ARTtalk: Friday, May 2, 2025
5pm | TCVA Lecture Hall
Danielle Eady, Programs Director
James Adelman, Residency and Fellowship Coordinator
Oak Spring Garden Foundation
The Oak Spring Garden Foundation (OSGF) was established as a private operating foundation in 2016. Their mission is to perpetuate and share the gifts of Rachel (“Bunny”) Lambert Mellon, including her residence, landscape, garden, farm, and the Oak Spring Garden Library. OSGF is dedicated to inspiring and facilitating scholarship and public dialogue on the history and future of plants, including the culture of gardens and landscapes and the importance of plants for human well-being. OSGF offers a vibrant roster of programs that include one-day day and half-day workshops, lectures, residential short courses, as well as our residencies and fellowships.
The Oak Spring Garden residency and fellowship programs are open call opportunities. Residents are selected based on their ability to demonstrate a current interest in plants, landscapes, and gardens, or more broadly, the natural world and humankind’s place in it. The Foundation believes that residencies are valuable for artists, writers, ecologists, and researchers who are working on creative projects. After a residency at Oak Spring, alumni are eligible to apply for the annual Perennial Residency. OSGF hosts about 80 residents a year about 30% of the residents are alumni.
Mary Anne Redding, Entrance to the Garden at Oak Spring
Mary Anne Redding, Bunny’s Garden
