CELA LEADERSHIP As of spring 2019

CELA Executive Committee Regional Directors

Charlene LeBleu, President Jolie Kaytes, Region 1 Cover image: Auburn University State University “Into the Woods” project built for the 2018 Chau- mont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival by Mark Boyer, Past President Kirk Dimond, Region 2 Associate Professor Phoebe Lickwar (University Louisiana State University University of Arizona of Texas Austin), founding principal of FORGE Landscape Architecture, and Matthew Donham, Ashley Steffens, President-Elect Cheryl Mihalko, Region 3 founding principal of RAFT. They were awarded University of Georgia Oklahoma State University the 2018 Prix de la Création for this project. More info please see: https://soa.utexas.edu/ Hala Nassar, Second Vice-President Matthew Kirkwood, Region 4 headlines/woods-wins-prix-de-la-cr%C3%A9a- Clemson University North Dakota State University tion-festival-international-des-jardins

Galen D. Newman, Vice President for Research & Region 5 - Open 2019 CELA Forum design assistant: Creative Scholarship Student Director Yiwei Huang Texas A&M University Maria Counts, Region 6 Clemson University Jun-Hyun Kim, Secretary & Vice-President for Communications Outreach & Publications Elizabeth Brabec, Region 7 State University University of Massachusetts Amherst

Paul Voos, Treasurer Charles , Region 8 Morgan State University RMIT University

Staff Nadia Amoroso, Region 9 Peter Kralka, Executive Director University of Guelph, Canada

C L Bohannon, Region 10 Tech University

Yiwei Huang, Student Director , Davis

-2- CELA President Message

Dear CELA Colleagues, the Sheraton Grand Sacramento. Work continues on CELA 2020, our 100th-an- niversary meeting in Louisville, KY! The CELA The CELA Executive Committee, Board, and The CELA has purchased Fonteva an associa- Board looks forward to launching the CELA 2020 Staff have been focusing on organizational man- tion management software to manage CELA’s theme and website at the CELA Annual Meeting agement and initiatives including the 2019 An- growing database and communication needs. and Awards Luncheon, Saturday, March 9! nual Conference, strategic planning, upgrading Key features include CELA member customer our communications service, FrameWorks and relationship management, event management, Respectfully, CELA 2020. The CELA 2019 Annual Conference member portal, online communities and micro- will be in Sacramento, CA March 6-9, 2019 at the sites, ecommerce and orders, committees and Charlene M. LeBleu, FASLA, AICP Sheraton Grand in Sacramento. https://cela2019. groups, online fundraising, revenue accounting, President, Council of Educators in Landscape ucdavis.edu/ The conference is hosted by the dashboards and reporting. Fonteva will fully Architecture Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design integrate the current CELA website upgrading [email protected] Program at the University of California at Davis CELA’s membership services. CELA will launch (Patsy Owens, Conference Committee Chair). Fonteva mid to late March. This year’s theme is Engaged Scholarship: Bring- ing together Research, Teaching, and Service. In 2018 the President’s Council engaged the Field trips include Murals of Sacrament, Sketch FrameWorks Institute, https://www.framework- Crawl, Riverfront Revival, Golden 1 Center + sinstitute.org/ , to rebrand landscape architec- Plaza, UC Davis Eco-Village Bike Tour, UC Davis ture, that is, reframe how the public thinks about Campus Tomorrow Bike Tour, Davis Arboretum landscape architecture--What is Landscape and Public Garden, UC Davis Quail Ridge Re- Architecture? What do Landscape Architects serve, Putah Creek and the California Delta. For do? Why is Landscape Archite