Utah State Today press release: Monday, April 18, 2011

Gallery Talk for University Libraries Exhibit at USU

GALLERY TALK FOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES EXHIBIT AT USU

LOGAN, UT – Special Collections and Archives, a department of University Libraries at Utah State University, joins USU’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning to present a unique exhibit and associated gallery talk. The exhibit is on a collection now held at the library — the Design Workshop Landscape Architecture Archive and Digital Collection.

A gallery talk is Thursday, April 21, 2:30 p.m. at the Merrill-Cazier Library atrium, The talk features Michael Timmons from the LAEP department, Brad Cole from Special Collections and Archives, and Cheryl Walters from the Digital Initiatives Department of University Libraries. Additional members of the exhibition team will be included. The exhibition can be seen in the Merrill-Cazier atrium through June 18.        

The exhibition presents the first showing of the collections designs since they were acquired. The collection features legacy designs by Design Workshop, Inc., a leading international landscape architecture firm. Currently shown in the exhibition are drawings from the Kananaskis resort in Alberta, Canada, and the High Desert planned community in Albuquerque, N.M.  

The exhibition also features material that highlight the connections between Design Workshops’ founders Don Ensign and Joe Porter and Utah State University.

“Design Workshop’s portfolio of landscape architecture projects in North America, especially in the American West, is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and with the archive’s creation, students, scholars and designers at any location on the planet will have the opportunity to learn from that rich legacy of work,” said Sean Michael, head of USU’s LAEP department, when the collection’s creation was announced.

Contact: Brad Cole