Boston Flora

Tag: Architects

  • Monday, April 1 Deadline for 2013 I-Park Foundation Landscape/Garden Design Residency Program

    Applications are due April 1, 2013, for the I-Park Foundation, Inc. 2013 multi-disciplinary artists-in-residence program. Landscape/garden designers and landscape architects can expand and enrich their creative practice in a retreat-like, collegial setting in East Haddam, Connecticut – in the company of visual artists, composers, writers and, beginning in 2013, architects. Self-directed residencies will be offered from May through November 2013. Most residencies are four weeks in duration, though split (2-week) sessions can occasionally be arranged to accommodate busy career schedules.

    There is also a special Environmental Art Program in 2013 (residency and exhibition) for which landscape/garden design proposals are being solicited. International applicants are welcome. To defray the cost of travel, four $750.00 grants, to be distributed among all the disciplines, will be awarded to non-North American participants whose work is held in particularly high regard by the Grant Committee. Program details, application form and comprehensive FAQ are available online at http://www.i-park.org/residency-programs/2013-residency-program. For more information, contact Amanda Baker, Residency Program Manager, by e-mail: iparkapplications@gmail.com or by phone: 860-873-2468.

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  • Tuesday, September 15 – Wednesday, September 16, 10 – 4 – Then and Now

    The Lenox Garden Club presents “Then and Now”, a Garden Club of America Flower Show, at the Ventfort Hall, Museum of the Gilded Age, 104 Walker Street, Lenox, Massachusetts.  The show will be opened to the public each day between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.  For directions, log on to www.gildedage.org.  Ventfort Hall, built by George and Sarah Morgan as their summer home, is an imposing Elizabethan Revival mansion that typifies the Gilded Age in Lenox. Sarah, the sister of J. Pierpont Morgan, purchased the property in 1891, and hired Rotch & Tilden, prominent Boston architects, to design the house.  Now on 11.7 acres, Ventfort Hall was originally the centerpiece of a large landscaped garden of 26 acres. The mansion, constructed of brick with brownstone trim, has an impressive porte cochère covering the entrance while the rear of the house, which once had a long view to the south of the Stockbridge Bowl and Monument Mountain, has a wood veranda along its entire length.  Admission $12 adults, $6 Members of Museum of the Gilded Age, $10 Seniors and College Students, $5 Children 5 – 17, free for children under 5.

    photo of new stained glass window