets
The Board meets with committees, followed by the members show-and-tell. Later, members share "Studio Secrets"—bring your favorite tech devices to show how technology enhances botanical art.
Call for Entries Deadline: Orchids: Jewels of the Plant World The Sixth New York Botanical Garden Triennial
The theme for The Sixth New York Botanical Garden Triennial is all about orchids, whether terrestrial or epiphytic, found nearby or anywhere in the world. The diversity of orchids is incredible; there are over 30,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting and Studio Secrets
The Board meets with committees, followed by the members show-and-tell. Later members share "Studio Secrets"—bring your favorite tools, like erasers or gouache, that are used to fix mistakes and save your artwork.
ASBA Denver Conference
The ASBA Conference provides the opportunity for workshops and lectures with national and international botanical artists. Workshops will be at the beautiful Denver Botanic Gardens. Dining events will be at the charming Halcyon Hotel.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting and Studio Secrets
The Board meets with committees, followed by show-and-tell. Members will then share their “Studio Secrets” — favorite color charts - we all make them but . . . which ones do we actually use?
Zoom Workshop in Colored Pencil with Crystal Shin
Join Crystal Shin for a Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Zoom workshop, focusing on seasonal color layering and advanced colored pencil techniques for leaves, rosehips, or winter berries.
No Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting in November
There will be no board meeting in November. We have the Zoom Workshop in Colored Pencil with Crystal Shin this month, and we are looking forward to the Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Holiday Party that will be coming up early December.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Annual Holiday Party
The date listed is an estimate until the final date had been agreed upon by members.
We are looking forward to the Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Holiday Party. The time and location to-be-announced.
Long Grove/ Kildeer Garden Club Plant and Art Sale
The Reed-Turner Botanical Artists have been invited to join the Long Grove/Kildeer Garden Club for their annual Plant and Art Sale! This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your talent, sell your work, and introduce our "Circle" to the local community.
Brushwood Mother Earth Market
The Mother Earth Market features and celebrates local artists, makers, vendors, and organizations who are inspired by “Mother Earth” and are working towards a more sustainable future.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees. The meeting will be followed by a show and tell where members will share their recent botanical work. Refreshments will be served.
Call for Entries: 29th Annual InternationalAmerican Society of Botanical Artists and Society of Illustrators
Botanical specimens. Work may have appeared in regional exhibitions, but may not have been shown in another international juried exhibition of ASBA.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees. The meeting will be followed by a show and tell where members will share their recent botanical work. Refreshments will be served.
Call for Entries: Orchids: Jewels of the Plant World The Sixth New York Botanical Garden Triennial
The theme for The Sixth New York Botanical Garden Triennial is all about orchids, whether terrestrial or epiphytic, found nearby or anywhere in the world. The diversity of orchids is incredible; there are over 30,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees. The meeting will be followed by a show and tell where members will share their recent botanical work. Refreshments will be served.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees. The meeting will be followed by a show and tell where members will share their recent botanical work. Refreshments will be served.
Adler Arts Center Member Exhibit
Adler Arts Center Artist Member Exhibit
January 9 - February 14 2026, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 6-8pm
Check their event page HERE.
Nature Artists’ Guild / Downers grove Library Show Opening Day
Nature Artists' Guild / Downers Grove Library Show – January 6 through February 3, 2026
Nature Artists’s Guild / Artis and Cultural Center of the Wheaton Public Library Show Opening Day
Nature Artists' Guild / Arts and Cultural Center of the Wheaton Public Library Show – January 5, 2026 - January 30, 2026
December 12, 2025 Registration deadline
Registration information HERE
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Holiday Party
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Holiday Party is in lieu of the December Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The date and location to-be-announced.
Call for Entry Nature Artists’s Guild / Artis and Cultural Center of the Wheaton Public Library Show
Nature Artists' Guild / Arts and Cultural Center of the Wheaton Public Library Show – January 5, 2026 - January 30, 2026
December 12, 2025 Registration deadline
Registration information HERE
Call for Entry Nature Artists' Guild / Downers Grove Library Show
Nature Artists' Guild / Downers Grove Library Show – January 6 through February 3, 2026
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Registration deadline
Registration information HERE
No Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting for November
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Holiday Party is in lieu of the December Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The date and location to-be-announced.
Nature Artist Guild 2025 Autumn Exhibit
November 7, 8, and 9, 2025
10:00am to 4:00pm
Artist reception: Friday, November 7, 2025, 4:30pm to 7:00pm
The Nature Artists’ Guild is proud to present a schedule of demonstrators for the upcoming 2025 Autumn Art Exhibit at The Morton Arboretum
In addition to enjoying over 200 works of art by more than 70 Guild artists, Arboretum visitors will have the opportunity to watch and interact with the following members as they demonstrate and discuss their methods, materials, and inspirations.
Details HERE
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists 20th Anniversary Celebration
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees.
Lure of the Local IV presented by The Mundelein Arts Commission
All Saturdays and Sundays, October 16 - November 17, 2025
Archer Business Center - 175 N. Archer Avenue, Mundelein, IL
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist, Charlene Riffer, has five pieces in this local show. She is displaying her playful botanical art where leaves and found natural objects create people.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting / Carol Jean Rogalski Silverpoint Workshop
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees.
Carol Jean Rogalsky will demonstrate Silverpoint - the art of drawing with a silver-tipped tool. This art form was utilized by old masters like Leonardo DaVinci. It lends itself nicely to botanical art.
Members have received emails regarding the RSVP deadline date, materials that will be distributed and materials that members need to bring to the workshop.
Through the Eyes of Piping Plovers: Flora, Fauna & People of the Waukegan Shores
Waukegan History Museum, 1 N. Sheridan Rd, Waukegan, IL
September 12 - October 31, 2025
In collaboration with Share Our Shore - Waukegan (Lake County Audubon) and Waukegan History Museum at Carnegie, Heeyoung Kim, and 14 artists from Brushwood Monday Open Workshop and Tuesday Eco-Botancial Zoom Workshop of HK Botanical Art Academy took on a new theme, shorebirds, migrating/residential birds, and other fauna and flora in the dunes ecosystem, mainly of Waukegan shores.
Reception: Sept 12, 2025, 2 - 4 pm, 2025
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees.
Bogs in Art
Bogs in Art by Friends of Volo Bog
June 14 - July 27, 2025
International Bog Day is Sunday July 27, 2025.
There will be Artist Reception, poetry reading, and live music.
The silent bid auction closes at 2:00 on July 27, 2027.
Friends of Volo Bog website is HERE
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees.
Rooted in the Shadow of Coal - Botanical Treasures of the Waukegan Dunes Opening
In this exhibition, July 13 – August 31, 2025, Brushwood Center will celebrate the plants of the dunes that remain, and also address the Dune's environmental importance and the dangers that it and the community that live around it face.
Opening July 13, 2025, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Nature Artists’ Guild Exhibit Into the Wild
Nature Artists’ Guild Exhibit Into the Wild
Hidden Oaks Nature Center
July 5 - August 30, 2025
Hidden Oaks Nature center is located at 419 Trout Farm Rd, Bolingbrook, IL.
Hidden Oaks Nature Center is open Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.
The Nature Artists’ Guild was there when Hidden Oaks celebrated their grand re-opening after the facility was purchased by the Forest Preserve District of Will County, and the Guild will be there again a few years later to help celebrate the recent extensive renovations to the award-winning building.
Review information HERE
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees.
Bird Walk with Matt Tobin
Join Matt Tobin on a refreshing morning bird walk at Heron Creek before our monthly meeting. There will be a sign up for this event. The bird walk will be approximately 1.5 hours.
Sign up HERE.
Heron Creek
22890 N. Old McHenry Road
Lake Zurich,IL 60047
Heron photo from Pixabay.com
Rooted in the Shadow of Coal - Botanical Treasures of the Waukegan Dunes
In this exhibition, July 13 – August 31, 2025, Brushwood Center will celebrate the plants of the dunes that remain, and also address the Dune's environmental importance and the dangers that it and the community that live around it face.
Go to Brushwood Gallery web HERE or directly to the Call of Entry HERE
Zoom with Central Texas Botanical Artists
Botanical Artists Crossover Meeting via Zoom with the Central Texas Botanical Artists. Our focus will be on sharing the beauty of the native plants in our respective regions. Christina Lovering will create a slide show featuring the native plants in the Mayslake exhibition. Zoom link sent members.
Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Meeting
Reed-Turner Botanical Artist Meeting at Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve. The Board of Directors will be reviewing matters with the committees.