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  • Thursday, March 26, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Larger Landscape Conversation: Place-Based Philanthropy

    Innovative thinkers are partnering with private philanthropies to contribute to the design, development, and delivery of public amenities in cities across the country. How do these location-specific partnerships create better cities and more engaged communities? Join Charles Waldheim on March 26 at 7 pm as he leads a discussion with three leaders in the realm of place-based philanthropy: Rip Rapson, president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation; Kira Strong, Senior Director of the High Line Network; and Kristy Edmunds, Director of MASS MoCA.

    In this edition of the Larger Landscape Conversation, expert discourse will seek to foster an understanding of how private investment is taking a more significant role in the creation of public landscapes and the development of new urban districts. Advanced tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $22, seniors $20, students $15, free for members and children 17 and under. Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed.

    To request accessible or wheelchair seating please call the box office at 617 278 5156. Register at https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/larger-landscape-conversation-3.26.26

  • Thursday, March 9, 7:00pm-8:30 pm – The Larger Landscape Conversation: The Design of Disability

    The Design of Disability convenes conversation on the design and planning of the public realm in relation to human capacities, civic aspirations, and bodily experience beyond access. This March 9 lecture in the Calderwood Hall at the Museum features Victor Calise, advocate for people with disabilities, author and professor Elizabeth Guffey, and artist and professor Sara Hendren. 

    The Larger Landscape Conversation is a recurring series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that brings together visionaries across disciplines to discuss the intersection of creativity, lived experience, and social justice.

    This program is moderated by Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

    Advance tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $13, free for members and children 17 and under. Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed.

    HOW TO BUY

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    • Call the Box Office at 617 278 5156, Wednesday-Monday, 10 am-4 pm*
    • Museum members free, Adults $20, Seniors $18, Students $13, children 7 – 17 free.

    COVID-19 POLICY

    Face masks, worn over the mouth and nose, are required for free and ticketed events in Calderwood Hall. In line with state and local guidance, we advise anyone who is unvaccinated, and encourage anyone who feels more comfortable, to wear a mask as they explore other areas of the museum.

    ACCESSIBILITY

    To request accessible or companion seating, or to inquire about other accommodations, please call the Box Office at 617 278 5156 in advance of the program.

  • Thursday, September 12, 7:00 pm – Landscape Lecture: Picturing Social Reform

    Thursday, September 12, 7:00 pm – Landscape Lecture: Picturing Social Reform

    Big Plans examines the role of visual images in support of progressive social reform in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum exhibition features large-format urban plan drawings and small-format documentary street photographs. Big Plans considers the urban planning proposals developed in the service of social reform by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Eliot in relation to the political picture-making of Lewis Hine, and the cultural place-making of Isabella Stewart Gardner. The exhibition presents the invention of landscape architecture as a progressive response to the social and environmental conditions for working-class immigrants in the industrial metropolis and raises contemporary questions as to who advocates for the social, cultural, and environmental health of the city today.

    Join us at the Museum on September 12 at 7 pm for a discussion of urban plans as cultural works and the role of cultural imaginaries in progressive urban reform, featuring presentations by and conversations with:

    Anita Berrizbeitia, Harvard University
    Toni Griffin, The Just City Lab
    Nikil Saval, Reclaim Philadelphia
    Sara Zewde, Dumbarton Oaks

    Introduced and moderated by Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Curator of Landscape. Tickets are required and include Museum admission. $15 adults, seniors $12, students $10, free for members. Register buy calling box office at 617-278-5156, or online at https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/event/lecture-big-plans-20190912

  • Thursday, November 12, 10:00 am – From Landscape Gardening to Landscape Urbanism

    The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America will hold its annual fall membership meeting, lecture and luncheon on Thursday, November 12 beginning at 10 am at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline.  Charles Waldheim will give a talk entitled From Landscape Gardening to Landscape Urbanism.

    Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. His lecture will focus on the evolution and current trends in ‘Landscape Urbanism’, a term coined by Waldheim to describe the recent emergence of landscape as a medium of urban order for the contemporary city. Professor Waldheim is a Canadian-American architect, urban theorist, and educator. His research examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. At the same time that urban sprawl has distanced the population from the landscape, environmental literacy among designers and scholars has grown, giving rise to an architectural discourse known as ‘landscape urbanism’. In his lecture Waldheim, who is at the forefront of this movement, explores the origins, the current context and the aspirations of this relatively new field that is inspiring the future of city making. Waldheim is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books on the subject, and his writing has been published and translated internationally. He has taught at Rice University, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan. Charles is also the Ruettgers Consulting Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

    The event is open to members of Garden Clubs affiliated with The Boston Committee and their guests.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive separate invitations and a car pool notice in the mail.  For more information email info@bostoncommittee.org.

  • Wednesday, April 11, 7:00 pm – Landscape as Urbanism

    A leading scholar in the field of landscape architecture, Charles Waldheim, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Consulting Curator of Landscape, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will speak about the role of landscape in defining our communities on Wednesday, April 11, beginning at 7 pm.  Mr. Waldheim is also the editor of The Landscape Urbanism Reader.

    Tickets: $15 members of Trinity/Arnold Arboretum, $20 general admission, available at www.arboretum.harvard.edu or by phone or in person at The Shop at Trinity 617.536.0944 x225. The lecture will take place at the Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street, Roslindale, MA 02131. Questions: Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann 617.536.0944 x217 or kacerbobachmann@trinitychurchboston.org.

    This lecture is part of the Garden & Spirit Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Trinity Church, Boston and The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.