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  • Thursday, March 25, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Larry Weaner: Music Composition and Landscape Design, Online

    For landscape designer and composer Larry Weaner, garden design and music composition have much in common. While one may be visual and the other sonic, both look to explore freedom of expression within formal constraints. Both are endlessly engaging pursuits, where no matter how much you know, there is always more to discover. Working with plants—like playing jazz—is a give and take, a call and response, where every action stimulates a reaction—with sometimes unexpected consequences. Weaner believes that understanding the principles and techniques of composition can help designers create “musical” landscapes that can evoke powerfully direct emotional responses, reveal themselves gracefully over time and the seasons, and incorporate elements of improvisation.

    Larry Weaner is a leading figure in North American landscape design and restoration. His award-winning work has been profiled in The New York Times, Garden Design, and Landscape Architecture Magazine, among other publications. His Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change received the 2017 Book Award from the American Horticultural Society.

    Available CEUs include: APLD and LA CES. To register, visit www.nybg.org.
    This New York Botanical Garden lecture on March 25 from 11 – 12 is funded in part by the Barbara Cushing Paley Fund. Live captioning will be provided.

  • Thursday, January 12, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The Alchemy of Creativity

    Thursday, January 12, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The Alchemy of Creativity

    Charles (Chip) H. Sullivan, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, will present The Alchemy of Creativity on Thursday, January 12, 2:00–5:00pm at the Arnold Arboretum’s Hunnewell Building.

    Author of Drawing the Landscape, and most recently, Cartooning the Landscape, Chip Sullivan will present a series of exercises to help the participant find their own individual sources of intuition, inspiration and imagination to elevate ones perception of the environment. We will explore the creative process using such techniques as dream mapping, creative biorhythms, visual note taking, journals and sketchbooks and the sequential narrative.

    This event is offered in collaboration with The Garden Conservancy. One of the singular talents in landscape design, Chip Sullivan has shared his expertise through a seemingly unusual medium that, at second glance, makes perfect sense–the comic strip. For years Sullivan entertained readers of Landscape Architecture Magazine with comic strips that ingeniously illustrated significant concepts and milestones in the creation of our landscapes. These strips gained a large following among architects and illustrators, and now those original works, as well as additional strips, are collected in a new book, Cartooning the Landscape.

    Fee: $45 Arboretum member; $55 nonmember; $35 student. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.(Students must call to register.)

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