Elsewhere Residency | 2021
Residency #107 | June 10th - July 6th
#107 Talks (06/12/21 | 3-5pm) | Workshops (06/26/21 | 3-5pm) | Happening (07/02/21 | 6-9pm)
Public events will be highly limited in person and require hand sanitation and masks.
Mia Cinelli | miacinelli.com | Southern Constellations
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 | carahagan.net
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.
Sophie Sanders | sophiesanders.art
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 Lillene Fleshner | charismakesart.com
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.
Residency #108 | July 15th - August 10th
#108 Talks (07/17/21 | 3-5pm) | Workshops (07/31/21 | 3-5pm) | Happening (08/06/21 | 6-9pm)
Public events will be highly limited in person and require hand sanitation and masks.
William Plummer | poillywoig.com | Exchange Fellow (Kansas City)
William 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.
David Alpert | alpert.online | Exchange Fellow (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.
Mahedi Anjuman | joothi.com
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 | craigdeppenauge.com | Exchange Fellow (Kansas City)
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.
Residency #109 | September 9th - October 5th
#109 Talks (09/11/21 | 3-5pm) | Workshops (09/25/21 | 3-5pm) | Happening (10/01/21 | 6-9pm)
Public events will be highly limited in person and require hand sanitation and masks.
Christal Omni | kujimahealth.com | Exchange Fellow (Kansas City)
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.” Her greatest pain occurred on March 21, 2016 when her Mama’s oncologist said, “I’m sorry Clara, nothing else can be done.” Ten days later, Chris’s Mama, Clara M. Simmons, would take her final breath from a 26-year battle with cancer. THIS moment would breathe life into Chris’ new journey as a Black women’s health advocate, documentary filmmaker, interventionist, researcher, and artist.
Health and humanities help to inform Chris’s work. She explores the intersectionalities of racism, sexism, and even sizeism in some of her pieces. After completing her Master of Public Health degree, Chris felt a spiritual calling to not just research health disparities that disproportionately impact Black women, but to disseminate that research via culturally sensitive mediums such as documentaries, live storytelling experiences, art installments, and even podcasts.
Jasmine Best | jasminebest.com
Jasmine Best is a true Southern Artist, gathering narratives from her Carolinian family and childhood. The North Carolina based artist uses her personal memories and manipulations of her memories to create dialogues about the black female identity in the south and in predominately white spaces. Her work often depicts maternal figures, each depicting the diversity and qualities that make up the black southern women in her life through several generations.
Richard Moreno | richard-moreno.com
Richie Moreno is an emerging artist from Miami, Florida. He creates sculptural work which is then used in sound performances in the hopes of finding magic. As a guitarist and artist he's interested in distortion, how things can get bent, warped, and stretched inside the mind to build meaning, and moments of heightened awareness.
Jordan Wason | jordanwason.com
Jordan Wason (J.R.) is an artist from New Jersey, living in New York, who animates objects, co-hosts happenings where art is destroyed, and plays music. He constantly shuffles himself between the three. All his creations journal his attempts at making meaning through absurdity, the rawness of improvisation, and the discovery of narrative within spaces and things.
Residency #110 | October 14th - November 9th
#110 Talks (10/16/21 | 3-5pm) | Workshops (10/30/21 | 3-5pm) | Happening (11/05/21 | 6-9pm)
Public events will be highly limited in person and require hand sanitation and masks.
Bennie Allain | itsbennieallain.com
Bennie lives in Dawson City, in Canada's North. Inspired by tole-painted crafts, country decor, fortune-telling, suppers, and community sports, his work is a bumbling attempt to track the evolution of small-time conversations into local myth and legend. He makes collages, assemblages, songs, meals, writes for the local newspaper, and plays hockey with the Dawson City Hockey Association.
Le'Andra LeSeur | lleseur.com | Southern Constellations Fellow
Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Jersey City, NJ. Her work explores black identity informed by the effects that regulated systems of oppression have on black women, specifically. Through visual media, installation, and performance, her hope is to reclaim and dismantle stereotypes surrounding black female identity through the reworking of conventional art forms and mundane objects - ultimately reshaping the context of spaces where the lives of the oppressed are silenced and celebrated in the same breath.
Lexy Ho-Tai | lexymakesthings.com
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.
Victoria Aravindhan
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.
Oree Holban | oreeholban.com
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.
Abigail Rothman | abigailrothman.com
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.
