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The Garden Club of Virginia is an association of 47 clubs whose members are made up of more than 3,300 civic leaders throughout the state. These members are dedicated to promoting gardening among amateurs; protecting native trees, wild flowers and birds; encouraging conservation of natural resources; promoting civic planting; encouraging roadside beautification, and aiding in the restoration and presentation of historic gardens in Virginia.
Most notably, The Garden Club of Virginia is recognized for its Historic Garden Week, a nine-day statewide open house of private and public gardens. Income from the tour is used to fund restoration projects of historic gardens and landscapes which are open to the public throughout Virginia. Over ten million dollars has been raised since its inception in 1929, enabling more than forty historic sites to have been restored.
In an effort to document historic gardens, the Garden Club established two annual 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. In appreciation for his distinguished contributions to historic landscape scholarship, restoration, and education, The Garden Club named its other fellowship for its former landscape architect, Rudy J. Favretti, FASLA, who recognized the need to document historic gardens in private hands through a fellowship.
These 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.
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| FELLOW SELECTION
Each September an announcement of the forthcoming Fellowships is made to accredited schools of landscape architecture, as well as to various industry associations, journals and periodicals.
Applications from qualified students enrolled in an accredited landscape architecture or equivalent program such as landscape or architectural history, archaeology, historic preservation, or horticulture, are accepted until February 15 by:
The Garden Club of Virginia
Fellowship Committee Chairman
Kent-Valentine House
12 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219
A committee consisting of members of The Garden Club of Virginia, professional landscape architects, practitioners in the field of horticulture and historic preservation, and educators, review the applications. The top finalists are often invited to Richmond, at The Garden Club's expense, for an interview.
A final selection is made and the Fellows are notified by March 15th.
The selected Fellows sign an agreement with The Garden Club of Virginia in which each party agrees to its responsibilities related to the Fellowships. A Garden Club appointed site selection committee chooses historically significant sites for the fellowships.
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| EXPECTATIONS OF THE FELLOW
The Fellows will spend a period of three months living in Virginia, visiting, researching and documenting the committee-selected historic sites and keeping a daily log of their work.
The Fellows will submit present-day photos of the site in the log as well as a listing of all research material consulted in their efforts to uncover the history of the gardens and landscape of their sites.
Mid-way through the Fellowship, the Fellow will present their initial findings to the Garden Club's Restoration Committee.
Using a topographical survey as a base, the Fellows will produce measured drawings of the current condition of the site to be placed in an archive of historic gardens in Virginia.
Finally, the Fellows will document their complete findings on the history of the sites in a written report also to be included in the historic Virginia gardens archive.
In addition, The Garden Club encourages the Fellows to visit other significant gardens and landscapes within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members of the Garden Club's Restoration Committee will assist in arranging such visits during the Fellowships.
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| FELLOW'S STIPEND
The Fellows will each be paid a total of $5,000 for three month's work and the completed projects. Once the contract agreements are signed, the Fellows will each be given an advance of $500. On the day the Fellowships are commenced, another $500 will be paid. At the start of the second and third month, $1,000 will be paid. Upon completion of the Fellow's work, the remaining $2,000 will be paid.
The Garden Club will also pay for living facilities and travel expenses incurred with the work. The Fellows will be required to pay for food, phone, and all other personal expenses and are expected to provide their own autos during the Fellowship.
Use of a work station will also be available for each Fellow including a drafting table and computer with CAD software at the office of the landscape architect for the Garden Club in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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| SUPERVISION & LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
The Fellows will perform required work under the indirect supervision of the landscape architect for The Garden Club of Virginia, William D. Rieley, of Rieley & Associates. The Fellows shall meet with him at agreed-upon intervals to discuss the progress of the Fellowships.
The Fellows will make their own living arrangements and may choose where in Virginia to live during their Fellowships based upon individual circumstances.
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If you have any questions not covered above, send an email to The Garden Club of Virginia's Fellowship Committee Chairman at: info@gcvfellowship.org
Or call:
Betsy Huffman
The Garden Club of Virginia
Fellowship Committee Chairman
703-356-2242
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