Daily Archives: May 23, 2011

Tuesday, May 24 – Bounty Bucks 5% Day at Whole Foods

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On Tuesday, May 24, Whole Foods Market’s three Boston stores are holding a 5% Day for the benefit of The Food Project’s Boston Bounty Bucks program.  Five percent of the day’s net sales from each store will be donated to support low-income people’s ability to buy fresh, locally grown produce at participating farmers’ markets throughout Boston.  The Food Project has been a past recipient of grants from The Garden Club of the Back Bay as well. For more information, visit www.thefoodproject.org.

Friday, June 17, 4:00 pm – Architecture, Art, Landscape

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Tom Armstrong, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art, was the leader of four American Art Museums over a period of thirty years. He is now the Chairman of the Garden Conservancy, a national preservation organization. Trained as a studio artist at Cornell University, Mr. Armstrong recently combined his interest in architecture, art and landscape in a new steel and glass house designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York City on a three-acre seaside site on Fishers Island, New York (See Architectural Digest, October 2010). Armstrong’s vision of abstraction in the environment of his island home is the topic of his 2011 World Flower Show presentation on Friday, June 17 at 4 pm in the Cityview Ballroom of the Seaport World Trade Center Plaza.  Tickets are $10 and may be purchased online at www.wafausa.org.

Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer Transparent Gallery House in Garden Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer

Friday, June 17, 2:00 pm – Tiffany & Co.: Flora and Fauna: 170 Years of Tiffany Excellence

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John Loring will present an illustrated lecture Tiffany & Co.: Flora and Fauna: 170 Years of Tiffany Excellence as part of the 2011 World Flower Show on Friday, June 17, at 2 pm in the Cityview Ballroom of the Seaport World Trade Center (Plaza Level.)  Mr. Loring is Design Director Emeritus of Tiffany & Co. and the author of numerous books on Tiffany, and art in general. He graduated from Yale University and has an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute. He has served on the acquisitions committee of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Tickets to the lecture are $10, and may be purchased on line at www.wafausa.org.