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Samuel is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He plans to spend his time at OSGF working on several projects: two article-length bibliographical essays on Geoffroy Linocier’s Histoire des Plantes (1619) and Paul Contant’s Les Oeuvres (1628), and revisions for his doctoral dissertation, which studies antiquarianism in seventeenth century England.
Sarah is the director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH, the world’s largest collection of printed materials on the Virgin Mary. Along with Jason W. Dean, she is working on an exhibit and book project focused on the life and work of illustrator and naturalist S. Fred Prince, Jr. (1857-1949), whom they both have been researching for several years. Learn more about Sarah at https://sarahburkecahalan.com.
Kate is a painter currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores the ways in which human beings and the natural world are connected, with her recent paintings reflecting how the human body mirrors systems in nature. Kate plans to use her residency to work on a stop-motion animation for her solo exhibition at the Hesse Flatow Gallery in New York City. To learn more about her work, visit www.kateklingbeil.com
Cecil is an artist and landscape architect currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is “an exploration of place: how it evolves, how we connect with it, and how we can design it.” During her residency, she plans to explore the relationship between gardens and gardeners and the hope that can emerge from these reciprocal relationships. To learn more about Cecil, visit www.cecilhowell.com
Carson is a plant conservation biologist and horticulturist who received her Masters of Science in Biology at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee, North Carolina. While at Oak Spring, she worked on research on high elevation rock outcropping floral visitation networks for her masters thesis.
Clio Doyle is a PhD Candidate in English and Renaissance Studies at Yale University. Their dissertation, “Rough Beginnings: Imagining the Origins of Agriculture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain,” argues that these periods in British history were, because of environmental crises such as Enclosure and the colonization and development of the Americas, periods of urgent attention to the relationship between humans and the environment.”
Quynh is currently an MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work, which spans performance, installation, video, and mixed media, is inspired by ecology, feminism, and plant matter. Learn more about her work at https://www.quynh-lam.com/
Beshouy is a researcher who examines processes of racialization by telling the connected imperial histories. Currently, they are working on a project that explores the cotton trade between Egypt and the United States during the United States Civil War and how it contributed to broader, global racial discourses. To learn more about them, visit https://www.nnaac.org/beshouy_botros.
Evan is an artist currently based in Gainesville, Florida. The sculptures, installation, and ecological inventions he creates are inspired by the interconnected worlds of plant, animal, and mineral. His current project, Pulp Gardens, is an interspecies collaboration and installation that invites visitors and the public to learn and engage with it.
“Orange Branch” by Olivia Mendoza
Olivia is an illustrator and designer based in Michigan. She specializes in realism and natural subject matter, and is “interested in the intricacy and beauty in the details of natural things.” Learn more about her at https://www.oliviamendozaillustration.com/.
“Magnolia” by Charlotte Ricker
Charlotte is a scientific illustrator and avid outdoorswoman “interested in studying the interconnectedness of all living things.” She has spent many years as an architect and city planner, and translates that methodical, analytical approach to her science illustrations. Learn more about her at https://www.rickerstudio.com.
Artist and educator Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, and raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. Learn more about him at http://fidenciofperez.com, and read an interview with him on our blog.
Eve Allen is a Master in City Planning Candidate, Environmental Policy and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research focuses on developing strategies to weave plant genetic diversity into the fabric of cities and suburbs. You can learn more about her on our blog.
Aleca Borsuk is a Ph.D candidate in Plant Ecophysiology at Yale University whose research interests are plant morphology, plant physiology, and bio-inspired technology. Her work aims to improve carbon assimilation models based on a new, spatially resolved understanding of leaf internal anatomy. Learn more about her on our blog.
Artist and scholar Brittany Carson holds a master’s degree in Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology from North Carolina State University. She has worked as a horticulturist and researcher in Madagascar, Botswana, and throughout the U.S. Her research explores a botanical sense of place from an Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) perspective. Learn more about her on our blog.
Rachel Koroloff is a historian whose work focuses on the creation and maintenance of Russia’s botanical and medical gardens from the seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries. She is currently an early-career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg University of Göttingen in Germany, where she is finishing her book, An Empire in Flower: Russia’s Gardens Between East and West, 1630 to 1760. Learn more about her here.
Charlotte Leib is currently a PHD candidate in the history department at Yale University. Her work focuses on histories of the built environment, landscape architecture, and the perceptions, representations and repercussions of environmental and technological change in North America during the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. At Oak Spring, she carried out research for the project, ‘Surveying Sites Unseen: Trees, Representation and Power,’ which investigates the ways that trees were represented by American surveyors, scientists, and artists in the late 19th-century. Learn more about her here.
Candace Thompson is a performer and media maker, who has “always been fascinated by the feedback loops generated by place, culture, identity, gender, race, climate, politics, and simple human interaction.” Their many projects include films, web projects, audiobooks, music and ritualistic interventions “that challenge and examine the truths we purportedly hold to be self-evident.” Learn more about their projects by following them on Instagram at @thec_u_r_b.
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her dissertation project investigates the artistic and knowledge production of painted and printed flower books from Germany and the Low Countries in the long seventeenth century (c. 1575–1725). Her research intersects topics in the history of art, science, and the book, and experiments with methods in material culture and digital humanities. Applying the concept of “making and knowing” and “learning by doing,” Jessie particularly engages with historical reworking/remaking as an empirical way to inquire into producing (color) images of the plant world. Jessie’s research at Oak Spring will support her PHD dissertation on seventeenth-century flower books “Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages,” a project which investigates the artistic and knowledge production of early modern botanical watercolors and their contribution to the development of plant science. You can learn more about her at https://jessieweihsuanchen.com.
To read about Jessie’s research, visit our blog.
Josepha Richard is a historian specialised in 18-19th century China, with a specific interest in the urban history of Guangzhou (Canton) and Sino-Western interactions under the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese history at the department of Historical Studies in Bristol University, England. Recently she became an Oak Spring Garden Foundation fellow at the University of Bristol as part of the John Bradby Blake project. The latter combines history of art and science by analysing botanically accurate paintings of Chinese plants commissioned by British trader John Bradby Blake in late 18th century Guangzhou, and Blake's abundant handwritten manuscripts on the plants.
As part of her Stacy Lloyd III grant, Josepha will be comparing Blake painting commissions and manuscripts held in OSGF with other archives containing parts of Blake's collections in the UK.
“The OSGF library is a dream come true for a researcher,” wrote Josepha of her research at Oak Spring. “I have never found quite such a unique blend of beauty and practicality, comfort and access to rare books and artworks. In particular, I have found the availability of different manuscripts of Western botanical artworks to compare with Blake’s hybrid Sino-British botanical paintings invaluable.”
To learn more about Josepha and her research, follow her on Twitter or visit our blog.