Join Planting Fields Foundation for an exciting exploration and conversation on the preservation of historic sites from Rosa Lowinger. Based on her just-published memoir, DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, Rosa will explain how repairing key elements of architecture, including mosaics, murals, and decorative cast stone, terracotta and ironwork, serves as a metaphor for personal healing after loss, particularly of one’s home. Key conservation projects carried out by Lowinger – including Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Miami will be shown to illustrate her vast portfolio of work.

DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Complimentary wine will be served from 6 – 6:30pm. 

Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born American art conservator and founder of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture LLC, the largest woman-owned materials conservation practice in the United States. She is also a published author, and her most recent book DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair (Rowhouse, 2023) interweaves the materials and science of her work with the story of her Jewish Cuban family and their state of double exile: from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and then Cuba in 1961. Lowinger’s academic and professional distinctions include the 2008-09 Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, where she researched the history of vandalism, graffiti, and street art; and Fellow status in the American Institute for Conservation and the Association for Preservation Technology. She holds a M.A. in Art History and Conservation from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, and this fall she will be the Judith Praska Distinguished professor of Conservation at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Planting Fields Foundation strives to preserve and make relevant to all audiences the heritage of Planting Fields, an early 20th century 409-acre estate, designed as an integrated composition of the built and natural world.

Thursday October 24, 6:00–8:00pm
Oyster Bay, NY
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