Oak Spring: A Place to Grow
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2024 Gallery Exhibit
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Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm & Field
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2023 Gallery Exhibit
Read MoreThe Fabrics of Life: The Mellon Collection of Linens at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation
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2022 Gallery Exhibit
Read MoreDeceiving the Eye: The Mellon Collection of Trompe l'Oeil at Oak Spring
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2020-2021 Gallery Exhibit
Read MoreRory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature
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An exhibition that premiered at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC in January, 2024
Read MoreMaking Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
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An exhibition that launched at the Baltimore Museum of Art in fall of 2023
Read MoreRepton Revealed: The Art of Landscape Gardening
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An exhibition at the Garden Museum, London, from fall 2018 to winter 2019
Read MoreRedouté to Warhol: Bunny Mellon's Botanical Art
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An Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden that ran from fall 2016 to winter 2017
Read MorePlant Based Storytelling
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A collection of short stories, poems, and reflections written by participants in the 2023 Plant Based Storytelling short course.
Read MoreFrederick Law Olmsted: Landscapes for the Public Good
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This downloadable exhibit, created by OSGF in partnership with the National Association for Olmsted Parks and Olmsted 200, celebrates the bicentennial of the pioneering landscape architect and social reformer’s birth.
Read MoreHer Words on the World: Perspectives from Six Women Writers
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Explore the work of six talented environmental and nature writers.
Read MoreFall 2020 Residencies
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The works of our Fall 2020 Artist in Residence cohort.
Read MoreSummer 2020 Residencies
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The works of our Summer 2020 Artist in Residence cohort.
Read MoreFantastic Flora
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An exhibit about plants and the incredible ways they adapt to thrive in a changing world. Every Friday for the next year, we will release another page from our “Fantastic Flora” collection on this website, and in early 2021, we will make the collection of posters available for download to schools, environmental organizations, and any who wish to use them in their programs.
Read MoreShelter in Art
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How Artists are Using the Pandemic to Re-examine Their Relationship to the Natural World
Read MoreCultivating History: Food, Crops, and Art
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A portable loan exhibit tailored to the Virginia Standards of Learning that reveals the untold stories of everyday crops and how the process of sharing, conserving, and documenting plants has continued to shape our human understanding of the natural world.
Read MoreMattioli's Commentarii
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Books act as agents of change, revolutionizing the ways in which we think, act, and know. One type of book that has advanced our collective knowledge through history is the herbal. This exhibit explore’s one of history’s most influential herbals.
Read MoreThe People and Plants Shaping Modern Medicine
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Many modern medical breakthroughs have been made through the discovery of plant properties. This exhibit explores the valuable plants and the extraordinary people whose discoveries have changed the world - including people who have overcome societal injustices to achieve scientific recognition.
Read MoreNature's Pharmacy: The Discovery of Medicinal Plants
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From herbs to opium, humankind has used plants to treat illnesses since long before the advent of modern medicine. Today we continue to benefit from and struggle with the properties these plants possess, but it took centuries of experimentation to discover their true nature and pave the way for breakthroughs that have saved countless lives.
Read MoreWomen Botanical Artists
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Women have played a significant role in the development of plant science through botanical art, yet many have not received due recognition for their work as compared to their male counterparts. Explore the works of women artists ahead of their time whose works are part of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation’s collections.
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