Cristine Forni and James Forni: Project Evergreen
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, August 22nd, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, September 6th
Behind the Scene: Project Evergreen (film clips and panel discussion)
Project Evergreen, a collaborative film by husband-and-wife team Christine Forni (artist) and James Forni (director). The film tracks an artist’s journey back to an area near her family’s roots, a place where Evergreen Conservancy transforms a legacy of environmental extraction into filtering and healing the waterways. A conversation about sharing ecological stewardship and documenting the creative process.
Coincides with the exhibition
Home Grown Vol. III
July 11 – September 6, 2026
WEST GALLERY
Home Grown Vol. III
Curated by Lauren Iacoponi
Home Grown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is an immersive exhibition exploring the deep entanglement between human and plant life, featuring Midwest artists working with natural pigments, dyes, plant reliefs, hand-pulled paper, and organic materials that include botanics, mycelia, and artist-made bioplastics. Home Grown serves as a green space within an urban environment, with thought-provoking, nature-focused work integrated into a landscape of live plants.
Many of the artists exhibiting in Home Grown are practitioners of bioregionalism. They learn and educate others on the specific history of native plants and local indigenous ecologies, understanding that humans, plants, and wildlife are mutually responsible for one another. Several of the artists exhibiting in Home Grown are members and volunteers of community gardens and greenhouses, and host educational workshops, field days, and stewardship events and programs within their local communities. They cultivate native plants, remove invasive plant species, and tend plants in ‘art gardens’ to create natural pigments and dyes, and to grow and harvest plant fibers for papermaking.
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