The LongHouse Landscape Legends program, which focuses on landscape, design, art, and architecture, will feature presentations tomorrow and Saturday by four trailblazers in those fields.
LongHouse Reserve will present its Larsen Landscape Award, which honors the founder of the East Hampton venue, to Mary Miss, an artist who has been redefining how art is integrated into the public realm since the early 1970s, on Saturday, during a luncheon at 12:30.
Ms. Miss, whose career spans sculpture, landscape architecture, urban design, and architecture, emerged in the ‘70s as part of the Land Art movement, which focuses on environmental art and site-specific installations. She is the founder and artistic director of City as a Living Laboratory, which works with artists, scientists, and residents of urban communities to create sustainable solutions for urgent environmental issues including climate, equity, and health.
LongHouse’s weekend will begin with a reception tomorrow at 5 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton that will be followed by presentations by Beka Sturges of Reed Hilderbrand, a landscape architecture firm, and Susannah Drake of Sasaki, whose practice includes landscape architecture and interior design. Ms. Sturges will present her work for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Storm King Art Center, and Ms. Drake will talk about her work at Taliesin West.
Saturday’s program will begin at 10 a.m. at St. Luke’s, with a reception and talks by Ms. Miss and Deborah Nevins of Deborah Nevins and Associates, a landscape design firm. Ms. Nevins will discuss the 40-acre park that she and her associates created for the Renzo Piano-designed Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Ms. Miss will provide an overview of her projects, including “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” in Des Moines.
The action will then shift to LongHouse Reserve for the award luncheon, tours of the gardens, and an exhibition of nature-themed fine and decorative arts.
Tickets are $275 for both days, $100 for Friday only.
Classical Concert
LongHouse’s Young Concert Artists series concludes on Sunday at 5 p.m. with a performance by Michael Yeung, a percussion artist whose musical repertoire ranges from Baroque to the present. The program will feature arrangements of Debussy for vibraphone, as well as two theatrical percussion pieces.
Tickets are $30, $20 for members.
