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Kyle D. Brown, ASLA

Kyle D. Brown, ASLA, director of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies and professor of landscape architecture, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona in California. A leading expert in the integration of environmental sustainability and social justice, Brown has served as the director of the Lyle Center since 2004. He is also the cochair of the President's Climate Task Force, whose goal is to achieve climate neutrality on campus. Brown came to Cal Poly Pomona in 1998 as an assistant professor in the Landscape Architecture department. During his tenure, he has led research efforts in sustainable shelter design and serves as principal investigator of Habitat 21, which develops, implements, and evaluates sustainable settlement strategies in disenfranchised communities in developing nations. In addition, he advises numerous student-driven landscape planning and design projects that engage local communities and propose visionary yet practical solutions. Brown replaces Karen Hanna, FASLA, who recently stepped down after five years at the university to pursue education opportunities at home and abroad. A national search process for a permanent dean is in the developmental stages. The formal charge should begin in the fall quarter with a successful candidate in place by September 1, 2009.

Quinn Craughwell, ASLA

Graham Landscape Architecture has announced the promotion of Quinn Craughwell, ASLA, to the position of associate. The company has also hired Kameron Aroom, Associate ASLA, as a landscape architect intern. Craughwell currently heads Graham Landscape Architecture’s Abingdon, Virginia, office, where she distinguished herself with her work on the expansion of Blackberry Farm, the award-winning Smokey Mountains resort. Craughwell’s projects incorporate the aesthetics of landscape design with core principles of sustainable land management practices. She has a background in biology and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from North Carolina State University. Aroom is a 2006 graduate of the University of Maryland University College with a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture. He will be working out of GLA’s Annapolis office on many of the firm’s high-end residential projects. Prior to joining GLA, he was an associate designer intern at Scott Brinitzer Design Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. A Maryland native, he received ASLA’s Merit Award in 2006.

"Bus Stop", by A.B. Jackson

Mary Jo and Richard Bell, FASLA, recently donated 14 significant works of art by the late A. B. Jackson to the North Carolina Central University Art Museum in Durham, North Carolina. The Jackson works, part of the Bells’ personal art collection, is valued at $194,000. The Bells’ donation includes watercolors, pastels, charcoal, and acrylic works by the renowned artist whose pieces hang in many museums, universities, and other institutions. The son of an Irish mother and black father, Jackson earned two art degrees from Yale in the mid-1950s. He taught art for 10 years at Norfolk State before joining Old Dominion as a full professor and the school’s first black faculty member. He died in 1981 at the age of 55. The Bells have been avid collectors of North Carolina art since Mary Jo opened the former Garden Gallery in the Water Garden complex in Raleigh in the 1960s. Determined to support and advocate North Carolina artists, their personal collection represents most of the state’s finest artists. A master landscape architect, Dick Bell created Water Garden as Raleigh’s first mixed-use development. It included their residence, his offices, Garden Gallery, and other leased office spaces and represented Bell’s naturalistic approach to landscape architecture.

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