Landscape Design Summer Intensive

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In four weeks, earn 25% of the course hours required for the NYBG Certificate in Landscape Design. Including interactive classes with top landscape architects, designers, and guest lecturers; trips to historic sites; and the Garden's incomparable resources, this summer program gets your career on the fast track! Class size is limited for individualized attention.


SCHEDULE
Monday–Friday, July 10–August 4, 9 am–5 pm at NYBG

CLASSES
Landscape Design History
Graphics I
Landscape Design I
Plants for Landscaping
NYBG Curator-Led Tours
Off-Site Garden Visits
Guest Designer Presentations
Open Studio Time

TUITION AND REFUNDS
$2,835 (Member) / $3,150 (Non-Member)
A $1,285 non-refundable deposit is due at registration.

Students are required to purchase other supplies for the Intensive as outlined in our online materials list, which total approximately $400.

An optional payment schedule is available if requested.
No refunds after Monday, June 26.

Questions about the Intensive? Call 718.817.8720 or email: continuinged@nybg.org

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Schedule:	Every weekday, starting on 07/10/23 and ending on 08/04/23
	Only 30 days left to register!
Times:	09:00am-05:00pm EDT
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Meeting Date Start Time End Time Monday, July 10, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, July 11, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, July 12, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, July 13, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, July 14, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Monday, July 17, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, July 18, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, July 19, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, July 20, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, July 21, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Monday, July 24, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, July 25, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, July 26, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, July 27, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, July 28, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Monday, July 31, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, August 1, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, August 2, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, August 3, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, August 4, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Meeting Date Start Time End Time Monday, July 10, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, July 11, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, July 12, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, July 13, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, July 14, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Monday, July 17, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, July 18, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, July 19, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, July 20, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, July 21, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Monday, July 24, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, July 25, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, July 26, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, July 27, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, July 28, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Monday, July 31, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Tuesday, August 1, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Wednesday, August 2, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Thursday, August 3, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm Friday, August 4, 2023 09:00am 05:00pm
Instructor:	Damon Arrington Damon Arrington Damon Arrington Damon Arrington is a Landscape Urbanist who focuses on crisis landscapes and their subsequent effect on the people that inhabit them, he is dedicated to exposing environmental injustice. Damon obtained a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from The City College of New York where he was a scholar for the J. Max Bond Center for Inclusion and Equity. His notable Landscape Architecture projects in NYC include The Hills on Governors Island, Jamaica Bay Restoration Project and park spaces for The New York Housing Authority. His work bridges science and architecture with art and community. Damon is owner of Verru Design, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn, NY which focuses on research and community as a way to generate design thought. Visit his website at verrudesign.com Elizabeth Poccia Elizabeth Poccia Elizabeth Poccia Elizabeth Poccia recently received a Certificate in Landscape Design from the New York Botanical Garden. She is a former Assistant Designer to Bill Einhorn's firm, LDAW Landscape Architecture, where she was involved inhigh end residential design. She is passionate about using graphics as a tool to communicate reality to plan. Caitlin Merritt Caitlin Merritt Caitlin Merritt Caitlin Merritt finds a great source of her enthusiasm and designs from theintersections of aesthetics, history and culture. In addition to teaching at the New York Botanical Garden, Caitlin teaches classes in philosophy, intellectual history and great books at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has earned her bachelor of arts in Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross and her Master's at Boston College. Michael Ruggiero Michael Ruggiero Michael Ruggiero Michael Ruggiero came to the garden in the summer of 1961 and is the former Senior Curator of Horticulture. During his time at the Garden he was responsible for the Orchid Collection, Propagation Greenhouses, Annual Displays, Plant Records, The Native Plant Garden and The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Along with Lynden Miller, he oversaw the preparation and Planting of the Perennial Garden: The Herb Garden with Penelope Hobhouse, the Home Gardening Center, Children's Adventure Garden and the Planning, building and planting of the Paeonia, Daylily, and Liaison Daffodil Collections. After retiring, he was Horticulturist at Matterhorn Nursery where he Built the David Austin Rose Garden and for five years designed the Macy's Flower Show. He has written articles on many diverse gardening subjects for gardening publications and has appeared on The Victory Garden, Rebecca's Garden, and with Martha Stewart. He has authored Annuals with Style, Perennial Gardening, and Reliable Roses and Spotters Guide to Wildflowers of North America. Susan Cohen Susan Cohen Susan Cohen The Program Coordinator, Susan Cohen, FASLA, RLA, is principal ofSusan Cohen Landscape Architect in Greenwich, Connecticut. She lectures and writes on landscape topics, and coordinates theLandscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series, now in its 17th year. A graduate of Smith College, Susan earned a Certificate in Landscape Design at NYBG and a BS in Landscape Architecture from City College of New York. She is a member of the Garden's Board of Advisors and has designed several exhibition gardens for NYBG. Her new book, The Inspired Landscape, is published by Timber Press. Michael Hagen Michael Hagen Michael Hagen Michael Hagen is the NYBG"s Curator of the Native Plant Garden and the Rock Garden. He previously served as Staff Horticulturist for Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring, NY and Garden Manager at Rocky Hills, in Mt. Kisco, a preservation project of the Garden Conservancy. Liz Pulver Liz Pulver Liz Pulver Liz Pulver has practiced landscape architecture since 1997, working with national and international leaders in the industry. Her experiences with West 8, Hollander Design, Thomas Balsley Associates and David Thorne, give her unique insight into the genesis of design at varied scales from residential gardens to greenroofs to campuses and city parks. Herexperience in design-build and landscape construction, provides apractical overlay that keeps her work tied to the realities of the site andapplication. Liz is a registered landscape architect in New York and California and has begun developing a product line for small, urban gardens. She was raised in the Hudson Valley and earned her bachelor'sdegree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University. Learn more about Liz's work at www.lizpulverdesign.com Melissa Finley Melissa Finley Melissa Finley No biographical information available Dmitrii Rumiantcev Dmitrii Rumiantcev Dmitrii Rumiantcev No biographical information available
Location:	NYBG, Watson Room 305 2900 Southern Blvd Bronx, NY 10458
Session Number:	241LAN960
Price:	Price Member : $2,835.00 Non-Member : $3,150.00
Materials List:	Click here for materials list (LAN311-Liz) (PDF Document)

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