Jane Thurber

Lecturer of Landscape Architecture

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Jane Thurber
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Bio

Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, 1985

BA in Studio Art and English, Hamilton College, 1980

Biography

Jane Thurber received her MLA degree at Harvard University and her BA from Hamilton College.  She teaches beginning design landscape architecture studios and Introduction to Environmental Design. She maintains practices both in design and in art.  

Professor Thurber has practiced landscape architecture with firms across the country, in Massachusetts, Florida, and New Mexico. She has taught drawing and studios in Miami and Tampa. Her professional work has focused on the design of public projects—plazas, parks, campuses, streetscapes, and playgrounds. 

Jane Thurber is also an artist. Her collages, drawings, and mobiles have been exhibited in New England galleries and museums.  In her artwork, she often explores the landscape abstracting the patterns and rhythms of the land. 

Courses

LANDARCH  201 + LANDCONT 112 – Studio I, Fundamentals of Design: Spaces and Landscape Media 
LANDARCH  202 - Studio II, Spaces and Places in Context 
LANDARCH  150 + SUSTCOMM 150 - Introduction to Environmental Design 

Selected Work

  • (Current) "Field Notes 8" Sigrid Miller Pollin, Stephen Schreiber, and Jane Thurber. "Field Notes” is a series of nine collaborative exhibitions of drawings, paintings, collages, and sculptures created by landscape architect Jane Thurber and architects Sigrid Miller Pollin and Stephen Schreiber. These exhibitions have taken place over 14 years. A piece from Field Notes 8 is currently installed at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum in Hadley, MA. 

  • (2016) "Take A Seat," an exhibition celebrating the wide‐ranging talent and creativity of Valley artists and designers at UMass Amherst University Museum of Contemporary Art. 

     

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Landscape Architecture