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ADULT EDUCATION | FALL 2018–WINTER 2019 Welcome! Contents ADULT EDUCATION | FALL 2018–WINTER 2019 Welcome! Contents Welcome to another season of If you have never taken a class with us before…welcome to the 2 Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series NYBG Adult Education… and another catalog. Each section leads off with short, intro classes you can take just Time, Place & Story: Design at the Crossroads for fun. As a matter of fact, you may register for any class that doesn’t catalog packed with ways to enrich 3 Winter Lecture Series have a prerequisite, including those labeled “Certificate Elective” or your relationship to plants and the The Education of a Gardener “Certificate Requirement.” natural world! 4 Andrew Carnegie Distinguished Lecture If you are a returning student…welcome back! We have dozens of new AMERICAN EDEN: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine classes and workshops for you to explore and discover. Don’t miss our lecture lineup featuring in the Garden of the Early Republic National Book Award Winner Richard If you are on a new career path or thinking about a career change… 4 Symposium Powers—his best-seller Think about upgrading your professional profile and actively pursuing a The Overstory Cultivating a New Garden Ethic is already called the “Great American prestigious NYBG Certificate. Develop new skills, contacts, and cross- disciplinary experience. Catch up with the latest industry changes. A NYBG 5 Floral Design Showcase with Putnam & Putnam Eco-Novel”—and historian Victoria ABOUT THE COVER: The artwork on our cover Certificate is a serious credential that tells employers and clients that Johnson, whose American Eden tells 5 The Overstory: A Conversation with Richard Powers and throughout the catalog is by artist and you’ve made a serious commitment to your professional development. Instagram sensation Bridget Beth Collins, who the captivating story of David Hosack, 5 World Premiere Film Screening forages natural materials for her charming Choose from a wide variety of day, evening, and weekend classes at the founder of America’s first public Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes creations from the sidewalks, meadows, and Garden or at our Midtown Education Center. Our programs are made to fit garden. In October, the celebrated woods in her Seattle neighborhood. Find your needs, as well as your schedule. 7 Botanical Art & Illustration out more about her at FloraForager.com or floral design duo of Putnam & Putnam check out her book The Art of Flora Forager brings a large-scale floral demonstration 13 Botany (Sasquatch Books). Registration is now open. Please visit nybg.org/adulted or call 718.817.8747. to the Ross Hall stage. November 16 Crafts & DIY Prices listed are Member/Non-Member. Not a Member yet? Call 718.817.8703. brings conservation into your backyard 19 Floral Design at the Cultivating a New Garden Ethic symposium. Then, in January, Martha 24 Food & Drink Stewart kicks off our Winter Lecture 27 Gardening Series, The Education of a Gardener. 35 Horticulture And be sure to check out our new Food & Drink classes—so you can 41 Horticultural Therapy explore everything from jam making 45 Landscape Design to cucumber pickling to kombucha 50 Photography brewing to tequila tasting! 53 Urban Naturalist We’ve got so much for you to explore and enjoy this fall and winter… so dig 56 Wellness deep! 58 Academic Policies & Procedures 59 Professional Societies, CEUs, & Academic Programs Need the perfect gift for that plant-loving someone? 60 Classes at Midtown Education Center Purchase a gift certificate for a NYBG class today at nybg.org/adulted and give the gift of learning. inside back cover Registration & General Information 2 | LANDSCAPE DESIGN PORTFOLIOS LECTURE SERIES WINTER LECTURE SERIES | 3 20th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series 19th Annual Winter Lecture Series TIME, PLACE & STORY: DESIGN AT THE CROSSROADS THE EDUCATION OF A GARDENER For the 20th anniversary of this series, we invite you to hear from three innovative leaders 3 Mondays, October 1, October 15, “I know now that one cannot be taught to design gardens academically or theoretically. 3 Thursdays, January 31, You have to learn the ways and nature of plants and stone, of water and soil at least as in the field of contemporary landscape design. From the tireless advocacy of The Cultural November 5, 6:30–7:30 pm February 28, March 28, 10–11:30 am much through the hands as through the head.” —The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page Landscape Foundation to the timeless designs of Reed Hilderbrand and Nelson Byrd Woltz Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue Ross Hall, NYBG Landscape Architects, the collective work of this year’s speakers demonstrates a steadfast There are many points of entry into the gardening life. For some it begins in childhood; some at 38th Street, Manhattan dedication to ensuring that the public has access to beautiful landscapes that heal the land, come to it through other disciplines. Three distinguished and passionate practitioners share tell powerful stories, and celebrate history, culture, and ecology. their philosophies, their stories, and the lessons they have learned along the way. CHARLES BIRNBAUM BEKA STURGES THOMAS WOLTZ MARTHA STEWART | A Life in Gardening JINNY BLOM | The Thoughtful Gardener MARGARET ROACH | A Way to Garden Change and Giving Voice to At the Interface of “I think I may be “The landscapes we “I garden because I Continuity the Land Ecology and Culture a better person for make outlast us by cannot help myself.” As urban growth continues “We gave the landscape For 20 years, Thomas Woltz, having given serious many years therefore Called back to her at a relentless pace, Charles voice... and turned the FASLA, CLARB, NZILA, time and thought and they must be dignified childhood home at age A. Birnbaum, FASLA, museum toward the has practiced landscape effort to gardening.” with thought and love.” 25 to care for an ailing FAAR, believes it is crucial land.” This is how Reed architecture at the intersection Martha Stewart’s lifelong Self-taught, and with a widowed parent, Margaret for landscape architects Hilderbrand Principal Beka of art, ecology and culture. love of gardening began lifelong interest in natural Roach sought refuge in to weave a site’s history Sturges, ASLA, LEED AP, As the owner of Nelson Byrd as she planted alongside landscapes, gardens, and self-prescribed backyard into new designs, but not describes her firm’s award- Woltz Landscape Architects her father in their backyard architecture, Jinny Blom horticultural-therapy in ways that are nostalgic winning expansion of The (NBW), he has led the design family plots. Those early launched her landscape experiments. Thirty years or staid. He points to the Clark Art Institute for which of public parks across North Photo ©N. Jouan lessons, along with the advice she’s gleaned from design practice in 2000 ago she dug up her young Sciadopitys from that Lincoln Road Mall (Miami), the Russell Page Garden she served as landscape architect and manager. America, Australia and New Zealand, each design master gardeners and plantsmen, and her extensive after 20 years as a psychologist. Today, she is one of first foray, to transplant at the overgrown place she at The Frick Collection, the High Line, Peavy Plaza The Clark is just one of many high-profile projects demonstrating NBW’s commitment to extensive site travels to historic gardens around the world—all the U.K.’s leading landscape gardeners—celebrated bought in the Hudson Valley, where she lives fulltime. (Minneapolis), and Spain’s Madrid RIO as engaging Sturges has led—each one a powerful spatial research, community collaboration, native ecologies, form the foundation of her development as a serious for her skill with plants, her spatial understanding, There, the birds taught her to truly garden, offering a examples of how historic preservation can blend demonstration of the cultural and environmental and site history. The resulting designs restore the gardener. Her wide-ranging, thoughtful approach to and an ability to create gardens that respond to the window into natural sciences and organic practices, with modern design to showcase a city’s unique value of landscapes. This sensitive integration of essential stories and ecologies of public lands while design, planting, sustainability, and landscape can be history of a site and its wider landscape. In formal and she strives to create a 365-day garden to cultural assets. The founder and CEO of The Cultural architecture, ecology, and history can also be seen at building inclusive, resilient parks for the future. seen in the spectacular yet diverse gardens she has walled spaces and contemporary installations, in sustain them—and herself. The 2.3-acre place Landscape Foundation (TCLF), Birnbaum is also at The Mill, a residential project that draws inspiration In this talk, Woltz will present a selection of NBW’s created, which include Turkey Hill in Connecticut, the town gardens and vast country estates, Blom pushes juxtaposes habitat-style and collector plantings, the the forefront of efforts to save significant works of from Eastern Connecticut’s rolling terrain and current work, including Hudson Yards (NYC), the Aga historic Skylands on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, and creative boundaries, incorporating unexpected design latter emphasizing foliage, including much that is landscape architecture, including Chicago’s Olmsted agrarian traditions and unifies upland meadows with Khan Garden (Alberta, Canada), and Naval Cemetery the 150-acre Cantitoe Farm in Katonah, New York. elements and
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