About

Phoebe Lickwar is an artist and landscape architect based in Austin Texas. She is founding Principal of FORGE Landscape Architecture and an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work centers on the powerful relationship between planetary health and the vegetal world. Lickwar graduated with honors from Harvard College, where she studied art history and visual and environmental studies. She received a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of the 2022 Garden Club of America Rome Prize in landscape architecture.

Key themes in Lickwar’s recent work include the preservation of remnant agrarian heritage landscapes, the recovery of an architectural agriculture, and the restoration of land degraded by commodity agriculture. She is co-author of the book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes, which describes the history of agriculture within landscape architecture and reveals the diversity of current design practices that have shaped productive farms as sites of beauty, community, ecological conservation, remediation, and pleasure. Her current project Promiscuous Cultures documents the remains of a highly architectural climate resilient farming practice in central Italy, offering a critical counterpoint to dominant systems of monoculture.

Lickwar’s work has been has been featured in international juried exhibitions at Rayko Gallery in San Francisco, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Copley Society of Art in Boston, and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. Publications include Places Journal, LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, and the Journal of Landscape Architecture.