Maureen Bovet presents the green side of the Big Apple to The Garden Club of the Back Bay on Wednesday, March 6, beginning at 10 am at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. This photo show explores the wonderful public parks of New York City. Maureen was born and raised in NYC and her passion for gardening began there. She offers a unique view of the green spaces available to be enjoyed by natives and visitors alike. The history and the horticulture of these parks are illustrated by beautiful slides from her collection. Included are Wave Hill, the garden at The Cloisters, Olmsted-designed Central Park, with its 70-year-old Conservatory Garden, the new High Line Park modeled on a Paris railroad bed reuse, The New York Botanical Garden, and Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan looking out at the Statue of Liberty. She will discuss garden design and plant cultivation along with the fascinating history of these parks. Maureen is a Museum Associate at the MFA on the Flower Team, a graduate of Wellesley College, and a former student at the Arnold Arboretum Landscape Institute and the UMass Green School. An optional lunch ($20) will follow the presentation. Free to GCBB and College Club members, $5 contribution requested from nonmembers. If you wish to attend, please email info@bostonflora.com to put your name on the list.
Tag: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Wednesday, April 25, 9:00 a.m. – Museum of Fine Arts Boston to Receive Historic Flowering Cherry Tree for Japanese Garden
As part of the celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the gift of flowering cherry trees from Japan to the US, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will be the recipient of a tree grafted from the original Japanese trees in Washington’s Tidal Basin. On Wednesday, April 25 at 9:00 am, when the Museum’s renowned Tenshin-en Japanese garden opens for the season, the cherry tree will be presented to Museum of Fine Arts Boston Director Malcolm Rogers by Consul General of Japan in Boston Takeshi Hikihara.
The more than 3000 trees which were planted in Washington in 1912 were a gift from Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki to express Japan’s appreciation to the U.S. for its role in brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. The cherry trees have become a symbol of the close relations between Japan and the United States.
The Greater Boston-Japan Cherry Blossom Festival 2012, marking the centennial of the trees, began in March and will continue through May. Upcoming events include Haru Matsuri, a Japanese-style festival in Copley Square, a Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo concert at Harvard University as well as other performances, lectures and exhibits. For further information visit:
Consulate General of Japan in Boston: www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp/
Japan Society of Boston: www.japansocietyboston.org/sakura/eng
For national information, see:
Embassy of Japan in Washington DC: www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/sakura100
For questions regarding this event, contact: Richard Winslow, r.winslow@cgjbos.org or 617 973-9772 x137
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Sunday, April 3, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – MFA Flower Arranging Workshop
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will hold a Flower Arranging Workshop for members in the Alfond Auditorium at the MFA on Sunday, April 3, from 2 – 3:30 pm. Get fresh ideas on floral arranging, and stop by for a few minutes or stay the full 90 minutes. Free tickets are required, and tickets are available in person, online (www.mfa.org) or by telephone (1-800-440-6975.)  If you’re not already a member, this is the time to join, with Art in Bloom coming up.
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Friday, November 13, 6:00 pm – Crude
The Garden Club of the Back Bay members and their friends have been invited to The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by Cultural Survival (www.cs.org) to a special movie showing. The invitation is below:It has been called the Amazonian Chernobyl – an environmental and human rights disaster of epic proportions, making the Exxon Valdez spill look small and benign by comparison.
For decades, first Texaco and then Chevron Oil have desecrated Indigenous Peoples’ homelands in Ecuador, rendering the water, the soil, and the very air hostile to human life, killing wildlife, fouling watersheds, and wreaking devastation that will affect generations to come.Greed for oil has caused this tragedy, and refusal to take responsibility has magnified the staggering impact that Chevron has had on Indigenous communities. Facing unprecedented rates of birth defects, rare cancers, and other serious health problems, losing their traditional lands and lifestyles, and being forced to fight an international mega-corporation for their very right to exist, this David-and-Goliath story is brilliantly captured in the award-winning documentary film Crude.We invite you to join us for a very special showing of this film.The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will be showing Crude on Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. The film will be introduced by Ted Macdonald, former Cultural Survival staffer who worked on this case and was an eyewitness to many of the events in the film. The film’s producer and 2nd-unit director, Michael Bonfiglio, will join us for an exclusive Q&A session immediately following the film – only for friends of Cultural Survival and your guests!
Please invite friends, family, and colleagues to join you – it will be an evening to remember! Groups welcome (religious, academic, social clubs, your sports team or book club…) Youth are welcome, however, some of the footage is very graphic and may be upsetting to younger children: parental discretion advised. The Q&A session only holds 100 people, so please reserve your seats today to be sure of being part of this very special event.
To purchase tickets for the film: online purchases via http://tickets.mfa.org or call the MFA box office at 617-369-3306. Tickets are $10 each; MFA members get a $2 per ticket discount. If you have a group of 15 or more you can obtain discounted group rates through the MFA box office.
- To reserve your exclusive seats for the Q&A (no charge): email crude@cs.org NOTE: you must purchase your film tickets through the MFA box office before reserving seats with us for the Q&A.
- For more information about the film, trailers, and info about showings in other cities: www.crudethemovie.com
If you have additional questions, please email us as crude@cs.org Please note: the 100 seats for the Q&A will go fast, so please be sure to book yours now! We look forward to seeing you there.
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Wednesday, November 11, 1:00 pm – Fun with Flowers
The Old York Garden Club invites to public to attend its November meeting beginning at 1:00 pm on November 11 at the Fellowship Hall of the First Parish Church, 180 York Street in Old York, Maine. Award winning master designer Mike Spanos will wow you with his unique approach to floral design. His program is entitled “Fun with Flowers”. He is a contributor and featured designer to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is in the midst of opening a fine arts gallery featuring works in various mediums by local artists.
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Thursday, August 13, 6:30 – 8 pm – A Forest in Mind: Mixed-Media Paintings by Terry Boutelle
Come to the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain at 6:30 on Thursday, August 13 for a conversation with artist Terry Boutelle. Terry Boutelle’s vision of trees and forests is shaped by memory, meditation, and imagination. Initially inspired by birch trees in the Arboretum, Boutelle has moved beyond realism into psychological and emotional realms. Using mixed media such as acrylic, pastel, wax, and plaster, and often incorporating natural objects such as leaves, twigs, and seeds, she creates paintings that are at times richly textured and at other times, smooth and veiled. Her images evoke mystery and yearning for things we cannot quite grasp.
Largely self-taught, Terry Boutelle has also studied at the Fine Arts Work Center, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the current president of the Jamaica Plain Artists Association and a painting instructor at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts. For more information, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu. The exhibition will be on view through September 13, 2009.
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Monday, April 27, 10:30-noon – Flower Power: Big Impact, Little Effort
Rebecca Cole’s New York floral, garden, and interior design store is creative, hip, and stylish. Her arrangements make fresh, bold statements about modern living. Join her at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for this floral demonstration and illustrated lecture for $35, and/or stay for her hands-on master class in flower arranging from 1:30 – 3:30 (class limited to 25, $200 charge). For tickets log on to www.mfa.org/tickets, or call 617-369-3306.
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Sunday, April 26, 10:30 – noon – In the Company of Flowers
For the last twenty years, Ron Morgan has dazzled lecture and garden club audiences through his imaginative use of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and unusual items in creative arrangements. Hear him give a floral demonstration and illustrated lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for $35, and if you’re interested in further study, attend his Master Class in the afternoon from 1:30 – 3:30 for hands-on instruction. The Master Class is limited to 25, and costs $200. For tickets, log on to www.mfa.org/tickets or call 617-369-3306.
