Sam Rosner

Sam Rosner is an artist, writer, and landscape architecture researcher. She was born in Miami, FL and is currently living in Charlotesville, VA. In 2017, she received her BFA from the Cooper Union where she studied film, painting, and media studies and she also recently received her master's degree in landscape architecture at UVA (MLA ‘24). She has also studied under the filmmaker Douglas Gordon at Städelschule in Frankfurt as well as taken a year at CUNY Graduate Center studying International Migration Studies. Through her landscape architectural graduate studies, she is weaving together her passions of photography, media studies, and landscape history. In 2023, she was named a Hart Howerton Fellow and spent her fellowship traveling along the Gullah Coast sea islands, researching the historical trajectories of Black beaches and developing her thesis research which advocates for a novel approach to historic preservation that incorporates a synthesis of ecological and social processes.

She was awarded first runner up by the LAF Honor Scholarship in Memory of Joe Lalli, FASLA and her work has been published in Kerb, LUNCH Journal, Yale’s Paprika!, and in the Hoosac Institute. She is an editor of the journal, LUNCH-18, with a forthcoming publication expected in late 2024. She has most recently taken part in Dumbarton Oaks’ Garden and Landscape Studies Summer Workshop where she studied under the theme of contested landscapes and narratives.  

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