ANNOUNCEMENTS
Register Now and Join WI ASLA in La Crosse!
WI ASLA is excited to bring our annual Fall Field Session to La Crosse this October! This event promises an engaging day packed with site tours and 3 CEU credits.
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Tour Lineup:
Anova Furnishings Manufacturing Tour
Dash Park / Great River Landing
Trane Park
Charmant Hotel (happy hour!)
Share Your Knowledge and Projects!
The WI ASLA Spring Conference is an annual event that provides opportunities for networking and learning. WI ASLA is committed to providing a diverse educational program and encourages all submissions. The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 4, 2024.
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To submit, please fill out the proposal form linked below. Email any questions to admin@wiasla.com.
Recent Board of Directors News
Congratulations to our recently elected Board members. They will begin their new terms following the Conference on Landscape Architecture in Washington DC this October. We thank them for their service to our Chapter.
Treasurer
Chris Silewski
Ayres Associates
Member-at-Large
Paige Bernhardt
Ayres Associates
Member-at-Large
Janet Silbernagel
Silvernail Studio for Geodesign, LLC
RECENT EVENTS
Park(ing) Day and Mentorship Kickoff
What a fabulous day for our WI ASLA Park(ing) Day event in Madison! Months of idea generation and planning with our Emerging Professionals and UW-Madison Student Chapter resulted in an engaging setup. We had countless people stop by to ask "what is this?!" and we got to tell them all about landscape architecture! The collaboration also created the perfect opportunity to kickoff our WI ASLA Mentorship Program for the 2024-2025 school year. What a great day!
Taliesin Tour
Our tour of Taliesin in Spring Green was a great success. We had many professionals and students join us for this event and we all had a blast walking around Frank Lloyd Wright's home landscape and peeking inside his home and studio. We learned a lot about how this landscape was viewed though his eyes, used for experimental agriculture and prairie restoration. The plantings were lush and the site features were just as iconic as inside his architectural designs. It was inspiring to learn about a renowned Wisconsin-native's design process and see his work in person. Our social hours before the tour at Homecoming and after in the Taliesin studio served as a great way to catch up and get to know other attendees.
Mitchell Park Domes Tour
Our tour of Mitchell Park and the Domes was very informative and inspiring. We started with a walk around Mitchell Park and learned about the history, current programming, and plans to revitalize this community asset. After gaining an understanding of the surrounding landscape, we had a change to learn more about the Friends of the Domes organization and experience the Desert Dome and Tropical Dome- both unique and equally impressive. To cap off the evening, we enjoyed a social at City Lights Brewing full of great conversation with colleagues.
AWARDS
Congratulations to our Professional Award Winners!
Thank you to all applicants that submitted entries for the 2024 Professional Awards. Award winners were announced at the Jensen-Longenecker and WI ASLA Awards Reception at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 19, 2024. It was great to come together for this awards ceremony to celebrate the achievements of students and professionals in Wisconsin. Thanks to the UW-Madison Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture (DPLA) for their partnership in this event.
Professional Awards
Student Awards
Congratulations to our 2024 WI ASLA Student Award recipients! Each year, senior students from the landscape architecture department are nominated by their instructors to present about their academic careers to a jury of professionals from WI ASLA. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.
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Honor Award- Jay Sullivan
Merit Award- Bri Stevens
Finalist Award- Keegan Ripley
Finalist Award- Hannah Boer
Student Scholarship Winner
We are excited to announce the winner of this year's Student Scholarship based on an exceptional submission to our "Sketch Your Future Challenge." We congratulate Dhruv Lokhande for their outstanding creativity and dedication to ASLA's "Parks & Recreation" Mission Area. $2000 will be directed to UW-Madison to further Dhruv's academic journey in the Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture.
Congratulations Dhruv!
What is a Landscape Architect?
This video describes what a Landscape Architect does and highlights some of the projects created by Landscape Architects in Wisconsin. Created in February 2020 by WI ASLA and Adisi Imagery.
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ASLA NATIONAL NEWS
Shawn Kelly Receives the ASLA Medal
Congratulations to Shawn Kelly, FASLA for being honored with the 2022 ASLA Medal. In the words of the American Society of Landscape Architects:
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"The ASLA Medal is the highest honor the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) can bestow upon a landscape architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of the public and the environment."
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Shawn continues to leave an incredible impact on the profession in Wisconsin and throughout the nation. Amongst an impressive resume of service and achievements, he has worked to protect licensure in our state and has mentored and inspired countless students as an instructor at UW-Madison. His dedication to landscape architecture and the next generation of practitioners makes him a well-deserving recipient of this prestigious honor.
The ASLA Climate Action Plan was released with great excitement at the 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Francisco. The document is a product of the hard work of the ASLA Climate Action Plan Task Force. Goals and initiatives provide a framework for climate action through 2040. A Climate Action Field Guild was also released for ASLA members.
ASLA Launches Climate Action Plan
The 2022-2024 Strategic Plan was released at the 2021 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Nashville. The plan discusses the new mission statement for ASLA and select focus areas that will advance the profession. These areas include: Community, Connection, Innovation, Scale, and Voice.
