Oak Spring Garden Foundation Announces 2023 Fellows
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Oak Spring Garden Foundation is pleased to announce our 2023 Fellows. These fellowships are designed to support early-career practitioners, working on new projects that focus on plants, gardens, and landscapes, and the arts and culture of them.
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 outstanding scholars and artists. Our Fellowship in Plant Science Research and our Fellowship in Plant Conservation Biology and have been awarded annually since 2021.
Applications for 2024 Fellowships opens February 14th, 2023.
See below to learn about each Fellow.
Phillippa Pitts, 2023 Stacy B. Lloyd III Fellow
Phillippa Pitts is a Horowitz Foundation Fellow for American Art at Boston University. Her research questions social, political, and racial borders within American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the aspirations and anxieties around expansion, immigration, xenophobia, and Indigeneity that underpin such constructions.
Nazafarin Lotfi, 2023 Eliza Moore Fellow
Nazafarin Lotfi is currently a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. Through her multidisciplinary approach, she explores humanness in relation to nonhuman bodies and places that are defined by practices of map-making and gardening. To learn more about her work, visit her website.
Ingmar Staude, 2023 Plant Conservation Biology Fellow
Dr. Ingmar Staude is Senior Scientist of the group "Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity" at Leipzig University. Ingmar’s research focus is centered around understanding nature’s strategy to cope with anthropogenic global change using theoretical, inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches.
Anna Wyngaarden, 2023 Plant Science Research Fellow
Anna Wyngaarden is a masters candidate at the University of Georgia. Her research focus is centered around rare plants and more specifically, rock outcrop communities in the Southeastern U.S.
