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LILACIA PARK; COLETTE FREEMAN, 2021.
Annual Membership Meeting and
Jens Jensen Presentation
The 2023 Annual Membership Meeting is for Members only. The meeting will occur in-person and streamed via zoom in the Carriage House at 23 West Maple Street on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at 6:30 pm.
Immediately following at 7 pm, landscape architect, Stephen McCarthy, will talk about Jens Jensen and Lilacia Park.
Jens Jensen’s career spanned the 19th and 20th Centuries. He was a landscape designer of parks, institutions, and private residences, a conservation activist, a writer, and through his school, ‘The Clearing’, a teacher. He was a colleague and friend of many of the Prairie School architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Dwight Perkins, and Louis Sullivan, and is known today as a Prairie School landscape architect.
We’ll look at his childhood influences in Denmark and then track his expansive career via slide images of his conservation efforts and numerous built projects that illustrate his design philosophy based on his field studies and artistic expression inspired by the native Midwestern landscape. Finally, we’ll examine the last chapter of his career, ‘The Clearing’, the school of the arts he founded in Door County, Wisconsin.
About the Presenter
Stephen McCarthy is a graduate of the University Wisconsin Madison and has practiced landscape architecture for over 45 years in Illinois and Wisconsin in both the public and private sectors.
His award winning projects include Forest Preserves, parks, institutional, corporate and private residences. His efforts toward the preservation and restoration of significant native landscapes has resulted in over 6,000 acres preserved for public use in perpetuity.
The work and writings of Jens Jensen and the native Midwest landscape have strongly influenced his design solutions, particularly on large scale natural resource based projects.
This meeting is by invitation only to current members.
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