Members, please submit your artwork, or articles you have written about art or nature to Evelyn Grala for our quarterly publication, The Nature Artists’ Quarterly. 
Please check your current Quarterly for details, or contact Evelyn at the e-mail address listed in your Yearbook. We look forward to seeing your contributions in the next issue!
Category: Member Artwork
Calvin C. Wright
In remembrance –
We received word from Evelyn Grala last week of the passing of a longtime and well-loved member of the Nature Artists’ Guild. Calvin Wright was 92 years old, and will be missed by all those who knew him. Carol Jean Rogalski has shared these photos of some of the beautifully carved birds that Cal was known for creating.
Back from Safari
All of our artists made it safely back from their “safari” at the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum last month. Here are a few photos and drawings you may enjoy (thank you to Evelyn Grala for the photographs and Bob Sunyog and Carol Jean Rogalski for the sketches)!
Lion ©Bob Sunyog
River Otter ©Carol Jean Rogalski
Please Join Us at the Spring 2013 Exhibit of the Nature Artists’ Guild of The Morton Arboretum
Carol Jean Rogalski’s Wonderful Presentation
Please enjoy these photographs from Carol Jean Rogalski’s wonderful presentation for the Nature Artists’ Guild, Illumination. Thank you to our photographer, Kathy Wagner, for the photos. Please click on any photo to get a closer look!
Spring
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Our Featured Artist, Linn Eldred
You have our featured artist for the April 2013 Spring Exhibit of the Nature Artists’ Guild of The Morton Arboretum, Linn Eldred to thank for our beautiful new spring header, which features a detail of her painting Tulip Time. You can see the entire painting, as well as read about Linn and see more of her artwork, by clicking on the Current Featured Artist tab above. Congratulations, Linn! We look forward to seeing your artwork at the upcoming exhibit, and appreciate the hint of spring you’ve brought to us through your paintings!
Nature Artists’ Guild Member Don Castro’s Retrospective at the Burning Bush Gallery
One of the biggest perks of being a member of the Nature Artists’ Guild is the support of your fellow members. Whether you are exhibiting for the first time, or the hundredth, it’s always great to see a few familiar smiling faces of fellow Nature Artists’ Guild members at your reception!
Who could be more deserving of our support than 22-year member, and Holiday Party “Master of Ceremonies”, Don Castro? Don not only shows up every December to swear in our officers, make us laugh, and hand out prizes, but has also contributed so much of his time and talents to the Nature Artists’ Guild over the years.
The Artists’ Reception for Don’s upcoming Retrospective at the Burning Bush Art Gallery in Wheaton, IL is coming up on January 20th from 1 until 4 pm (details below). What a great chance to admire some of Don’s best work all in one place, and show your appreciation for all of his contributions to the Nature Artists’ Guild!
Artists Reception: Sunday, January 20, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Sundays: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm,
Wednesdays: 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Monday – Friday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, or by appointment (708) 705-8669.
216 North Main Street, Wheaton IL
“Seeding the Snow” features Nature Artists’ Guild Members’ Artwork
Congratulations to Nature Artists’ Guild members Connie Devendorf, Linn Eldred, and Evelyn Grala for the inclusion of their photography and artwork in the Fall and Winter 2012 issue of the periodical Seeding The Snow. The issue features Evelyn’s pen and ink drawing, Owl, on the cover, and Connie’s photo, Setting Seeds, her watercolor, Wrens, and Linn’s pen and ink drawings, Scrub Pine and Goatsbeard are featured within.
To read more about Seeding the Snow, or to order your copy, please click here. Copies are also usually available for purchase at the Arboretum gift shop, The Arboretum Store (hours and information available by clicking here).
Meet the Leaf Fairy!
Patty Konigsaecker has done it again! The Nature Artists’ Guild’s 2012 Scarecrow that Patty has designed is really too sweet, though, to scare away any birds! In fact, with some of the changes we’ll be adding this Saturday (such as adding a bird’s nest to her bun), she’ll probably attract them! After we substitute some of her flowers for leaves (hence the name change from Flower Fairy to Leaf Fairy), and change her quote to another more “leafy” one, our Leaf Fairy, with her skirt fluttering in the wind, will grace the shore of Meadow Lake at The Morton Arboretum all through October.
Please join us this Saturday at Thornhill at the workshop to help construct her! If you have suggestions or supplies that may be useful, please contact Patty Konigsaecker (you can find her contact information in your Yearbook).
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