Mark Zelonis
Mark Zelonis, Hon. ASLA, LALH treasurer, is president of Cultural Excursions, where he leads tours of gardens, landscapes, and other cultural sites. He is retired Ruth Lily Deputy Director of Environmental and Historic Preservation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where he oversaw the landscapes of the 152-acre museum complex: Oldfields, a 26-acre American Country Place estate; the IMA’s main campus; and the 100-acre Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. Zelonis also managed the Dan Kiley-designed landscape of the J. Irwin Miller House and Garden, a National Historic Landmark. Previously, Zelonis served as executive director of the Heritage Trust of Rhode Island; as executive director at Blithewold Mansion & Gardens in Bristol, Rhode Island; and as director of Fuller Gardens, North Hampton, New Hampshire.
Zelonis earned a BS at the University of New Hampshire, an MS in the Longwood Program in Public Horticulture Administration, and a museum studies certificate at the University of Delaware. He also studied in the Program for the Protection and Conservation of Historic Landscapes, Parks and Gardens, at West Dean College in Chichester, England. He serves on the Indiana Landmarks’ Cultural Landscape Committee and is an honorary member of the Horticultural Club of Boston and the Indianapolis Garden Club.