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CATEGORIES:APPOINTMENT
DTSTAMP:20120524T013128Z
DTSTART:20120511T153000Z
DTEND:20120511T173000Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Days Open House
LOCATION:Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum\, College of Design
URL:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2335
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DESCRIPTION:\nAlumni Days are May 1012 on the Iowa State campus. The College of Design will host an open house from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday\, May 11\, for alumni who attended or graduated from any of our programs (including prior to the college's founding). Enjoy refreshments and meet with faculty and other alumni.\nView the complete ISU Alumni Days schedule of events \n
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CATEGORIES:APPOINTMENT
DTSTAMP:20120524T013128Z
DTSTART:20120518T010000Z
DTEND:20120518T020000Z
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SUMMARY:Jens Jensen and His Contemporaries in Design  Robert Grese
LOCATION:Garden Room\, Reiman Gardens
URL:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2351
UID:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2351
DESCRIPTION:\nRobert Grese will discuss the impact of landscape and architectural innovators like Frederick Law Olmsted and Frank Lloyd Wright at the turn of the 20th century. Grese is a professor in the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and serves as director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. The author of Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens\, Grese has written widely on the prairie style of landscape gardening.\nThis program\, together with one on June 13\, is presented in partnership with the Danish ImmigrantMuseum\, which this year is exploring the life\, career and ongoing legacy of landscape architect Jens Jensen (18601951). Beginning this spring\,the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Parks is taking shape throughout themuseum's 30acre property. Inside the museum galleries\, the exhibitionJens Jensen: Celebrating the Native Prairie will introduce Jensen as apioneer of landscape design in America\, an advocate for using nativeplants in parks and gardens\, and a passionate believer in the power ofnature to inspire human creativity.\nThe programs and exhibition are supported by a grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities. \n 
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CATEGORIES:APPOINTMENT
DTSTAMP:20120524T013128Z
DTSTART:20120523T160000Z
DTEND:20120523T170000Z
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SUMMARY:Jester Park Elk & Bison Educational Plaza Grand Opening
LOCATION:Jester Park\, Polk County
URL:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2348
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DESCRIPTION:\nA formedsteel elk sculpture by Michael Stanley\, lecturer in integrated studio arts\, will be unveiled at the grand opening reception for the Jester Park Elk and Bison Educational Plaza at 10 a.m. Wednesday\, May 23\, at Shelter #6 in Polk County's Jester Park.\nThe sculpture\, which is 6'4" tall\, 6' long and 2'6" deep\, is an abstract representation of a recumbent elk based on its original lines as well as the lines of the prairie that is the animal's home\, Stanley said. "It is made out of metal to refer to the industrial age that made them leave their natural habitat here in Iowa\," he said.\nJester Park can be reached from Ames by taking exit 127 off Interstate 35 and traveling 6.5 miles west on Highway 141.
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DTSTAMP:20120524T013128Z
DTSTART:20120603T010000Z
DTEND:20120603T030000Z
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SUMMARY:Hedge Magic Exhibition Opening Reception
LOCATION:The Soap Factory\, 514 2nd St. SE\, Minneapolis\, Minn.
URL:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2353
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DESCRIPTION:\nWork by Peter Goche\, a lecturer in architecture in the Iowa State University College of Design\, will be on display this summer in "Hedge Magic\," an exhibition at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis.\nGoche's "WaterHutch\," part of an ongoing exploration focused on the production ofmarks and markers\, takes the natural forms of the Mississippi River oxbow and transforms them into a sinuous sculpture of crafted wood. The work occupies an area approximately 20 by 30feet. An opening reception for this exhibition will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday\, June 2. Gallery hours are 2 to 8 p.m. ThursdayFriday and 12 to 5 p.m. SaturdaySunday. Admission is free. 
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DTSTAMP:20120524T013128Z
DTSTART:20120614T010000Z
DTEND:20120614T020000Z
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SUMMARY:Shaping American Landscapes: Jens Jensen and the Prairie Spirit  William Tishler
LOCATION:Garden Room\, Reiman Gardens
URL:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2352
UID:http://www.design.iastate.edu/events.php\?CID=2352
DESCRIPTION:\nWilliam Tishler has been involved in the design and planning of the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Park at the Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn. He is an emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin and the editor of Midwestern Landscape Architecture.\nThis program is presented in partnership with the Danish Immigrant Museum\, which this year is exploring the life\, career and ongoing legacy of landscape architect Jens Jensen (18601951). Beginning this spring\, the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Parks is taking shape throughout the museum's 30acre property. Inside the museum galleries\, the exhibition Jens Jensen: Celebrating the Native Prairie will introduce Jensen as a pioneer of landscape design in America\, an advocate for using native plants in parks and gardens\, and a passionate believer in the power of nature to inspire human creativity.\nThe programs and exhibition are supported by a grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
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