Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California

“Honoring ASLA’s Historic American Landscape Survey of the Virginia Robinson Gardens,” lecture and tour with Alison Terry, Lisa Gimmy, and Steven Keylon, 2024.

“John Bleck: Horticultural Heroes Interviews and Archives,” Southern California Horticultural Society, 2024.                

“The Sixties at 60: Architect Welton Becket and Landscape Architect Ruth Shellhorn: The Midcentury Design of Public Spaces,” lecture with Alan Hess, Orange Legacy Alliance, 2023.

“Disneyland, Bullock’s and the Southern California Look,” South Coast Botanic Garden, 2023.

“Pleasure Gardens, Movies, and Malls: How Florence Yoch and Ruth Shellhorn Reimagined the California Landscape,” with Erin Chase, California Preservation Foundation webinar, 2023.

“Laurel Woodley: Horticultural Heroes Interviews and Archives,” Southern California Horticultural Society, 2022.                      

“130 Years of Landscape Architecture at Cornell,” Cornell University, Department of Landscape Architecture webinar, 2022.

“Robert Smaus: Horticultural Heroes Interviews and Archives,” Southern California Horticultural Society, 2022.          

“Schools that Heal, Design with Mental Health in Mind,” with Claire Latane, SCCASLA webinar, 2022.

“The Commercial and Retail Projects of Architect Welton Becket and Landscape Architect Ruth Shellhorn,” Modernism Week, 2020.

“Women Take the Lead, Landslide 2020,” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, web exhibition, 2020.

“Designed Landscapes: Principles of Indoor-Outdoor Living in Midcentury Southern California,” California Preservation Foundation Annual Conference, 2019.

“Designing the Disneyland Landscape,” Smoketree Ranch, Modernism Week, 2019.

“The Midcentury Modern Campus of UC Riverside,” lecture and exhibition, Modernism Week, 2019.

“Landscape Architecture, California Style,” The Read Learn Live podcast, 2019.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Association of Professional Landscape Designers, 2018.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” The Compulsives, Los Angeles County Arboretum, 2018.

“Designing the Disneyland Landscape,” Modernism Week, 2018.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Pasadena Heritage, 2018.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Southern California Horticultural Society, 2018.

“Masters of Modern Landscape Architecture: Three Case Studies,” with Dean Cardasis and Kenny Helphand, American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Conference, 2017.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” California Preservation Foundation Annual Conference, 2017.

“A Conversation with Women from Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture,” California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2017.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, 2017.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Marin Art and Garden Center, 2017.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Modernism Week, 2017.

“Designing the Disneyland Landscape,” Once Upon a Classic, 2017.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Pasadena Garden Club, 2017.

“Walt Disney’s Landscape Architects – Then and Now,” with Julie Bush, Walt Disney Family Museum, 2017.

“The Brothers Behind Disney's Magical Landscapes: Jack and Morgan “Bill” Evans,” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, web archives, 2017.

“Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden,” Northstate Public Radio, 2016.

“Designing the Disneyland Landscape,” Disneyana Fan Club, 2016.

“Designing the Disneyland Landscape,” Disneyana Mania Annual Conference, 2016.

“Designing the Disneyland Landscape,” Hyperion Historical Alliance, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Pacific Palisades Garden Club, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Pacific Palisades Historical Society, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Society of Architectural Historians, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” UCLA Extension Program in Landscape Architecture, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” UCLA Special Collections, 2016.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Virginia Robinson Gardens, 2016.

“Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Design in Southern California,” a Library of American Landscape History film documentary, 2015. Modesto Architecture Film Festival, Best Short, 2016.

“Disneyland,” Archipedia, Society of Architectural Historians, 2016.

“The Fundamentals of Mid-Century Landscape: The Role of the Automobile in Suburban Southern California Landscape Design,” California Preservation Foundation webinar, 2015.

"Why Don't You 'Just' Write A Book?," Garden Writer's Association, 2015.

“The Public Landscapes of Ralph Cornell,” co-curated with Steven Keylon, UCLA Special Collections exhibition with The Cultural Landscape Foundation, for What’s Out There Weekend, 2014.

“Masters of Modern Landscape Design,” Library of Landscape History symposium, Indianapolis Museum of Modern Art, 2013.

“Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: Mid-Century Practice and Development of the Southern California Look,” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2011.

“Women and Modernism,” Harvard Graduate School of Design symposium, 2011. Proceedings were published in Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture, edited by S. Dumpelmann and J. Beardsley, Routledge, 2015.

“Midcentury Landscape Architecture in Southern California,” Pasadena Museum of History, 2007.

“Ruth Shellhorn,” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, filmed interview, 2005.

“The Landscape Legacy of Ruth Patricia Shellhorn,” UCLA Extension Program in Landscape Architecture, 2005.

“China’s Emerging National Park System,” Department of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1986.

“The History of Conservation of Natural Resources in the National Park Service,” Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, 1982.