Oak Spring Garden Foundation Announces 2022 Fellows
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The Oak Spring Garden Foundation is very pleased to announce our four Fellows for 2021. These fellowships, which include a $10,000 individual grant, are our most prestigious awards, designed to support emerging leaders working in areas related to plants, gardens, and landscapes.
Since 2018, we have offered our annual Stacy Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Study and our Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence, named in honor of OSGF founder Bunny Mellon’s children, to talented artists and scholars. In 2021, we were very excited to offer two new fellowships for those working in scientific fields: our Fellowship in Plant Science Research and our Fellowship in Plant Conservation Biology. You can visit this post to read about our 2021 Fellows, and search the Meet Our Fellows tag to read about the work of some of our alumni fellows.
Congratulations to our 2022 fellows:
Phoebe Springstubb, 2022 Stacy Lloyd III Fellow
Phoebe Springstubb is a PhD candidate in Art and Architectural History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current doctoral research is a comparative study of the visual cultures of the North American and Russian Arctics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Ariana Benson, 2022 Eliza Moore Fellow
Ariana Benson is a poet from Chesapeake, VA who is currently based in London, England. Her work often interrogates questions of language, environmental concerns, and the connection between African Diasporic peoples and the natural landscape. You can learn more about her at https://arianabenson.wordpress.com.
Ixchel González-Ramírez, 2022 Plant Science Research Fellow
Photo by Debora Brandt. The photo was taken while Ixchel was collecting Asterella californica across California, a project funded by the California Conservation Genomics Project.
Ixchel González-Ramírez is a plant evolutionary biologist and a current PhD candidate in the Mishler lab in the Integrative Biology Department, at Berkeley. She is interested in the diversity and evolution of fruit-free plants, especially (but not exclusively) liverworts and conifers. You can learn more about her at https://ixchelgzlzr.github.io.
Jessamine Finch, 2022 Plant Conservation Biology Fellow
Jessamine Finch is a botanist and plant conservationist currently based in Framingham, MA. She manages the Seed Bank of the New England Plant Conservation Program (NEPCoP) at Native Plant Trust, the nation’s first plant conservation organization. You can learn more about the organization at www.nativeplanttrust.org.
We are excited to welcome Phoebe, Ariana, Ixchel, and Jessamine to Oak Spring in 2021. Visit our Fellowships Page to learn more about our fellowship opportunities. Applications for our 2023 fellowships and residencies will open in the first quarter of 2022.