Application
Application Deadline is April 1. All supporting documents for the application, including references, transcript and portfolio must be received by the deadline. Final selections are made and the Fellows are notified by April 15th.
Complete the application online
Please call Rieley & Associates at 434-296-9715 if you experience any trouble with submitting the online application or uploading documents.
Selection Process
The Research Fellowship Committee consisting of members of the Garden Club of Virginia, professional landscape architects, practitioners in the field of horticulture and historic preservation, and educators, selects the sites and reviews the applications.
Margaret Page Bemiss
Richmond, VA
Sally Guy Brown
Chairman of GCV Restoration Committee
Alexandria, VA
Staci Catron
President, Southern Garden History Society
Director, Cherokee Garden Library
Atlanta, GA
Gordon W. Chappell, FASLA
Landscape Architect
Williamsburg, VA
Ann Gordon Evans
President of the Garden Club of Virginia
Hampton, VA
Catharine Gilliam
Brownsburg, VA
Peter J. Hatch
Gardener. Historian.
Charlottesville, VA
Mary Ann Johnson
Rocky Mount, VA
Karen Kennedy
Landscape Designer
2009 William D. Rieley Fellow
Charlottesville, VA
Calder Loth
Senior Architectural Historian
Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Richmond, VA
Kim Nash
Chairman of GCV Research Fellowship Committee
Warrenton, VA
William D. Rieley
Landscape Architect for the Garden Club of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA