Category: Olmsted in the Arts

We explore the origins of our nine-foot-tall Big Head Fred mascot with puppet-maker Randy Carfagno.

Daniela, a sophomore at Newburgh Free Academy-West, will have her artwork of Downing Park in Newburgh, NY, displayed on our 2024 annual conference materials.

Design artwork for the Olmsted Network’s 2024 conference tote bag!

When development threatened the Genesee Valley Park in Rochester, NY, the Land Protector Project responded.

With the assistance of the Hyde Park Historical Society and the Terra Foundation, the Washington Park Camera Club produced a memorable bicentennial video depicting South Park Then and Now.

Roger F. Pasquier has been a regular visitor to Central Park since he was a baby in a perambulator. He is an art historian and ornithologist and author of several books, including Painting Central Park (Vendome Press 2015), which discusses and illustrates the rich history of artists depicting the park.

A look at visual art exhibits in Prospect Park from 1984 to 1994.

Lungs of the City: Olmsted’s Parks in Music is a concert series of new music for flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, viola, and cello, commemorating the 2022 bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth.

Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton, the Schuyler sisters are quite famous. But did you know they were also connected to Frederick Law Olmsted?

Guess this musical…. Famous visionary figure, transformational period of American history, enduring legacy. Hamilton? No. It’s The Promise of Central Park.

NAOP and Olmsted 200 are pleased to share the winners of the “Inspired by Olmsted” carillon composition competition through a press release and the winning pieces through a musical booklet.

We have a lot to learn from Frederick Law Olmsted, an American visionary who was born nearly 200 years ago.