Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence

The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2-5 week stay at Oak Spring. While at OSGF, the Fellow will be able to meet with staff, explore the 700-acre landscape and sustainable land management efforts, and visit the rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects, including many examples of botanical art. OSGF intends to award the Fellowship to an exceptional artist whose works show remarkable promise to contribute to a deeper understanding of the natural world, and humankind's place in it. The Fellow will be scheduled to visit when there are other Interdisciplinary Residents or Fellows on-site, allowing participation in communal meals, optional activities and field trips with other artists, ecologists, researchers, or scholars working on projects related to OSGF's mission. At the culmination of their stay, Fellows are encouraged, but not required, to give a 20-30 minute presentation to Oak Spring staff and other program participants. Fellows are carefully selected through a multi-round review process in which OSGF staff, residency alumni, and external jurors review and score applications. The primary criteria for scoring applicants include: an applicant's current work's relationship to the OSGF mission, potential of applicant, and quality of work samples. The selected Fellow will be housed in nicely appointed shared accommodations with a private bedroom and bathroom, and share a living room and kitchen with 1-3 other Residents or Fellows. The $10,000 individual grant can be put towards travel to and from OSGF, materials and supplies purchased for the residency, and other items that will support the Fellow's work before or after their stay. Oak Spring will arrange ground transportation from Dulles International Airport to the estate in Upperville, Virginia.