Owner of Karyl Evans Productions LLC, Evans has won six Emmy Awards for her documentary projects among many other national and regional awards.
"One day, I'd love to create PBS American Masters: Beatrix Farrand!" There is so much more work that could be done," she said. "This is really just the tip of the iceberg. I was able to see for myself the sophistication and timelessness of her work and her vast knowledge of plants."Īfter completing The Life and Gardens of BEATRIX FARRAND, Evans continues to research and photograph Farrand's designed gardens in addition to interviewing scholars, gardeners and Farrand enthusiasts. Over the past three years, I have photographed Beatrix Farrand gardens from Maine to California, visiting her archives at the University of California, Berkeley, and interviewing scholars and head gardeners who know her work intimately. "After hearing (Balmori) speak at my garden club about Beatrix Farrand's work as a landscape architect and then after visiting several of Farrand's gardens, I was on a mission to give voice to this innovative landscape architect. My dad was an agronomist and my mother was a plant geneticist, both trained at Cornell I have a horticulture/landscape architecture degree," Evans said. "I have spent a lifetime around plants and gardens. Farrand's life and work are recounted by Farrand scholar Diana Balmori, landscape historian Judith Tankard, and landscape architect Shavaun Towers. the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden Garland Farm in Bar Harbor, Maine the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Bar Harbor and Farrand's California gardens among many others.
She grew up in the privileged world of the East Coast elite and fought through the challenges of working in a male-dominated profession to design over 200 landscape commissions during her remarkable 50-year career."Įvans' documentary takes viewers on a cross-country journey to Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. "At the age of 23, she opened her own garden design firm in New York City and was the only woman among the 11 founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. So she studied plant material at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and Civil Engineering with private tutors at Columbia University," Evans said. "There were no real programs in landscape architecture at the time and certainly nothing for a woman. "I wanted to give a voice to an extremely significant historical figure who was close to not being remembered."īorn in 1872, the niece of Edith Wharton, Farrand found very few educational opportunities for her unique interests and skills. For a documentarian, it's exciting to be able to forge new ground like that," Evans said. "Beatrix Farrand is an American master - I'd say as important in her field as someone like Frank Lloyd Wright was in the field of architecture - and no one had produced a documentary about her. Evans will provide an introductory lecture and take questions following the film. To create this signature garden for the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - itself known for opening so many doors for women in landscape architecture and horticulture - it must have held such significance for her."Įvans will share Farrand's rich history when she presents her new documentary, The Life and Gardens of BEATRIX FARRAND, during the Ambler Arboretum's Celebration of Women in Horticulture, on Wednesday, March 14, at 7 p.m., in the Ambler Campus Learning Center Auditorium. "Beatrix Farrand was the most successful female landscape architect in early 20th Century America and one of the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a true pioneer in a male-dominated field. After being a trailblazer for women working in the field of landscape architecture, how pleased Farrand must has been to receive the commission to design this garden," said Evans, a six-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and Yale Fellow - she was a Yale Fellow with Susan Cahan, Dean of the Tyler School of Art. "When I first saw the garden, I had an emotional response, it was so exciting. When Karyl Evans came to the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University in the fall of 2017, it was a bit like seeing a dream.Īfter studying the life and work of Beatrix Farrand for years, she was actually standing in the wonderfully preserved Louise Bush-Brown Formal Perennial Garden, which Farrand and James Bush-Brown designed in 1928.
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