Landscape

Announcing the Finalists for the 2012 Fellowship in Landscape Studies

The Landscape Fellowship Jury wishes to thank everyone who submitted applications for the inaugural Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies. Ninety-one applications from fourteen nations around the world were received. The tremendous response to the call for submissions exhibits the strength and creativity of emerging practitioners in the field of contemporary landscape.

The Fellowship Jury has selected five outstanding finalists:

  • Jill Desimini (Cambridge, MA)
  • Rosetta Sarah Elkin (Amsterdam, NL)
  • Christopher Marcinkoski (Larchmont, NY)
  • Fadi Masoud (Cambridge, MA)
  • Takuma Ono (New York, NY)

In the event that any finalists are unable to interview with the Jury in February, Alison Hirsch (Charlottesville, VA) is the first alternate finalist and Andrea Hansen (Boston, MA) is the second alternate finalist.

The Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies was created to

  • recognize emerging design talent across disciplines dealing with landscape
  • support experimentation, research, and achievement in design through landscape
  • identify work embodying landscape as a medium of design for the public realm
  • grow disciplinary and professional capacity within landscape architecture

Our finalists represent a diverse range of disciplinary and institutional affiliations. Their work and ideas demonstrate a significant engagement with the landscape medium.

The Fellowship Jury will meet on Friday February 3, 2012, to interview the finalists and the new Gardner Museum Landscape Fellow will be announced on February 9, 2012.

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Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies 2012

The new biennial Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies will be awarded to an emerging design talent whose work articulates the potential for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm. This new initiative is intended to recognize and foster emerging design talent from across the design disciplines whose work embodies the potentials for landscape as a medium of public works. The Gardner Museum Landscape Fellowship builds upon the Gardner's Artist-in-Residence programs that have fostered creativity and collaboration in the arts for over two decades.

The rich cultural, artistic and academic setting offered by the Museum and the Boston area has long been a source of inspiration. The Gardner Museum Landscape Fellowship represents a singular opportunity for creative exploration and interaction with a vibrant, active landscape community.

The Gardner Museum Fellow will be in residence in one of the Renzo Piano-designed apartments at the Museum for three months during the summer of 2012. A public event centering on a discussion of their work is scheduled for the evening of June 7, 2012. The Gardner Museum Fellow will be introduced to a range of local cultural and educational institutions with the intent of fostering collaborations and engagements to enrich the period of study.

Eligibility

Landscape architects and designers from a range of allied design professions including architecture, engineering, urban design and planning, as well as the horticultural and garden arts, who can demonstrate a significant engagement with the landscape medium are invited to apply.

The Selection Process

A jury comprised of international figures in landscape architecture and allied design disciplines will select the 2012 Gardner Museum Landscape Fellow. The two-stage competition process will identify a short-list of up to five finalists who will be invited to interviews with the competition jury who will recommend a winner and runner-up to be announced in February 2012.

Jury

Julie Bargmann, University of Virginia

Alan Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anita Berrizbeitia, Harvard University

Julia Czerniak, Syracuse University

Walter Hood, University of California, Berkeley

Anuradha Mathur, University of Pennsylvania

Jane Wolff, University of Toronto

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Charles Waldheim, Charles Waldheim/Urban Agency, Consulting Curator of Landscape, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Program Specifics

  • Fellowship and residency will be June 1- August 31, 2012.
  • A monthly stipend of $5000.00 will be provided with an apartment/studio space.
  • The fellow is expected to deliver a public lecture as part of the Gardner Museum’s public programs.

How to Apply

Please submit the following application materials in the form of a single PDF no larger than 25 MB:

  • One-page project proposal describing the design/research project to be undertaken
  • Current curriculum vitae
  • Names and contact information of 3 references (to be contacted at the finalist stage)
  • PDF portfolio of recent design work articulating landscape as a medium of design for the public realm
  • Please name the PDF Lastname_Firstname.pdf
  • Submit the PDF by email attachment to landscapefellowship@isgm.org

Return of Materials and Usage

All documents submitted to the Gardner Museum through the application process will become the property of the Gardner Museum and may be used, with proper attribution, at a future date by the Museum for noncommercial purposes in any media or format.

Deadlines

December 15, 2011 - Deadline for Receipt of Applications
January 19, 2012 - Finalists Announced
February 2-4, 2012 - Finalist Interviews and Jury Selection
February 9, 2012 - Gardner Museum Fellow Announced
June 1-August 31, 2012 - Gardner Museum Fellow in Residence
June 7, 2012 - Gardner Museum Fellow in Discussion with Charles Waldheim

For more information contact us at: landscapefellowship@isgm.org or 617 278 5160.