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Learn essential life skills such as financial literacy, communication, and time management in Chicago's Life Skills classes, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to thrive in various aspects of their personal and professional lives.
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Botany for Botanical Artists
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Bring realism to your botanical artwork with a focus on identifying the morphological features of plants. Emphasizing specific plant parts in illustrations is critical to the identification of plant species in both scientific floras and identification manuals. Through a combination of lectures and lab/studio time, you will identify key characteristics in each plant specimen and then transfer them to botanical illustrations. A supply list will be...
$374
Spring Botanicals in Colored Pencil (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Spring brings bright and beautiful subjects for botanical drawing. Through careful study of various flowers, you will work your way from loose sketching to detailed colored pencil drawings. We will be covering essential pencil techniques such as layering and burnishing, as well as the basics of color mixing and composition. Required Materials: Please bring the first day: Drawing pencils and erasers. Sketchbook of your preferred paper and type. ...
Introduction to Grading and Drainage
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Apply knowledge and skills developed in previous design courses to basic grading and drainage concepts as they relate to design. Acquire a critical understanding of key earth forms and drainage patterns in residential landscapes through active discussions and hands-on projects. Prerequisites: Graphics Introduction to Professional Practice Principles of Garden Design
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Driving Lessons
Discovery Center @ 4318 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL
Adult and Teen driving lessons. Whether you’re new to the world of driving or an experienced driver looking to enhance your skills or get your driving license, we offer instruction designed to suit your needs. Patient, state-certified instructors can work with students of any level with our dual-cotrolled vehicles. Students will enjoy 2 private driving lessons of 2 hours each in our 2013 model training cars. Learner’s Permit Required. ...
The Making of Modern Paris, 1852-1939
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
In this class, we’ll explore the making of modern Paris from the Second Empire through the 1930s. Political and social turbulence, as well as an architectural and artistic efflorescence, characterized Paris from the Second Empire through the 1930s. Topics to be treated in this class’s exploration of the City of Light will include Baron Haussmann and the remaking of Paris; the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians; life in the city during the...
Botanical Art "Learn How" Series
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This series of classes is for anyone who has an interest in learning how to draw and paint but feels intimidated at the thought. Heeyoung Kim’s step-by-step instruction and guidance will allow you to learn and have fun doing it. Plan to spend the day and register for both sessions at once to receive a ten percent discount. Learn How to Draw in Graphite Pencil 2: Experience the magic of a graphite pencil. A pencil, the simplest tool, will...
Healthcare Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This eight-day program includes case studies, group projects, field trips, lectures, and instruction from experts from healthcare garden-related professions. Working in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design, your learning will be reinforced through tours of healthcare facilities in the Chicago area. Registration includes eight-day program fees, course materials, seminar program, transportation to field sites,...
WCH: Local Food Business
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is intended for aspiring urban-agriculture entrepreneurs who are launching or planning to launch a local foods business. The course has been designed for those practicing sustainable urban agriculturalists who want to produce vegetable crops and agricultural products for sale in commercial markets. Course content has been developed in partnership with an M.B.A. team from DePaul University. Topics covered include: Direct and indirect...
Small Business for Local Food
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is intended for aspiring urban-agriculture entrepreneurs who are launching or planning to launch a local foods business. The course has been designed for practicing sustainable urban agriculturalists who want to produce vegetable crops and agricultural products for sale in commercial markets. Course content has been developed in partnership with an M.B.A. team from DePaul University.
Aquaponics 3 Day Intensive
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is for individuals seriously considering or already in the process of aquaponic food production on a commercial scale. This course is a comprehensive look at the design and build-out of a system, water quality, controlled-environment growing, daily operations, and growing techniques. Instruction will include hands-on work and lectures. This is a certificate course. Aquaponics Three-Day Intensive Course Sample Agenda Day One Meet...
Graphics
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn the basic principles of landscape design illustration. This class introduces graphic design communication, focusing mainly on plans and elevation drawings. Discover how to express ideas using effective and enriched presentation techniques in a relaxed studio setting. Industry symbols, standards, and techniques will be explored, along with professional time-saving shortcuts, the importance of lettering, and the excitement of using color...
$749
Principles of Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn how to apply your design skills to create stunning garden spaces. Discover the spatial properties of landscape materials and how they can enhance your concept plans and construction-level drawings. Take your design knowledge to the next level with this professional course.
Impressionism to 1920:4 Painters & Their Influence(16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Connect or rediscover with the influences of contemporary art, focusing on four major painters: Monet, van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse, and their influences. View their work, and we’ll discuss ideas related to how their focus on light, color and space transformed art from realism to abstraction.
Dynamic Physical & Energetic Health
Infinity Foundation @ 1280 Old Skokie Valley Rd, Highland Park, IL
Unlock your body's potential for vitality and well-being with cutting-edge techniques at Infinity Foundation's transformative course. Experience a holistic approach to health that harnesses the power of energy and movement for a renewed sense of wellness. Join us on a journey toward optimal physical and energetic health.
$85
TRI Bioregional Herbalism Certificate Course
The TRI Bioregional Herbalism Certificate Course, led by veteran herbalist Linda Conroy, will focus on teaching students how to incorporate herbs into their daily life to promote health and to develop the skills to use herbs for everyday ailments and injuries. Students will be led on plant walks where they will learn to identify and harvest herbs seasonally for food and medicine. In the classroom, students will be guided through the process of transforming...
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
The Permaculture Design Certificate course is a training program that utilizes the teachings of Bill Mollison’s Permaculture Design System. The goal is for you to achieve a basic working understanding in ecologically-based planning, site design, and management. Over three weekends (4-4-3) you will be taught the core permaculture ethics, principles, and practices. In your time, you will be begin to appreciate, understand, and be able to...
Herb Gardens
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Join Lake Forest Flowers' Eileen Weber, AAF for a hands-on floral workshop. Learn growing techniques of popular and unique cooking herbs and create a living garden of assorted herb plants for your patio to take home. Soil, container, and all plant material included. We will be working with soil; bring gloves if you prefer.
$95
Edible Wild Plants Certificate Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
Learn over 200 edible wild plants that grow in our bioregion through classroom, field and home study, but most importantly by eating or preparing recipes with them every class! You will receive an Edible Wild Plants Recipe book containing all of the recipes prepared by the instructor and students throughout the course and a printed certificate recognizing your accomplishment. There are so many reasons to learn how to identify edible wild...
Bioregional Herbalism Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
Bioregional Herbalism is a pathway to natural wellness. Discover how to engage with bioregional plants as allies and develop personal intuition and connection. Learn the basics of body systems, herbal terminology, and common herbal preparations with a focus on nourishment, wellness, prevention and support. During each Sunday class, discover several plants in depth, learn introductory health care topics and body systems, and make 1-2 herbal preparations....
Achieving Leadership Success Through People
American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
The most successful leaders are those with the best people skills, especially during the most difficult circumstances. Poor communication and interpersonal relationships routinely thwart leaders who are otherwise technically competent. In order to succeed, leaders must be fully engaged with the individuals who make up their organization. Focusing skill-by-skill on P.E.O.P.L.E. (Professionalism, Empathy, Optimism, Partnering, Loyalty and Empowering)...
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