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Tue April 21 – Lecture: “The Invention of Landscape,” Bas Smets, Bureau Bas Smets, Gould 322, 6:30pm  

Wed April 15 – TeaTalk: “Eco-art: An Antidote to Dystopia” – Beverly Naidus, Associate Professor, UW Tacoma, Gould 322, 4:30pm  

A Book Signing with the Capo di Capi of Northwest Landscape Architecture, Richard Haag FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 6 – 8 PM Peter Miller Books – 2326 Second Avenue On May Day, come celebrate the life, work, humor, and remarkable influence of Richard Haag, and the new monograph on his work. Rich will be here to sign copies of the book, written by Thaisa Way, and to insure that it be a grand and singular event, he will give a short talk midway in the evening. The Landscape…

Join us Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 6:30pm in Gould 322 for our Spring Lecture with Bas Smets of Belgian landscape architecture firm, Bureau Bas Smets.  http://www.bassmets.be/ What is a landscape ? How is it designed ? How is it constructed? The western notion of ‘landscape’ was invented in the fifteenth century to name a new genre in painting. In Europe, the first landscapes were painted in the Low Countries, when windows appeared in paintings. The frame provided by the…

Beverly Naidus  The TeaTalk will take place at 4:30PM on Wednesday, April 15th in Gould 322. Bring your tea mugs! Beverly Naidus is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Tacoma. Her interactive, socially engaged art practice explores many issues that have touched her life and that of her community:  climate change, environmental illness, racism, body hate, unemployment and the perils and rewards of activism.  Much of her work is temporary and site-specific, and has been viewed internationally in…