Tag: Lori Silvia

  • Wednesday, November 4, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm – The Challenges and Complexities of Ecological Gardens – A 5-Year Journal of Discoveries Webinar

    Wednesday, November 4, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm – The Challenges and Complexities of Ecological Gardens – A 5-Year Journal of Discoveries Webinar

    On November 4, online, take a five-year photographic journey through one of the largest ecological and bio-diverse built landscapes in Rhode Island: St. George’s School. This Ecological Landscape Alliance webinar features Lori Silvia. Ms. Silvia will share the process, challenges, and discoveries she has made while managing concept, design, installation, plants, and daily maintenance of the landscape. Broader philosophical questions regarding the landscapes’ evolution will also be considered. Ms. Silvia’s passion for and dedication to this project will be obvious and honest, and her photographs will reflect her intimate daily involvement throughout the entire process of developing St. George’s landscape.

    Lori Silvia has a BFA from Mass College of Art & Design and graduated from The Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. A collaboration of art, landscape design, science, and intuition is part of her vision. She has been a landscape designer and gardener at St. George’s School since 2008, creating LEED-certified ecological designs for the newly-built Hill Library and Academic Center and renovating nearly every corner of the campus in some way. Ms. Silvia is dedicated to experiential learning and lectures to students and the greater community.

    ELA members free, $10 for nonmembers. Register at www.ecolandscaping.org

  • Wednesday, August 20, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The Beautiful and Functional Rain Garden at St. George’s School

    Join The Ecological Landscaping Alliance on Wednesday, August 20 from 6 – 8 to learn about the beautiful and functional bio-retention rain garden that was engineered and designed to capture all the rain water from the new L.E.E.D. Gold-certified, Nathaniel P. Hill Library at St. George’s School that was designed, planted, and is maintained by Lori Silvia.  An additional landscape tour around the library will be included. The School is located at 372 Purgatory Road, Middletown, RI.  The fee for the tour is $20 for ELA members, $30 for nonmembers.  Register by calling 617-436-5838, or email ela.info@comcast.net. Thank you perrydean.squarespace.com for the “in process” image.