Botanical illustrations require utter accuracy, but at their best they are also lovely and romantic. These qualities describe Curtis`s Botanical Magazine, illustrations from which are on display ...

Destiny’s Grab N‘ Go, a collaborative installation between Deon Reed and Carlos Flores Credit: Ruby Que. Let’s take it back to your art practice. I talked to Selva, one of the artists from ...

What is the official flower of the city that ambitiously aims to be the urban greening capital of America? The chrysanthemum. Pleasant. We all like a pot of mums on the porch in September. But does… ...

When art preservationist Heather Becker placed a call to Tilton Elementary in 1995, she was looking for three lunette murals above the auditorium doors, painted in 1910-’11 by Janet Laura Scott.

He was born in Chicago after his parents left El Salvador shortly amid the civil war there that went on into the early 1990s. “I was really involved in art class and after-school programs, and ...

Cempasúchil, Day of the Dead's iconic flower, adorns altars to deceased loved ones. Its uses stretch back to pre-Hispanic periods. Flower shops in Chicago are selling more marigolds than ever in ...

These flowers are fake, but Chicago businesses embrace them as a very real way to attract customers ... Floratorium, his silk flower and art studio, had been doing well since opening in 2014.

Southside Blooms. In 2014, he and his now-wife Hannah Bonham Blackwell founded the non-profit Chicago Eco House.The couple started with a $150 donation from a friend, bought a greystone home in ...