Call for Nominations for Landslide® 2024: Demonstration Grounds – Report and Exhibition from The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Media Contact: Nord Wennerstrom | T: 202.483.0553 | M: 202.255.7076 | E: nord@tclf.org
Annual thematic report and online exhibition in 2024 focuses on threatened cultural landscapes associated with public protests and movements that have changed and shaped the course of American history
20th anniversary of Landslide program
Washington, D.C. (February 13, 2024) The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a national Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, today announced a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds will focus on cultural landscapes associated with public protests and movements that have changed and shaped the course of American history. The report will be accompanied by a complementary online exhibition, which will include newly commissioned photographs and historical images, site plans, other archival materials. The deadline for nominations is June 15, 2024. Questions or Landslide nominations can be submitted to Nord Wennerstrom (nord@tclf.org) - Download the Nomination Form. Landscape Architecture Magazine is the Landslide media partner.
Indelible images of marches and sit-ins with gatherings of civil rights advocates, suffragettes, Native peoples, farm workers, and coal miners are inseparable from the places where they occurred. And they all are intertwined with the uniquely American First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Since our origins as a nation, people have leveraged our democratic public open spaces to take a stand against injustices whether they be social, cultural, political, environmental, economic, or racial.
Charles A. Birnbaum, TCLF’s president and CEO said, “Demonstration sites have an unrivaled power of place because of their inherent integrity of setting. As the host location for where it happened, demonstration and protest sites offer rare, rich, and rewarding opportunities to do more than just tell a story, they can ground us in their authenticity.” Such sites are also embedded with environmental and cultural characteristics that provide visual and sensory links that heighten the visitor experience, for example: “witness trees” that survive from the time of the demonstration event and may have offered protection and shelter; the height of the sun on that very same day generations later; the dampness of the ground plane; the animating qualities of cloud movement reflected in a still water body; or the sound of a passing train.
As an education and advocacy organization, TCLF’s makes visible, instills value, and engages the public in these myriad cultural landscapes that collectively convey who we are, where we've come from, and where we are going as a nation. One of TCLF's principal education and advocacy initiative is Landslide and the annual thematic Landslide reports about cultural landscapes that are threatened and at-risk. The goal is to draw immediate and lasting attention to threatened sites by making them more visible, revealing their value, and promoting public engagement in the form of advocacy and stewardship.
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About The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures, and other events, TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes. TCLF is also home to the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.
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