Join us in Kansas City on Saturday, March 2nd as we celebrate another successful year for landscape architecture in the region. The day will start with a sketch crawl hosted by Anova Saturday afternoon, followed by the awards gala that evening. During the gala attendees will have the opportunity to listen to keynote speakers, Cyd Millstein and Carol Grove.

Tentative Schedule:

**12:30pm – 4:00pm – Sketch Crawl hosted by Anova (starts and ends at the Center)
5:30pm – Social Hour
6:00pm – Dinner and Awards Program

Ticket Prices:

Members (and guests) – $25.00
Non-Members (and guests) – $35.00
Students – $10.00

Ticket Sales will be closed at midnight on Monday, February 25th.

**Ticket holders for the PGASLA Awards Gala can also register to attend a Sketch Crawl hosted by Anova. There are 30 spots avialble for this walking tour with Craig Stoffel, PLA, ASLA, with on-site sketching of distinct designed settings. It will include an introductory presentation covering the fundamentals for setting up a realistic sketch scene offers insight and helps to demystify the drawing process. Sketching these spaces will provide participants an added-level of engagement and understanding of the designer’s intent and a stronger connection to the spatial compositions within each unique setting.

Register Here 

Speaker Bios

Carol Grove
Carol Grove is an art historian who specializes in the study of American landscapes and architecture. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Her articles have been published in Landscape Journal, Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, Nineteenth Century, and the Journal of the New England Garden History Society and she has presented at conferences from Fort Worth, Texas to Sheffield, England.

Her book Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes: the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove was published by University of Massachusetts Press in association with the Library of American Landscape History in 2005 and she co-authored Houses of Missouri 1870-1940  with Cydney Millstein (Acanthus Press, 2008).  Her most recent research on the Kansas City firm of Hare & Hare, also co-authored with Ms. Millstein, is being published by the University of Georgia Press in association with the Library of American Landscape History in 2019.

Cydney E. Millstein

Cydney Millstein is an architectural historian, author, and founder/principal of Architectural & Historical Research, LLC, (Kansas City, Missouri), with nationwide experience for 36 years. AHR remains the oldest cultural resources consulting firm in the state of Missouri. Cydney’s work includes the examination and documentation of buildings and industrial typologies for a variety of clients, both public and private. Ms. Millstein’s honors include the Osmond Overby Award, two National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Awards, two George Ehrlich Achievement in Preservation Awards, the U.S. GSA Design Award and the State Historical Society of Missouri Brownlee Fund Award.

Ms. Millstein’s book, Houses of Missouri: 1870-1940, co-authored with Dr. Carol Grove, with a forward by Richard Longstreth, was published by Acanthus Press, NY, in October 2008. Her new book, Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects & City Planners, co-authored with Grove, and published by the University of Georgia Press in association with the Library of American Landscape History, is due April 1, 2019. This publication has been awarded the David R. Coffin Publication Grant, named in honor of the eminent late professor of architecture at Princeton University and pioneer scholar of landscape and garden history.

Cydney was most recently awarded the 2017 Urban Hero Award by the Downtown Council for her passion in making Downtown Kansas City a more vibrant place to live, work and play. The award recognizes her contributions to the City of Kansas City at a grassroots level, including the listing of Liberty Memorial, now our nation’s official WWI Memorial, as a National Historic Landmark and mitigation for the Kansas City International Airport.  In 2018, Cydney was given the Preservationist of the Year award by the AIA Kansas City chapter.