"100 Years of Inspiring Works on Paper" Exhibit on View until March 23

Jennifer Jones '60	Annie Salsich '93	Virginia Read '46

"100 Years of Inspiring Works on Paper" is the current exhibit in the Alumnae art series and will continue until March 23. Featured are renderings of landsape architect Jennifer Jones ’60. Also in the show are whimsical watercolor cartoons drawn by Virginia “Dino” Cary Read ’46 and award-winning student work, which is permanently housed at Westover. This is an exhibit that reflects on student art over several decades and features the designs of an alumna who went on to use her artistic skills in her professional life.

Jennifer Jones ’60 is a landscape architect and a principal with Carol R. Johnson Associates. In almost 30 years with CRJA, the primary focus of Jennifer Jones’s landscape architectural practice has been site master planning and design for corporate, institutional and public clients, including 40 colleges and universities in the US, and 20 US embassies and consulates in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Mexico. In addition, she has directed site designs for hospitals, hospices, churches, schools, large senior housing communities, wildlife sanctuaries, parks, zoos and gardens for cancer and Alzheimer’s patients. Virtually all of these projects are team projects, involving multiple participants, including client and user groups, architects, and engineers.

If there is a common theme to this diverse body of work it has been about healing broken landscapes and creating memorable, sustainable spaces for people.

In the exhibit will be plans for projects such as: King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; US Embassy Baghdad, Iraq; US Embassy Oslo, Norway; Women's Garden for Homeless Guests at the Pine Street Inn, Boston MA. Jennifer also did site planning and design for the Maranyundo School in Nyamata, Rwanda, an all-girls middle school modeled after Westover which opened in February 2008.

While based in Boston, her work has taken her all over the world. She has lectured at multiple universities from Massachusetts to Thailand, and led international conference team design charrettes or workshops in Rio de Janeiro and in Kyoto. She has served as President of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. She served as a volunteer on the Cambridge Historical Commission for almost ten years, and is currently a member of the Society for College and University Planning, and the Landscape Advisory Committee of the University of Washington. Her projects have won multiple awards, and she received an Award of Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects Women in Design in 2005.

She is currently working on site designs for a major hospital expansion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an interior healing garden for the Dana Farber Yawkey Cancer Care Center in Boston, multiple projects at the University of Rhode Island, and a new US Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi. She is a juror for the national 2009 SCUP/AIA Design Awards in Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

Award-winning student work that is exhibited is by Abby Woodham '08, Alanah Luger-Guillaume '06, Amanda Newburg '03, Amanda Zheng '05, Ann Salsich '93, Cathy O'Shea '79, Claire Coffey Toon '95, Dana Sanziana '98, Elizabeth Ringer Hillegass '70, Gale Duncan Simmons '69, Jacqueline Siefert '07, Laura Major '89, Marian McComb Hayward '31, Martha Grant '06, Naya Koda '93, and Raechel Guest '90.

While she was a student at Westover, Virginia “Dino” Cary Read ‘46 produced a number of watercolor cartoons, that portray everyday life at Westover from students wearing various uniforms (academic, athletic, formal, etc.) to them rushing to mid-morning break to falling asleep during a lecture to taking great joy that spring had arrived.

Clare Southerland Bailey '46 was Virginia’s senior roommate at Westover and she had a collection of Dino's cartoons she uncovered and donated to Westover's archives early last fall. Both Clare and Virginia were redheads and Clare is featured in many of the cartoons – the redhead with glasses.