On March 8, Forest Park Forever President & Executive Director Lesley Hoffarth was honored by the St. Louis chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women at its 13th Annual Networking Awards.
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Each year, Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis bestow the Kathryn Nelson Keeper of Forest Park Award on outstanding individuals who demonstrate considerable energy and creativity for the benefit of Forest Park . This year's awardees were Tom DeBenedetti, Ali Hogan & SiSi Beltrán Martí.
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The Forest Park Forever community mourns the loss and honors the life of Sarah Kate Otto "Peasy" Love, an Emeritus Board of Directors member and our conservancy's first Board Chair.
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We were thrilled that this year, several members of our team were recognized by Explore St. Louis as Hospitality Heroes! We celebrated their commitment to service, along with all the other honorees, at a luncheon in late September.
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Families, couples, siblings and friends — amateurs or experienced — come to Jefferson Lake for quality time, the challenge of the sport and the peaceful quiet. Everyone has their own story as to why they’re there — why this is the place they’re certain to find their perfect catch.
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All of us at Forest Park Forever join the community in mourning the loss and honoring the life of Peter Sortino, a longtime parks advocate and Forest Park Forever Board member.
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Forest Park Forever is incredibly excited to announce the promotion of longtime Nature Reserve Steward Amy Witt to Park Ecologist! In this role, Amy will lead our fantastic Nature Reserve team and manage our conservation efforts in partnership with the City of St. Louis.
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Longtime Forest Park Forever Board of Directors member Peter Sortino has just been named Citizen of the Year by the St. Louis Citizen of the Year Committee and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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The 442s' Adam Maness answered a few questions about the band's residency in Forest Park and the new work they created as a result of it. Continue reading for the full interview and a slideshow of photos from the group's public concert where they debuted "The Forest Park Forever Suite."
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The third artist to participate in the first-ever Forest Park Forever Artist in Residence Program was Madeline Marak, a recent graduate from the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Over the course of the month of September, Madeline's installation took over a section of Forest Park's northeast corner. Her project, titled Framing the Land, took a hands-on approach to spotlighting an often overlooked section of the Park. Madeline's installation consisted of simple metal frames covered in reflective tape that Park visitors were invited to pick up and place somewhere in the landscape. This simple act served as a way of allowing visitors to experience and see this area more clearly by forcing them to really look at the space around them.
We were excited to follow up with Madeline now that her residency has come to a close and she has reflected on her time in Forest Park.
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