Everett Fly

Everett Fly is an American landscape architect based in San Antonio. Fly received the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2014.^[1]

Fly studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin (class of 1975)^[2] and, in 1977, became the first African American to earn a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.^[1][3]

Fly's clients have included municipal, state, and county governments, and the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.^[4] From 1994 to 2001, Fly served on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.^[5]