Connect to the healing benefits of art and nature! Join Brushwood Center for exhibitions, programs, performances, markets, and art classes.
Brushwood Center works collaboratively with community partners, artists, health care providers, and scientists to improve health equity and access to nature in Lake County, Illinois, and the Chicago region. Brushwood Center engages people with the outdoors through the arts, environmental education, and community action. Brushwood Center’s programs focus on youth, families, Military Veterans, and those facing racial and economic injustices.
Brushwood Center’s art programs amplify artists, musicians, community members, and scientists who provide insight to the challenges facing our communities and creative approaches to solutions.
Images: Upper left: Viewing art at At Ease in Nature, an annual exhibition of Veteran and Military community artists. Credit: InLife Photography. Right: Ephemeral artist Lydia Cheshewalla with her work, Before Dreams Are The Last Place We Find You. Credit: Michael Kardas Photography. Lower left: Young artist at work. Credit: InLife Photography
","type":"EventCategory","state":"published","slug":"exhibitions","created_at":"2018-10-22 18:54:41.176231","updated_at":"2018-10-22 18:54:41.176231","excerpt":"","is_timeless":true,"organization_id":1230,"highlighted":false,"opening_starts_at":null,"opening_ends_at":null,"searchable":"'abstract':72B 'academi':93B 'adjac':24B 'along':20B 'art':74B,105B 'attent':36B 'botan':13B,73B,92B 'brushwood':95B 'call':83B 'caus':41B 'coal':5A,10B,28B,49B 'coal-fir':27B,48B 'compris':68B 'contamin':45B 'contemporari':70B 'continu':44B 'curat':78B 'draw':35B 'driehaus':100B 'dune':18B 'environ':57B 'environment':39B 'exhibit':33B,67B,119B 'fire':29B,50B 'guid':120B,122B 'heeyoung':87B 'highlight':12B 'immens':60B 'includ':112B 'injustic':40B 'juror':86B 'kim':88B 'lake':21B,64B 'lead':90B 'leader':106B 'local':104B 'locat':19B 'michigan':22B,65B 'museum':101B 'onsit':109B 'open':82B,114B 'open-cal':81B 'peopl':54B 'plant':31B,52B 'pose':62B 'power':30B,51B 'program':110B,117B 'repres':97B 'shadow':3A,8B 'speak':116B 'speci':14B 'threat':61B 'three':85B 'tour':123B 'tradit':69B 'waukegan':17B,108B","thumbnail":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1762925955/vrfznzgjknxm8l8c9voo.jpg","calendar":null,"carousel":false,"event_body":"In the Shadow of Coal will highlight botanical species of the Waukegan Dunes, located along Lake Michigan and adjacent to a coal-fired power plant. The exhibition will draw attention to the environmental injustices caused by the continued contamination of this coal-fired power plant on people and the environment and the immense threat posed to Lake Michigan. The exhibition comprises traditional, contemporary, and abstract botanical art and will be curated through an open-call with three jurors: Heeyoung Kim (who leads the Botanical Academy at Brushwood), a representative from the Driehaus Museum, and a local arts leader from Waukegan. Onsite programming will include an opening and speaking program, an exhibition guide, and guided tours.
","name":"Exhibitions","organization_type_id":"7","district_id":"6","telephone":"+12246332424","website":"https://www.brushwoodcenter.org","email":"info@brushwoodcenter.org","hours":"M–Th, Sa 10–3; Su 1–3 and by appt.","location":"21850 N. Riverwoods Rd. Riverwoods, IL 60015","display_location":"21850 N. Riverwoods Rd. Riverwoods, IL 60015","latitude":"42.217314","longitude":"-87.906335","contact":"","sub_district_id":"9","promoted_at":"2023-11-09T19:18:37.385Z","optional_sort_name":"","paid":true,"position":2,"category_name":"Exhibitions","orgname":"Brushwood Center","orgslug":"brushwood-center","image":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1752008386/n2duhyhtr0ppcbqbglvu.png"}