THE CLEARING

The Clearing was founded in 1935 by Jens Jensen, a Danish-born landscape architect. Many consider him to be the most important American landscape architect and The Clearing his "great work."... The Clearing is a folk school founded in 1935 by landscape architect Jens Jensen (1860-1951). This "school of the soil" is nestled within 128 acres of Door County forests and meadows and overlooks the dramatic Green Bay shoreline. It was built as a place where ordinary people could, as the name implies, "clear one's mind" by reconnecting with nature and with one another... After Jensen's death in 1951, his long time associate, Mertha Fulkerson, sought financial support from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau to help continue to develop Jensen's ideas. For 35 years, the Farm Bureau, along with the Friends of The Clearing, provided support for The Clearing's continuing development. In 1988, the Friends of The Clearing, with the approval of the Farm Bureau, completed a successful fund raising campaign..

Primary location: Ellison Bay United States