Lily Bruder-Zal ’04

Lily Bruder-Zal ’04 (Printmaking and Sculpture) owns and operates the Hudson Valley-based Vanishing Point Flower Farm in Highland, New York. On three acres of her 35-acre farm, she harvests prized lilies, lobelia, echinacea, columbine, and other rare flower varieties. Markets that carry her cut blossoms include Hudson Valley Flower Collective, Molly Oliver Flowers, Emily Thompson Flowers, and Fox Fodder Flowers. She employs up to five staff workers in the high season.

Growing up in the south of France, Bruder-Zal acquired an artist’s appreciation for the beauty of her surroundings. After attending the Visual Arts program at Purchase College, she worked intensively in landscape design for businesses, homes, and community gardens in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Bruder-Zal credits her training in Printmaking and Sculpture at Purchase for providing the inspiration to think wide open.

“Purchase shaped what I do in a lot of ways. Just the campus- being in that piece of nature- gave me opportunities to think about the intersection of human work in the natural space.”

She and husband Isaac Zal ’04 (Visual Arts) live on Vanishing Point Flower Farm, along with their two children and 15 “fairly rugged” sheep.