About the Celebration
During fall 2016, the College of Design celebrated 50 years of landscape architecture education at the University of Minnesota.
The celebration began on campus with a Rapson Hall Reunion that included open studios, a keynote lecture, exhibitions, and reception. It culminated with kayak and bike tours, class gatherings hosted by alumni, and a party at the Surly Brewing Company. Over 300 alumni, faculty, and friends joined in the celebration and shared their experiences using #umnla50. Visit our Facebook Gallery for more work and photos from alumni!
Exhibitions
Alumni and Faculty Exhibition
Environmental Impact: 50 Years of Landscape Architecture
September 15, 2016—January 8, 2017
Opening during Rapson Hall Reunion | Friday, September 16, 7–8:30 PM
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, First Floor
Juried and digital exhibitions of alumni and faculty work including student work and projects from their professional careers.
- Print exhibition projects and designers | View print exhibition (pdf)
- Digital exhibition projects and designers | View digital exhibition (pdf)
Library Gallery Exhibition
The Beauty That Requires Health: Four Landscapes
Regina Flanagan '01 MLA
September 15, 2016—January 8, 2017
Opening Reception | Friday, September 16, 4:30 PM
Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library Gallery, Rapson Hall, Second Floor
The land ethic of Aldo Leopold and philosopher Marcia Eaton's assertion in her essay "The Beauty that Requires Health" that art with landscape as its subject has an ethical obligation to reveal underlying functions motivate Regina Flanagan's longitudinal study of four landscapes in transition. The narrative arc of natural forces and human actions are observed in photographic series of a floodplain forest, an old-growth big woods forest, an oak savanna, and the aftermath of a major fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Celebration Planning Committee
Committee Members
Meg Arnosti MLA '00
Landscape Architect, Southview Design
Bryan Carlson BLA ’71
Owner, Bryan Carlson Planning and Landscape Architecture
Bruce Chamberlain BLA ‘89
Principal, LOAM | 2015-16 Fellow, Minneapolis Parks Foundation
Joseph Favour BLA ‘92
Head, Department of Landscape Architecture Professor in Practice, Landscape Architecture Principal, Thomas Oslund & Associates Inc.
Richard T. Murphy Jr. FASLA BLA ’75, BED ’75, MBA ‘86
President & CEO, Murphy Companies
Tifanni Navratil MLA ‘12
Landscape Architecture Designer II, LHB, Inc.
Diane (Fridley) Norman MLA ’08 (RY ’06)
Director of Business Development, Associate, RSP Architects
Egle Vanagaite BED ’07, MLA ‘09
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Landscape Designer/Associate, Damon Farber
Staff Members
Lori Mollberg
Alumni Relations Director, College of Design
Mark Hintz
Development Officer, College of Design
Exhibitions
Anya Udovik
Exhibition Coordinator
Liz Hixson MLA '13 (alumni/faculty exhibition jury)
Landscape Architect, Damon Farber
David Motzenbecker MLA '01 (alumni/faculty exhibition jury)
Design Lead, Cuningham Group
Lin Nelson-Mayson (alumni/faculty exhibition and jury consultant)
Director, Goldstein Museum of Design
Regina Flanagan MLA '01 (library gallery exhibition)
Art • Landscape • Design | freelance landscape architect and photographer
