Preserving earth and water
“Creative Gardens Matter,” a project
by three environmental-studies majors, has lived up to its name. The rain garden planned and installed by the trio near Skidmore’s Tang Museum has slowed and filtered storm-water runoff on its way into Haupt Pond.
An alternative to pipes that divert water off site (at Skidmore, usually into a campus collection pond; in Saratoga Springs, into a stream that flows into Lake Lonely), rain gardens near buildings or parking lots handle storm-water run - off close to its source. The soil and plants in each garden are enough to filter pollu- tion from its local source, whereas typi- cal systems collect unfiltered runoff from large areas and discharge it in one place. The Skidmore rain garden was scientifi- cally planned and aesthetically planted by Caitlin Frame ’10, Dani Reuter ’09, and Allison Ruschp ’09, with a Skidmore
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grant and with help from the local Brook- side Nursery and Saratoga County’s storm-water management coordinator Blue Neils. ES faculty
member Cathy Gibson says that, even in 2009’s unusu- ally wet summer, the planting “effective - ly infiltrated the vast majority of runoff from the Tang’s roof, and water never stood in the garden for more than 24 hours.” She and Neils agree that it’s a successful prototype for a new way to
handle runoff in Saratoga. Neils was de- lighted with the town-gown collabora- tion, and Gibson reports that two other ES students have built further on the project for their senior-capstone work this spring. —SR
Writers Institute
invitation
The New York State Summer Writers In- stitute returns to Skidmore June 28–July
9 and July 12–July 23. Skidmore alumni,
who have always taken part in this inten- sive and convivial experience, are warmly invited again this year.
•Workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction • Intensive Tutorials
Havana-based Los Carpinteros (the carpenters) are two master craftsmen who create surrealist-inspired sculptures, installations, and drawings that often
fuse domestic commodities with violent or incongruous elements—like this unti- tled pile of houses, or a jewelry case in the shape of a hand grenade, or a couch with an inlaid stove. The duo, Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez, presents structurally beautiful and frequently humorous works that question the produc- tion and meaning of modern furnishings. An exhibition of their works is on view at Skidmore’s Tang Museum through August 7. For the full Tang schedule, visit
www.skid
more.edu/tang or call 518-580-8080.
The eminent writers teaching and visiting this summer include Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Carolyn Forché, Frank Bidart, Phillip Lopate, Russell Banks, Joyce Carol Oates, William Kennedy, Robert Pinsky, Mary Gaitskill, Charles Simic, Ann Beattie, Allan Gurganus, and more. New to the program this year: Joseph O’Neill (Netherland), Mark Strand (former US Poet-Laureate), Claire Messud (The
Emperor’s Children).
For more information, please visit
www.skidmore.edu/summer or contact Bob Boyers at
rboyers@skidmore.edu.
SPRING 2010 SCOPE 11
COLLECTION OF DIANE AND BRUCE HALLE
PAUL BUCKOWSKI
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