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  • Tuesday, October 14, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Eastern – Todd Forrest: Creating an Urban Oasis, Online

    The New York Botanical Garden has been a connective hub among people, plants, and the planet since 1891. Since inception, millions of visitors have made the Garden a part of their lives, exploring the joy, beauty, and respite of nature here in the heart of the Bronx. One of the Garden’s remarkable leaders, Todd Forrest, Arthur Ross Vice President for Horticulture and Living Collections, has dedicated himself to the development and reimagination of many well-loved areas within these 250-acres for over 20 years, including the Benenson Ornamental Conifers, the Native Plant Garden, the Azalea Garden, and the Thain Family Forest, as well as the annual Orchid Show and many interdisciplinary exhibitions.

    On October 14, at 6:30 pm, hear from Forrest as he reveals the role landscape architecture plays in enticing visitors to return every season. He will share how his collaborations with distinguished landscape architects and designers—such as Laurie Olin, Signe Nielsen, Lynden Miller, Madison Cox, Susan Cohen, Piet Oudolf, Sarah Price, Shavaun Towers, just to name a few—have brought varied artistic visions to NYBG. This is the first lecture of the 27th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series. Register for the complete series HERE.

  • Now Through March 15 – Good Books, Good Friends Book Auction

    Now Through March 15 – Good Books, Good Friends Book Auction

    Bidding Now Open for The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) Good Books, Good Friends Silent Auction. The collection includes more than 70 monographs and books by landscape architects, architects, photographers, and allied practitioners with inscriptions, autographs, sketches, watercolors, collages and other additions that make them unique collectors’ items. Participants include Marion Brenner, Jeanne Gang, Walter Hood, Laurie Olin, Kate Orff, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Peter Walker, and dozens of others. There are also rare works by Lawrence Halprin, Elizabeth deForest, Thomas Church, A.E. Bye, James Rose, and more. Bid Now through March 15, 2021. Proceeds benefit TCLF’s education and advocacy initiatives. 

  • 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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  • Saturday, October 23, 1:30 pm – Gardens for American Institutions: Reflections from Recent Practices

    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Landscape Visions lectures for 2010/2011 begins Saturday, October 23 at 1:30 pm in the Tapestry Room with a presentation by Laurie Olin, landscape architect, author, and teacher, who has won numerous awards for his urban projects, including the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the redesign of Columbus Circle in Manhattan, and Bryant Park.

    Formerly treasure boxes turned inward, American museums and cultural institutions have made dramatic shifts in their perceptions of themselves and social engagement. Now they are connected both architecturally and socially with their place in the world, often through ambitious and welcoming landscapes.  Olin reflects on this evolution and presents work by his firm for museums and libraries over the last thirty years.

    Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12 Seniors, $5 members, and free for students, and may be purchased online at www.gardnermuseum.org. The Landscape Visions lecture series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan.