This Winter, Connect with Nature Through Art!
There are so many ways to connect with nature in every season. Use the GophillyGo Trip Planner to find walking or biking routes and witness winter transition to spring along one of many nature trails, in Philadelphia’s vast park system. Get creative! Checkout the GoPhillyGo Events page to get information about family-friendly art workshops and pop-ups at environmental centers and parks in the region.
This week GoPhillyGo is gifting three people tickets to join a Philly Nature Journaling Club session with artist Meg Lemeiur at the Academy of Natural Sciences! Connect with animal enthusiasts and spend time sketching wildlife in the museum’s galleries this Saturday, February 22nd from 10am to 12pm, then stay a little longer to browse and enjoy the collections and special exhibits. All you have to do is follow GoPhillyGo Instagram or Facebook and be one of the first three people to DM how you’re getting to the museum.
Looking for more opportunities to connect with nature using art? Below is a list of a few upcoming classes and exhibits:
Visit The Discovery Center and try your hand at creating a bird box, or join the Nature Journaling and Crafting workshops Flower Power in March and Fantastic Fungi in April.
Sign up for the February Mussel Shell Art and March Diatom Art pop-ups at the Fairmount Waterworks Interpretive Center.
Browse the gallery at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education where artist Claire Downes Whitehurst’s show WINTERBLOOM “presents colorful, visionary abstractions drawn from Whitehurst’s attunement to forms and patterns found in nature.” on display until March 29th. Register to take a print-making workshop led by the artist.
Spend time with your little ones at the newly installed Smith Playground Play-stallation: Under the Sea at the Smith Memorial Playground in Fairmount Park.
Head over to John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge for a nature knitting series or to build up your nature photography skills.
Tag us on Instagram and Facebook and show off your creations!
