Garden-designer student creates new exhibit celebrating the land YDS calls home

In the Divinity School’s Croll Family Entrance Hall, photographs showcasing plant life on the YDS campus now hang on the walls. Artistic installations of branches, rocks, seeds, and soil are arranged in windowsills and throughout the space, accompanied by the sounds of local birds, frogs, and crickets. The new exhibit, “This Earth Where We Live,” celebrates the land YDS calls home and invites visitors into a deeper, more spiritual exploration.

The exhibit was created and curated by horticulturist and garden designer Christopher Freimuth ’25 M.Div., who believes gardening is a spiritual practice. “At the Divinity School, so much of what we do is thinking and conceptualizing,” Freimuth says. “A lot of spiritual practice is getting outside of the mind and just feeling and being present. For the exhibit, I thought, ‘How can we add some of that to connect us with one another and with the land?’”

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