Collaborating with community organizations, business leaders and design professionals, Larry Kirkland has created large-scale, multi-dimensional public artworks found in institutional and municipal buildings, transit hubs, research facilities, public libraries, universities, and urban parks and plazas.
His commissioned work stands at Pennsylvania Station in New York City; the American Red Cross Headquarters and National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C.; Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan. A National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient, Kirkland has served as advisor, reviewer or juror for the U.S. General Services Administration’s Design Excellence and Arts Program; art and architecture competitions; arts master planning for New Jersey Transit; and the Public Art Network Council of Americans for the Arts.
A small, diverse corps of fine art, architecture and arboriculture professionals, Michael Vergason Landscape Architects is committed to timeless, innovative landscape design and masterful execution. Rigorously studying each project site’s history, culture and ecology, MVLA marries human use with the land’s temporal qualities and systems to create a powerful vision rekindling unity with nature.
MVLA’s many award-winning projects include educational and corporate campuses, museums, memorials, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, public parks and gardens, projects in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, across the United States and at culturally significant sites internationally. MVLA collaborated with artist Larry Kirkland in crafting and constructing MVLA’s competition-winning design for the Americans Disabled for Life Memorial adjacent to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
