L.A. PORTFOLIO TAYLOR BOWDEN MLA | Olmstead Scholar 2021
Content 0 Resume 1 Beacons/Barriers: Art Installation 2 Landscape Memories: Theory 3 Land-Fill: Grading and Drainage 4 Plant Palette: Plant Design 5 Weaving Bays: AutoCAD 6 Climate Gradient: Model 7 Pop Parklet: Design 8 Riparian Protection: GIS Analysis 9 Narratives in Nature: Master's Project 10 Oil Paintings: Art
The Red Trail, Wintergreen print and marker
RESUME Taylor Bowden
EXPERIENCE
VOLUNTEERING
Community Assistance Fellow
DEI Student Taskforce
National Parks Service: Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance; Portland, OR | May 2021- Present
UO Landscape Architecture Department | Summer-Fall 2020
Community planner aiding grassroots land conservation and recreation projects in the Pacific Northwest. Mediated planning between vulnerable communities and open space/conservation experts. Workload includes facilitation work groups, community outreach coordination, diversity/equity/inclusion/justice planning, designing illustrative maps, and creating materials for grant applications.
ASLA Student Chapter President
Land Steward Internship Rosa Genesis, lithograph
MLA | Olmstead Scholar 2021
Friends of Buford Park; Eugene, OR | Summer 2020 Field work and maintenance of an 800 acre public natural area in Eugene, OR. Engaged in restoration, research, and design work for the non-profit land management organization and native plant nursery.
Botany Field Assistant
ASLA UO Student Chapter | Winter 2020-2021
Restoration Design Internship Friends of Buford Park | Winter 2019- Summer 2020
Live Move Member UO Student Planning & Public Policy Organization | Fall 2019- 2020
Planting Volunteer
Landscape Architecture Department; UO | Summer 2020
Eugene Friends of Trees | Fall 2019- 2020
Linked in - taybowden
Collecting plant species data with point-intercept surveys in oak and Ponderosa Pine savannas within the Willamette National Forest after prescribed burns. Fieldwork included weeks of camping onsite.
Urban Farm Volunteer
251-554-2684
Winter Plants Course: Graduate Teaching Assistant
Taybowden@gmail.com
UO Urban Farm | Fall 2017- 2021
Landscape Architecture Department; UO | Winter 2020
EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture University of Oregon, 2021
Bachelor of Science in Art
Leading a group of 20 grad and undergrad students in the identification of over 150 plants. Responsible for grading tests and assignments, routing and leading plant walks, and helping students succeed.
Graphic Designer Landscape Architecture Department: Fuller Center; UO | Fall 2019, Fall 2020 Designing and editing posters, art booklets, brochures, and photographs for publication. Art installation assistance, website redesign, and preparing a work guide for future employees.
University of Oregon, 2017
Lead Designer | Floral Events Manager
High School Diploma
Passionflower Design; Eugene, OR | March 2013 - March 2020
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, 2010
Floral designing, managing, and consulting for over 500 events and weddings. Featured in six publications, trained five entry-level florists, instructed public workshops, and established strong client relationships. Acted as lead designer, employee manager, event consultant, and product buyer.
PROFICIENCIES Analogue
Digital
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Painting: Oil/ Acrylic/ Watercolor Drawing: Charcoal/ Graphite/ Pixel Animation: Stop-motion/ Hand-drawn/ Digital Ceramics: Wheel / Hand building Printmaking: Linocut/ Woodcut/ Intaglio/ Silkscreen/ Lithography/ Monotype
Adobe CC Suite Auto-CAD Rhino/ Grasshopper Arc-GIS Sketchup Twin Motion
BEACONS/BARRIERS Overlook Field School, PA Munsee-Lenape Lands
Select artworks from a 6-week artists residency in rural Pennsylvania. This collection explores ‘barriers’—elements of the landscape that act to contain people due to fear, discomfort, and avoidance. A) The Beacons sculpture studies wayfinding tools and their potential to alert users to safety concerns on the trail. The modular cells of the sculpture can be added or removed, and their contents changed to represent the various possible barriers of a site.
A) Beacons, mixed material sculpture
B) 2/10 charcoal drawings exploring various ‘barriers’ found onsite.
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Identity
LANDSCAPE MEMORIES McKenzie River Valley, OR Molalla Lands
Spirit
Ecology
Narrative
B) Installation design representing the history of displacement and spirit of indigenous Molalla peoples... Grassland meadow
Landscape Memories suggests using land-art installations to tell a story about the McKenzie River Valley’s human identity. Addressing displacement and connection to place were pressing following the devastating 2020 fires, sharing parallels with Tribes’ past displacement.
Young Douglas Fir forest
Burned forest
Recreational trails
Old growth forest
Logging plantation
Rivers and streams
Human settlement
A) Oregon’s Trillium ovatum inspires a Venn-diagram combining the categories of ‘spirit’, ‘ecology’, and ‘narrative’ into narrower concepts, i.e. ‘mythology’ sits between ‘spirit’ and ‘narrative’. B) A Thuja plicata grows tall in the center of the historic Yakima blockhouse. This post once guarded the reservation preventing Natives from leaving and returning to their homelands.
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Mythology Ancestry
A) Diagrams exploring human identity in native landscapes
C) Sketches of the dominant land typologies of the McKenzie River
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Land-Fill is set atop a capped landfill on the Willamette riverfront. Exaggerated landforms explore the diverse upland and wetland prairies found in the Willamette Valley—paying homage to the native landscape while exposing human influence through the artifice of forms. This necklace of landforms yields unique views and spatial experiences for visitors.
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PLANT PALETTE Bay City, OR Tillamook Lands
Phormium tenax
Myrica californica
Agapanthus africanus
Perovskia atriplicifolia
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Arbutus unedo
Schizachyrium scoparium
Ceanothus gloriosus
Tropaeolum sp. Symphoricarpus albus Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora
Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi Pennisetum alopecuroides
Rosmarinus officinalis
Miscanthus sinensis
Thymus vulgaris
Nassella tenuissima
Sedum sp.
Hebe sp.
Irrigation-free planting plan for a small residential property overlooking Bay City, OR. Plants were chosen to highlight the coastal landscape and preserve the views of the bay. The client requested low maintenance and erosion control for the property’s slope, so a hardy plant mixture heavy with coastal natives were picked.
Garrya elliptica
B) Snapshot of the plant spreadsheet considering many site variables and seasonality MYCA LA PHTE FRCH
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Iris sp.
Calocedrus decurrens
Holodiscus discolor
Fragaria chiloenensis
Pinus thunbergii
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C) Planting bubble diagram loosely inspired by the plans of Piet Oudolf
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A redesign of a bayfront public park inspired by Coos Tribal baskets and seasonality wheels. This site is historically and presently used for fishing, crabbing, and clamming as well as a boat launch for Coos Natives. In this group project I was responsible for the layout plan and floating boat ramp design.
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CLIMATE GRADIENT University of Oregon, Eugene Kalapuya Lands
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The postmodern design represents how Oregon’s Douglas Fir forests will change in a warming climate. One end of this grid is lush with trees and water shifting to a desiccated landscape with downed logs littering the space. The design replaces an old romantic quad on the University of Oregon campus, reminding students to protect and advocate for our beloved forests with urgency.
Laser-cut cardboard base, cut paper, foam, wood.
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POP PARKLET Eugene, OR Kalapuya Lands
A) Parklet Plan
Public parklet in front of the historic WOW music hall and Food for Lane County soup kitchen in Eugene, OR. The energy inspired by pop arts contrasts with the white facade of the music hall. The parklet creates a much-needed space for daily soup kitchen patrons to rest and concert attendees to wait for the evening show.
B) Parklet section and precedent inspiration
C) Mixed media perspectives
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Land Use Land Cover of Willamette/Mckenzie Area lulc_rc Classified by Pollutants Agriculture*
Oregon Conservation Strategy target species Oregon Chub Oregonichthys crameri
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Bradshaw’s Desert Parsley Lomatium bradshawii
Western Pond Turtle Actinemys marmorata
Sand & Gravel Extraction Extraction* Vacant Open Space Open/andVacant Waterways Waterways
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OR Slender Salamander Batrachoseps wrightorum
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GIS Analysis Eugene, OR; Kalapuya Lands
Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Conservation Sites 1
Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
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Site 1: 816 Acres of Agricultural area Site 2: 757 Acres of Extraction area
Land use land cover % within 100m of a river or wetland This GIS analysis maps opportunities for riparian and wetland conservation along the confluence of the Willamette and McKenzie Rivers in Eugene, OR. These environments are habitat to several key conservation species according to the Oregon Conservation Strategy (OCS). Targeted conservation areas create a 100-meter buffer from run-off of industrial use, agriculture, and extraction. The analysis determines choice sites within Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife conservation opportunity areas. Prime sites also have large, continuous parcels to eventually expand restoration efforts.
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NARRATIVES IN NATURE
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DEIJ Master's Project Eugene, OR; Kalapuya Lands
A) Photo of in-person surveys personally conducted onsite for 6 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) face many barriers when trying to access public natural areas. This Master project focuses on the experiences of local individuals who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, or Latinx as the generative force for solutions that address the racial inequities of natural area access. The project’s process and resultant toolkit offer tangible steps that can be broadly applied to natural area parks within North America. The community engagement and research methods in this project demonstrate an approach that bridges community brainstorming and storytelling to suggest actionable items to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) within local natural areas for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities. The action items in the toolkit directly address multiple barriers, consider their difficulty and scale, and offer an example of how they may be applied. The full project contains over 30 modular tools suggested by Black, Indigenous, and Latinx folks following 12 one-on-one interviews and 3 focus groups. LINK TO FULL PROJECT DOCUMENT AND TOOLKIT LINK TO FINAL PRESENTATION
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C) Several tools suggested by Native participants. These suggestions combine to design a ‘Mt. Pisgah Camas Festival’ led by local Tribes.
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OIL PAINTINGS Paintings from Life
B) Peony
I have been an active oil painter since age 16, mostly focusing on stilllifes, portraiture, and landscape paintings. When painting landscapes, I prefer to be onsite to capture the ambience and light of the scene. Oil painting has informed all of my creative work; teaching me to balance color, texture, and evoke emotion.
A) Plein Air of Beacon Rock
C) Self Portrait
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