Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence 2026 ($10,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Applications for the Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence 2026 at the moment are open. The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded yearly to at least one excellent, early-profession artist who’s creating new works that tackle vegetation, gardens, or landscapes within the broad sense.

The award features a $10,000 particular person grant and requires a 2 – 5 week keep at Oak Spring. While at Oak Spring Garden Foundation (OSGF), the Fellow will have the ability to meet with employees, discover the 700-acre panorama and the efforts in sustainable land administration, and go to OSGF’s uncommon guide library that holds over 19,000 objects, together with many examples of botanical artwork.

OSGF intends to award the Fellowship to an distinctive artist whose works present outstanding promise to contribute to a deeper understanding of the pure world, and humankind’s place in it.  The Fellow might be scheduled to go to when there are different Interdisciplinary Residents or Fellows on-website.

Award

• The $10,000 particular person grant related to this award could be put in direction of journey to and from OSGF, supplies and provides bought for their residency, and different gadgets that can assist their work, earlier than or after their keep at OSGF.
• The chosen Fellow ought to make journey preparations to Dulles International Airport, the place Oak Spring will organize floor transportation for them to their property in Upperville, VA.  The Fellow might be housed in properly appointed shared lodging. The Fellow could have a non-public bed room and loo and share a front room and kitchen with 1 – 3 different Residents or Fellows.

Eligibility

• Eligible candidates should be early-profession artists not enrolled in an undergraduate diploma program in 2026. They will take into account people with a confirmed monitor-file of professionalism, however who’re but beneath-acknowledged, as early-profession. Eligible early-profession candidates could have some recognition within the type of exhibitions, commissions, performances, grant awards, residencies, Fellowships and/or publications.
• Individuals who’ve participated in an intensive variety of solo exhibitions, or who’ve revealed a major variety of books might be thought of established or late profession and will not be eligible for the Eliza Moore Fellowship. They encourage those that will not be eligible for this Fellowship to apply to the Interdisciplinary Residency.
• The profitable Fellow should be self-directed and in a position to work independently whereas on website. Applicants are anticipated to indicate dedication to their creative follow, clear connection to the pure world of their work, distinctive promise, and good communication expertise.

Application

The application portal will shut on May 31, 2025. Note that there’s one application for the entire 2026 Residency and Fellowship packages, and you can be prompted to pick which packages you wish to be thought of for. You might be requested to submit:

• a resume/curriculum vitae (to not exceed two pages),
• a 200 – 300-phrase assertion in your creative follow,
• an announcement of 200 – 300 phrases stating how your work pertains to Oak Spring Garden Foundation’s mission to “perpetuate and share the gifts of Rachel (“Bunny”) Lambert Mellon, together with her residence, backyard, property and the Oak Spring Garden Library, to serve the general public curiosity. OSGF is devoted to inspiring and facilitating scholarship and public dialogue on the historical past and way forward for vegetation, together with the tradition of gardens and landscapes and the significance of vegetation for human nicely-being,”
• work samples

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For extra data, go to Eliza Moore Fellowship.