Landscape Pleasures, the Parrish Art Museum’s annual two-day horticulture event and fund-raiser, is planned for Saturday and Sunday, June 12 and 13.
The program will kick off with a Saturday morning symposium, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring talks by writer, landscape designer and gardener Barbara Damrosch; renowned artist April Gornik; and writer and editor Dominique Browning.
Ms. Damrosch, who will discuss “Beauty and Bounty in a Cook’s Garden,” owns Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden, in Harborside, Maine, with her husband. The farm produces vegetables year-round and has become a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.
Ms. Gornik will compare and contrast the creative processes of art making and gardening, and how both have expanded her vision as an artist.
Ms. Browning, who has worked as writer, editor, and consultant for many high profile publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, and House & Garden, of which she was editor-in-chief, will reflect on how her personal garden has influenced her life.
On Sunday, the self-guided tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include the private Southampton Village gardens of Lillian and Joel Cohen, Audrey and Martin Gruss, Martha McLanahan, Liz and Damon Mezzacappa, and Hilary and Wilbur Ross.
Tickets for Landscape Pleasures are $175, or $125 for Parrish members, and include both the symposium and the garden tours. A private cocktail party at the Southampton home of Alex Kuczynski and Charles Stevenson, Jr. will be held on Saturday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. for those benefactors who purchase $300 and up tickets.
To purchase tickets, or for additional information, call 283-2118, ext. 33 or 42. Tickets are also available online at parrishart.org.
Dawn Watson on May 24, 2010