Join us for the 2025 Create Beauty
Design Conference with
Apiary Studio
Gardens of Harsh Splendor: Beauty in the Untamed
Join us for our seventh Create Beauty conference to learn about unexpected beauty in unexpected places. We will explore materials, processes, and plants that bring forward the beauty of untamed places. Join us as we learn with the Apiary Studio and Kevin Williams and Michael Guidi, authors of Shrouded in Light, a book of inspiration with shrublands as its focus.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Longmont Museum
400 Quail Road | Longmont, CO
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Itinerary
8:15 AM - Registration Desk Opens
9:00 AM - Recycled Landscapes Part 1 by Apiary Studio: Martha and Hans will explore the challenges of sustainability and the historical and artistic solutions have inspired their methods.
10:45 AM - Recycled Landscapes Part 2 by Apiary Studio: Apiary Studio will discuss how they have responded to the problem of waste in construction and their practices in creating sustainable landscapes.
Lunch
1:15 PM - Shrouded In Light: Naturalistic Plantings Inspired by Wild Shrublands: Authors Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi will introduce us to the tantalizing world of shrubs and the philosophies and design strategies behind their new book.
2:30 PM - Bricolage: Our afternoon workshop will explore hands-on how Apiary makes use of a variety of materials to create a beautiful hardscape.
Apiary Studio
Principals of the award winning Philadelphia based design firm, Hans Hesselein and Martha Keen have been at the center of conversations around regenerative landscape and sustainable construction. Hans and Martha are deeply committed to creating gardens that support the earth, wildlife and people in balance, especially in an urban context. Many of their projects involve the reuse of materials that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, resulting in beautiful gardens via their high standard of craftsmanship. Balanced with a focus on appropriate plants, their gardens are strikingly beautiful, naturally inspired, and ingeniously executed.
Kevin Williams and Michael Guidi
Returning horticulturalist Kevin Williams will be joined by coauthor Michael Guidi following the recent releasae of their new book “Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands”. Named a once in a decade revolutionary book by plant superstar Noel Kingsbury, Kevin and Michael explore the intersection of naturalist design, contemporary art and psychology.
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General Admission (includes lunch) - $94
Student Ticket (includes lunch) - $50
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