When some friends from the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation and the University of Vermont came to my winter term class to see our group project on Emerald Ash Borer, one of the things that impressed them the … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Arbor Day, the film
Tag: Outdoor Art
Real Sod, Fake Grass
Towards the end of the term the observant on the north end of campus would have noticed a sod box on the south end of Battell Beach, about 7′ high and 5 ‘ wide. Constructed by Cha Tori and Hannah … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Real Sod, Fake Grass
Outdoor Art in Context
A blog post, and a recent visit to my alma mater, UVM, has me thinking again about public art, and contexts. My question is this: Can a spectacular painting be ruined by the wrong frame? Probably. I wonder how many … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Outdoor Art in Context
Lydia’s Tree Sculpture
Public Safety called our department this last fall semester. They were concerned about potential vandalism to one of the trees near Johnson. For once, I was one step ahead of them (hard to do, they do a great job on … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Lydia’s Tree Sculpture
Autumn Wood
The Class of ’97 Trail, part of the Trail around Middlebury, winds through young woods. Forests age, and this section is in its toddler years, skinny Sugar maple and oak showing potential, but with an invaisive understory of buckthorn and … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Autumn Wood
Winter Carnival-Snow Sculptures
There is a lot more to snow sculpting than meets the eye. Our department does quite a few things, but probably one of the most unusual is making giant blocks of snow for the annual Winter Carnival snow sculpture contest. Not this year, obviously, but some years the primary ingredient can be a little tricky. I’ve heard […]…Continue Reading Winter Carnival-Snow Sculptures
Best Addition to the Landscape 2010
Everybody has been talking about it, and I know I’m late to the party in posting a picture of the mural on the back of Wright Theater. What I wanted to post, though, was not the best picture of the mural out there, but a picture of the mural in the context of the greater […]…Continue Reading Best Addition to the Landscape 2010