Photo by Nicholas Dynan, 2007

A generous alumna (who wishes to remain anonymous) and her husband have made a restricted gift of $100,000 to re-landscape the front entrance and courtyard area of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With the help of co-designers Faith Michaels of Faithful Flowers and branding and marketing consultant Toni Oberholzer, a number of local businesses agreed to donate their time and services to help make the project a success. SMFA is pleased to be working with local businesses and expanding upon this generous gift to develop the school’s presence in Boston’s cultural and educational communities, and beyond.

Many thanks to the following people:

Faith Michaels of Faithful Flowers donated her time as co-designer and landscape project coordinator. A resident of Brookline, she has run the nonprofit Kids Clothes Club for the past fifteen years.
Phone: 617-543-2962

Jim Newbrough of Newbroughs of New England and Newbrough Landscape & Construction, Inc. is the contractor for the project. He donated time and all landscaping materials for the project from demolition and irrigation to stonework and electrical work.
www.newbroughsofnewengland.com/
1 Willow St
Acton, Mass 01720

Toni Oberholzer, a branding and marketing consultant, donated her time as co-designer of the SMFA project. She lives in Brookline.

Tom Pena of Atlantic View Landscape Lighting, Inc. donated lighting equipment for the project.
www.atlanticviewll.com
864 Plain Street, Unit #7
Marshfield, MA  02050
Phone:  781-319-1905
E-mail: avlighting@yahoo.com

Dennis Svoronos, SMFA alumnus (BFA/Dip ‘05) and current staff member (welding studio technician), donated his time designing and constructing an art installation which also serves as a protective screen for bicycle racks.

Joseph F. Alongi of Boston Tree Preservation offered a discounted rate for the pruning of the existing trees on the property.
www.bostontreepreservation.com
joealongi@bostontreepreservation.com

Laura D. Eisner is a faculty member at the Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; principal, Laura D. Eisner Landscape Design; and associate editor, People, Places, & Plants. She donated her time consulting with Michaels on the project.
www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld/ld.html

Blair Hines of the landscape architecture firm Hines|Wasser + Associates donated his time consulting with Michaels on the project.
www.hineswasser.com/

Eleanor McPeck is a faculty member at the Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; associate fellow, Silliman College, Yale University; practicing landscape consultant; co-author, Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes (1985); curator, “A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time,” exhibition of drawings by J.B. Jackson, Municipal Art Society; and frequent contributor to Landscape Architecture and other landscape publications. She donated time consulting with Michaels on the project.
www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld/ld.html