GARDEN PATRONS Jill & Peter Kraus Alumna Jill Gansman Kraus and her husband, Peter Kraus, of New York City have joined Carnegie Mellon University to create the Kraus Campo.  Mrs. Kraus is a trustee of the university who is deeply dedicated to advancing the role of contemporary art in the life and environment of the university. The Krauses have inspired the vision to create a public art collection on campus that will both physically enhance the university and reflect the preeminence of the School of Art and its world reknown alumni artists. In addition to serving on Carnegie Mellon's Board of Trustees, Mrs. Kraus also serves on the board of the World Studio Foundation in New York City and with her husband, co-chairs the Friends of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.  Mr. Kraus serves on the Board of Overseers at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and is a trustee of Trinity College in Hartford.
	ARTIST Mel Bochner Mel Bochner, a Pittsburgh native who graduated from the College of Fine Arts in 1962, is an internationally acclaimed artist associated with the founding of the Conceptual Art Movement in the mid-1960s. His work has been exhibited for more than 30 years, including retrospective exhibitions at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Bochner’s art is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, The Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Recently, his work has been featured at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in the exhibition “A Minimal Future?” and the “2004 Whitney Biennial.
	LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Michael Van Valkenburgh Since its founding in 1982, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA) has directed the design and construction of more than 300 landscapes worldwide. MVVA’s work has received many design awards, including a Citation from Progressive Architecture for Allegheny Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh; the Honor Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects for Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana; and the Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for the Vera List Courtyard at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Michael Van Valkenburgh holds a National Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Board certification and is also a registered landscape architect in 20 states, including Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Iowa and Tennessee. Van Valkenburgh holds a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University College of Agriculture (1973) and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois (1977). He was a 1988 Advanced Design Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and is the Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.