Welcome to 20th Anniversary Speaker Series  by Dr. Kendall Brown
$20 General / $15 Member
includes Garden Admission
Program Description
Humanized Naturalism: Japanese Gardens as Therapeutic Spaces
This talk explores the dramatically evolving function of Japanese gardens around the world in the 21st century. It shows how they have grown from representing Japan, the dominant 19th and 20th century roles, to embrace broader identities that return them to their basic uses in pre-modern Japan. The lecture presents Japanese-style gardens as a kind of landscape equivalent of "classical music." It examines why they have the power to connect us to values and experiences that can improve our lives.
Kendall Brown is Professor of Asian Art History at California State University Long Beach. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Yale University and an MA from UC Berkeley. A former museum curator, he publishes actively in several areas of Japanese art and has organized exhibitions for several American museums, exploring topics from modern woodblock prints to Art Deco.
He is a leading figure in the study of Japanese gardens in North America, having published the books, Japanese-style Gardens of the Pacific West Coast (Rizzoli, 1999), Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America (Tuttle, 2012), Visionary Landscapes (Tuttle, 2016) and various essays on the social history of these gardens. After planning the International Conference on Japanese Gardens Outside Japan in 2009, he co-founded then served as President of the North American Japanese Garden Association.
Check-in time: 5:15 pm
Program starts at 5:30 pm
Your prompt arrival will ensure a more pleasurable experience not only for yourself but for the other participants as well.
The Garden is located at 1125 North 3rd Avenue, between 3rd Avenue and Latham (2 blocks North of Roosevelt). Parking is available at the garden.
When riding the Light Rail, exit at the Central and Roosevelt stop. The Garden is located on the west side of the rail, 0.3 miles from the station; it is directly behind the Irish Cultural Center (1106 N. Central Ave, Phoenix), just north of Portland Avenue. The Garden entrance is across the parking lot at 1125 N. 3rd Avenue.
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