Education
1976-1978: State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University, Syracuse, M.L.A., 1979.
1975-1976: University of Massachusetts, Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, Amherst, MA.
1973-1975: Freiburg Universitat, Freiburg, Germany.
1970-1973: Brown University, Providence Rhode Island, B.A., 1975.
Positions
2015-present, Professor Emerita; 1986-2015: Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) and Commonwealth Honors College University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1980-1986: Assistant Professor, LARP, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1979-1980: Assistant Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture Departments, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
1978-1979: Zoning Administrator, Carrboro, North Carolina.
1976-1977: GS5 Landscape Architect, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Savannah River, Aiken, South Carolina.
Awards
2016 Third Place, Greenfield Winter Carnival, Ice Sculpture, Greenfield, MA
2014 Merit Award, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Art Exhibit, Baltimore MD, “A Children’s Guide to Turners Falls”
2013 Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, “A Children’s Guide to Turners Falls.
2013: Exceptional Merit Award, Office of the Provost, Senior Vice Chancellor, UMass, $10,000.
2011-2012 Fellow, Interdisciplinary Seminar Institute, Humanities and Fine Arts (ISI), UMass
2010, U. S. Speaker and Specialist Grant Award, U.S. State Department $18,000 and UNESCO, Belarus, September, invited keynote speaker and workshop leader
2010: Professional Honor Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, for co-creator, co-organizer, and speaker, in a public art symposium and exhibit, “Art in the Public Sphere,” UMass Amherst.
2006: Research Literacy Fellowship, Commonwealth College, University of Massachusetts.
2002: TEACHnology Fellow, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts.
1998: Professional Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Research and Communication Category, Contributing Author to The Ecological City, the University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
1991: Professional Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Design Category, "Banners for the Street" Project.
1991: Fulbright Award for Research and Teaching as Senior Professor, Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany, Investigating Urban Design Competitions.
1990: Professional Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Research and Communication Category, Landscape Preservation Roundtable and Seminar.
1988: First Place for "Saving Our Farmlands." Exhibit design at the Franklin County Grange Fair.
1988: First Place, Adult Division for sculpture design using recycled materials. Winning design entitled "Brontesaurus" and "Thesaurus."
1985: Award of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching and Research, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
1984: Study Visit Grant, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst to Universities in Hannover, Berlin, and Munich, (Freising).
1984: Professional Merit Award in Research, American Society of Landscape Architects for Rock Creek Nature Study.
Service and Recent Activities
2024-present: Member, Frank A. Waugh Arboretum Committee, UMass Amherst.
Spring 2019: Instructor for “College Success” course through Greenfield Community College at Turners Falls High School, courtesy of a Barr Foundation.
Spring and Summer 2017: Youth Art Program Leader, Greenfield Recreation Department, funding from Massachusetts Cultural Council, ‘Rainworks” and parking meter projects.
2020-present: Member, Board of Directors, Leverett Crafts and Arts Center, Leverett, MA
2013-present: Member, Leverett Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Counsel.
2013-2022: Member, Leverett Trails Committee, Leverett, MA.
2006-2015: Member at Large, Board of Directors, Sigma Lambda Alpha, the International Honor Society in Landscape Architecture.
2001-2005: Editor, Guidebook to International Education, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
1999-2002: Editor, Representation, A journal of the Design Communication Association.
1992-1994: President, Design Communication Association, (DCA) an international, interdisciplinary organization of design professionals.
1986-1987: as Ann Marston, Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
1985-1986: As Ann Marston, President, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, (CELA), and an international non-profit organization whose primary membership consists of educational institutions.
1984-1985: As Ann Marston, President-elect of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
1981-1983: as Ann Marston, National Executive Secretary of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, (CELA).
Funded Research
2023-2024: Making Paper from Fungi, an illustrated talk, a foraging hike, and a workshop, Leverett MA, Massachusetts Cultural Council.
2022-23: The ROY G. BIV of Local Fungi, an outdoor exhibit along the Bill Rivers Nature Trail and an indoor exhibit at the Leverett Crafts and Art Center, Leverett, MA, Massachusetts Cultural Council.
2011-2013: Consultant, “Impressions from a Lost World,” the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA), Interpreting America’s Historic Places Planning Project program, funding awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities in 2012.
2004-2012: Hatch Grant, “The Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA.”
2004: Public Service Endowment Grant, “The Great Falls Discovery Center: A Co-design process.”
2001: Berkshire Hills Music Academy, South Hadley, Master Plan, a contract for the graduate studio.
1999-2003: Hatch Grant, "Family Farming, Teens, and the Age of the Internet."
1997-1998: Community Service Learning Honorarium. Grant to develop gardens with two local elementary schools.
1995-1996: Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom Honorarium, the Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts.
1991: Senior Professor, Fulbright Research Award, "Design Competitions Adjacent to the Wall, 1980-1990," Berlin, Germany.
1990-1991: Principal Investigator, "Banners for the Streets, "Public Service Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts.
1985-1988: Principal Investigator, "Forest Park," Olmsted Historic Landscape Preservation Program, Department of Environmental Management, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1985: Field Director, Visitor Study at Crane's Beach in Ipswich, by People, Places and Design, sponsored by the Trustees of Reservation.
1982-1983: Co-Principal Investigator, "Visitor Studies for Rock Creek Nature Center," sponsored by the Parks and History Association in conjunction with the National Park Service.
1982-1983: Co-Principal Investigator, "Exhibit Evaluation at Sugarlands Visitor Center," sponsored by Cooperating History Association of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park.
1979-1980: Principal Investigator, "Small Towns in the Flint Hills of Kansas," Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University.
Other Work
2004: Consultant, Whistler House and Art Museum in Lowell, to help site a sculpture of Whistler by Mico Kaufman on adjacent donated land.
2001-2003: Invited Instructor, with the Cultural Preservation Institute, at the UMass Lowell and I-495 Karl Weiss Education and Conference Center, "Exploring and Preserving a Community's Roots through Historic Preservation."
Fall, 1998: Instructor, Federated Garden Clubs of New York, Olana. Taught two courses in housing, land use, and site evaluation.
1993-1994: Guest Faculty, Department of Art, Smith College. Taught a beginning landscape design studio.
1981-1984: Adjunct Faculty, Antioch College, Keene, NH, Land Use Planning courses.
Exhibits
What’s On Your Plate?” Juried group show in collaboration with the 2024 Food, Farms, and Factories project and Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC),“May 5-June 29, 2024, Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA.
Curator and Guest Teacher, “Winter Trees,” collage project of fifth graders from the Leverett Elementary School, Exhibit at the Leverett Crafts and Arts Center, Leverett, MA, February 2024.
“Three Sisters,” Light Pole Banner juried selected for the Crossroads Cultural District Program, Greenfield, MA, May 2023-present.
“The ROY G. BIV of Local Fungi,” An outdoor interpretive exhibit along the Bill Rivers Trail in Leverett, MA and an indoor exhibit at the Hall Gallery, Leverett Crafts and Art Center, October 2022. With funding by MCC.
Invited artist in group exhibit, Artful Ice Shanties, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and the Brattleboro Retreat Farm, Brattleboro, VT, January-February, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
“Boundaries,” Juried group show, A3 Gallery, Amherst, MA, August 2022.
At Viridian Artists Inc.New York | USA: Un-Trashed, Jan 23, 2024 - Feb 17, 2024; Art From Detritus Mar 28,2023 - Apr 22, 2023;Herstory , Feb 28,2023 - Mar 25,2023; The Gifts We Don’t Know We Have Nov 29,2022 - Dec 30, 2022; The Darkness Of This Time Oct 04, 2022 - Oct 29, 2022.
“Group of Seven, Side by Side,” self-curated and artist exhibit, Barnes Gallery, Leverett Crafts and Art Center, April 4-28, 2019, Leverett MA.
“Talking Trash,” part of group show at the Art Garden, Buckland, MA, November-December, 2018.
“Evil Plastic,” Art from Detritus, Viridian Artists, New York City, March 27-April 21, 2018, juried group show, two works.
“Trash to Treasures, A Riversong’s Art Exhibit,” co-curated and juried show of 11 artists, April 4-May 27, 2015, Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA
“Art from Detritus,” Viridian Artists, New York City, March3-April 4, 2015, juried group show.
“Upcycling with Imagination,” Williamsburg Art and Historic Center, Williamsburg, NY, April 23-May 24, 2011, juried group show.
“Landscape as Patch,” Sabay Thai curatorial space, Queens, NY, October 11-December 11, 2010, one person invited show of 25 works.
“Exploratory Physio-cartographies of Place and Time,” The 2013 CELA Sketch Crawl, accompanying Exhibition and Conference Panel are organized in concert with the 2013 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) conference being held at UT Austin from March 27 to March 30, 2013, Art Alliance Austin.
“Art from Detritus,” Pure Light Gallery, Turners Falls, MA, May 2010, juried group show.
“Intimate Landscapes: Explorations and ‘Relevations,’ ”A one person show of 39 works accepted for exhibition by peer review at the Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA, September 7-October 4, 2007.
“Small Worlds, Abstract Landscape Miniatures” 25 original oil paintings exhibited at the South College Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2, 2006-August 31, 2006.
One mixed media painting 24” x 36” accepted for a juried exhibit at the Northampton Center for the Arts, “Works on Paper,” June 29- August 22, 2006
“Landscape Links: A Look at the Etchings of Frank A. Waugh,” curated show, Central Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 10-November 9, 2003.
"Earthbound: visual books about the landscape," Presenter and co-curator, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, October 16-November 6, 2000.
"Vessels for Flower Arranging," Flowers for ceramic artist, Angela Fina, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA, September 19-October 11, 1998.
"University Faculty Exhibit," Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, February 4-16, 1985.
"Departmental Faculty Exhibit," Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, November 16-December 6, 1981.
"Landscapes of the Middle," Thorne's Gallery, Northampton, MA, May 9-30, 1981.
Invited Talks
September 19, 2024, “A Look at the Women in the Etchings of Frank A. Waugh,” Zube Lecture, Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, UMass Amherst.
October 25, 2025, “The Man Who Loved Trees,” Amherst Historical Society, Amherst, MA.
October 19, 2023, “Making Paper from Fungi and More,” Leverett Library, MCC funded.
April 29, 2015, The Man Who Loved Trees, illustrated talk for the Amherst Garden Club, at the Leverett Library
October 21, 2010, “Landscape Links,” an illustrated talk and tea for invited donors at the Jones Library, Amherst MA.
October 21, 2005, Nature in a Japanese Garden, illustrated talk in the Fine Arts Center.
October 28, 2005, Spirit and Soul: A Perfect Spot for Tea, Fine Arts Center, illustrated public talk.
April 23, 1990, "Landscape Evaluation," Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
April 26, 1990,"Public Art and the Landscape," University of Sheffield, England.
June 27, 1990, "Offentliche Kunst in Amerika," Technische Universitat, Hannover, Germany.
July 4, 1990. "When Art Moves Outdoors," Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany.
Refereed Publication
“Impressions from a Lost World, the Connecticut River Valley Trackway Plan: Preliminary Concepts,” Landscape/Greenway Planning Conference Proceedings, held at UMass. April 12-13, 2013.
“A Developing Agro-ecotourism Initiative in Belarus,” UrbanNature, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, CELA 2011, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 30-April 2, 2011, pp 281.
“Planning a Three Sisters Garden,” UrbanNature, CELA 2011, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 30-April 2, 2011, pp348.
“A Strategy for Integrating Public Art into Greenway Planning,” Proceedings of Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning, 2010, Budapest July 8-11, Editors Julius Gy. Fabos et al., pp. 863-870. (and Book of Abstracts, p.224.)
“Celebrating the culture of a river through an engaged public arts program, Landscape Legacy“ CELA, ISOMUL Maastricht, the Netherlands May 12-14, 2010, pp 84.
“Comparing and Contrasting the Use of Music in the Teaching Methods of Two Educators, 100 Years Apart, Landscape Legacy“ CELA, ISOMUL Maastricht, the Netherlands May 12-14, 2010, pp 109. Co-authored, “A Sensory Approach to Teaching History, Landscape Legacy“ CELA, ISOMUL Maastricht, the Netherlands May 12-14, 2010, pp 217.
"Engaging the Community through a Strategy for Public Art" invited plenary for the WSEAS 2nd Landscape Architecture Conference in Vouliagmeni Beach, Greece, Energy, Environment, Ecosystems & Landscape Architecture WSEAS Press, ISBN 978-960474-125-0, pp356-361. Peer reviewed for Proceedings of the 2ndInternational Conference on Landscape Architecture, September 28-30, 2009.
“From Pathetic Fallacy to Scientific Method: A Shift in the Approach of an Early Educator in the Field of Landscape Architecture,”WSEAS 2nd Landscape Architecture Conference in Vouliagmeni Beach, Greece, Energy, Environment, Ecosystems & Landscape Architecture, WSEAS Press, ISBN 978-960-474-125-0, pp. 251-256. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Landscape Architecture, September 28-30, 2009.
“Emerging professional concerns in the teaching writing of Frank A. Waugh between 1921 and 1932.” Teaching and Learning Landscape, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona, Tuscon, January 14-17, 2009.
“Exploring Cultural Roots & Planting Seeds from Growth: Cultural Development Through Design,” New Aspects of Landscape Architecture; Proceedings of 1st World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), Algarve, Portugal, WSEAS Press, ISBN 978-960-6766-72-5, 2008, pp 104-110.
“Breathing New Life into a Downtown with the Use of Heritage Tourism,” New Aspects of Landscape Architecture; Proceedings of 1st World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), Algarve, Portugal, WSEAS Press, ISBN 978-960-6766-72-5, pp 111-116. (Deemed one of the best papers in publication).
“The Making of Mint Street Park: Creating Identity through Historic Roots,” 7th Symposium of the International Urban Planning and the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE), World Class Cities: Environmental Impacts, Planning and Opportunities, 3-5 January 2007, Bangkok Thailand.
Great Falls Center for the Arts: An Innovative Co-Design Process, 42nd IFLA World Congress, Edinburgh June 26-29, 2005 Landscape Leading the Way, p 7.
“The Natural Style: Clues from the Personal Etchings” Representation, Design Communication Association, 2004, pp. 44-49.
Lead Author, "Greenways in the Cities: Improving the Quality of Life by Protecting Environmental Resources and Enhancing Recreational Opportunities," Quality of Life in Cities, ICQOLC 2000, Singapore.
Co-authored, "The Art, Science, and Technology of the Greenway," 1997 ASLA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Washington, DC.
"Greenways as Vehicles for Expression," in Greenways, the Beginning of an International Movement, Elsevier Press, Amsterdam, pp. 317-325.
"Expression: An Under Recognized Role for Greenways," Urban, Regional, and National Greenways and Open Space Planning, ASLA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Chicago, 1993, pp. 51-59.
"The Significance of the Jewish Memorial Competition on Levetowstrasse in Berlin," 1994 CELA Proceedings, University of Oregon, pp. 163-213.
"Rethinking the Urban Park; Rediscovering Urban Solutions," in The Ecological City, ed. by R. Platt et al, Amherst, MA; University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, pp. 203-213.
"Greenways as Vehicles for Social Expression," accepted for Landscape and Urban Planning, 1994.
The Unbuilt Prinz Albrecht Palais Competition: Results to Remember," Landscape Journal, Fall 1993, pp. 215-222.
"Teaching As If Writing Mattered," Representation. Proceedings of the International Design Communication Conference, University of Arizona, College of Architecture, 1990, pp. 51-54.
"A Biogeographic Approach to the Design of Greenspaces," co-author, Landscape Research, Spring 1985, vol. 10, #1, pp.14-17.
Co-authored, "The Value of Visitor Studies From Rock Creek Nature Center," 1983 CELA Proceedings, Utah State University, pp.293-303.
"An Invitation to Landscape Interpretation," in Landscape Architecture Yearbook: Historic Preservation, Van Nostrand Press, 1983, pp. 8-11.
Other Publication
Author, The Man Who Loved Trees, May 21, 2024 book release date, Koehler Books, Virginia Beach.
“Historic Landscape Preservation: Saving Community Character,” in Preserving and Enhancing Communities, Elisabeth Hamin, Priscilla Geigis and Linda Silka, Editors, University of Massachusetts Press, 2007, pp 220-229, 240.
Website: "Literary Landscapes of Western Massachusetts," 1999.
"The Junior Year Writing Course in Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture," in Writing across the Curriculum and the Academic Library, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, CT, 1995, pp. 171-173.
Website, “Virtual Emily,” 1995.
"A History of Forest Park," Olmsted Historic Landscape Preservation Program, Department of Environmental Management, 1989.
"An Inventory of Forest Park," Olmsted Historic Landscape Preservation Program, 1986.
"A Plea for Visual Research," Environmental Ethics CELA Forum, summer 1984, pp. 23-26.
Illustrations in Microcomputers in Landscape Architecture by E. Bruce MacDougall, Elsevier Press, New York, 1983, pp.150-153, 164.
Sketches published in Landscape, Volume 28, Number 3, 1985, p.6, Volume 25, Number 3, 1981, Frontispiece, and Volume, Number 3, 1982, p. 11.
Selected Papers Presented at Conferences
“Creating a Color Palette,” SALT Symposium, The Arboretum, Connecticut College, November 2005.
“When Parallel Worlds Meet: Landscape Design
and the Study of Ecological and Cultural Landscapes” Sponsored by the Morris Arboretum and New Directions in the American Landscape, Co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Villanova and at the Connecticut College Arboretum January 11-12, 2005.
6th Symposium of the International Urban Planning and the International Urban Planning and Environment Association, “Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände as a Green Tangent: An Important Link to the Greenway Planning and Design Process in Berlin” 2005.
"Tu B'Shevat: An Evolving Jewish Celebration of the Birthday of the Tree," Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual Meeting, University of Texas, Arlington, October 1998.
"The Art, Science, and Technology of the Greenway," American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 1997.
"Commons, Parks, Gardens and Greenways: Public and Private Landscapes in New England," A Smith College Symposium on Art, Literature, and the Landscape, March 1994.
"Banners for the Street," Art and the Landscape," Symposium at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, 1992.