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  • Sunday, September 18, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – English Garden Eccentrics with Todd Longstaffe-Gowen, Live and Online

    Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, the renowned landscape architect and historian, shares anecdotes from his new book English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries (Mellon/Yale, 2022). Longstaffe-Gowan introduces a cast of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens between the early seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. With tales of miniature mountains, intriguingly shaped topiaries, exotic animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments, Longstaffe-Gowan highlights the follies and foibles of that personified these gardens and their makers.

    Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is an internationally acclaimed landscape architect with a practice based in London. He is gardens adviser to Historic Royal Palaces, lecturer at New York University (London), president of the London Gardens Trust, editor of The London Gardener, and author of several other books including The London Town Garden (Yale, 2001) and The London Square (Yale, 2012). He has developed and implemented long-term landscape management plans for the National Trust (Swindon, United Kingdom), English Heritage (Swindon, United Kingdom), and a wide range of private owners in the United Kingdom and around the world. Longstaffe-Gowan has had extensive input in the conservation and redevelopment of a variety of historic landscapes in London, including the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace Gardens, and the Crown Estate.

    Free. Advance registration for the Zoom transmission is required. The program is sponsored by The Clark in Williamstown, and you may register at www.clarkart.edu


  • Saturday, August 9, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Opening Up the Clark Landscape: Renewing and Sustaining

    July 4 marked the reopening of the newly renovated Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. On Saturday, August 9 from 3 – 4 in the auditorium at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Gary Hilderbrand, principal, Reed Hilderbrand Associates, discusses his role in leading the Clark’s new landscape design. Reed Hilderbrand, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a sweeping redesign of the Clark’s 140-acre grounds, including creation of a three-tiered reflecting pool; upgrades to and expansion of walking trails; green roof systems; planting of 350 new trees (some 1000 trees planted overall); and creation of a new entry drive and landscaped parking area with water-permeable surfaces that feed into a rainwater and snowmelt collection system. – See more at: http://clarkart.edu/ImportedEvents/345-August-09-2014-300-PM-400-PM#sthash.HxpZzu9g.dpuf.

  • Thursday, May 15, 6:00 pm – Saying It With Flowers

    From the symbolic flower in Piero della Francesca’s Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels to Moss Roses in a Vase by Édouard Manet and Peonies by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, flowers appear in a remarkable variety of works in the Clark’s collection. Visit the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, MA, on Thursday, May 15, beginning at 6 pm, where Michael Cassin, director of the Clark’s Center for Education in the Visual Arts, takes a look at some of the splendid examples of flower paintings that will be on view when the Clark reopens this summer.  Free.

    Space is limited and reservations are required. Visit clarkart.edu to register or call 413-458-0524.

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  • Friday, August 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Nesting Project: Connecting Nature with Art

    Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge, is branching out.  Consider the great outdoors your artist studio and learn how to make sculpture using twigs, sticks, string, leaves, moss, and other natural materials. The project: think like a bird and use imagination and creative engineering to build a nest for your yard or garden. The project focuses on constructing natural materials without glue, tape, staples or hammer and nails, rather like a bird. Take a tour of the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Bird Habitat Exhibition, watch a demonstration, collect materials on the ground of the garden and then join artist Ann Kremers for a delightful nest building exploration. Take home your nests and the skills to construct other environmental art projects in your own back yard. This workshop is appropriate for adults or children 10 and up accompanied by an adult.  The program will be held Friday, August 26, from 10 – noon.

    Ann Kremers is an artist living in Bennington, Vermont. She focuses on watercolor, drawing and teaches environmental art to all age groups. She has led many workshops thorough out northern Berkshire County connecting people with nature through art and has taught at the Clark Museum and in area schools. BBG member price $25, nonmembers $35.  Register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org.  Below is artist Laura Ellen Bacon’s sculpture Fallen Nest, copyright Laura Ellen Bacon.  This woven artwork was commissioned by the Charnwood Museum and created on site.