It has been a busy month for Associate Professor Jane Wolff. The landscape architecture professor recently served as a jury member for the first Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies. This new initiative is intended to recognize and foster emerging design talent from across the design disciplines whose work embodies the potentials for landscape as a medium of public works. The Gardner Museum Landscape Fellowship builds upon the Gardner's Artist-in-Residence programs that have fostered creativity and collaboration in the arts for over two decades.

Wolff also presented the paper “Agency, Advocacy, Vocabulary: Three Landscape Projects” at the symposium Landscape and Critical Agency, held at University College London. The symposium addressed the question of landscape’s agency, as a means of territorial organization and creative production, to engage critically with the conditions that define the collective aspects of our environment.

At the beginning of March, Wolff will be part of an exhibit entitled Delta Waters at the Delta Center for the Arts Gallery located at the San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California.

Delta Waters is a contemporary art exhibition that explores environmental issues related to the San Joaquin Delta waterways. Site-specific artworks are presented in a diverse range of mediums that focus on human impacts in the Delta region, as well as its beauty and the preservation of this highly impinged natural resource. The exhibition is meant to build cultural ties with the communities living at the edges of the largest estuary on the Pacific Coast in California.

Professor Wolff is the author of Delta Primer: a field guide to the California Delta, a book and deck of cards designed to educate diverse audiences about the contested landscape of the California Delta. The Delta Waters exhibit presents fifty-four illustrations and accompanying maps from her book, along with the deck of cards.  

Opening reception: March 1, 5 - 7 PM
Panel discussion: March 8, 11 AM - 1 PM