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Cherie Kluesing was an American landscape architect, designer, and educator. She wrote extensively on land art and landscape architecture.

Education
Kluesing received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Bradley University and continued her studies at Temple University, Tyler School of Art. In 1978 she received her Masters of Landscape Architecture degree from University of Illinois.

Teaching
Kluesing was an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) from 1982 - 1985, where she taught with Laurie Olin, Pete Walker, Carl Steinitz, Dana Tomlin, and Michael Van Valkenburgh.

Professional Work
Kluesing began professional practice with Walker Design Group in Belmont, Massachusetts. She was a partner in Walker-Kluesing Design Group from 1985 to 1989.

Honors and Awards
Individual Project Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program Grant, 'New Landscapes: Observing the National Collection', 1984 - 1985

Research Grant, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 'Observing the National Landscape: 25 Years of Art on the American Landscape', 1983

Outstanding Educator Award, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, 1981

Honors and Awards with Walker-Kluesing Design Group
Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Visitor Center Park, Lawrence Heritage State Park, 1994

Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, Boston Common Management Plan, 1992

Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, 1992

Publications

 * "Site Artists: The Role of Outsiders in Landscape Design"  Landscape Architecture, Volume 78, No. 3, pp 120, 104, 106, April/May 1988
 * "Art: Creative Experiments in Re-Use of Mined Land", Rock Products Magazine, June 1987
 * "New Realities: The Artist in the Landscape", Radcliffe Quarterly, March, 1987.
 * "Site-Specific Art: Landscape as Medium", Art New England, May 1986.

The Cherie Kluesing Fellowship
The Cherie Kluesing Fellowship is a full tuition fellowship that is awarded to an entering graduate student in Landscape Architecture who shows the best promise for integrating art and design.

Category:American women architects Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni Category:Architects from New Jersey Category:Living people