ALUMNI RESIDENTS & FELLOWS

J. Eliza Wall (Joy Elisabeth Waldinger) is a storyteller (artist/writer/filmmaker) and art teacher from Philadelphia. She writes, produces, directs, films, and edits her short films. Her work explores various topics—the human condition, family dynamics, relationships, nostalgia, connection to nature, and mental and physical health—in an attempt to restore connections in a fractured world. She believes that art is a powerful tool that can generate change and healing on a local and global level. Her short films have won awards in national and international film festivals and she has been published in a variety of literary magazines. In 2020 she published her children’s book Like The Sun Holds The Moon: A Children’s Book and her book. Her book, Like The Sun Holds The Moon: A Novel was published during the lunar eclipse of May 2022 by Little Creek Press. Her newest children’s book (TRASH CRAB) was published by Little Creek Press on Earth Day 2023.

Bradley Sinanan (he/they) is an Indo-Caribbean designer and artist born and raised in Broward County, Florida. His work explores themes of identity, labor, gaze, power, and Otherness through performance, video, publication, sound, and interaction. He applies friction when speed is demanded, slowing down the slickness of bureaucracy, emerging technology, and commerce to reveal their hidden effects — harmful, poetic, and otherwise.

Charis Fleshner is a mixed media visual artist who calls Colorado home, along with Goober cat, the best and worst studio assistant ever. Charis was accepted into University of New Mexico's MFA program under painting and drawing but rebelled against categorization and fell in love with soft sculpture there instead. She is inspired by the middle schoolers she currently teaches art and fiber arts to, color, play, fabric, and intersectional feminism.

Studio 176 is a collective of artists based in Greensboro, NC. The collective runs a record label (lead by Justin Demeanor Harrington and Antion Scales), a production studio (lead by Alexei Mejouev) and philanthropic ventures (lead by Savannah Thorne).

Vickie Aravindhan is a queer Indian-Chinese Singaporean artist, curator, big eater, and sometimes singer based in Los Angeles exploring the ramifications of assimilation and hybridization as a result of colonial diaspora and the functions of myth as history, codes and truth. She mainly works with, video, installation and sculpture. Never opposed to play, experimenting, dialogue and building community.

Lexy Ho-Tai is a multi-discplinary visual artist and teaching artist, interested in the intersection between art-making and making the world a better place. She disrupts the exclusive and elitist tendencies of the art world by working in non-traditional art spaces, repurposing discarded and recycled materials, collaborating with artists working across multiple disciplines, and engaging with diverse audiences. Through soft sculptures, performance, installation, murals, and workshops, her public and participatory practice employs humor, play, and absurdity to invite viewers to contemplate pressing social and environmental issues. She believes that joy is a radical act of resistance, and that play forges a powerful space for audiences to envision and work towards alternative futures.

Abigail Rothman (b. 1997, Phoenix, Arizona) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist exploring subversion. Her work challenges and critiques tradition within society, art history, and its political and social manifestations. Through digital and physical abstraction pre-existing content is removed from its’ original context, existing as objects and realities the viewer must confront.  Acknowledging and altering the relationship between people and these scenarios confronts the conventional understanding and priorities of traditional art making processes. In turn, questioning the social transparency and accessibility of knowledge as a reflection of extreme political and social hierarchies. 

Oree Holban is a visual-installation artist, a performer, and a singer-songwriter. He likes to play with words, plasticine, and create childlike-neon-Rock’n’Roll-meditative worlds. His work is very much inspired by nostalgic American 50s of the previous century, Buddhist life and aesthetics in queer present time, and the Fabulous 50s of the 21st Century. He would like to share his ongoing colorful journey with others, explore hidden truths and transcend together the barriers of our own bodies and minds. 

Chris Omni, MPH, affectionately known as The Health Hippie, is a multi-disciplinary, award-winning entrepreneur, scholar, and artist who exclusively and unapologetically focuses on the health and wellbeing of Black women. Chris’s life is woven in between the words of Audre Lorde, “Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”

William Plummer is fascinated by the way objects can reflect culture, and by extension, a sense of place and belonging. As a gender non-binary individual with American and Taiwanese heritage, they live an experience that falls between standard lines of definition. Their most recent work concerns generational archive, using laborious processes such as beading and weaving to both celebrate lineage and mitigate cultural dissonance.

Mahedi Anjuman is on a journey to find her authentic artistic self through a contemporary avant-garde way. Currently she is living Reno, NV. She was born in Bangladesh, the land of the mystics. Anjuman was selected to represent Bangladeshi contemporary art in an International Contemporary Sculpture and Installation Exhibition OPEN 15 in Italy with artist Yoko Ono (2012). She was accepted to participate in an artist residency program with Transart Institute in 2013 and Picture Berlin in 2018 in Germany. She is researching on contemporary conceptual art related with existential philosophy and experimenting sculpture, video art and performance art. She is curious about being’s psychological impact on action-reaction.

Craig Deppen Auge is an artist currently residing in Kansas City, Missouri. His works explore the relationship between material, shape, color, gesture, mark-making, site and self. He merges and flows between collage, alternative bookmaking, salvage assemblage, and impromptu public intervention. Ephemeral, formal explorations reflect through-lines of self, and potentially activate collective deja-vu. Craig previously attended the ON::VIEW Residency at Sulfur Studios in Savannah, GA. He is a 2019-2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Resident in Kansas City

David Alpert is an artist and curator living and working in Kansas City. He likes interactions, connections, and exploring feelings. He believes in listening compassionately to yourself and others. Through a visual dialogue, he promotes and researches his interests and beliefs.

Sophie Sanders’ paintings, prints, and fiber works use gesture and iconic imagery to convey the inner potency and tenacity of her subjects. In recent works, she visualizes a space of feminist sanctuary, where individuals can find a sense of restoration and rejuvenation. Other works explore interconnectivity through the visual metaphor of a mandala, the human eye, and brain.

Charis Fleshner is a mixed media visual artist who calls Colorado home, along with Goober cat, the best and worst studio assistant ever. Charis was accepted into University of New Mexico's MFA program under painting and drawing but rebelled against categorization and fell in love with soft sculpture there instead. She is inspired by the middle schoolers she currently teaches art and fiber arts to, color, play, fabric, and intersectional feminism.

Mia Cinelli is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator. Driven by curiosity and informed by design methodologies, her practice produces a variety of creative outcomes— including digital typefaces, discursive objects, public installations, and sewn sculptures. In all of her work, she is most interested in designing experiences which engender meaningful interactions and discussions. She’s fascinated by language, longing, history, gesture, and corporeality.

Cara Hagan is a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities, and a dreamer. She believes in the power of art to upend the laws of time and physics. In her work, no object or outcome is sacred; but the ritual to get there is.

Kelsey Sharpe is a queer multidisciplinary conceptual artist and filmmaker of color from Jersey City, NJ of Jamaican-Indian and Irish-Slavic descent. Sharpe graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Studies and Anthropology. Sharpe’s practice examines the intersections between the digital and physical world and the ways in which those spaces alter human connection.

IG: @sharpekelsey

Website: kelseysharpe.com

Thea Cohen (she/her) | Productions Manager 2020-2021

In her creative practice, Thea places an emphasis on process and experimentation and likes to learn by doing. She has a background in multimedia installation, furniture making, and methods of fabrication including woodworking, welding, and machine sewing. Her creations utilize various combinations of set, prop, puppet & costume design, video, animation, sculpture, projection, and performance. Thea enjoys non-linear storytelling and is especially interested in the distortions that occur within repetitions across materials, scale, and time. She is fascinated with functionality (or the lack there of) regarding the ways in which physical characteristics influence movement and provoke assumptions around how to inhabit space. Community is an integral part of Thea’s life, and she is always looking for ways to collaborate in all aspects of creating and living.

Christian Lee is a Puerto Rican comic who draws comics, poetry, and books. Their illustrative work varies from subcultures, to horror, to speculative fiction. Under the skin, the heart of their art and uses fiction as metaphor to explore real human relationships.

As a performer, their drawings accompany them to the stage in mixed-media performances using humor and storytelling to digest their experiences as a Hispanic POC, gender expectations, and grief.

Rae Red (they/them) encourages the radical act of laughter in the face of darkness by translating everyday realities into performance and play. Their work exposes the magic and wonder within our daily functions, from the wizardry of sight and color theory, to the way water invisibly keeps our lives flowing smoothly like a ghost within the walls. They explore subjects that are universal like blood pumping through veins, while bringing light our own mortality and to the death that is continuously occurring around us. Through performances across the United States Rae Red investigates topics that unite viewers by exposing commonalities while examining the disparate facets within them. They have presented their work in every type of space imaginable from dive bars and the backs of donut shops to The Museum of Human Achievement, High Concept Labs, Cucalorus Stage Festival, and The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. They received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Towson University’s Theatre Arts Program.

Shelter Elsewhere Fellow

Kinari Council (he/they) is a Community based mixed media artist, designer located in North Carolina.

He attended NCA&T’S VISART Program and utilizes the skills he learned to create socially conscious art centered around creating awareness and engaging subjects concerning marginalized groups. His passion is to use my creativity to speak to and for those that often go overlooked.

House Manager / Curator

Avery Rose (they/them) is a 3rd generation dumpster diver, collector, maker, and jack of all trades wannabe raised in Waxhaw, NC. They have a BFA in painting and a range of professional experiences in furniture, upholstery, design, and restoration related fields. They like to explore color, shape, and line through textile work, tattooing, painting on unconventional surfaces, and collecting natural and discarded objects. Avery's work founded on interests in sustainable and communal living, travel and exploration, environmentalism, homesteading, and diy culture.

Avery has been the House Manager/Curator at Elsewhere since 2018. They have completed a number of projects including building a new front desk from collection, co-creating the Shelter Elsewhere Residency, and patching various holes around the museum in unexpected ways. Avery can be found at @dirt_soup on Instagram.

Nicole Asselin is a textile artist and educator based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her work explores the intersection of craft, technology and the natural world. Asselin’s practice is narrative, telling the story of an object or material and its potential, both real and imagined. Her work utilizes magnification, abstraction, hyper-local material, and a hybrid digital/analog approach to making. She addresses and challenges themes of locality, tradition, innovation, handcraft, and sustainability.

In her practice, Elicia Epstein works across a variety of media, from sculpture and installation, to documentary photography and video, publication and collage. The objects and experiences Elicia creates serve as visual, physical and spiritual interventions. Whimsy and "nonsense" are essential to Elicia’s life and art practice; as a practicing Jewitch, magic and art are her sharpened tools for a more liberated future.

Kylee Jo recently finished her BFA in drawing from the University of Florida, and is still figuring out her identity as an artist. In her multi-media paintings and installations (which sometimes incorporate film and/or sound) she tends to use humorous modes such as cartoons and warped realities to present gendered stereotypes. Materials she uses range from crudely sewn fabrics, to used popcorn bags, horse stickers, and plaster.

Mimi Allin is a visual artist working with performance, photography and video. She uses her body as a visual territory for knowledge production, healing and exploration. Her practice is based in conceptual, performance art, photography and video. The practice’s conceptual intent seeks to activate a critical commentary on gender, power and human relationships. Allin’s work explores contemporary 4th wave feminist themes, encompassing oppressed/oppressor dynamics, the relationship between contemporary discourses about landscape and the self’s internal processes. Allin, while acknowledging death, also seeks paths of regeneration, opening a dialogue between relationship and function, in a proprietary culture that isolates the subject from its production. She reaches and teaches transformation by reclaiming her body and its charged relation to the landscape. The gestures in her work are poetic, ritual-based, seductive, fluid and playful. She falls cathartically in and out of rhythm with the world, aiming to elicit reflection and to disrupt the basic structures of things, real and imagined. 

Anne Wu is an established exhibiting artist working out of northern New Mexico. Curiosity inspires her to explore a variety of media and techniques to create dimensional objects and installations. The last decade has been spent primarily in cutting perfectly good pieces of fabric into very tiny pieces and sewing them back together.

Kyla Gilbert's practice investigates the changeability of matter and the fusion of organic materials and industrial products, in parallel to the human body within its environment. Coming from a background in performance, Kyla is drawn to the intersection between movement, design and building. Her main interest lies in materiality as it relates to domesticity and commodity/consumption. She's interested in the metaphorical and physical weight of the objects we surround ourselves with, and how our lived patterns act on and modify our environments and our bodies. Kyla builds using repurposed and found materials collected from her surroundings in an attempt to explore her connection to place whether it be temporary or for an extended period of time. 

Kyla created Someday My Prince Will Come.

Sareh Imani is an Iranian-born, multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Imani received an MFA in Painting from the University of Tehran and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York. In her practice, Imani explores the ways of achieving resourcefulness, through care, mending, and healing in times of inadequacy. For the past 2 years, she has been making a series of videos that study the relation between virtual and visceral, borrowing from medical methodologies and exploring the reparative potentials of art and science, intimacy and distance, instructions and poetics.Imani has been exhibiting her work in group shows both in the US (New York, Austin), Europe (Venice, Gothenburg), and the Middle East (Tehran, Dubai). She is the recipient of the one-year A.I.R fellowship (2020), and the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture scholarship in 2018. In addition, she participated in the MASS MoCA residency (2018), AIM program at the Bronx Museum (2018), BRIC Workspace Residency (2019), BRIC Media fellowship (2020), and NARS foundation (2020).

Piero Passacantando (b. 1979 in Rome, Italy) is an interdisciplinary artist. His work moves between painting, food, music, photography and participatory workshops focusing on dialogue, conviviality, and empathy.  Passacantando holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC. In addition, for the past 8 years, while he has been actively working as an artist, Piero has also been delivering training and elbow-to-elbow support for healthcare software, specializing in electronic medical records for in-patient, emergency room, and operating room systems. He currently lives and works between Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, and Casablanca, Morocco.

Adam Eckstrom is half of the artist collaborative, Ghost of a Dream, with Lauren Was. The collaborative’s work embodies the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash. They mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals. Whether it is a Hollywood film that transports the viewer into a dream reality, a travel poster promising a luxurious vacation, or a lottery ticket that gives the possibility of a future full of rich decadence; they use these remnants to both re-create people’s dreams, and portray the dreamer. They have recently been included in exhibitions at the MAAM museum, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Crystal Bridges Museum, Telfair Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum, Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Courtauld, and The Mint. Other recent solo exhibitions include CES Gallery, Smack Mellon, and 601Artspace. Ghost of a Dream has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, World of Interiors, VICE Art Talks as a documentary, and Southern Foodways alliance as a short film. To learn more about Adam and Ghost of a Dream's work, please visit their C.V. on their website.

Justus Harris (he/they) is a healthcare design strategist, artist, educator, and the founder of MedSculp. MedSculp specializes in the development and consultation of data visualization, user experience, and patient communication strategies for healthcare institutions. Justus and MedSculp’s interactive health communication installations have been commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (Chicago, IL), the European Commission (Berlin, Germany), and The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).

He is a Stanford Medicine X 2019 ePatient Scholar and guest teacher, and a 2018-2019 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow.

Justus's superpower is his community of peers in healthcare, technology, art, design. Microphones have never scared him and his engagements include speaking at Stanford University (San Francisco, CA), Livongo (Mountain View, CA), The Kennedy Center, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and The Economic Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL). Most importantly Justus is a human being. Music is his primary go-to for healing, share your recommendations, please.

During Harris' 2014 Elsewhere Residency, he created Scenes from Sonship Past.

During Harris’ 2020 Elsewhere Cross-Sectors: HealthCare Residency, he created Sights of Change.

As a child, Lottie was confused that her friends wanted to play with Barbies. In her house, dolls and their disembodied parts were her father’s domain, along with broken kitchen appliances, Indian educational posters about personal hygiene, and hundreds of recorded VHS tapes of “very important” movies, recorded from TV. Lottie’s art draws on her family tradition of hoarding, using found objects, images and sounds to create sentimental and unsettling connections to the past. Her sculptures, soundscapes and installations explore relationships between remnant, memory and temporal experience. Lottie moved from Sydney, Australia to live in Berlin for reasons that have entirely to do with the vibrant arts scene, and nothing at all to do with the abundance of flea markets and second hand shops. Nothing at all.

Interdisciplinary artists Erin Ethridge (left) and Colleen Marie Foley (right) have been working together as Thorn since 2015. As a collaborative, Thorn questions ideas of shared or composite identity, memory and body. Thorn takes their relationship as subject and tool, searching for places where the physical and psychic boundaries between them soften and become permeable. They negotiate dualities of distance/closeness, pleasure/pain, self/other in pursuit of their limits. These efforts take the form of performance work, sculptural tools, and electronic media.

Thorn created Fly Down From Us during their residency.

Katie Hubbell’s multimedia practice operates within the formal slippages of installation, sculpture, performance, and video. She examines mass-media aesthetization, highlighting the tensions and comforts embedded within sensuous images. Using objects from everyday life, Hubbell’s practice reveals the flirtations and repulsions, states of boredom and states of obsession, parallels and contradictions which inhabit twenty-first century advertisement culture and self-help models of care. Katie received an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

By deconstructing and transforming canonized familiar myths from varied beliefs and traditions, and creating fantastic realms, where characters with elusive gender, sexual and political identities serve as alternative cultural heroes – Gil Yefman challenges and undermines the structured definitions and portrayal of the “other”, in order to explore and cherish the intrinsic potential of the extraordinary. He uses a manifold spectrum of practices and media, with a predilection towards the craftswomanship of crochet knitting. Yefman indulges in the therapeutic virtues of knitting as means to dwell on personal and collective traumas, as well as to reflect upon recurrent obsessive patterns in mankind's societies.

April Danielle Lewis (b. 1980 in Okinawa, Japan) is an artist, visionary, and community cultivator. Her work explores the intersections of history, place, and identity with a social justice and community building lens. Interventions, performances, installations and experiences are vehicles she uses to express these themes.In her early childhood, she went to work with her mother in her grandparents’ millinery shop. She was often given scrap materials from the hats that were being manufactured to keep her busy while her family worked. She was able to use bits of fabric and trimmings and was given her own space in the back of the shop where she was able to attach things to the walls and create her own unique space and sculptural forms. This introduction to making and materials has rooted the themes of placemaking and the use of found materials that continue to appear in her work. Over the past 20 years Lewis’ daughter has often been a subject, participant or had a hand in her artistic practice allowing motherhood to also play an integral role in creating a lens through which she sees and creates. Derived from a printmaking background, her performances and interventions often involve working in multiples, repetitive actions and building a framework that allows for works and performances to naturally evolve. Her work collaborates and invites her audience to be participants in engaging and building community.

Coe Lapossy works in Massachusetts, trolling modernism and queerly lecturing at UMass. Their work investigates how popular culture gets into your heart, your mind, and changes you. Their current project connects the movie Prelude To A Kiss, the magicians trick of sawing a woman in half, and Donald Judd’s stacked sculptures. These stories and objects are reinterpreted with a new cast of characters, through painting, sculpture, and performance. 

During Lapossy's residency, they created Trap Door.

Marina Peng (b. Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a multimedia installation artist living and working in St. Louis, MO. She received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her practice combines performance, video, text, and built structures to comment on the rigid social structures that restrict marginalized identities.

During Peng's residency, she created PSA: Satellite.

Silvi Naçi’s practice investigates gender and cultural identity, language and time, the body as subject/object, and the consequences of patriarchy. The work engages in the dialectic between the aesthetically beautiful and historical genealogy, identity and socio-political structures, the ‘puritan’ and the ‘bitch’. Rooted in feminist ideas, Naçi’s work examines the relationship between power and privilege, weight and trauma, and uses historical references to expand on broader truths, while underscoring debates around social politics, identity and representation through contemporary art practices. Their interest lies in the subtle and violent ways decolonization and migration affects and reshapes a people, language, gender identity, as well as social and cultural dynamics.

They created {Don't} Touch My Flower during their residency.

Jay Gould is a Baltimore based artist and educator whose work is work engages ideas of science and exploration fused with storytelling to create work that invites audiences to share a sense of discovery and a moment of curiosity. He has been dreaming of spaceships, wormholes, time travel and other paradoxes his entire life. Jay now uses a combination of wet-plate photography and handcrafted wood sculpture, along with the influence of abundant coffee, to create bizarrely inquisitive works that traverse space and time. 

During Gould's residency, he created Silver Spirits.

Julia Gutman is an emerging Australian artist, best known for her intricate textile sculptures and commitment to narrative installation. Her work spans textiles, sculpture, painting and prose, with a distinctive irreverence that permeates all forms. Her growing collection of sculptures and stories intersect and build on one and other, continually investigating themes of gender, mythology, religion and fashion. Equal parts pointed and absurd, abject and romantic, Julia’s work is a surreal investigation of cultural behaviors and systems of belief.

During Gutman's residency, she created Try Sitting On Me Now.

Kale Roberts is an explosion of queer sportsing energy with a laundry list of identities that informs their practice as a radical storyteller and sculptor. Blasting out of Tampa, FL, they activate SPACE in an art as life practice. One mouthful of the South, a dollop of blind fandom, and an abundance of misinformed history, they are dedicated to creating new rituals and objects imbued with humor and sincerity.

Comic books, the Bible belt, sports, fashion, and a slew of gender layers inform their practice. It is through this embodiment that infinite possibilities and the power of storytelling and vulnerability emerge.

In 2016 Tailgate Projects was incepted. Driving this rainbow hatchback truck with teeth and collaborative flags flapping in the wind, it is their conscious choice to live in full visibility combating toxic socialization through daily navigations.

Right outa the mouth of the truck bed Roberts hijacks rituals around food and celebration in collaboration with local artists and across the globe. Through this exchange they activate multiple voices and identities that become the catalyst for empathy and change.

Roberts created 100 sips, 4 ways to feed you, pole service during their residency.

Carolyn Gennari is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, performance, photography, and sculpture. Using the archive as source material, her creative practice is heavily research based and explores how performance and media can generate news ways of thinking about the past. Often beginning her projects within archives and museums, Carolyn traces objects back to present day communities, places and events, positioning the archive as an active site in which to consider history and its relationship to the contemporaneous. In her work, it is no longer important that original historical events be portrayed as much as the interpretation of those events spun from a process of fragmentation, imitation and re-imagination. Using storytelling and performance as tools for expanding what we understand as knowledge, her work provides historiographic experiences that allow for new modes of interpretation, action and reflection.During Gennari's residency, she created The Object of This Exercise.

Cecilia is an animator and musician from San Francisco, CA with backgrounds in film, dance, virtual reality, photography, and sculpture. They dig playing where music and movement meet, and their work tends toward the meditative, textural, conceptual, and abstract. Cecilia also coordinates a team of abolitionist artists through JusticeLA and organizes toward housing as a human right with the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Their hope in all their work is to make more space for people to rest and breathe.

During Sweet-Coll's residency, they created By Us For Us.

Emerie Snyder announced at age five that her hobby was "thinking about lots of things." It's still true. Emerie is a NYC-based theatre director and creator of new performance work, focusing on site-responsive theatre, relationships between visual art and theatre, and solo performance. Current projects in development include EXHIBIT, an immersive gallery tour play; DUTIFUL VICTIMS, a site-specific theatre experiment inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Victims of Duty; TRANSMISSION, a participatory performance sermon by Gwydion Suilebhan; and THIS IS LIKE THAT, a slide lecture play by Michael Sean Cirelli. Emerie is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and the Arts Curator for Warren Saint Marks Community Garden in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

During Snyder's residency, she created This is not a Museum Tour.

Erick Medel (b.1992) lives and works in Los Angeles. Can one become a real American simply by desiring the same things the dominant culture desires? Even when that stage (middle class ideals) is achieved can one truly be seen as American? Through transformations in materials and form, Medel opens up a dialogue about the customization of identity and the power of consumer culture, habits, and symbolism in the promotion of ideologies.During Medel's residency, he created El Coyote As A Protector, 2019.

Parasol B is an artist exploring interactive and experiential work through sound, electronics, sculpture and painting. She finds it imperative that people have access to artwork they can interact with and finds it intriguing that many people are uncomfortable with touching artwork, even when given permission. She also creates specific messages for people to take away from her work by encoding data visually, then supplying the visual vocabulary or tools to decode the meaning.

During Parasol's residency, she created The Cabinet of Cacophonies.

Furen Dai’s practice has focused largely on the economy of culture industry, and how languages lose function, usage, and history. Dai’s hybrid art practice utilizes video, sound, sculpture, painting and collaboration. Her years as a professional translator and interest in linguistic studies have guided her artistic practice since 2015. She has been researching and developing the nearly extinct language of NüShu. The language, derived from Chinese characters, was created and used exclusively by women.

Dai received a Bachelor in Russian Language studies from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2010, a Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurial Management from Boston University. She also holds a MFA degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2016. Her work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and around the world. Past exhibitions include 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece), OSMOSIS Audiovisual Media festival 2017 (Taiwan), Illuminus Boston 2017, Now&After'16, The State Darwin Museum (Moscow). She is a recipient for The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017, Excellence Award for the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival. The exhibition at 456 Gallery will be her first solo show in New York.

During Dai's residency, she created Dear Mother.

Rosa Nussbaum is a British/German visual artist based in Austin, Texas. Rosa works at the intersection of performance and sculpture, of object and objectification. Her work explores the place where the (female) body touches the institution, submitting to it’s projected desires.

During Nussbaum’s residency, she created Keeping Young & Living Longer: How to stay Active & Healthy past 100, or How to avoid Life Shortening Errors with fellow Kevin Brophy.

Michelle Lisa Polissaint is a visual artist & arts organizer based in Miami, Florida. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida International University in Photography & Fiber Based Painting. Her current practice is focused on producing community based activations that encourage artists and community members to form collaborative relationships. As an artist she explores the nature of human interaction through textiles and photographs. Her most recent work moves from a previous series of self-portraits, Dancing With Myself, which explored her relationship with herself away from the guidance of her parents, into a new body of work documenting trips and interactions with her parents and family, If Home Was Home. She is currently a resident at Bakehouse Art Complex. Her upcoming project, Moonshine Moanin’, is a research performance project exploring identity and queerness as it relates to her upbringing in the South.During Polissaint's residency, she created Dine nan Nwa.

Kevin Brophy is a language-based performance artist based in Tampa, FL, and Pittsburgh, PA, most recently residing in Lawrence, KS as visiting faculty and artist at the University of Kansas. Her research includes the Internet of Things, biased training of AI, our changing psychological response to the screen, and how language functions—past, present, and future—in relation to these cultural occurrences. Kevin works at the intersection of digital and physical space; as in, the ‘crash’ of these two bodies and their mutual creation within the construct of the social. Our politic embodied and our personal beyond the site-of-self. Through exaggerated forms of communication, she critiques in satirical and self-implicating ways: these days, she performs more for machine than human.

During Brophy’s residency, she created Keeping Young & Living Longer: How to stay Active & Healthy past 100, or How to avoid Life Shortening Errors with fellow Rosa Nussbaum.

Diana needs some soup right now and then maybe you'll find them in the bedding section, swimming in linen duvets for a bit. She feels fulfilled in some kind of cul-de-sac upbringing, couch shopping not so different from any experiential art. 'walkie check', She confirms and performs for the visitor, 'yes, that is a thing we have and it is of different value on different kinds of days'. Framed moments in time no different than now, just a different space-time in the spectrum of a when she's walking around a bed thinking about what information you will need from another room in another space. Fulfillment, Depends on the season of art-making, apparently some on custom order or are just made to be consumed by some other process.

During Caramat’s residency, they created Social Sensory Stimulation.

Clare writes about participatory arts practices in independent arts organizations, museums, and archives. Right now she is focused on Elsewhere for the third chapter of her dissertation on artist project spaces between 2001 and 2016. She began her American life as a participant in an artist’s pedagogical project – the Sponge HQ –  where there was a beehive, a fish tank full of plecs and neon tetras, a discarded skateboard and a felted library platform in a hard to define but restful color. Back in the UK she had moved from educational roles to organizational ones in art museums, built environment advocacy, and a rural artist studio. Clare teaches undergraduate museum studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a candidate in the Media, Art, and Text Ph.D. program.

During van Loenen's residency, she created An Atlas of Administration.

Leiva’s research-based practice exists at the crossroads of installation, video, animation, and photography. Within this multidisciplinary approach, she explores issues related to migration, displacement, alienation, loss, the media and the effects of violence on the central American individual and society.

In Leiva’s work, personal and collective stories intertwine to create narratives that posit the individual’s vulnerability within institutional and social hierarchies. In some of her site-specific works, she forges a dynamic that engages the space’s history to reveal specific human rights issues. Her video work, which often incorporates found footage or text, explores surveillance, online culture, coded language and the impact of mass media on the individual’s perception of reality.

During Leiva’s residency, she created Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (The Last Supper).

Josh T. Franco is an artist with an art history Ph.D. He often builds or suggests environments that invite haunting by ancestors and disincarnate peers. Enfleshed folks are invited into these settings to share stories with Franco and make something new together, be it physical, experiential, or spiritual. He is devoted to handwriting, printed text, and beeswax as mediums that can command visual attention and physical space while also transmitting and preserving knowledge between generations. Franco is guided by the understanding that art history is made by hand.

During Franco’s residency, he created PICTURES ELSEWHERE combines three acts of reverent and irreverent gratitude to art historian Michael Baxandall and Elsewhere matriarch Sylvia Gray.

Lonnie Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood.

Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the country, on permanent display in the United Nations, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden. In January of 2014, Holley completed a one-month artist-in-residence with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida, site of the acclaimed artist’s studio...Read More.

During Holley’s residency, he created Mixed.

Daniel B. Coleman (he/they) lives a life-project centered life that de-compartmentalizes his work as an artist, scholar, and organizer between the U.S. South (NC) and the Mexican South (Chiapas). Each of these elements are an integral part of who he is in the world. Daniel is an Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at UNC Greensboro, a performance artist and choreographer and a transfeminist and abolitionist organizer. As an artist, Daniel has taught and performed throughout México, the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Poland, and Estonia.

During Coleman’s residency, they created Warriors: Beyond Unicorns and Erasures.

Jessica Gaynelle Moss is an artist, writer and entrepreneur.As an ardent advocate for artists, arts education and communities of color, in 2016 she founded The Roll Up, a national network of art incubators embedded in neighborhoods across the United States. Prior, she served as the Creative Director of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC and earlier, on the senior management team of Rebuild Foundation in Chicago, IL.In addition to her numerous management and leadership roles, Jessica continues to practice as an artist. Her work--often focused on race, class and accessibility--is in private and public collections across the United States including the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Baltimore, the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection (JFABC) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her curatorial projects include 2018’s ‘Black Blooded’ at the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC, which presented the work of 50 interdisciplinary artists from Kerry James Marshall to Sherrill Roland-- and the 2016 exhibition ‘1975 Paintings: Noah Davis’ at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, IL.

Jessica received a bachelors in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from Carnegie Mellon University; a masters in Arts Administration, Policy and Management from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and a masters in Studies of the Law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Her interests in innovation, activism and collaboration continue to influence her projects today.

During Moss' residency, she created The ABOVEGROUND RAILROAD Scholarship.

Shan Wallace is an award-winning photographer, artist, and freedom fighter from East Baltimore. Inspired by the service of social change and the social power of art, and harsh realities rooted in racial and economic divides during her upbringing in poverty, SHAN uses the lens to document communities of the African diaspora. Her work conveys and reveals the social, cultural, and political narratives of black life serving as photographic documentation and archive of Blackness. Dedicated to demonstrating and promoting the value of archiving and photography, and increasing Black visibility, SHAN distributes her photographs internationally. Inspired by the legacy of photo albums, this ongoing project is a grassroots and accessible method of storytelling and archiving, articulating and legitimizing Black people’s experience. The goal is to provide subjects with physical copies of images of themselves to build or contribute to their own archive and challenging us to consciously or unconsciously enforce new ways of seeing, thinking, and being a part of the African Diaspora. SHAN has received recognition from the Baltimore Beat for Best Solo Show, Best Photographer from the City Paper, and awarded 2nd Place for Small Outlet Feature of “Losing Conner’s Mind” by Association of Health Care Journalists'. Her work has received widespread support from publications like the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Essence, and the now-defunct Baltimore City Paper. SHAN has also exhibited work in museums internationally from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum to Mariano Arts Center, in Havana Cuba. More recently, she's working on confronting oppressive politics and histories of Black Americans through collages and installations.

During Wallace’s residency, she created THE BANSHEE UNDE[RAGE].

Poncili Creación (Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro) is a Puerto Rican group that generates performance and audio-visual experiences that sprout from their interactive sculptures they call objects. They have focused their body of work in the relationship between objects and reality. Since 2012, they have worked with large-scale objects, installations, and video. Although they are most known for their performances that involve live music, dance and experimental storytelling. Their performance tours have taken them around the United States, Canada, Europe, and The Dominican Republic. Their objects have been exhibited in museums such as the MAPR and the MoCa as well as in independent galleries 787 studios, Art lab, Gr_und, Edge zones, Meta-gallery, Poor Farm Experiment among others.

During Poncili Creación’s 2018 residency, they created Multi-Parade.

Hale Ekinci is a Chicago-based Turkish interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Art at North Central College, teaching a variety of courses in the Digital Art field. She spent childhood and much of her young adult years in Turkey, the homeland that she brings in and out of focus throughout her works. She completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago. Focusing on pictorial histories, gender politics, and folk traditions, her works vary from non-linear narrative videos and mixed media paintings that are juxtaposed with craft to fiber installation. Her recent projects touch on social issues, cultural stereotypes, and political unrest. Despite the sometimes dismal nature of these controversial issues, her works are often playful as she uses vibrant colors, patterns, and hopeful moments.

During Ekinci's residency, she created Your Haint Blue is My Evil Eye: Making an Amulet.

Andrea Vail is interested in the emphasis that American culture places on amassing stuff in pursuit of happiness and the ironic emptiness to which it leads. Hinged on textile traditions and techniques, her practice materializes as sculpture, installation, and collaborative exchange. Vail is an artist, teacher, and facilitator based in Charlotte, NC. She is the recipient of the ASC Regional Project Grant; North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship (2016-17); Happenings CLT Visual Artist Grant; CultureWORKS Richmond Arts and Cultural District MicroGrant; and residencies at Goodyear Arts, McColl Center for Art + Innovation. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA).

During Vail's residency, she created Signalling-Hello (Greensboro).

Ben Seretan. The confused sound of blood in a shining person. Ecstatic joy exploder with loud bands, clouds of guitar, letter writing, guided meditations, sunrise songs, and an ambient music hotline. Looks up to Dolly Parton, Arthur Russell, Terry Riley, and Alice Coltrane. Grew up in southern California and once performed a concert at the National Gallery in Albania and another on a boat that was anchored off the coast of Maine during a tropical storm.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Seretan created Every Dawn Jubilation Blues and The See Major Arcana.

Samantha Burns an interdisciplinary artist based in Southwest Florida, working with sculpture, printmaking, and installation-based practices. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from Florida State University. Burns considers herself a composer of sorts, assembling and manipulating materials in order to create new temporal networks of dependence and dialogue. These arrangements aim to call attention to the inherent strengths and uniqueness of her objects investigating the relationships they have with one another, time, and the spaces they live in. Visually and conceptually, the sculptures examine concepts and interactions of the body mind connection focusing on the changes surrounding sudden trauma and recovery processes.

During Burns' residency, she created Nine out of Ten / Proceed with Caution.

Milla Toukkari is a visual artist from Helsinki, Finland. She has graduated with an MFA and MoA, majoring in printmaking and design. Her works are indebted to the transformative and transitional processes essential to printmaking, even though the pieces also involve elements from photography, writing, and installation. Nonetheless, the ever-fleeing and ultimately deconstructive nature of the printed image is in the core of her philosophical and artistic interests.Important, reoccurring and very much cherished concepts in her practice include (the politics of) archive, (constructed) memory, and the ontology of and the otherness in the (printed) image.

She has contributed to a publication touching the notion of the expended field of printmaking, published in 2017 by the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland.

Toukkari is a serious but seriously slow thinker.

During Toukkari's residency, they created Lover's Ear.

Spencer Merolla studied religion as an undergraduate and had embarked on a career in academia before finding her way back to her first love, visual art. Her work explores the social practices and material culture of grief and remembrance through various affectively-charged materials.

During Merolla's residency, she created Album Amicorum.

Alejandro Franco’s work is a quest to find a new function for discarded objects, to give them a new role, a new life. In an industrial landscape where made objects and information flows overwhelm us, he finds fulfillment in building characters out of various objects that were previously resting without purpose. Seeking hidden similarities between objects and in parallel striving to interpret thoughts are his great passions. He feels a need to intervene with these forgotten elements, to work with their poetic potential and create a convergence engaging people with their new existence. A seamless search for beauty, sifting through the detritus of everyday life.

During Franco's residency, he created Live Streaming.

lydia see is a multidisciplinary practitioner, educator, and curator of art + archives who is passionate about the uses of art for social justice + civic engagement. Working primarily at the intersections of photography with fiber/object/craft/performance, her practice involves material and conceptual investigation through research and collection and is rooted in history: literal and conceptual, local and global, intimate and environmental, personal and anonymous.

Through processes of collecting, arranging, stitching, weaving, photographing, re-photographing, and combining, the archive is reinterpreted in mundane domestic materials, accumulations, and outdated media to draw connections between memory, ephemerality and changes in technology. In her social practice she advises as a creative consultant and strategist with a focus on inclusive and accessible interpretive collateral and expanded engagement.

During see's residency, she created The Records Room.

Kimberly Lyle’s work explores our human relationships to systems of language, communication, learning, and technology. Within each of these systems she often uses translation as a strategy for understanding the movement of meaning - between languages, between people, between mediums. By questioning these larger structures in often personal ways, she hopes to better understand how they come to shape our identity, relationships to each other, and perceptions of the world.

During Lyle's residency, she created Staircase Score.

Hannah Lewis is a visual artist, vintage clothing seller, and treasure hunter born and raised in southwest Florida. Organizing her embarrassingly large troll doll collection, restoring old clothing, and searching for bizarre objects to include in her next artwork are just a few of her favorite pastimes.

Lewis's sculptural works explore how branding and media influence the ways in which we identify ourselves and behave. She is especially interested in the (oftentimes toxic) relationship between marginalized consumers and objects of consumption. Forced to grapple with a socio-political climate that isn't always hospitable for fat women of color, Lewis imagines a future where her differences are both recognized and celebrated.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Lewis created Dress-Up.

Antonia B. Larkin is a multidisciplinary artist whose main focus is contemporary black womanhood. Larkin completed a MFA in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of art, and a BFA in fine art from Georgia Southern University.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Larkin created Vessel.

Tiny polished pieces of nature, shipped long distances to wait. Lying lazily on markets that look incredibly alike, eventually becoming someone’s pocket fortune or nightstand reassurance. Nelly-scented incense and Icelandic glacial water tapped on bottles with a cool sticker. 15 missed calls and they say eating blue smarties while wearing Crocs shoes causes immediate cancer. Ásgerður Birna Björnsdóttir is a visual artist busy with making sense of the abundance of materials around her.

Carolyn Clayton is an artist whose work seeks to cultivate an enhanced awareness of our shared lives with things. She has long been interested in the traces that human beings leave on material objects. Not only the observable scratches, smudges and smells that hint at past occurrences, but also the invisible and undetectable ones. She is enamored with how something as simple as touch can drastically shift an object’s perceived value, making it tainted or treasured (contaminated or cherished). This has positioned her to ask whether object history is retained in the fragments of everyday things, which she explores by interacting with, collecting, photographing, pulverizing and reassembling second-hand objects.

Mandy Messina is an interdisciplinary South African artist living and working in Oklahoma. Once, while filing out an application at a DMV they were asked to pick a different race (so as not to confuse hypothetical police during a hypothetical chase). A lot of art making ensued. Mandy is petty. During their residency at Elsewhere, Messina created CHANNELS.

Edison Peñafiel is an Ecuadorian visual artist living in South Florida. He studied Fine Arts and Art History at the Florida International University, Miami (2016). Having experienced and witnessed first-hand one of the turn of century’s everlasting dilemma—immigration and the economic/political instability in Ecuador/South America, Peñafiel brings the ambiguity of personal experience to global contexts. His installations are most often framed in paradoxical and absurd representations of specific events. Composing with video, drawing, sculpture, and animation, he transforms serious social incidents into potent poetic allegories. Conscious of our innumerable perspectives to interpret the world, Peñafiel uses large projections that blend with actual environments, extending his bizarre video and animated scenes into our reality.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Peñafiel created Ni Aqui, Ni Alla (Neither Here Nor There).

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn based artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates media projects about the urban experience that reveal hidden value, investigate individual roles in larger systems, and open avenues for intervention. Her work encompasses video, installation, interactive media and public art. Her current project, Invisible Seams, has taken her from New York to California to India to Sri Lanka and to Elsewhere in Greensboro to take a deep dive into the history, systems and people behind mass produced clothing. She teaches digital media art at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Wright created Invisible Seams.

Jeremiah Jones is an artist who creates objects and videos that explore the complex histories, landscapes and relationships that form our world. His process includes found image research, field production, and material projects in the studio to create complex works that bring to bear contemporary systems and mythologies. His work often incorporates the formal elements of projected light and sound.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Jones created Elsewhere Filters.

I am a worker in the field of Performing Arts (initiator, director, coach, performer, producer, designer) with a background in movement theatre and devised theatre. Projects are often context driven, and strive for trans-disciplinarity and trans-culturality; depending on the work, I collaborate with professionals and/or amateurs from different backgrounds and disciplines. I also currently teach at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.

I am interested in the absurd that lies in the tragic and the beauty hidden in the banal. I attempt to approach the indefinable very precisely in the hope of touching people through that which we do not completely understand but can feel. Inevitability and necessity in the making is essential.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Van Hinte created Slow Dance.

Kirsten Southwell is an artist and designer native to Huntersville, NC and based in Chicago, IL. By day, she works as a designer for the Art Institute of Chicago. By night, she is a textile artist, lapidary, gem faceter, and a modern girl who likes to talk about her feelings. Her work is centered around introspection and vulnerability, sharing her life experience in ways that range from melodramatic to scientific. Kirsten earned her Bachelors in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University (2012) and has previously been an artist-in-residence at Epicenter (2016).

During her residency at Elsewhere, Southwell created Emotional Exercises for the Trumpet and An Invitation That Might Break.

April Camlin is a textile artist, percussionist, and ventriloquist born and raised in Baltimore. She is honored to have lived a very strange life thus far. She has toured the globe with music and performance projects and shown visual work both nationally and internationally. Her practices are an attempt to probe the subconscious mind and subvert the embedded forces of capitalism in whatever small way she can. She recently quit her job to focus on her creative practices and hopes to never go back.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Camlin created To Climb the Mountain.

Gina Alexandra Denton is a visual artist based in Baltimore, MD. Her sculptural practice is rooted in intuitive play, and her material index spans several craft based media, including fiber and ceramics. Viewing art making as a form of intuitive cosmology, Gina creates work that explores the concept of space, both internal and external, micro and Marco. Her interactive, modular, "playable" sculptures aim to cast the viewer in the role of the mystical child who, upon encountering foreign objects, see only potential playthings, and through exploratory play, deepen their understanding of context and empathy.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Denton created Big Girl Wanna Play Too.

Hamida Khatri is an artist, writer, curator, arts educator, community activist, and a creative arts therapist, raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and living in Baltimore, U.S. She works in a variety of mediums, from figurative drawings, to photography, to sculptural puppets, to animation. She holds an MFA in Community Arts and a Certificate in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art (U.S.), Certificate in Humanistic Counseling (U.K.), and an MBA in Marketing (Pakistan). Her personal work embodies the spirit of feminist ideologies and seeks to document the uncharted memories of domesticated women, within patriarchal societies. As the Founder and Director of 'Creative Therapy Platform — A Voluntary Travel-Community Project, she helps transform space into healthy communal place where meditative art-making is practiced.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Khatri created City of Scraps.

Antonio McAfee’s work addresses the complexity of representation. Through appropriating and manipulating portraits, he engages in prescribed views of individuals and rework images to provide an alternate - more layered image and concept of the people depicted. His photographs oscillate between formal considerations (modifying appearances and prints) and imaginary potential (establishing new back stories and roles) for the portraits.

During his residency at Elsewhere, McAfee created The Break in the Game.

Beau Vasseur is a new media artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. His work has been shown at Big Law Country Club in Brooklyn, NY, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA, Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore, MD, and the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, FL. His mediums include film and immersive installation. By harnessing the power of conspiracy documentaries, advertising, and architecture, his work attempts to shed light on the detrimental effects of unfeasible expectations set by first world ambitions. These explorations are inspired by real life immersive sets such as Las Vegas, Dubai, and Disney world, and scrutinize architecture as a means to convey progress, human achievement, and utopian aspirations.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Vasseur created Department No. 1.

william cordova's work attempts to reconcile ideas of displacement and transition through the use of alchemy, ephemeral residue and vernacular architecture that continually shifts and shapes what could be described as our contemporary situation.During his residency at Elsewhere, Cordova created untitled: or obsneerg y las cronicas marcianas.

Rontherin Ratliff is known for creating textural assemblages and sculptural work that examines contemporary society. In 2009, Works and Process at the Guggenheim NYC commissioned the set installation for the production of Peter and the Wolf of which Ratliff lead the artistic direction and co-creation.

In 2010 Ratliff exhibited at Diverse Works in Houston Texas and in 2012 the Arts Council of New Orleans commissioned a site-specific art installation for The Norman Mayer Branch Library. Ratliff has exhibited at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery at Coastal Carolina University SC and was selected for the Joan Mitchell Foundations Artist In Residence Program in New Orleans in 2014. He was a collaborating artist for the nationally acclaimed street art installation ExhibitBe New Orleans.In 2015, the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator and NPN/VAN awarded Ratliff with an artist residency in Miami, FL. His commitment to his practice lead him co-found Level Artist Collective with local artist of color living in New Orleans. In 2016 Ratliff exhibited at Governors Island New York, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA and was a recipient of the Adeline Edwards Founders Award along with a Blights Out artist fellowship. In 2017 Ratliff exhibited at Xavier University Gallery at Xavier University and Carroll Gallery at Tulane University in New Orleans and was invited to the Netherlands where he created an outdoor installation in response to the 1717 charismas flood.During his residency at Elsewhere, Ratliff created Rosa No. 7 Yellow Independence.

Yatta is a Houston-born digi-poet, artist, and musician currently based in New York. Using incantations born of loop pedal drones, folk acoustics, and ecstatic beats, they alchemize and creolize jazz standards with Krio cries. Past performances, readings, and workshops have taken place at healing spaces, farms, backyards, festivals, galleries, museums, conferences and universities all over. They are currently seeking a circus group and a glass sphere in the sky.

Zeelie Brown is a visual artist and cellist who through sound, textiles, and installations depth charges wells of Afro-Atlantic dynamism to conjure up works which provoke a sense of environmental and cultural shift. Her work meditates black freedom in the 21st century, and the renegotiation of the parasitic networks of power and privilege weft into the global, colonial world order. She was born in San Antonio and was raised between there and Pollard, Alabama. She graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Africana Studies (Fine Arts) which they used to open their heart and soul to jazz, philosophy, and other great arts of the black world.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Brown created Fear No Joy.

Ash Smith is a director, designer and new media artist who grew up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. Ash incorporates strategies of play and speculation to solve problems, re-imagine systems and build worlds—to create interactive stories, mixed reality experiences, simulations and prototypes of the future. Data, science and/or humor may be used to tell stories for film, stage, and improvisation that may blur the distinction between art & life, fact & fiction, and nature & technology—a liminal space—that considers how myth and history modulate a present reality while simultaneously engendering future dreams. Ash is interested in the dreaming collective and how these virtual shared spaces may bleed into the real and shape our co-existence. Ash also plays music in a few bands and loves to parallel park.

During 2017 their residency at Elsewhere, Smith created 11½ Spells for Our Future Selves. In 2019 Ash was the resident artist for the 2019 Rural Residency in Appalachia and created Southern Devices//Appalachian Futures.

Saba Taj is a Southern Muslim artist and activist based in Durham NC. Heavily inspired by Islamic stories and speculative fiction, Saba uses mixed media practices to illustrate the liminalities of diasporic identity through the creation of hybridized femme-monsters. Taj remixes cultural references from her South Asian, American, Muslim, and queer identities, and explores themes of diaspora, inherited trauma and apocalypse.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Taj created Interstellar Uber/Negotiations with God.

Lucas Baisch is a playwright and text-based visual artist, originally from San Francisco, currently based in Chicago. His work spawns from interests in youth culture, technology, and contemporary depictions of iconoclasm. The work aims for the queer, crude, and aesthetically curious, citing a punkish and playful affinity for the irreverent. He holds a BFA in playwriting from DePaul University, and will be pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Brown University starting fall of 2017.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Baisch created Conveyor Belt.

Vivian Charlesworth's objects and immersive environments create a space for physical interplay between the viewer and the artwork. Each piece fosters a sensation of stepping into the middle of a story. In order to make the viewer aware of their own gaze, Charlesworth immerses them within fragmented narratives that ask to be reassembled. Each viewer creates their own story based on the information they choose to process and engage with. She inserts the viewer into the position of explorer, bystander or spy, challenging them to interrogate and confront their own presumptions about narrative.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Charlesworth created Repository.

Edek Sher earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BA from Kenyon College in 2013. Sher's work focuses on the individual's creative role when confronted with faceless corporations and abstractions like climate change and mass surveillance. Blending his interest in literature, electronic media, and internet subcultures, Sher creates experimental music and multi-channel video installations that seek to overwhelm the viewer.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Sher created Repository.

Atlanta based artist Ben Bowden Lee enjoys exploring things like tragedy, loss, and dark humor. Lee typically works with photographic images, books, and the occasional knickknack. Often seen lurking around estate sales or abandoned buildings, he utilizes the found image/object as his main source of inspiration and material. Lee also grew up in a family of funeral home directors and learned to drive in a cemetery.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Bowden Lee created Blue Monday.

Lily Reeves's work looks at the epistemology of the sacred throughout history and into postmodernity. She incorporates spiritual ideologies alongside existential philosophy in her work to ratify ideas and interactions between the mind, body, and spirit. With her installations, performances and sculptural objects, Reeves delineates the boundaries of the soul and provides experiences to heighten the metaphysical side of being and the relevance of spiritual thought in contemporary life.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Reeves created Southern Static.

Craig Smith is an American media artist whose art and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human‐to‐human interactivity in contemporary art, especially photography, sound, and socially engaged performances. Smith’s research – based practice can be produced in innumerable locations because of its effort to combine the history of a particular site with its everyday use, its population, and the context of how such a population occupies a named ‘site.’ Site and its inherent operations become inclusive formal elements in that they make specific and incredible encounters possible for the viewer.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Smith created #NCTRIAD.

Anthony Warnick is an aspiring amateur librarian. He currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been in residence at FutureFarmers (San Francisco) and SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico) among others, and has exhibited at Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), SPACES (Cleveland, OH). His work is often a humorous engagement with systems of knowledge and power in our contemporary sphere.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Warnick created Everything in Life is Vibration and Conservation Labor.

Justin Rabideau's recent body of work has been focused on the exploration of discarded materials and how these materials can be utilized to create a connection between the forgotten/past to the new/now. By using found/salvaged pieces of wood, discarded furniture and other objects of personal interest, Justin creates works that have direct connections to the neighborhoods/spaces that he sources his materials from while also referencing notions of gentrification, object history, cultural wastefulness, and hidden beauty.

Montreal based artist Chris Flower animates the inanimate. His photo-based work often captures unexpected qualities found in everyday common objects. Flower currently resides at the Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro North Carolina where he is conducting an exploration of unseen, invisible, or interstitial spaces, the in-between, and the unfamiliar side of the familiar.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Flower created Contained Elsewhere, Barley Twist Column, Stranger Things (Books & Memory), and Little Bear Zoetrope.

Emily Jan is a huntress of objects and stories. She hails from Montreal, by way of southeastern Utah, South Africa, Mexico, and California. Her sculptures and installations recall both the museum and the wunderkammer, combining the found with the handmade, and evoking the faraway and fantastical as well as the everyday. She is guided in her work by the spirit of exploration, kinship, and curiousity. From time to time she writes and illustrates books; you can find them on her website.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Jan created Rangifer - Polyphemus - Polypore, Barley Column Twist, Stranger Things (Books & Memory) and Little Bear Zoetrope.

From the swamps of Florida, Dana Robinson has spent her life taking things apart, scrambling them and putting them back together.  With her army of Frankenstein art, she has collected a BFA in Design from Florida State University as well as a variety of life skills such as drawing, designing, and obsessive organizing that have brought her to the door step of Elsewhere. She hopes to spread her love of design across the hemispheres.

Franky Cruz is a multiplidisiplinary artist working in all mediums currently living in Miami, FL. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised by wolves in Hialeah, FL, Cruz received a BFA in painting at the New World School of the Arts in Miami in 2011.Cruz was a resident at the HomeBase Project in Berlin (2012), and participated in Airie residency in the Everglades National park (2015) where he continued to expand interests in multimedia painting, murals, sculpture, drawing, performance, and video collaborating with the Everglades. Cruz's practice has lead him to experiment and collaborate with plants, crystallization, and cycles in the flow of water, as well as found human and organic objects, whilst observing, and raising the beautiful winged insects and collecting their emergence secretions onto water color paper.  He documented a performance in which I embody the human animal in a photographic series I produced for the AiRiE residency billboard project, titled Some kind of Heron. This series was inspired by Pah Hay Okee (River of Grass), the plight of the plume birds, and his stay month-stay at the Everglades National Park. His most recent installation included a terra-formed couch and it is titled Cycles in Ellipsis and What It Takes To Make It.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Cruz created Fe3O4, [Fe]=O.

Michèle Fandel Bonner got a BA in Pre-Art Therapy from The University of Massachusetts in the 80’s, then dropped out of sight. She never stopped making but resurfaced in 2013 and started showing her work to the public. She is a multi media artist looking for beauty and meaning in the detritus of daily life; she has a vast collection of things, waiting their turn to be transformed. Outsider art and the deep felt impulse to create are an inspiration and impetus for her work. She has shown her work throughout New England and in Australia.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Bonner created Make Do and Mend.

Mike Nourse moved from Canada to study movement in America, the home of the free. He is interested to see how people navigate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nourse creates work towards a more perfect union for people of all kinds, at all times, in all places. 

During his residency at Elsewhere, Nourse created Untitled (Chalk Mind Map).

Alexander Hernandez loves using scrap fabrics, remnants of unfinished projects, personal belongings, found objects, and traditional textiles. He sews, paints, embroiders, layers and patches these mediums together using traditional needlework and DIY punk crafting techniques. His work explores gender expectations, cultural assimilation, Queer affinity, immigrant diaspora, gentrification, and navigating multiple identities.He received his BFA (2007) in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO and his MFA (2012) at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. His work has been shown in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Orlando, and Ontario, Canada. He is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

During his residency at Elsewhere, Hernandez created four related projects: Guests, Spirits, Permanent Residents and Untitled.

Dorothy is originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her BA cum laude in Visual Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, and her MA in Performance Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2014. She works as a freelance theatre designer as well as with the production company she co-founded, Mapped Productions, based in London. She also maintains a personal art practice making site-responsive installations and performances and is interested in the themes of history, storytelling and myth, religion and ritual, and cultural identity of place. She is based out of Detroit, Michigan.

As a resident of Elsewhere, Melander-Dayton created The Martyrdom of Saint Elsewhere.

My name is the gentleman with itchy legs, and I am Tim Fite's former roommate. Tim asked me to write this artist statement, because he is too chicken shit to write his own statement, and he thinks we are friends. We are not friends. He was counting on me to write nice things about his art and music, and talk about how he makes work that can be angry and funny at the same time - maybe even invite you to check out timfite.com - I'm not going to do that. I am just going to make believe that I am doing that, and submit this half-assed statement as is. Joke's on you, Tim Fite. Get a job!

During his residency at Elsewhere, Fite created Something Must Be Wrong Somewhere.

Originally from Waynesville, North Carolina, Will splits his time in both Philadelphia and New York City. He is currently an artist-in-residence with Flux Factory in Queens, NY and a curator at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Will works mainly with Sound, Installation Design, and Food in interactive ways. Will grew his hair long and has been having second thoughts ever since and has had the honor of participating in many great projects including: Black Mountain College Museum Re: Happening '14, Baltimore AltScape with Open Space Gallery '14, Copenhagen Art Week '15, Århus Art Weekend '15, MATA Interval '15, & ALT CPH Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair '16. He has shown art work at varying venues from the Museum of the Moving Image to a burned out, abandoned BP gas station. He sometimes works collaboratively with a lot of amazing folks across many genres including: Matthias Borello, Sally Szwed, Jung In Jung, Molly Haslund, Billy Dee, Amaryah Armstrong, Lena Hawkins, Walker Tufts, Suze B, Alex Nathanson, Nadia Botello, Nathan Philips, Raphael Alexandre, Richard "YoVinyl" Nathaniel, The Median Movement, Siph Pristed, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Julieta Triangular, and many more incredible people he is lucky to know and work with.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Owen created Singing Sink and 10 Minutes.

Seth Ferris is an artist and designer working across disciplines to critique power visible in urban infrastructure, finance, and cultural production. Using a variety of mediums his work forms a constellation of experimental lectures, media installations, software development and typography. He is currently a MFA candidate at the University of California at San Diego where he also teaches in the Speculative Design program.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Ferris created Surplus Surplus.

Christine Rebhuhn earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015 and a BA from Kalamazoo College in 2011. Her work considers the way that objects overlap, stretching a line of visual connection across disparate things. She brings together found, handcrafted and industrially fabricated objects that come from mundane American life, lifted away from their place in the periphery. She recently participated in programs at the New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS), Makeshift Studio Residency, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited at inCube Arts in New York, New York, and at the 2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in Incheon, Korea.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Rebhuhn created Knock Wood.

anique vered is an artist-researcher working across affect theory, process philosophy, alter-economies and social practice. Aside from an ever-present penchant to a wild openness (yes, you are welcome to read that as an invitation for riotous yet sensitive conversation), she is currently interested in new social and economic forms and organizational gestures based on post-structuralist, queer and decolonial ethics of care. Originally from Australia, anique is based at SenseLab, Concordia University in Montreal, and also works with The School of Making Thinking (SMT). Recent projects include: the social intervention ‘Ruptures and bending continuums : learning from the underside’ at the Deathbeds symposium; curatorial consulting for ‘Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue’ at The Center for Curating and Public Scholarship; co-curating/ co-producing SMT’s ‘Words & [ ] – a Durational Conference of Art and Thought’ which also featured some of anique’s social practice; and the performative paper ‘(In)equal relations: a reconnaissance towards an alter-economy of Understanding.'

During her residency at Elsewhere, vered created An Alter-Economy of Becoming Elsewhere.

Ayo Janeen Jackson is a candidate for an MFA in Performance Art at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018). She received her BFA at North Carolina School of the Arts and is a former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Ballet Preljocaj, and the original cast of Spider-Man on Broadway. Jackson received a Princess Grace Award in dance (2004). She danced for the French pop star Mylene Farmer for her tour. Jackson worked with Julie Taymor on the film Across the Universe and Grendel, an opera. She served as the associate choreographer for the workshop of Superfly, a musical and the Presidential Scholars Program at the Kennedy Center both directed by Bill T. Jones. Jackson appeared in the film Black Nativity, the opera Anna Nicole, episodes of Boardwalk Empire, The Knick and HBO's Vinyl. She recently choreographed An Octoroon in Philadelphia. Jackson's visual artwork has been on display at La Maison d'Art and the Harlem Arts Festival (2016). This fall Jackson launched the first leg of her performance art piece Walking with Freedom, The Heritage of the Black Imagination, where she retraces the pathway of Harriet Tubman. Jackson is an artist in residence at Elsewhere in Greensboro, NC.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Jackson created Black Lights Matter.

Janelle Beasley is a collage artist from Bloomington, Indiana. She responds to the beauty and absurdity in vintage printed materials, domestic objects, and social guidance films. Using found images as personal symbols, she makes work about the psychology of idealism and morality. Janelle received a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University in 2013 and is now the Works on Paper Preparator at the Eskenazi Museum of Art.

During her time at Elsewhere, Beasley created Velvet Retreat.

Alex Meiser attends Cranbrook Academy of Art in his home state of Michigan. He creates fun and absurd spaces intended to mirror and shake up social relationships. He is also a long time participant of Site:Lab, an artist organization that creates site specific artist installations in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

During his time at Elsewhere, Meiser created Nothing Can Be Something

Alix Pentecost-Farren grew up in North Carolina, attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, studied illustration and filmmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts. Her work often takes the form of sequential images, and has included interactive comics, edifying instructionals, documentaries, mud murals, animations and installations. She has worked on projects for Radical Media, Mason Jar Music, and Nomadique Collective, and her work has been shown in multiple venues in New York and abroad including Pioneer Works, the Society of Illustrators Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival, Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo, The SoHo Digital Gallery, and the Grace Farms Foundation. Her practice draws on historical research, environmental concerns, humor and mysticism. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Pentecost-Farren created Indefinite Progress

Roger Miles's art practice is a combination of immersive installations, performance and the memorialization of found objects. He has used unusual residencies over the past three years as a source of objects and as a way of disrupting his normal work methods. The residencies include those at the local recycling and re-use centre, at a mannequin factory that was closing down, a window in Selfridges London, at the famous Olympic Studios in Barnes, London and at Elsewhere in Greensboro, North Carolina. Whilst studying for an MA at the RCA he created a fictive archaeological dig, excavating 500 dolls house pieces from a solid cube of beeswax. The dolls house pieces were from his late mother’s dolls house collection and the excavation revealed old family stories and memories. Titled, The Battersea Hoard, he presented the installation at the RCA’s work in progress show in January 2017, which was attended by circa 2000 visitors over 3 days. His final MA show in 2018, the Bureau of Found Art Objects, was equally well attended and successful and led onto being part of the 2018-2019 Kaiser Chiefs' curated show, at the York Art Gallery, When All is Quiet. He is currently helping the Olympic Studios pull together its archive of music, images, film and artifacts relating to the its rich music recording history. The owners opened a vinyl record shop opposite the studios in July 2018 and is managed by the artist as its official archivist – this has activated and housed the archive and provides a place where local residents can sell and buy vinyl records.

During his 2016 residency at Elsewhere, Miles created Resonate/Generate.

Megan Blythe Stewart is a theatre artist who creates solo and collaborative devised theatre, performative installations, and community-based theatre projects. She has a long-term fascination with (folk/outsider/visionary) art environment builders, hoarders and collectors. Through her work, she explores the transformations and accumulations that occur within theatre making and the lifelong processes of making oneself at home in the world. She completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, and currently spends her time traipsing between Canada’s east and west coasts, making art and performance on each side.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Blythe created Elsewear.

Maria Molteni is a Nashville/Boston based multimedia & performing artist, educator & organizer. Her practice sprung from formalist roots in painting and printmaking and has grown to incorporate research, participation, and spiritual experimentation. From fiber to found-object sculpture, painting to movement, performance to publication, she employs tactile and tactical processes per their ability to manifest elaborate conceptual orchestration and intuitive synaesthetic provocation. Exploring iterations of sport, craft, feminism, animism, glossolalia, urban planning, and more she takes interest in standardized systems that influence ritual in everyday functionality. She playfully asks audiences to imagine her serving Black Mountain College as a PE coach : )

During her residency at Elsewhere, Molteni created Revolving Spectrum.

Charisse Pearlina Weston is a Houston-based artist and writer. Her work focuses on the deconstruction and reconfiguration of language, representation, and history through the manipulation of various mediums including video, photography, and printed text. She has exhibited and performed in various venues including Project Row Houses, the Lawndale Art Center, and DiverseWorks, and has participated in residencies at Alabama Song Houston, Sunblossom Residency (organized by Carrie Schneider), Vermont Studio Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has received awards from the Artadia Fund for the Arts, the Santo Foundation, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation, and the Dallas Museum of Art's Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund. She will be attending the University of California-Irvine as a MFA in Art candidate this Fall.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Weston created Politics Surrounded.

Antoine Williams creates mixed media assemblage installations, paintings and collages, which are an investigation of identity, semiotics and social structures. Heavily influenced by speculative science fiction (specifically social science fiction and cosmic horror), hip hop, plus his rural working class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology of hybrid creatures that exist between the boundaries of class and race. Antoine is an Assistant Professor of Art at Guilford College.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Williams created Because They Believe in Unicorns.

Cosmo Whyte is a Jamaican-born, trans-disciplinary artist who employs drawing, performance, and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration—particularly migration as an unfinished arc of motion whose final resting point remains an open-ended question. He situates his work in the liminal space between early culture shock and final acclimatization. Cosmo's creative process begins through the interrogation of his own body and the personal memories that are embedded within it. He uses this archive as his entry point into collective political interrogations.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Whyte created Guess Who is Coming to Dinner.

Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist from Galway, Ireland and is currently is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. In 2008 she earned a Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin and in 2014 a MFA in Digital Art from Tulane University, New Orleans. Cassidy’s primary work is based around site-specific audio-visual installations with a focus on creating meditative, immersive environments. Past performances include the European Media Art Festival, Germany, the New Orleans Film Festival, Punto Y Raya Festival, Spain, Currents New Media, Sante Fe, Arts Council New Orleans LUNA Fete and group shows in Dublin, Galway, New Orleans, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Cassidy has had solo shows at the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, and at Tulane University and PARSE Gallery in New Orleans.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Cassidy created We Went Down To O'Shea's Woods.

Sheetal Prajapati is an artist and educator, raised in Kentucky, educated in Chicago, and now living in Brooklyn. She's currently Assistant Director for Learning and Artists Initiatives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) but works across the field organizing, making and thinking with herself and others. Her creative practice explores notions of intimacy and identity through an investigation of material processes. She's interested in the circumstances and conditions that welcome meaningful experiences and wonders about our relationship to the spiritual and cosmic worlds. She's interested in you, the stars, and making strangers talk each other.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Prajapati created We Are Not Alone.

Emma Rosenberg is a writer and educator, creating hybrid work that investigates the limits of language. A Boston native based in Miami, she is interested in the tension between fiction and truth. Her practice draws on archival research, documentary storytelling, and the politics of narrative form. She leaves things everywhere.

Emma created A Meditation on Scatology during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Juana Valdes' artistic work is grounded in a multi-disciplinary practice that combines the process of printmaking, photography, sculpture and ceramic. An integral part of Valdes's practice elicits migration as a complex process, constructing history through a continuum that involves both the homespace of the diasporic community and their new homeland. In her current work, Valdes reevaluates the worth of artistic production once considered craft-like. She uses them as a medium to identify herself and as a means to subvert the modern conception of value in visual art. It integrates the social-political discourse within the art object to analyze relationships between contemporary and historical imagery and their connection to the social, political and economical dominance of the cultures that produce them and their impact on cultural memory. Her artwork brings into consciousness past histories (in present day experiences) and engages social justice to question economic inequalities due to race, class, and gender prejudice in society.

Juana created Those The Sun Has Loved during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Pioneer Winter is a Miami-based choreographer and performance artist – invested in physical theatre, contemporary dance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transmedia. His collective provides a platform for risk-taking, progressive, and experimental arts initiatives. As producer, Pioneer directs LEAP (Leaders of Equality through Arts and Performance), a program for queer youth, and Grass Stains, a fellowship and commissioning program for site-specific performance.Education: B.A. Psychology (2007), MPH Epidemiology (2009), MFA Choreography (2016)

Pioneer created A Love To Last 13 Hours during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Jessie Laino fascinates on the ambiguous nature of sense-memory, symbolic acknowledgment and recognition. She attempts to evaluate a city in terms of its economy, geography, industry, residence and salvage. Through her absorption of these characteristics, Jessie salvages what she can from her soundings to examine and conceptualize a universal connection and conversation between object, material, nature and human.

Jessie created 4 MIL and Catch during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Matthew Evan Taylor is a composer, performer, and improviser. His music has been performed through the United States as well as Italy, France, and Russia. During his time at Elsewhere, Matthew will be exploring the connection between memory and music and the paradox of a concrete image representing an ephemeral sound, and vice versa.

Matthew Evan created In Living Memory during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Tattfoo Tan is an artist who collaborates with the public on issues relating to ecology, sustainability and healthy living. His work is project-based, ephemeral and educational in nature. He resides in Staten Island with his chicken collective named S.O.S.5p.m.During his residency, Tan worked on FoodLab 2016.

Julie Moore makes quietly delivered middle fingers. Through physical theatre-based and clown performance, installation, video and music she asks a million questions about if technology is making us more or less human, where words/practices/cultures come from, why you think we buy your bullshit, how we allow ourselves to take up space both physically and socially, and where you got those snacks.

Julie created Verasimilitude during her residency.

Camp Little Hope is a team of artists that translate abstract ideas into visceral experiences. We invent objects and situations that imagine the future in order to create space for action in the present. We make drawings, environments, gardens, free algorithmic restaurants, sustainable energy initiatives, alternative institutional forms and fun.

Hồng-Ân Trương lives and works in North Carolina and New York. Her interdisciplinary projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.Her work has been shown at the International Center for Photography, Art in General, Smack Mellon, and The Kitchen among others. In 2013 she was recipient of an Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park EAF. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015. She was a studio art fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She is currently working on To Preserve, Destroy.

Xi Jie makes intimate encounters for a noisy world. She works across mediums like film, performance, installation, social practice and writing. She is interested in eccentric personal histories; everyday possibilities; the abyss of aging; the modern role of Clown (often Pierrot); silence and the universe. Based in Singapore, she invents little cosmic experiences for the real and imagined lives of humans.

Salty created Energy is Always Conserved, Never Created or Destroyed during her time here.

Blair Bogin generates documentary-based hybrids of writing, performance, photo and video that measure facts about identity confusion, privacy, and love against its lesser quantifiable absurdities. Her work is characterized by collaboration, gift giving and interactions that allow people to relate on an equal plane of play and storytelling.

Blair created Non-Stop King Ratduring her time here.

Artist, Curator, and Culture Maker, Chris Cloud (b. 1983) is a fixture in Minneapolis’s creative milieu. Cloud has made collaboration and experimentation major components of his practice. He was the co-founder of MPLS.TV, an online Do-It-Together video network and MPLSzine, a submissions-based digital publication. Cloud exhibited work in June 2015 for "Last Year On The Internet" in Chicago, IL at Ordinary Projects as part of the collaborative Negative Jam with Former Elsewhere Resident Lea Devon Sorrentino and "SLOVV" as a part of the group exhibition "Brilliance: Made Here" in Minneapolis, MN, which was organized by Former Elsewhere Resident Joan Vorderbruggen. Cloud concentrates his practice on conceptual interdisciplinary projects that may include video, installation, performance, and mixed media and typically combine medium-hearted humor and irony.

Chris created Chasing Freedom during his time at Elsewhere.

George Jenne was born in Richmond, Virginia to a father who, at age ten, watched HIS father, Herb, a cold war spy, buckle the back brace that curled his spine as a disguise on the days that he left their German flat to insinuate himself into tense exchanges behind the iron curtain. A generation later, Herb, retired from espionage, secretly watched George sculpt his likeness in green clay, over the only armature he could find: a busty female mannequin, painted silver. The uncanny qualities of that facsimile brought George to Jim Henson’s Creature shop in Hollywood where, as a plebe,he was expected to watch all manner of abject videotapes under the gaze of an eight foot tall Big Bird, during lunch. He escaped California for New York, where he made movie props by day and exhibited art by night in spaces such as Exit Art, PS122 and Freight+Volume, trekking weekly to teach at his alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design. George currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he creates video, sculpture and prose for the sake of fakery, transgression, and a story well told.

George created Two Bizarre and Unexplained Deaths during his residency. 

Chloë Bass (Brooklyn, NY) focuses on the co-creation of performances, situations, installations, and publications, all dedicated to deep questioning of the everyday. Her current project, The Book of Everyday Instruction (2015 – 2017), is an investigation into one-on-one social interaction.

Anna Kohlweis, also known as Squalloscope, is a multi media artist, songwriter, illustrator, and music producer. She was born and raised in Klagenfurt, Austria, and spent the last ten years living in Vienna. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is interested in the expansion of reality through fiction, puns, cartoons, repurposed found footage, good conversations, weird dreams, and perfectly ripe avocados. Anna created Permanent Resident during her time at Elsewhere.

Kayla Anderson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, organizer, and human being based in Chicago, IL. Using a playful approach to methods of excavation, her work engages with cultural artifacts of the past in order to propose parallel worlds. Through installations involving video, sculpture, and found objects she challenges perceived boundaries between subject, object, and image. She earned a BFA and BA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited across the US and Southeast Asia, and her writing has been published by Leonard Journal (MIT Press) and the Royal College of Art.

Kayla created All Broken Glass Goes to Heaven during her residency.

Rachel Debuque is currently an Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator in the Art department at George Mason University. She has exhibited extensively including, New York, Croatia, and Philadelphia. She was recently awarded to attend the internationally recognized Bemis Center for Contemporary Art’s residency program. Her research spans installation, sculpture, video, and performance. Debuque de-familiarizes space and objects using common decorating design strategies such as pattern, paint, and the arrangement of objects. Her work purposefully plays with two and three-dimensional realms, creating a push/pull in perceptions. Vibrant colors to create directional line patterns that suggest dimensional space and flatten objects with matte paints.

Rachel created Future Holiday during her time at Elsewhere.

Jana Harper is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the themes and tensions between materiality and transcendence, chance encounters and human willfulness, relationships and connectivity, and the natural world and human acts of meaning making. Materially, her work takes many forms: drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, sculpture, photography, installation, social practice, and video. Originally trained as a printmaker, Jana has a broad definition of what constitutes her practice. She divides her time between teaching, research, and creative activity: working both individually and in collaborative settings.

Jana created New Walks in an Old Field during her time here.

Buster Simpson has been active as an artist working in the public since the late 1960’s. His work ranges from stand alone sculpture to integrated and/or collaborative works. His work incorporates ecological, historical, social, and technological considerations, contextualizing them into a site specific aesthetic. His art, its medium and product vary, but the methodology and underpinning conceptual approach are consistent. All aspects of the public realm potentially could become part of the palette; the landscape, the infrastructure, the built environment, and the social and economic engagement. Simpson has stated, “I prefer working in public spaces. The complexity of any site is its asset; to build upon, to distill, to reveal its layers of meaning. Process becomes part and parcel to the art of the place.” Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. Simpson has completed numerous art master plans for urban centers and watersheds that integrate community, ecology and art. A retrospective of his work was recently presented at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Simpson will be conducting an international “Rising Waters” confab at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation durning the month of May focusing on the notions of climate change and the of empowerment of a social and economic commons.

Camp Little Hope is a team of artists that translate abstract ideas into visceral experiences. We invent objects and situations that imagine the future in order to create space for action in the present. We make drawings, environments, gardens, free algorithmic restaurants, sustainable energy initiatives, alternative institutional forms and fun.

Meredith Kooi (b. 1985, Chicago) is a visual and performance artist, editor, arts writer, and curator based in Atlanta, GA. She is a Hambidge Fellow and a recipient of Atlanta's Office of Cultural Affairs 2014 - 2015 Emerging Artist Award. Her recent performance and installation work has been presented by venues across Atlanta including Eyedrum, The Goat Farm Arts Center, MINT Gallery, and The High Museum of Art.Since 2011 she has been the editor for the Chicago-based experimental radio broadcast platform Radius, which received a Propeller Fund award for its 2014 series GRIDS. With Radius, she has curated playlists featured on WFMU's Free Music Archive (NYC) and Kunstradio (Vienna), commissioned artists' works for two series: GRIDS and RANGE, been a visiting artist at ACRE Residency, and participated in participated in the Museum as Instrument residency at Elsewhere.

Jeff Kolar is a sound artist and curator working in Chicago, USA. His work, described as "speaker-shredding," "wonderfully strange," and characteristically curious," includes cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. His work activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices. Jeff is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform, which participated in the Museum as Instrument residency. Since 2011, Radius has commissioned over 50 original works by artists from over 20 countries.

Jon Brumit works creatively with interactive social design, structured improvisation and multi-layered interventions. By design, his objects and public performance situations often produce unpredictable results – occasionally humorous, often sonorous, and always highly interpretable. Brumit has presented solo and collaborative works widely in the US and abroad at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial (as Neighborhood Public Radio), MOCAD (Detroit), SF MOMA, the DeYoung Museum (SF), Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), YBCA (SF), Novi Sad Contemporary Museum (Serbia), Cranbrook Museum of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Krannert Museum (Urbana Champlain), Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago), and the Borderline Academy / Fadaiat (Tarifa, Spain).

Joe Jeffers is a co-curator of Museum as Instrument: A Sound Art Residency at Elsewhere. Joe is a musician, producer and Director of 8550 Ohio (Chicago and Chesterhill, OH).

Troy Briggs works with technology and sound and everyday objects to create subtle interventions in public and private space. These moments, ranging from audio jacks that connect the listener to far-away white noise and single, bare light bulbs that tap out morse code messages sent from across the world, speak to delicacy of human connection though the simplest of means.Briggs has exhibited widely in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, including Shane Campbell, Chicago; Rontoms, Portland, OR; A+D Gallery, Chicago; and 6018 North, Chicago, IL. He teaches in Contemporary Practices at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and sculpture, sound and new media at Cathege College. 

Michael Milano develops drawing and sound work through adapting systems of constraint as they are presented by the grid. Specifically drawing on the weaving draft as device to compose audio work, Milano explores the limits of the binary to produce conceptual “weavings.” Milano received a MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Humanities from Shimer College. He has shown at Roots & Culture, threewalls, Peregrine Program, Adds Donna, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. He recently co-curated the exhibition duckrabbit with Jeff M. Ward at Adds Donna.

David Moré is a sound artist, experimental musician and sculptor. His current projects include listening to weak electromagnetic waves from (maybe) Jupiter using a home built radio telescope. In the past he has collaborated with an elephant-nose fish named Alex Halsted on the creation on biomusic.

Shannon Stratton is a founder and Executive Director of threewalls, a Chicago based not-for-profit for the presentation of contemporary art and ideas. Established in 2003, threewalls has grown from a start-up exhibition space to a vital visual arts organization supporting contemporary art through solo exhibitions, residencies, grants, publications, conferences and commissioning programs. With Green Lantern Press she founded and published (via threewalls) PHONEBOOK, a guide to contemporary independant and artist-run projects, now in its third volume, and The Artists Run Chicago Digest, a companion, appraisal and extension to the exhibition of the same name at The Hyde Park Center. Along with Roots & Culture, Document and The Public Media Institute, she co-founded (as threewalls) the MDW Fair in Chicago, a gathering of artists and independent visual arts platforms. She is a co-founder of FIELD: Artist Projects and Spaces, a national alliance of and advocacy group for small-scale visual arts platforms and their producers.

Amy Siegel's work focuses on the way space, history and memory inform the way we experience the world. The ghosts of people, objects and moments breathe life into a place, even in their absence. Physical environments are experienced on multiple levels: what we see, what we remember, and the stories we’ve heard. A particular focus of Amy's is shadow play and the space beyond light both visually (in terms of projection and illusion) and metaphorically (exploring dream worlds, death and the psyche).

Amy created Remember Well during her residency. 

Beth Cohen created Object Obituaries during her residency. 

Carmen Papalia designs experiences that invite those involved to expand their perceptual mobility and claim access to public and institutional spaces. Often requiring trust and closeness, these engagements disorient the participant in order to introduce new modes of orientation that allow for perceptual and sensorial discovery. An open sourcing of his own embodiment, Papalia’s work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that come available through the non-visual senses. It is a chance to unlearn looking and to help acknowledge, map and name entire unseen bodies of knowledge.

Carmen created Blind Field Shuttle during his residency.

Using sincere parody, I bring individual meaning to tired tropes and ask audiences to question authenticity in order to generate new ways of seeing, hearing, and experiencing personal, social, and historical events. Creating parallel planes is achieved through unapologetic appropriation of signifiers such as institutional voice and stock images, sociological and archival inquiry, pedagogical techniques such as socio-dramatic play, and temporal juxtaposition. Recent performances at venues including: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hillyer Art Space, The Back Alley Theater, and other DIY venues in D.C., as well as The Leslie – Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Manhattan, Panoply in Brooklyn, and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

Jane Claire created elsewherestock.com during her residency.

MILAGROS is Felici Asteinza & Joey Fillastre and sometimes others. MILAGROS is mainly based out of New Orleans & Miami. Their work is typically site-specific, with a vibrant and energetic feeling. MILAGROS strives to work hard and play harder in a style based in collaboration, pattern, installation, drawing, and painting.

MILAGROS created Neighborhood Murals during their residency.

Robert Lach is an eco-friendly, environmentalist, ecologist, and avid bird watcher. Born and raised in New Jersey, it is the local landscape that inspires and fuels his art practice - from the states post-industrial north to the beauty of its southern wildlife areas and beaches. Found objects, trash, and gathered detritus are muse for sculpture, photography, installation, and public art projects.

Robert created Stitched Together during his residency.

Agustina Woodgate (1981, Argentina) is an artist whose practice focuses on the politics of landscapes and infrastructures as a conceptual and public geography. She recombines, activates and repurposes available resources while setting alternative systems in motion. Her work comes about through a logical process of discovery rather than invention, utilizing displacement as a strategy. Woodgates’ approach is speculative, practical, and site and context-responsive, presenting critical alternatives to concepts on social orders, resource management and information distribution bringing clarity, scale, and accessibility.

Agustina is one of the artists commissioned for South Elm Projects. She completed Hopscotch across the South Elm neighborhood during her one-week residency in April 2015.

Residencies:

September 10, 2009 – October 8, 2009

August 7, 2011

April 2015

website | radio espacio estacion dot com

website | agustina woodgate dot com

Project: Glass Forest, Hopscotch, Radio Espacio, Kids Radio FM

Honi Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Blue Mountains, Australia and Berlin, Germany. 

Ryan works across media-arts, performance, social sculpture and installation. She is interested in art as alternative models for living. Her work has cross cultural concerns and approaches the body in dialogue with electronic media, a body that is both an organism and a part of social behaviour. 

Melissa Levin (BFA Philadelphia College of Art 1982, MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 1998)

I am a wander – wonderer. In my daily travels I look for holes through which I can escape to find new worlds and magick.

I have been involved in a range of practices including printed textiles, instillation, single channel video, and architectural commissions. An integral aspect of my working process is to salvage the lost, the forgotten, the overlooked, the discarded, the once-precious things that time forgot. I collect archetypal artifacts that function as time capsules and embed them in my work.

Currently I have been working with vintage jigsaw puzzles. I mix up the puzzle pieces between two puzzles cut from the same mold. The final works present a topsy-turvy world where nothing sits in its expected place. The resulting landscapes threaten our collective memory of these archetypal spaces.

At Elsewhere I am mining the extensive textile collection to make Fabric Drawings.

My visual work has shown in the solo and group shows in the Canada and the US, and my video works have screened in film festivals around the world as well as on national Canadian television.

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn to do it".

                                                                      —Vincent Van Gogh

Laura Bernstein is a multimedia artist who constructs idiosyncratic scenarios and vignettes through video and performance. Her fictional characters and creatures engage with the surrounding environment to expose unusual and absurd interactions. Playing with notions of public and private space, she pursues forms that disrupt distinctions between the interiority of imagination and habitual, uniform reality. Her sculptures sometimes perform without a body and toggle with time to conjure previous functions and future existences. Bernstein received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania with a certificate in Time-Based & Interactive Media in 2014. She was awarded a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2014) and was a fellow at Vermont Studio Center (2013) as well an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2013). She has shown her work in Philadelphia, NY and Austriaand is part of the permanent collection of the National Dance Institute in New York. Her most recent work includes public performance in Vienna as well as in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Moi Tran creates work that exists between abstraction, craft, assemblage, painting, installation and drawing. Her investigations of line, volume, colour, texture, shape, repetition and form are imbued with a sense of questioning, concerned with the need to examine visual assumptions of the use of craft in spatial compositions. Incorporating the idea that cloth wears, fades, stains, stretches and becomes an intimate record of our physical presence and history, her work denotes philosophies of the unfamiliar in the familiar.Textile is the primary material in Tran’s work and traditional textile craft the main tool for manipulation. Importantly the artist insists the textile performs with more prominence than as mere grounds onto which paint would be traditionally applied. Her work considers the process, consideration and time taken in making objects link the close geography concerned with small movements of the hand and arms with the larger mental and physical geographies involved in the engagement of the broader environment. Tran also creates set and costume design for theatre and performance.

Stacy Lynn Waddell creates works that appropriate the power invested in linguistics, historical record and cultural leitmotifs. After earning her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007, Waddell’s works and multimedia installations have been on view at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University (NC), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), The North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), The Gibbes Museum of Art (SC), The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), Project Row Houses (TX), The Studio Museum in Harlem (NY) and Koplin Del Rio (CA) among other venues.

Waddell’s works are represented in public and private collections across the country. She has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Art Matters Grant and has been in residence at Project Row Houses. Currently, she is participating in When The Stars Begin To Fall: Imagination and the American South that originated at The Studio Museum in Harlem and will travel to the NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Fall ’14) and the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston, MA (Spr ‘15). She resides in Chapel Hill, NC.

Living in Waikiki, being raised in the heartland of America, and commuting to work as a flight attendant out of New York City to Europe has given Robert a wealth of artistic material. He received his MFA in 2011 from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Robert has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally regarding current and controversial issues such as tourism, consumption, civil rights and pop culture. Observations about the realm of good and bad human behavior to reveal the ironic choices humans make are layered into his work as well as personal issues and topics. He uses mixed media to create sculpture, installation, performance and wearable art and often combines these mediums and makes them interactive.Robert prefers to use found or common universal objects in a new fashion rather than typical art supplies. He employs humor, sound, irony, bright colors and odd materials to lure in the viewer with a veiled hidden and layered meaning.

Ali Aschman creates hand-made worlds exploring emotional states. Hybridity, transformation, alienation and guilt are recurring themes. Her practice includes animation, installation, drawing and printmaking. She experiments with narrative forms through moving and still images, kinetic and static objects and sculptural tableaux. Aschman earned a BA from the University of Cape Town and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ali Aschman’s residency is supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Judith Parker is a curator, writer and art historian who lives in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. The city is named after indigenous traders, the Odawa, who met explorers traveling the Kitchesippi River. Judith curates interdisciplinary contemporary exhibitions in non-traditional places where artists can respond to specific cultural sites or historic artifacts. Every August, she creates collaborative performance in the Canadian wilderness with R. Murray Schafer’s Wolf Project. In 2014, Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens presented five outdoor plant-based installations addressing its location at Agriculture Canada’s Central Experimental Farm. As former curator at the historic Bytown Museum, Judith initiated Artist-in-Residence solo exhibitions presenting contemporary art in dialogue with Victorian-era artifacts.