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Sam Pounders was one of 100 scholarship recipients from The Garden Club of America for 2024-2025. Sam was awarded The Moore Family Fellowship in The Making of the American Landscape. Institutional landscapes reflect the values of their legacies, and have the potential to function as sites that carry forth stories of place, create space for belongingness and improve social ecological connections. Pounders conducted fieldwork in two locations, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (Wash U) and Guilford College in Greensboro North Carolina. Working with the Wash U & Slavery Project, research was conducted on the lands that would become Wash U’s campus, first owned by William Forsyth, a known slave owner. Tracings of mappings from early parcel boundaries as they shifted from individual to institution reveal the emergence of modern structure. Conversely, Guilford College, a school rooted in Quaker values, maintains a deep archive of the social and ecological history of the passage of enslaved people across its landscape. Guilford proudly carries its supportive role in the history of people living in the campus vicinity, demonstrating a way towards redress for other institutions through acknowledgement, wayfinding and social ecological storytelling. “The GCA scholarship supported my research by making it possible to travel to Guilford College and connect with other scholars on the ethnobotanical underpinnings of the underground railroad. Their funding also enabled me to further my work here in St. Louis and the surrounding region.”

Applications for the GCA’s 2025 scholarships are now open. Click the heading for this post (gcascholarships) and select the blue link to view opportunities available at https://www.gcamerica.org/scholarships

#thegardenclubofamerica #scholarships #gcascholarships #gardencreateadvocate #fellowships #researchgrants #gardenscholarship #gardenscholarships #gardeningscholarships

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📢📢 We are pleased to announce the 2024 Futures Fund Recipients !!!

Out of a number of rigorous and competitive submissions, 9 applicants were selected to receive funding for new artistic projects in the region:

⭐️ Norman Spencer: The Green Book Trail Guide
⭐️ Campbell Harvey, Clarke Taylor, Alia Holland, and Jordan Hawkins: The Big Soup Initiative
⭐️ Glyneisha Johnson and Mary Lawson: The Combahee Collection: Convergences of Liberation Beyond the Institution
⭐️ Nathan Cook, Joshua Levi, Nokosee Fields, and Gavin Kroeber: Lead and Coal: A Sounding
⭐️ Jennifer Colten, Roberta Rogers, and Robert White III: A Gathering Place: Oral Histories and Photographic Views in Brooklyn, Illinois
⭐️ Noel Spiva and Alexis Creamer: Unseen on Screen
⭐️ Lynne Smith, Pratim Biswas, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Samantha Pounders: What’s at the Bottom of the Pond
⭐️ Janie Stamm and Melissa Bauer: Barn Quilts: A rural Midwest Tradition for the City
⭐️ Sophia Hatzikos and Carmen Ribaudo: Reverb: Curatorial Activation of Tyson Research Center

Recipients received their awards in-person at the 2701 Party. Supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation For the Arts, a total of $60,000 in grants have been awarded, with individual grants ranging between $2,500 and $8,000. Many thanks to this year’s panelists: Marianne Laury (Curator, Director of Programming, Granite City Art and Design District), Kentaro Kumanomido (Co-Owner, Wildfruit Projects), and Mikayla Nicholson (Grants Manager, NW Film Forum).

Please join us in congratulating these artists and their collaborators, and follow along with us throughout the year as we watch them develop their visions into our futures! We will share more information on each project as it develops, and hope to see you at the various installations, performances, happenings, and more across the St. Louis region.

For more information about Futures Fund, please visit our website, linked in bio.

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Congratulations to Samantha Pounders, master’s student, Landscape Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024 recipient of The Moore Family Fellowship in The Making of the American Landscape. Sam is one of 100 students receiving a GCA scholarship this year. Route of Redress, Pounders’ project, daylights layers of land ownership history from initial land acquisition to the post-Jim Crow condition to reveal the less-visible social ecological landscape of a parcel’s value and use to create techniques for institutions to handle sites with unreckoned histories.

#thegardenclubofamerica #scholarships #gcascholarships #gardencreateadvocate #fellowships #researchgrants #gardenscholarship #gardenscholarships

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This has been the most intense, strange and ultimately rewarding semester in my career so far. Across my two courses, Modern and Contemporary Landscape Architecture and The Unruly City (year nine), there has been a palpable drive to render the very medium of studying together as much of the subject of the syllabi as the larger conceptual frames. All abstractions have met their proving grounds in material forms encountered in the field, and all material forms have been interrogated with sharp use of ideas (not for their own sake). History is an active construct in these courses, not a set of stale facts. Many guests have challenged and illuminated us with St. Louis as the great, messy case study. Most importantly, though, I have felt part of two real communities of people whose interests transcend credentialing and root in actual care for each other. We have reminded each other that one of the roots of the word "study" (in 12C Latin) means "to strive toward, devote oneself to, cultivate." We are here to transform ourselves not purely to construct individual gains but to realize shared aspirations. Wherever I end up in the fall, I will be so much better as a teacher because of what has happened in the spring of 2024, and who it happened with.

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Had a blast at the St Louis ASLA Chapter Awards last week! 🎉
It was fantastic to celebrate our talented peers and soak up the inspiring vibes with our fellow STL landscape architects. Huge shoutout to the @stlouisasla for putting together such an incredible evening! 🙌

And let’s give a big round of applause to the amazing Sam Fox MLA Students!
Congratulations on your well-deserved recognition!
Keep shining bright, everyone! ✨🌿 #ASLA #LandscapeArchitecture

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Road to Recovery: A Site-Specific Guide to Native Landscape Generation in the Basin of Mexico
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