Landscape Fellowships

Proceeds from The Garden Club of Virginia's Historic Garden Week have financed more than forty garden restorations since 1929. In an effort to document historic gardens, The Garden Club of Virginia has established two annual landscape fellowship programs through which measured drawings and written histories of gardens are produced under the supervision of a professional landscape architect.

The Garden Club of Virginia Fellowship supports the documentation of a garden not held in private ownership. The Rudy J. Favretti Fellowship supports the documentation of historic gardens in private hands. The Favretti Fellowship was named in honor of The Garden Club of Virginia's former landscape architect, Rudy J. Favretti, FASLA, in appreciation for his distinguished contributions to historic landscape scholarship, restoration, and education.

The Landscape Fellowships have a three-fold purpose:

To carefully document through measured drawings and a written report, historic gardens and landscapes within the Commonwealth of Virginia.
To add these drawings and reports to a secure archive and thus become part of a compendium of documentation of Virginia's important historic gardens and landscapes, along with documentation already preserved by The Garden Club of Virginia of its many public garden restorations.
To offer a qualified student in an accredited landscape architecture or equivalent program such as landscape or architectural history, archaeology, historic preservation, or horticulture, the opportunity to acquire hands-on experience, under the direction of a professional landscape architect, in the important field of historic landscape preservation.

These summer programs are designed for landscape architecture students who are enrolled in an accredited school of landscape architecture and are working toward an M.L.A. degree. Each fellow contracts to do measured drawings and historical research in the summer months under the guidance of Will Rieley, landscape architect to The Garden Club of Virginia.

Any graduate student with a special interest in historic preservation who is attending an accredited school of landscape architecture may apply for one of these grants. It offers the qualified student the opportunity to acquire hands on experience, under the direction of a professional landscape architect, and to further explore the field of historic landscape preservation.

Recent Fellowship Recipients

Favretti Fellows

GCV Fellows

For additional information please contact

Betsy Huffman
Chairman, GCV Fellowships Committee
703-356-2242
info@gcvfellowship.org

12 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 Tel: (804) 643-4137 Fax: (804) 644-7778

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