[PCA] July 14-Summer Music and Demos at ART GOES WILD New England Wild Flower Society

[Debra Strick]

Dear Olivia,  
 
Thanks so much for your interest in New England WIld Flower Society and ART GOES WILD 
events at Garden in the Woods.  For more about ART GOES WILD, please visit: 
http://www.newfs.org/artgoeswild/agwpress.html
If you need hi-res images to illustrate your story, please contact me or Lisa Mattei at lmattei at newenglandWILD.org <mailto:lmattei at newenglandWILD.org> . 
 
 
Come hear Patino Vazquez and Los Sugar Kings LIVE in a magnificent garden setting!
 
New England Wild Flower Society's ART GOES WILD:  Innovation With Native Plants continues through October at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, MA, and includes musical events throughout the season sponsored by Club Passim. 
 
Saturday evening, July 14  Come to the exhibit, featuring flying saucer gardens, a labyrinth, garden demonstrations and, of course,  live music & a picnic at the woodland stage beginning at 5:30 pm by the Patino Vazquez and Los Sugar Kings.  Could there be a more romantic way to spend a summer evening?  (See full listing below)
 
MORE DETAIL ON THE TWILIGHT PERFORMANCE & PICNIC SERIES FOR ADULTS: 
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods with the ART GOES WILD:  Innovation with Native Plants Exhibition and special events. 

 For $14 per person, enjoy an incomparable romantic evening at the ART GOES WILD Twilight Performance & Picnic Series, on Saturday evenings 5:30-8:30 on July 14 and August 11, co-sponsored by Club Passim of Cambridge.   Purchase a gourmet picnic, or bring your own, and then get set to savor world music strains at the woodland stage, surrounded by a glowing sunset on a summer evening. All purchases support the plant conservation programs of New England Wild Flower Society. For advance tickets, contact the Registrar at registrar at newenglandWILD.org or 508-877-7630 x 3303. 

 On Saturday, July 14, Patino Vazquez and Los Sugar Kings -Dynamic rhythms and sweet sounds drive the eclectic, sonic fiesta music of Cuban-born Patino Vazquez.  With global influences from Mali to Venezuela, their joyful sounds are sure to motivate your "swaying hips and kissing lips."

 On Saturday, August 11, D'Rafel with Gitano-Award-winning guitarist D/Rafael brings his unique gypsy music go the Garden.  Gitano's Latin, classical, and jazz sounds will move you to dance and romance. 

ART GOES WILD EXHIBIT LISTING: 
 

NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWER SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENT: 

 ART GOES WILD is now on exhibit daily through October 31, 2007. The site-specific environmental art installation features 11 Destination Gardens by W. Gary Smith celebrating 75 years of New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods. Live DEMONSTRATIONS, "75 GREAT NATIVE PLANTS, on July 1 and July 15 at 1 pm. , NATIVE PLANT ART STATION, on July 14 at 1 pm, GARDENING TIPS FOR MEADOW WILDFLOWERS at 11 am on July 14 and 28.  See details at www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> .   EXHIBIT and demonstrationsincluded FREE with admission. WILD gift purchases, native plant purchases, and memberships support the Society's plant conservation programs.  508-877-7630.    

 

NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWER SOCIETY'S GARDEN IN THE WOODS, botanical garden and native plant sanctuary, 45 acres with 1,500 native varieties, including 200 rare and endangered species. Sales nursery features enormous native plant selection.    180 Hemenway Road, Framingham, MA. (508) 877-7630, www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> . 75th Anniversary Celebration and Environmental Art Exhibit, "ART GOES WILD: Innovation with Native Plants by W. Gary Smith, May 19-October 31, 2007.  SPRING HOURS: Open daily, April 15-August 31; 9 a.m.- 7 p.m.; Sept. 1-October 31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission: $7, Seniors: $5, Children and Young Adults (6-18 yrs): $3, Members and Children under 6: Free. Tours daily at 10 Weekends at 2, no reservations required. Museum store, bookstore, native plant nursery and special events.  Memberships and all purchases support plant conservation. 

 

NOTE:  Need mobility assistance?  Reserve a glorious cart tour of the Garden and Exhibit by contacting Bonnie Drexler at bdrexler at newenglandWILD.org. 

  

Other Upcoming 75 Anniversary Musical Performances, Festivals, and Demos
 
July 14 ART GOES WILD  Twilight Performance and Picnic Series begins with Patino Vasquez and Los Sugar Kings 5:30-8:30
July 14  Demo Free with Admission-Native Plant Art Station
July 14, 28  Demo Free with Admission-Gardening Tips for Meadow Wildflowers
July 15  Demo Free with Admission-- 75 Great Native Plants
July 28 Demo Free with Admission-Best Native Plants for Fall Color
July 29  Family performing art series continues with "Les Julian and Color Outside the Lines" music
Aug 26 ART GOES WILD  MEADOW MADNESS festival
Aug 11  ART GOES WILD Twilight Music Series with D'Rafael with Gitano-World Music at 5:30
Sept 15  GARDENERS DAY festival 10-3
Oct 14    FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL12-4
 
STORY OF ART GOES WILD
 

Contact:  Debra Strick, Marketing and Public Relations 

 (508) 877-7630, x 3501 dstrick at newenglandWILD.org

Images <http://www.newfs.org/>  at lmattei at newenglandWILD.org


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


ART GOES WILD Exhibit Celebrates Museum's 75 Year Anniversary


 

             Framingham, Massachusetts-- New England Wild Flower Society celebrates the 75th  year of its living museum, Garden in the Woods  With the Garden and its premier collection of 1,500 North American wildflower species as the medium and the artist's eye of famed landscape architect and environmental artist W. Gary Smith, the Society marks the anniversary of this beloved living museum with a spectacular site-specific art installation.  From May 19 through October 31, 2007, take a walk on the WILD side with ART GOES WILD: Innovation with Native Plants, on exhibit at the convergence of environmental art and native plant horticulture.  The show features eleven "destination gardens" within the 45 acres of Garden in the Woods itself and promises to be the most important show of the decade for revealing the future of nature-based fine art, and livable landscapes for all. With CLIMATE CHANGE facing us, combining art with the ethics of lightening our footprint in our own landscapes  gives a special resonance to the idea of environmental art. 

 

 The Society is proud to host the first major public installation in New England of the work of W. Gary Smith, perhaps the most significant garden designer in the country today, specializing in native plantings. Smith's award-winning works include sites at Peirce's Woods at Longwood Gardens, Winterthur Gardens in Delaware and Calloway Gardens in Georgia, and public and private gardens nationwide.  The Garden is not compromised by Smith's sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle "visual riffs," but rather is elevated in the 75th anniversary tribute to "a magical place," as the artist describes the naturalistic garden started by Will Curtis in 1932. The fresh exhibition honors the greatness of the past, while offering an entrée into an entirely different time scale as the exhibit itself changes with the light and plant palette through the seasons. "This is a much more challenging art form than many, dealing with light and texture, serendipity and the changing aspects of nature." Smith continues, "Ecosystems are much more complex than anyone can recreate-they are going to surprise you.  The plants themselves will be beautiful, unlike what happens with much nature-based fine art, where the artists may not understand what plants need to thrive. With New England Wild Flower Society the native plants selected will be grown beautifully, and very well suited to the various sculptural expressions.  The plants are as much part of the excitement and exuberance of the exhibition as the artistic elements." 

"ART GOES WILD" challenges us to review our pre-conceptions about native plant design. Says Smith, "No one does highly designed work with native plants today. The majority of people using these plant materials have been focusing on restoration or naturalistic design."        

Inspired by the formal abstract elements each plant presents, "ART GOES WILD" invites us to change our thinking about using native plants in highly ORNAMENTAL ways - a concept as innovative now as Garden in the Woods creator Will Curtis' naturalistic landscaping was in the 1930's.  "ART GOES WILD" invites us all to consider design where the primary purpose is to be interesting as a work of art, while still honoring ecological considerations.   In sharp contrast with naturalistic garden design of the twentieth century, "ART GOES WILD" emphasizes the mark of the human intervention and the sensibility of the artist. 

 

"An artist's way of engaging is very different from a garden designer or an ecologist," says Smith, who doesn't initiate his projects as most landscape architects do, with budgets, programs, and directives.  He first draws what is right in front of him, without pre-thinking.  Soon a sense of order or structure emerges-and that is where the eleven "destination gardens" of the exhibit derive their inspiration. Rather than trying to fit the environment to suit his designs, Smith is known for reading the land and ecosystems and fitting his designs to the environment, highlighting the particular beauty inherent in the location, and then tuning into the unique qualities of that location.  He creates playful, fun, and special environments.  

 

The exhibit features installations in the context of a large-scale public garden space, yet the aim of the exhibit is to showcase ideas that are specifically designed for easy adaptation to the scale of the home garden and smaller art installations. Demonstrations for gardeners, families, artists, and the general public are included in programming from May 18 through October 31.  "ART GOES WILD" event highlights include THE ART OF LIVABLE LANDSCAPES symposium with Rick Darke and W. Gary Smith, Gardeners Day, Meadow Madness-at the peak of the meadow bloom period, Fall Family Festival, and a Twilight Performing Arts Series. 

            

 "ART GOES WILD:  Innovation with Native Plants" is an exciting preview of the NEXT glorious 75 years.  New England Wild Flower Society, Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham, MA. 508-877-7630. Visit www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/>    Cart tours for mobility assistance, and group tours may be scheduled with Bonnie Drexler at bdrexler at newenglandWILD.org  or x 3501. Garden Trails and Museum Store Hours: April 14-August 31: Open daily 9-7; September 1-October 31, Open daily 9-5.  Informal tours weekdays at 10 a.m. and weekends at 2:00 p.m. included with admission, no reservations required.  Adults $7; Seniors& Students $5; Youths 6-18 $3; Members and children 5 and under FREE.  New England Wild Flower Society offers the nation's largest public native plant school.  Memberships and purchases support the award-winning conservation programs of the Society.       

            

 


 

 
 
 
 

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