Join us for Art and Activism Preserve a Coastal Landscape by Village Laguna and supporting organizations.
Laguna Beach is the only entire city in the United States to have been recognized as a Historic American Landscape. Key to that honor is the preservation of the 22,000 acre Greenbelt that surrounds it. The dramatic and beautiful landscape inspired early artists who saw Laguna Beach as a cultural beacon. The artistic tradition inspired the creativity and activism that resulted in the village atmosphere and preserved our natural hillside and coastal landscapes.
Laguna Beach and the Greenbelt was accepted for the Historic American Landscape program by the National Park Service in 2017 and that documentation is now held in the Library of Congress. That submittal serves as the basis for the book “Laguna Beach and the Greenbelt Celebrating a Treasured Historic American Landscape” telling Laguna’s story. The second edition of the book will be released that evening.
Four of the authors of that book will present at the event: Tom Lamb (Historic American
Landscape Program), Ann Christoph (landscape and history), Eric Jessen (art and early artists), Bob Borthwick (preservation of Aliso Creek and the Greenbelt).
Doors 6:30pm
Presentation 7:00pm
Header image, “Laguna Coastline” by Joseph Kleitsch 1926, collection of John and Patricia Dilks is on the cover of the book.
