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James Turrell Perspectives, a new exhibit featuring the premier of a new installation entitled St. Elmo’s Light, is now on view at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. James Turrell is an internationally-acclaimed light and space artist whose work can be found in collections worldwide. Over more than six decades he has pursued his fascination with the […]
Eliza Ridgely was considered an accomplished gardener and horticulturist, her flowers came from her extensive gardens at the Hampton estate north of Baltimore. The American Farmer Magazine in 1854 deemed her gardens “as expressing more grandeur than anything in America.” American Farmer Magazine also described the “sophisticated” watering system that Mrs. Ridgely employed in her gardens, “a reservoir at the […]
Barbara Paul Robinson delighted the audience today with a talk about her book entitled, “Rosemary Verey, The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Gardener.” Ms. Verey, an author of 18 garden books, began her gardening career after a bad riding accident in the Cotswolds, England. She wrote her first book at age 62; Ms. Robinson […]
The “Helping Hand”, which holds up the “Wonky Conker tree,” near Kingsley Statue on Bideford Quay in England, very nearly didn’t happen at all. Some years before its construction, it was decided to chop down the mature trees on the riverbank in order to facilitate the building of the new car park. Many trees were […]
This is a continuously evolving exhibition from May 19 – November 10, 2013! Nature Art in the Park is an outdoor summer exhibition of nature-based art installations along the trails & fields in Gwynns Falls / Leakin Park- and campus grounds of the Carrie Murray Nature Center. Gwynns Falls Park is Baltimore’s largest urban forest. Nature […]
Lecture by McKay Jenkins at Cylburn Arboretum, Wednesday, April 3rd, 7:00pm Author of What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World In the past few years, scientists have become increasingly worried about the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies, and in our environment — and the connection these chemicals may have to […]
