 RESEARCH
The Persephone Project is collecting images of art garden
installations as part of our research. Our definition of garden
artists is broad. Any artists who works with growing plants is a
garden artists. They may be professional and even renowned artists,
but they are also the backyard gardeners in our midst. The Persephone
Project has defined the following five categories of Garden Artists.
Environmental
Artists
This category includes a self-defined movement of artists who are
primarily concerned with improving relationships to the natural
world. While not all environmental artists work with plant materials
some do.
Jackie
Brookner
Agnes
Denes
Reiko
Goto
Susan
Steinman
Artist
Gardeners
Trained artists who work primarily in their chosen media and who
are also passionate gardeners comprise this category. While we've
noticed a strong correlation between ceramic artists and gardeners,
this category includes artists of all media—painters, sculptors,
photographers and more.
Gary Pletsch
Susan
Kemenyffy
Artists who Work Sculpturally with Plants
This category includes the land art, tree grafting, topiary and
green installation art. Garden designers and landscape architects
are also included in this category.
Winifred
Lutz
Angelo
Ciotti
Daniel
Ladd
Maya
Lin
Community
Gardeners
Never content to limit themselves to their own backyards, these
gardeners often take on the whole neighborhood, turning once vacant
lots into lush oasis. There is usually a grassroots, social component
to community gardeners—everyone in the neighborhood is welcome
to help.
Randy Gilson
Lily
Yeh
SK Woodall
Backyard Gardeners
The largest category and the closest to the heart of the Persephone
Project. This category includes everyone who has ever planted, pruned,
watered, and harvested a garden. Garden-making is an aesthetic experience.
If you are a passionate gardener, you are an artist.
John Vinsky
Frieda Shapira
Milt Wolfson
Call
for Photos
If you are willing to share images of your work, please send jpeg
files to persephone@cmu.edu.
Mail photos or slides to:
Persephone Project
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
With your permission, images may be used on the project website
or in presentations.
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