Jack Sullivan

Jack Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland and a licensed landscape architect in Maryland and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University (BFA 1975) and the University of Virginia (MLA 1980), a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR 1983), and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA 2005).
 
Between 2001 and 2012, Sullivan was program coordinator for the BLA and MLA at Maryland. He presently teaches courses in graphic communication and the design of sustainable urban landscapes. In 2012, Sullivan was the guest curator for “Landscape as Laboratory” at the Evergreen Museum and Library (Baltimore), for which his students designed and installed ten landscape sculptures throughout the 26-acre grounds. He is a design consultant for the Healing Garden at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, a project supported with grants from the TKF Foundation. He is on the board of directors of the Neighborhood Design Center (Baltimore and Prince George’s County) and the Urban Resources Initiative (Baltimore). He is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Africa Today (Indiana University Press) with articles about landscapes of Africa by University of Maryland and Smithsonian Institution scholars.

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