April 7, 2025 – Tess Schiavone, RA, LEED AP, is presenting at the Washington State University (WSU) Master Gardener Foundation of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties tomorrow, Tuesday morning, April 8.
In her talk, “Native Gardens: Connections to Beauty, Joy and Discovery!”, Tess will share examples of GGN’s PNW projects and her home garden experiments to show how native gardens fit and have a special place in our lives. Tess looks forward to striking up a conversation about how native gardens can provide a deeper connection to seasonal beauty, joy, and discovery.
The Master Gardener Foundation of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties is a non-profit organization that is completely staffed by volunteers. This organization supports and promotes the WSU Extension Mater Program in Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties, which consists of university-trained individuals who aim to help WSU Extension reach their local community with science-based horticulture and environmental stewardship information generated from research at WSU and other university systems.
Learn more about the WSU Master Gardener Foundation of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties here.
March 27, 2025 – Shannon Nichol, FASLA, PLA, has been selected to join the 2025 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Awards Jury.
Every year, the ASLA Professional Awards honor the best landscape architecture work from around the world. Award recipients are given recognition in ASLA’s Landscape Architecture Magazine, and their clients will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony during this year’s ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture.
Entrants can choose to compete in any of the following categories:
General Design
Residential Design
Urban Design
Analysis and Planning
Communications
Research
The Landmark Award
Shannon will be judging entries for the General Design, Residential Design, and Urban Design categories while another group of jurors will be judging entries for the Analysis and Planning, Communications, and Research categories. Both juries will come together to judge entries for the Landmark Award.
The jurors that will be working with Shannon include Thomas Balsley, FASLA, PLA, Co-founder of SWA/Balsley and Jury Chair; Carol Coletta, Strategic Advisor at Coletta & Company; Adam Greenspan, FASLA, Design Partner at Peter Walker Partners; David Hocker, FASLA, PLA, Founder of Hocker Design Group; Steph Thisius-Sanders, ASLA, PLA, Director of Planning & Construction at North of the River Recreation and Park District; C.L. Bohannon, FASLA, Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; L. Irene Compadre, ASLA, PLA, Principal at Arbolope Studio; and Matt Hickman, Senior News/Digital Editor at Architectural Record.
Learn more about the ASLA Professional Awards here.
March 26, 2025 – Shannon Nichol, FASLA, PLA, LEED AP, is speaking as part of the University of Texas Austin School of Architecture’s Spring 2025 Lecture Series this Wednesday, April 2.
Shannon’s lecture, Finding and Drawing Your Design, will discuss informal hand drawing as a tool for creative thinking, helpful disruption, and communication, as well as the integration of personal interests into design work. Through this lecture, Shannon will share valuable insights with students, young professionals, and designers who may be considering how to feel most creatively engaged with increasingly automated daily tasks and formulaic expectations.
There will also be lectures presented by Albert Pope, Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture at Rice University; Stephen Cassell, FAIA, Principal at Architecture Research Office; Daniel Escotto, Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California Los Angeles; Wyatt Armstrong, Designer, Fabricator, and Educator; Eric Bunge, FAIA, Co-Founding Partner of nARCHITECTS; and Brigitte Shim and A. Howard Sutcliffe, Principals at Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
These lectures aim to provide students with insights from architects, urban planners, landscape architects, interior designers, and urban designers on key topics within the study and practice of architecture, design, planning, and the built environment.
Learn more on the University of Texas event page.
