UMD Landscape Architecture Students Re-envision the Grounds of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Turning A Smithsonian Museum Inside Out

We're happy to showcase this story from our colleagues in Landscape Architecture that features American Studies PhD student Carla Thomas McGinnis who along with Professor Jack Sullivan developed a studio project where students would design an outdoor extension of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"Sullivan developed the idea for the project after meeting the museum’s Assistant Director of Council Operations and Museum Initiatives, Carla Thomas McGinnis. She was enrolled in his landscape and garden history seminar and was pursuing a PhD in American studies. The two got to talking about the synergy between his landscape architecture program and her interests in the relationship between African Americans and the landscape." 

Click here to read the full story by Kimbra Cutlip.