Front Yard Friends
Art by Nature

Front Yard Friends: Connecting with Nature and Neighbors.
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Art by Nature, now in its fifth year, highlights ways to improve and enhance the natural world. With their artwork, local artists are highlighting local native landscapes and plants around Lexington. The inaugural year focused on local greenways and streamside restoration projects. Native plants in medians, easements and mailbox strips were featured in 2019. In both 2020 and 2021 trees got their chance to shine. Now, in 2022, front yards have earned the spotlight.

Front yards are one of the most under-appreciated and under-utilized spaces in urban environments. Thoughtfully landscaped yards provide many benefits including:

• noise reduction
• water retention
• improved water quality
• temperature control
• cleaner air

The exhibit features sites from across Fayette County, with 46 pieces from 26 artists. Digital art, drawing, mixed media, painting and videography are all among the mediums included in the exhibit. Youth who attend the William Wells Brown Community Center created works highlighting a garden next to the center.

Pieces are available for purchase; a portion of the proceeds will go to CELEBRATELex, formerly known as America in Bloom Lexington.