The Online Series - Collaborators
Stevie Famulari, Gds • Bronx, New York, USA
Environment + Game Design
Interpreting the word “Slut” in The Online Series
Stevie Famulari, Gds designs and teaches public art, phytoremediation applications, storm water management, landscape architecture history, and specialty green courses. Her research in design explores the relationship, extension, and application of green designs to other professional fields. Stevie’s PhD, ABD research is at RMIT. She received her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry with a concentration in Fine Arts from Syracuse University. Her bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts is from New York University.
Ms. Famulari’s work focuses on greening designs and practices to create healthy spaces for living and working. By applying the science of phytoremediation to the art of landscape design, her works have aesthetic beauty as well as healing properties for both people and environment. Her first book on this topic, Green Up! Sustainable Design Solutions for Healthier Work and Living Environments, by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group publishers, was released in 2019. She is currently working on her second book- Designing Green Spaces for Health: Using Plants to Reduce the Spread of Airborne Viruses.
Stevie’s projects include greenwalls; planted roofs; green remediation designs for interior and exterior applications; water remediation designed to benefit communities near oil fracking sites; designs for the Environmental Protection Agency in Colorado, Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, North Dakota State University, and the Ghost Ranch Visitor Center for the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Abiquiu, New Mexico; development of green design and policies on the UNM campus; flood control design for the Red River in North Dakota; and green design on numerous residential sites nationally.
Stevie Famulari’s phytoremediation database of plants that clean the air, soil, and water of contaminants has been used by the EPA, landscape architecture, and engineering firms, and government agencies. She has been an investigator for grants which explore remediation design for oil drilling processes, the improvement of air quality, remediation design for communities, and interior green applications.
Her work in greening designs, practices, research, and education can be seen nationally and internationally through awards, lectures, books, presentations, and exhibitions at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Smithsonian, Plains Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Natural History, UC Berkeley, International Phytotechnology Society, MECA, UNM, UMN, ASLA, and AIA.
Stevie’s work has appeared in hundreds of books, magazines, newspapers, and television programs, including Food Network Challenges and Specials, NBC Evening News, Oakland Tribune, World Entertainment News Network, The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Travel Channel, Good Morning America, CBS Early Morning News, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington Post, The Post Standard, Trust for Public Land, Boston Herald, Berkeley Daily Planet, NY Village Voice, Santa Fe Reporter, and Star Tribune.
Ms. Famulari has been a professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design for over a decade, as well as a director, a green artist, an author, and a researcher. She is currently a professor at Farmingdale State College, the State University of New York, in the Department of Urban Horticulture and Design. She has also worked as a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at NDSU and UNM.
Stevie Famulari is changing the way people live and work in their spaces- in any scale, interior, exterior or unique site conditions- to create healthy living spaces.
Artist Statement –
Stevie Famulari, Gds, is Director of Engaging Green, with works which are a reflection of the human spirit in all of its forms. She has an extensive background working with a variety of sustainable materials with the technical knowledge to create designs which encourage public and personal awareness.
Stevie’s green designs in the landscape and community create places of engagement and pride. She bridges the gap of generational, social and cultural value systems by creating works which appeal to the user’s spirit. Her works creates social engagement, communication and human connections through communication and actions.
She has created permanent and temporary designs for the Smithsonian AIB, Georgia O’Keefe Visitors Center, SUNY Campus’, National Rooftops & Interiors, Plains Art Museum, and more.
In addition to her own works, Stevie returned to NYC in 2005 for a few months to work on Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The Gates’ as crew captain.
Questioning traditional landscape practices has been a large part of Stevie’s artwork for over twenty years. Understanding the ecological processes, using the community and individual stories of a site, and working with light, color, texture, scent, scale are part of the process she uses to create site-specific works. She is widely recognized for the interactive nature of her work as well as her inclusion of humor, remediation and environmentally friendly media that speak volumes about her environmental consciousness.