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Awards
2013 Gottlieb Foundation Grant recipient.
National Endowment for the Arts Grant for DeCordova and Dana Museum and Sculpture Park Bannister Trees commission. 1990
Art Matters, Inc. Monetary Award. 1986
Speaking
Windham County Vermont Regional Woodlands Association, Natural Tree Art: The work of artist Dan Ladd. June 16, 2018
Art of Wood, Yale Graduate School of Forestry, reception and artist's talk, Kroon Hall, Yale Univ., New Haven , CN. February, 2013
Notes from CEEDS, announcement, Feb., 22, 2012 https://smithceeds.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/notes-from-the-field-station-dan-ladd-sculpture-proposed-for-macleish/
Knoxville, Tenn. School System and the Tennessee Water Resources Research Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Demonstrations, work shops, and artist's presentation to high school students, and to educators and curricula administrators involved in in-place based learning and outdoor classroom programs. Spring 2010
Visiting Artist /Guest Lecture, Sculpture Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Ma. Fall 2007
Honorary Speaker, Studio for Creative Inquiry, College of Art, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburg, Pa. Spring 2002
Reviews and References to Dan Ladd
Fifield, George, “It’s Alive: Artists Work with Living Tissue,” ART NEW ENGLAND April/May, 1998. Vol 19, Number 3
Glueck Grace “Silo Meets Satellite Dish In the New New England” Art Review, The New York Times, Sept. 4, 1998
Hobson, Jake The Art of Creative Pruning, Timber Press, London 2011 ISBN 978-1-60469-114-6
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, “Extreme Nature,” catalogue for the show. University of Massachusetts, February, 2000.
“Moulded Gourds,” VESCH MAGAZINE photo essay. Kiev, Ukraine, Fall, 2006
Temin, Christine, “Plant Images Sprouting with Life,” THE BOSTON GLOBE. Sept. 26, 2003
“Want a living chair ?” THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, Express News Services, Chennai - Mumbai, India. 30 August, 2017
Zadick, Madelaine, “Plants As Artistic Creations,” Botanic Garden News,
The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Fall 2011
Zimmer, William, Art Review, NEW YORK TIMES, August 8, 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping - Chronology of noted Practitioners