The Camden Garden Club, in collaboration with the Camden Public Library, invite you to attend their Winter Horticulture Series, Re-Visioning Your Garden: Talks About Landscape Design, Tuesday mornings from Jan. 27th to Feb. 24th. Attend in person at the Camden Public Library or join via ZOOM. You must register in advance for in-person or online attendance CLICK TO REGISTER .

Emma Kelly will talk about how to use hardscape to complement and enhance the natural beauty of our yards. Emma’s work is driven by a joyful embrace of the design process – from site investigation to team collaboration, from sketch exploration to successful implementation. She’s a fierce advocate for place-specific design and team-built success. Emma’s projects find her interacting with complex networks of design and engineering professionals, local craftsmen, and regionally-sourced materials. Emma sees her role as steering a creative conversation with clients and properties to building unique landscapes that fit unique goals. Practicing primarily in Maine and focusing on residential landscapes, Emma believes deeply in the power of place-making: the ability to shape the spaces around us into crucibles for future meaning and memories.

In her first 10 years of professional practice, Emma honed her technical and managerial skills on large-scale environmental-, public-, and institutionally-focused projects throughout the US with Hargreaves Associates, and moved to more intimately scaled regionally-sensitive and context-specific design working with Richardson & Associates. In 2013, Emma formed Emma Kelly Landscape LLC as an exciting new outlet for her passion and her recent work can be seen in publications such as Maine Home & Design and the Boston Globe Magazine. Even more recently, Emma launched ColLab, a collaborating laboratory of five independent, women-owned landscape architecture practices working on projects throughout the Northeast.  As a founding principal of this groundbreaking new organization, Emma is eager to capture the synergy of working with stellar peers who can drive the creative focus of projects further and support even more complex and far-reaching project needs.

Emma received her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture, with distinction, from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, as well as her undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology and Religion. She has shared her love of design and the design process through studio instructor, visiting critic, and design jury roles at design and horticultural programs from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to Southern Maine Community College.