Miles Lowry & Jill Metcoff
Black and White Photographs
January 15 – April 3, 2005

Miles Lowry: "Remnants of Our Forest Past"
Jill Metcoff: "Earth/Fire/Air/Water: A Meditation on Prairie Burns"

Conservation, diversity and ecology are the focus of two black and white photography exhibits opening at the Garden on January 15, 2005. "Remnants of Our Forest Past" features images of old-growth forests by Miles Lowry, professor of photography at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. "Earth/Fire/Air/Water: A Meditation on Prairie Burns," captures what Metcoff describes as the "ephemeral moments of possibility when the four elements (wind, fire, water and earth) interact."

Meet the artists at a free reception and slide lecture at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 16. The exhibits are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Gallery in the Garden through April 13.

'Fruitful Abundance'
April 15 – June 13, 2005

Fruit-related paintings will be on display and for sale in the Gallery in the Garden from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Featured are oversized oil paintings of apples, melons and kiwis by Ohio artist Dennis Wotjkiewicz.

Japanese Botanicals
August 19 – October 2, 2005

More than 70 original botanical illustrations of rare and endangered plants by outstanding Japanese artists will be on display in the Gallery of the Garden from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The Japanese Association of Botanical Illustrators, United States National Arboretum and Chicago Botanic Garden sponsor this traveling exhibition.