Emma Steinkraus, 2020

Eliza Moore Fellow, 2020

Emma Steinkraus is an artist, curator, assistant professor, and the visual arts editor of the contemporary poetry and art magazine Company Journal, currently based in Farmville, VA. Her work combines paintings, photo transfers, and installations to explore gender and ecology. Her project for the Eliza Moore fellowship, Impossible Garden, documents the contributions of women to natural history and scientific illustration by assembling thousands of images of the animals, insects, and plants created by 130 of history’s female scientific artists working between the 15th and 19th centuries into a mural wallpaper.

To learn more about Emma, visit www.emmasteinkraus.com/. 

To see more of her work and read about her project for the Eliza Moore Fellowship, visit our Shelter in Art Exhibit and our blog. 

Maddison Colvin, 2020

Eliza Moore Fellow, 2020

Maddison Colvin is an interdisciplinary visual artist residing in Utah who currently works in Brigham Young University’s Department of Art.  Her work focuses on themes of ecology, built environment, and communal knowledge, and spans media from painting to video game design. Her project for the Eliza Moore Fellowship, titled Eden(s), explores humankind’s visual, aesthetic, and cultural responses to gardens by weaving together essays, photos, drawings, paintings, and facsimiles of other botanical work into a book. Learn more about Maddison at http://maddisoncolvin.com/. 

To see more of Maddison’s work and read about her project for the Eliza Moore Fellowship, visit our blog.  

Tamer Hassan, Fall

Digital Artist in Residence, Fall 2020

Alumni Artist in Residence, 2020

Tamer Hassan is a filmmaker based in Chicago. His current work focuses on the way people relate to their environment and traditions, and has included films on the history of seed saving in the U.S. Currently, he is researching the migration of purple martins, birds that are dependent on humans for survival. His films have been screened nationally and internationally. To see some of Tamer’s work, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.

Shilpa Joglekar, Fall

Digital Artist in Residence, Fall 2020

Shilpa Joglekar is an artist practicing drawing, installation, painting, and sculpture. Based in Mumbai, India,  she  founded and was the first Dean of Academy of Fine Arts & Crafts in Rachana Sansad, Mumbai. Her work, which explores human relationships with nature, has been exhibited throughout India and abroad. Learn more about her at http://shilpajoglekar.com. 

Sarah Jones, Fall

Digital Artist in Residence, Fall 2020

Sarah Jones is an artist and garden designer who works in fiber arts and installation. Based in Seattle, WA, her current work examines “plant extinction and the grief presented by climate change.” Her art has been exhibited throughout the U.S. Learn more about her at www.sarahjonesstudio.com. To see some of her work, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.

Lauren Winchester, Fall

Digital Artist in Residence, Fall 2020

Lauren Winchester is a poet based in San Carlos, California. Her poems explore humanity’s relationship with the natural world and have appeared in The Journal, Passages North, TYPO, BOAAT, and other publications. Learn more about her at www.laurenwinchester.com. To read Lauren’s poetry, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.

Alyssa Dennis

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Alyssa Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and practicing clinical herbalist. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., and her illustration clients have included the National Aquarium and the National Children’s Museum. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she is currently working on a project that explores the human concept of invasive species. Learn more about her at www.alyssadennis.com To see more of Alyssa’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.

Alexis Elton, Fall

Digital Artist in Residence, Fall 2020

Alexis Elton is an artist practicing sculpture and installation. A farmer and adobe builder who co-operated a farm in rural New Mexico, “her work is situated where art and agrarian systems meet with aims to create ephemeral sensory encounters.” She has shown her work nationally and internationally. She is based in Hudson Valley, NY. Learn more about her at www.alexiselton.com. To see some of her work, visit our Fall 2020 Shelter in Art Exhibit.

Stewart Allen, Summer

 Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020
Socially-Distanced Residence, Summer 2020  

Stewart Allen is a writer based in NY, NY. His published nonfiction books include The Devil’s Cup and In the Devil’s Garden, both of which deal with international foodways and religious plants. He is currently working on a novel that explores similar topics.

To read some of Stewart’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Madelaine Corbin, Summer

 Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020 
Socially-Distanced Residence, Summer 2020

Madelaine Corbin is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in drawing, fiber arts, installation, sculpture, and writing/prose. Her practice “endeavors to unearth the space between home and land, human and non-human, wild and managed landscapes, and the connection to one another through geographic distance.” She is based in Detroit, MI. Learn more about her at  www.madelainecorbin.com. 

To see more of Madelaine’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Kaitlin Bryson, Summer

 Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020 

Kaitlin Bryson is an artist and ecologist whose disciplines include drawing, fiber arts, installation, landscape design, and sculpture. She comes from a biodynamic and permaculture farming background that inspires her “restorative, earth-based practices.”  Her current work examines interactions between fungi and heavy metals. She is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Learn more about her at www.kaitlinbryson.com. 

To see more of Kaitlin’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

James Jack, Summer

 Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020  

James Jack is an artist and an assistant professor of Art Practice at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, who is “concerned with rejuvenating stories that exist in the world.” His work has been exhibited and published in  Asia and the U.S. Learn more about him at www.jamesjack.org. 

To see more of James’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Calista Lyon, Summer

Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020 
Socially-Distanced Residency, Fall 2020

Calista Lyon is an artist who works in film, installation, photography, sculpture, theater arts, writing/prose. A native of Australia based in Columbus, Ohio, she is currently working on a multi- year, multi-disciplinary project centered on an Australian native orchid collection created by an individual from her family’s farming community which examines the consequences of human action on nonhuman lives. A performance piece which she performed during her residency at OSGF, The Unknown and the Unnamed, draws from her research for the project. Learn more about her at www.calistalyon.com.

To see more of Calista’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Benjamin Heller, Summer

 Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020  

 Benjamin Heller is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work blends elements of installation, photography, sculpture, and theater arts. His site-specific sculptures and other work has been performed, exhibited and installed throughout the U.S.  He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about him here. 

 To see more of Benjamin’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Amie Whittemore, Summer

Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020 
Socially-Distanced Residency, Fall 2020

Amie is a poet whose work explores issues of place, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of Glass Harvest and is currently based in Murfreesboro, TN, where she is the city’s 2020 Poet Laureate and a lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University. Read more about her at www.amiewhittemore.com.

To see more of Aimee’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Aimee Lee, Summer

 Digital Artist in Residence, Summer 2020
Socially-Distanced Residence, Summer 2020 

Aimee is an artist and writer who practices sculpture, installation, and fiber arts. She is the author of Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking and the founder of the first hanji studio in North America. Aimee is currently based in Cleveland, OH. During her residency at Oak Spring, she used a variety of plant materials growing at the site, including milkweed and okra from the Biocultural Conservation Farm, for papermaking.  Read more about her at www.aimeelee.net. 

To see more of Aimee’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit. 

Kandis Phillips, 2020

‘Marsh Wren Nest 1’ by Kandis Phillips

Botanical Artist in Residence, 2020

Alumni Artist in Residence, 2020

Kandis Phillips is a natural science illustrator currently based in Maryland. While she typically draws from museum specimens to document them for scientific research purposes, her personal work relates to what she observes in nature, and is inspired and influenced by poetry (specifically, the work of Emily Dickinson) and history, including metalpoint, a renaissance era drawing technique.  She is interested in the relationship between birds and plants, and while at OSGF, she observed and documented grassland birds and the flora in their habitats.

“Being able to go out and walk with no time constraints on me whatsoever to explore this new environment and to really think about these Meadow birds and their interactions with plants was truly a gift,” said Kandis of her time at Oak Spring. 

 You can learn more about Kandis at https://kvermeerphillips.com. 

To see Kandis’s work, visit our Shelter Art Exhibit and read this Q&A blogpost about her time at Oak Spring. 

Kristan Hanson, 2019

Stacy Lloyd fellow, 2019

Kristan Hanson  is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas, where her research focuses on women and horticulture in late nineteenth-century French visual culture. 

“My dissertation topic aligns perfectly with Rachel Lambert Mellon’s collection of rare and unique materials pertaining to plants, gardens, and landscapes as well as her interest in French Impressionist paintings,” Kristan said.

During her residency, Kristan consulted rare books, botanical illustrations, and other resources related to her dissertation "In Bloom: Women and Horticulture in French Visual Culture, 1860s-1880s." The interdisciplinary project examined how painters responded to the key roles of Parisian women and plant mobility in local and global horticultural networks.  Kristan used the library’s collections to research the emergence of domestic gardening and floral arranging as gendered leisure pursuits, the contributions of understudied women artists to the field of botanical illustration, as well as the formation of transregional horticultural trade routes and their impact on social practices and artistic representations in nineteenth-century France. A focus of her research were the botanical illustrations of pelargoniums by artists Lise Cloquet and Baroness van Lyden, whose work helped to establish a fashion for those flowers in 1820s Europe. 

You can read more about Kristan  here. 

Jeanne Medina, Spring

 Two-week Curated artist in residence, Spring 2019

Jeanne Medina is an interdisciplinary artist based in LA who works between textiles, fashion, and performance.  She has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fibers at Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) in Portland, OR, and has researched and worked on projects in Belgium, Guatemala, and the US.

 Spending time at Oak Spring gave Jeanne, who said she is accustomed to working in urban environments, the opportunity to explore her relationship with nature and the materials she uses in her art via exploration of the foundation’s archives, Bunny Mellon’s design work, and the landscape.

To see more of Jeanne’s work, click here. 

Jamē McCray, Spring

 Two-Week Curated artist in residence, Spring 2019 

Jamē McCray is a dancer, choreographer, and ecologist. She holds a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, and is interested in using dance as a narrative to start conversations about climate change and other issues related to the environment. She spent much of her residency at Oak Spring exploring the library, where she said she was inspired by the different ways scientists in the past thought and communicated about the natural world.