On Friday, February 12 from 7 - 8 p.m., spend a date night at home while enjoying a live tour of the Paint by Nature: Trees exhibit. Join local tree enthusiasts Nancy Barnett and Michael Potapov as they show off the 59 pieces of artwork depicting notable Lexington trees during the “For the Love of Trees” tour. Details for this year’s Reforest the Bluegrass will be announced during the event.
Tickets are $15 per household and may be purchased at bit.ly/3oXlbSO. Proceeds benefit Reforest the Bluegrass and Hickman Creek Conservancy. A limited number of tickets are available. Deadline to order is 5 p.m. Thursday, February 11. Ticket holders will receive an email with an event link and passcode on Friday morning.
To complete the date night experience, attendees are encouraged to consider ordering takeout from a local restaurant.
In addition to the gallery tour, participants will also receive a 2-3 year old potted tree seedling, which they can either plant on their own property or donate back to Reforest the Bluegrass. Donated trees will be planted at a city planting site.
Reforest the Bluegrass is Lexington’s annual tree-planting event, dating back to 1998. More than 17,500 volunteers have planted some 150,000 tree seedlings over the years, restoring 195 acres of floodplains.
Hickman Creek Conservancy is focused on improving and protecting the Hickman Creek Watershed, which covers much of the southwest part of Fayette County and continues into Jessamine County. In addition to the natural connection between trees and water, Hickman Creek Conservancy was selected as the nonprofit benefactor of Paint by Nature: Trees thanks to the work of two of its founding board members.
Tickets (tour only) are also available at no cost by emailing LiveGreen@LexingtonKY.gov.
This marks the third year for the Paint by Nature series, with a different area of emphasis highlighted each year. The purpose of this year’s Paint by Nature showcase is to highlight the importance of "right tree, right place" and to inspire Fayette County residents to take these guidelines into consideration when planting their own trees. The exhibit can be viewed at lexingtonky.gov/pbn2020.
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