Illumination returns to The Morton Arboretum for its 13th year, with four Vivid Creatures art sculptures featured on the trail.

Vivid Creatures featured by Illumination lights

Added to the arboretum in May of this year, four of the five new sculptures in the exhibit can be found on the Illumination trail.

“They are gigantic, magical, very colorful animal sculptures that are here for two years, but they’re really brought to life in a different way at Illumination,” said Amy Scott, The Morton Arboretum’s Head of Exhibitions. “So it really puts the ‘vivid’ into Vivid Creatures.”

Twelve hundred lighting devices are used to highlight the 1,000 trees along the route.

“Everything you see at Illumination is specifically designed, specifically created, for this location,” said John Featherst

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