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  • Saturday, October 20 – Sunday, October 21 – The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s 14th Annual Silent Auction

    Here’s your chance to get rare watercolors by Lawrence Halprin, drawings by Laurie Olin, and a superb Roberto Burle-Marx lithograph; plus artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Mo Money, Dan Tague and Pat Pickett. These items and more – including the Ken Smith limited edition yellow traffic cones “NORMAL” and “HARDCORE” – are featured at TCLF’s annual silent auction of artwork by award-winning landscape architects, artists, photographers, and allied professionals. This event is guaranteed to be a highlight of the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, October 20-21. As in recent years, the auction is being presented online, giving those who will not be able to attend the ASLA Annual Meeting the opportunity to bid.

    Bidding is now live—REGISTER AND BID AT https://tclf2018.auction-bid.org/microsite/ Proceeds benefit the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Oral History Project, an ever-growing, award-winning series of videotaped first-person interviews with significant practitioners. TCLF is grateful for the generous support of our auction donors and our Annual Sponsor, the ASLA. Their continued commitment to this project ensures that the funds raised go directly to support TCLF’s programming. In 2003, TCLF launched the Pioneers of American Landscape Design initiative in partnership with the ASLA, with the goal of documenting, collecting, and preserving the unique, first-hand perspectives of renowned landscape practitioners.

    If you have any questions about the bidding process or would like to learn more about the auction, please contact Ayla Mangold at ayla@tclf.org, or (202) 483-0553.

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  • Thursday, October 27, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Christo

    The Rouse Visiting Artist Series will present Christo on Thursday, October 27, from 6:30 – 8:30 in the Gund Piper Auditorium of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The program is free and open to the public.

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude met in Paris in 1958, not long after their education at the National Academy of Art in Bulgaria and the University of Tunis, respectively. Their first project was Stacked Oil Barrels and Dockside Packages (1961) in Cologne Harbor, but perhaps their most renowned project was Wrapped Reichstag (1995) in Berlin, which swathed the iconic capital building in fabric for fourteen days. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s overt, site-specific landscape interventions have evolved from Christo’s early works. Smaller sculptural pieces that are key to his portfolio, such as wrapped cans, bottles, crates, suggestive forms, and indoor installations reveal an interest in concealment, but also in the dimensional qualities of shapes in an environment and in the process itself. It is no surprise that in a caption to a chronological list of projects on their website, the artists refer to “software” and “hardware” periods: preparation and imagination on the one hand, physical execution on the other. The Floating Piers, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s most recent finished work, was conceived in 1970 yet came to fruition only in the summer of 2016. The 16-meter-wide shimmering walkways of this project, constructed on Lake Iseo, Italy, were open and free for the public to traverse. Christo will discuss this work in his lecture, along with two upcoming projects: Over the River, for the Arkansas River in Colorado, and The Mastaba, for the United Arab Emirates. Both were planned with his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude. Notwithstanding her death in 2009, Christo continues to fundamentally credit Jeanne-Claude in his projects.

    Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu. Photo by Wolfgang Volz.

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  • Sunday, June 27, 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm – Fergus Garrett: The Spirit of Great Dixter

    Join Blithewold Mansion Gardens & Arboretum supporters on Sunday, June 27, at 12 noon, for tea and a talk by special guest Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener of Great Dixter, the house and garden of the late world renowned horticulturist Christopher Lloyd. Located near Northiam in East Sussex, England, Great Dixter’s gardens are regarded as the epitome of English plantsmanship. The property is particularly noted for its wealth of perennials and extensive topiary. Fergus will speak about all aspects of Great Dixter, from its garden color, planting combinations and meadows, to the house and its interiors. He will include an account of his apprenticeship to the great “Christo”. Fergus is also a well known author and authority on innovative garden design in his own right.

    Tea and scones from Russ Morin Caterers is included in the price of admission, which is $35 for Blithewold Members, and $45 for non-members. Blithewold is located at 101 Ferry Road in Bristol, Rhode Island.

    Learn more about the history of Great Dixter and Fergus Garrett’s work developing and preserving its gardens at www.greatdixter.co.uk. To register, log on to www.blithewold.org, or call Julie Murphy, Education Coordinator, at 401-253-2707, ext. 16. You may also email her at jmurphyedu@blithewold.org. Identify yourself as a member of the Garden Club of the Back Bay (if you are, of course), and receive a special discount.

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