Mary Miss

Mary Miss (b. 1944) is an American artist and designer working across art, architecture, and landscape. Her installations often foreground overlooked infrastructures and environmental processes, engaging publics in active interpretation of place. Collaborating with scientists, planners, and administrators, she develops site-specific works that function simultaneously as ecological interventions and cultural narratives. Miss’s projects are foundational in positioning environmental art as a discursive practice of civic engagement.

/ Zoë Tank

On a mild evening last April, Room 304 in Pratt Institute’s architecture school, Higgins Hall—an oddly grandiose double-height classroom space with a view of the Manhattan skyline—is packed. The Landscape Seminar Series—launched in 2022 in conjunction with Pratt’s Master of Landscape Architecture program—has invited the iconic land artist and activist Mary Miss to speak as […]

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Mar 13, 2024, at 5 – 6:15pm CET Online Available Register Now “The threatened demolition of Mary Miss’ pioneering and influential site-specific installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site in the permanent collection of the Des Moines Art Center is the impetus for a 75-minute webinar about the significance and importance of land art by women artists. […]

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