Donate to Fund OvS Exhibition Gallery Guide

The Cultural Landscape Foundation has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the creation of a gallery guide to accompany the forthcoming exhibition The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden - honoring Wolfgang Oehme (1930-2011) and James van Sweden (1935-2013). TCLF is organizing the exhibition and presenting it in collaboration with the National Building Museum, where it will open on October 17, 2015 and be on view for seven months.  

Oehme and van Sweden revolutionized landscape architecture by creating sumptuous, tapestry-like gardens with large swaths of grasses and fields of perennials. Their style celebrated the seasonal splendor of the American meadow while promoting its inherent ecological, sustainable, aesthetic, and ornamental values. The New American Garden at the National Building Museum is the largest monographic landscape architecture exhibition in the museum's history. It features newly commissioned and contemporary photography of more than two dozen significant Oehme, van Sweden designs, including their breakthrough project, the Federal Reserve Board Gardens in Washington, D.C., important early residential commissions in the Hamptons in New York, and other residential, commercial, and civic works across the country.

TCLF needs your support for this Kickstarter campaign - the guide is the last major unfunded component of the project. It is important to note that all of the celebrated photographers who are participating in this effort have traveled to these sites at their own expense and have donated their time and work. In addition, production of the exhibition has been generously supported by several sponsors, including the Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation, the Susan & Elihu Rose Foundation, The Davey Tree Expert Company, The Hubbard Educational Trust, Telesis Corporation, the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation; exhibition partner, the National Building Museum; and the American Society of Landscape Architects.