View another sacred space location: Washington, DC Metro • American Psychological Association • ARC of Prince George's County, The • Crispus Attucks Development Corporation • Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc. • Green Spaces for DC-9/11 Memorial Groves • National Park Foundation-Georgetown Waterfront Park • Providence Hospital • St. Luke's Episcopal Church • St. Philip the Evangelist Episcopal Church-Anacostia Community Park • St. Anthony’s of Padua Catholic Church-Falls Church • University of Maryland, College Park • Washington Parks & People-Marvin Gaye Park • Whitman Walker Clinic of Northern Virginia Baltimore Metro • Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church • American Visionary Art Museum • Baltimore Clayworks • Bon Secours Spiritual Center • Children’s Peace Center, Inc., The • Franklin Square Hospital Center • Friends of Patterson Park • Govans Presbyterian Church • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center • Kids on the Hill, Inc. • League for People with Disabilities, Inc., The • Marian House • Metropolitan Transition Center • Mount Washington Preservation Trust, Inc.-Mt. Washington Arboretum • Newborn Holistic Ministries, Inc. • Seton Hill Neighborhood Association, Inc. • Northeast Interfaith Peace Garden • St. James Episcopal Church of Irvington • St. Paul’s School • Stadium Place-Thanksgiving Place Labyrinth • UMBC-Joseph Beuys Project • UMMS-Kernan Hospital • Western Correctional Institution Annapolis • Annapolis Maritime Museum • Anne Arundel Medical Center • ARC of Anne Arundel County, The • Arundel Community Development Services, Inc.-Wiley H. Bates Memorial Courtyard • Baltimore Washington Medical Center • Chesapeake Bay Foundation • Annapolis Waterworks Park • Leon Wolfe Park • Maritime Republic of Eastport- Jeremy’s Way Street End Park • Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Other • Central Park Conservancy-New York City, NY • University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

 

 

 

UMBC-Joseph Beuys Project

Type/Features

Community Park

Address

1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery/

Contact

Sandra Abbott, Museum Educator & Registrar
410-455-1440

The Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership was inspired by German visual artist Joseph Beuys' (1921-1986) extensive 7000 Oaks tree planting project - a far-reaching visionary program that transformed the sidewalks and landscape of Kassel, Germany, with the planting of 7000 oak trees between 1982 and 1987.  Joseph Beuys used an image of an oak tree on a postcard announcing his original project in 1982, and wrote below the tree: "An Idea Takes Root." By involving so many community members, ideas will take root, and people will get themselves in motion - to plant more trees and improve their communities in other creative, self-determined ways. As part of the Tree Partnership, over two hundred trees were planted among Patterson Park, Carroll Park, and Wyman Dell Park, all within Baltimore City. Thirty trees and stones were placed at UMBC’s sacred space, and each year the ensuing growth of each tree adds to the significance of the site.

Three additional Joseph Beuys sites can be found in Baltimore City Parks:
Carroll Park (100 trees)
Patterson Park (100 trees)
Wyman Park Dell (12 trees)

Designer

Environmental Restoration, Inc.