The Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education is a Shelburne Museum facility with two galleries, auditorium and classrooms. The center, located in Shelburne, Maine near Lake Champlain, is a regional resource for art, music, film, lectures and symposia.

Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont will present "Shelburne Museum and the Creation of Colonial Revival Landscapes," 10-4, Saturday, June 21. The symposium will examine landscape architecture and history at mid-20th century, exploring how landscapes, public and private, were shaped by Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb and others.

"The Colonial Revival, that creative search for our national past, is key to understanding the founding of Shelburne Museum and the creation of our extraordinary landscape," said Thomas Denenberg, director of the Shelburne Museum. "From Mrs. Webb's pioneering folk art collection, to the way the 45-acre campus was laid out in a New England village setting with gardens and landscaping, the ideas and imagery of the Colonial Revival provided a touchstone throughout," Denenberg added.

Speakers will discuss the influence of the Colonial Revival, the establishment of museum village settings, and examine how Shelburne Museum's landscape places it in the larger cultural and landscape design movements of the era. Speakers will also explore the work of pioneering and influential landscape architects and designers: Charles Eliot, Arthur Shurcliff, Ellen Shipman and Beatrix Farrand.

The 45 landscaped acres of the Shelburne Museum campus exhibit its diverse collections in 38 exhibition buildings (including the Ticonderoga Steamboat), 25 of which are historic. This is the Vermont House, originally built in the 1790s, but rebuilt in the 1950s with stone from a Shelburne Falls gristmill using the scatter-stone technique, i.e., random laying of stones.

The speakers:
Electra Havemeyer Webb consulted Innocenti & Webel, Locust Valley, New York, when planning the museum's landscape. Nancy Taylor, landscape architect with Innocenti & Webel, will speak to that legacy.

?? Lucinda Brockway, director of cultural resources for the Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts, will speak about approaches to preserving, planning, rejuvenating and maintaining historic landscapes.

?? Keith Morgan, director of architectural studies, Boston University, will speak about Charles Eliot, a pioneer of principles of regional planning who shaped the Boston Metropolitan Park system.

?? The topic for Judith Tankard, landscape historian, author and preservation consultant, is "Designing Women, the Work of Ellen Shipman and Beatrix Farrand."

Registration is $75. For more information or to register contact symposia@shelburnemuseum.org. The symposium is approved by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers for continuing education credit.

Shelburne Museum has a diverse and unconventional collection (150,000 works) of art, design and Americana. The collection includes works of the Impressionists (Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas), and prized folk art.