1. Cheryl Barton is an American landscape architect and founding principal of the San Francisco-based Office of Cheryl Barton.
16 Facts About Cheryl Barton
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Cheryl Barton's work includes national and local public parks, urban open spaces and master plans, cultural landscapes, college and institutional campuses, public art installations, corporate landscapes, and ecological master plans.
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Cheryl Barton was featured in the 2012 documentary, Women in the Dirt.
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Cheryl Barton received a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University in Fine Arts and Geology, and studied architecture and photography at the Boston Architectural Center.
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Cheryl Barton received a master's degree in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Cheryl Barton has often collaborated with artists including Elyn Zimmerman, Susan Schwartzenberg, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, Bruce Beasley, and Mark Mennin.
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Cheryl Barton has been involved in professional and civic organizations and initiatives focused on green urbanism.
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Cheryl Barton is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and served as the Society's president from 1987 to 1988.
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Cheryl Barton has taught Sustainable Site Planning and Landscape Design workshops at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco.
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In 2003, Cheryl Barton served on the design jury for the Rose Kennedy Greenway competition in Boston, MA.
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Cheryl Barton serves on the Design Review Board of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
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Cheryl Barton has been invited to speak nationally on her landscape architectural practice, with lectures at the Nevada Museum of Art and the NASA Research Park, as well as a wide range of academic institutions, including Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Oregon.
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Cheryl Barton cites witnessing the devastation of Lake Erie as a young child as influential in her decision to pursue landscape architecture.
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In 1983, Cheryl Barton received an Individual Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to study design restoration of derelict landscape.
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Cheryl Barton is a Fellow if the American Academy in Rome, having been awarded the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture in 2003.
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Cheryl Barton was featured in the 2012 documentary, Women in the Dirt, along with 6 other prominent women landscape architects.