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Ecology.Art.education
Adult Classes
Fall/Winter 2025
A day of nature journaling at Lake Farm County Park
Saturday, November 2nd, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $130 (journaling materials not included)
Lussier Family Heritage Center
Madison, WI
Program Schedule
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9 – 9:15 am Check In & Coffee
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9:15 – 11 am Guided Hike at Lake Farm County Park
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11 – 1:45 pm Nature Journaling
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1:45 – 2 Closer & Share
Class will include a 15 minute break and a half hour lunch break. Bring your own lunch.
Learn to use a nature journal to connect with plants, animals, landscape, and yourself. We will practice letting go of details and focus on capturing forms and flow with quick sketching, adding basic color, and taking notes that put our experience of the moment on the page. While we will answer some botanical and ecological questions, the main focus will be to center and commemorate the experience in your journal. This class will take place outdoors; please dress for the weather.
Botanical Illustration in the Conservatory
Thursdays, December 4-18, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Registration Deadline: Nov 26, 2025
$105/$85 member
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Madison, WI
Connect with nature while you hone your observational and artistic skills in the tropical atmosphere of the Bolz Conservatory! Whether you are an avid artist or an enthusiastic nature nerd starting a journaling habit, botanical illustration is a beautiful way to appreciate the form and function of living things. Through close observation of form, shape, and scale, we absorb more details about our subject and it helps bring our art to life. See supply list on the Olbrich website for materials needed.
This class is SOLD OUT!
Contact Emily Dufford to join the waitlist: EDufford@cityofmadison.com
Storm drain mural initiative
dane county, wisconsin
A project of the Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership (MAMSWaP) and Dane County Land and Water Resources Department, outreach specialists visit schools and communities to remind us that that runoff entering storm drains flows untreated to local waterways. Based on youth drawings, my designs are painted with community members of all ages.
View maps and images of storm drain murals here
2024 storm drains
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