CELA Members Can Get Dan Kiley and New American Garden Exhibitions at Special Rates
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) member institutions with suitable exhibition space have the opportunity to host two traveling photographic exhibitions – The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley and The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme van Sweden – thanks to underwriting by private donors to The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). The donation would cover 50% of the exhibition rental fees – $5,000 for Kiley and $6,000 for New American Garden; hosting institutions will be responsible for only half of the rental costs and one-way shipping from the previous borrowing institution.
Featuring newly commissioned and contemporary photographs of dozens of significant public and private landscapes, explanatory text panels and wall labels with site plans, both exhibitions have been hosted at notable institutions and universities across the country including the National Building Museum, Chicago Architecture Foundation, University of Colorado at Denver, Indiana University Center for Art + Design, and many others. They have also received critical positive notices within the landscape architecture community, and from major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others.
According to TCLF President & CEO Charles A. Birnbaum, entrepreneurial universities can set up complementary programming including conferences, symposia, and lectures, that offer rich experiences for students, faculty, visitors as well as alumnae. Moreover, Eric Groft, a principal at Oehme, van Sweden and a TCLF Board Member, has lectured and participated in symposia at institutions hosting the New American Garden exhibition, and would be available to do so at future events, schedule permitting.
In addition, TCLF has created companion websites for both exhibitions which include additional photography, written recollections from colleagues, and other material, as well as gallery guides that can be purchased in print format or downloaded free of charge in PDF format from TCLF’s website.
Finally, TCLF created a video oral history with James van Sweden, part of a larger body of oral histories that University of Virginia Professor Elizabeth Meyer considers vital primary source material. The van Sweden oral history includes sections on design theory and built projects.