Andrea Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology, whose practice includes media installation, public interventions, curating and directing art and community projects and writing. She holds a doctorate in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK and her latest book is Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles on Intellect Press.

Yahya Alazrak (Productions Assistant) is committed to living life more authentically (being true to himself) and anecdotally (getting good stories out of it). He studied Film, Religious Studies and Community and Justice Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro - a result of and resulting in a calling to the places where people make connections, and spaces where people create experiences larger than the sums of their collective parts.

2012 Productions Assistant

Jared Brown (Productions Assistant) is an electronics engineer, builder and former espresso machine mechanic from Virginia. He believes that learning is done by not just reading the writing on the wall but by playing with these words and even dissecting the wall itself.

2013 Fellow

Bridget Quinn is a wanderer from Austin Texas. Her recent work explores the places in-between; where paths cut through tiny urban forests and prairies and where accidental collaborations between strangers and wildlife span decades.

Billy Ghayas (Operations Assistant and jack of all trades) / An old soul experiencing life to the fullest, currently studying in a pre-med discipline focusing on psychology at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington. Previous exertions in the artistic field include carrying out street art activities and an internship with Nike in NYC. Future endeavors comprise designing an apparel line and continuing creative processes in a more classic sense with an interest in the connectivity of the universe and exploration of the mind, body, and soul.

Alison Wilder: “I associate “play” with liberating myself from habitual tasks. Familiar processes, even loved ones, can easily seem like “work” if they’re pursued for practical reasons. Remembering to integrate new processes can reinvigorate familiar practices. Starting a work of art is ideally a practice in playing.”

Jessie Martin (Documentarian Fellow) is a photographer recently graduated from the University of Westminster, UK.  She is interested in communities, how people respond to their environments, and the ways this can be researched, explored and recorded through a photographic creative practice.  Her most recent work explores the use of space and the privatisation of public space in Britain.

Irwan Ahmett: I had a wonderful childhood. I spent most of my time playing with or without friends. I used to play with objects I found on the street, with situations around me, or using my body. To maintain the spirit of playing in my work I created a project called 'Urban Play', a concept of play which utilizes objects, situations, and performance. I believe that playing is something we cannot deny.

Naeun Jeon: I collect objects and texts familiar to everyone, then make stage-like-scenes that cover wide ranges of genres from traditional media to new: ceramic casting, wood, body movement sensor, LED.

Georgia Muenster is a curator, baker, way-finder, and organizer hailing from New York City, where she is a longstanding member and Curatorial Fellow of the arts collective Flux Factory. She received a BA in Art History from Bard College in 2008; she loves books, pie, and the endless exploration of the constructed urban environment.

Steven Lang / When I was four years old, I came across an open, unguarded can of deck paint and painted myself completely red. It has never really worn off.

Ann Armstrong: As an artist and architect I spend a lot of time thinking about how to translate conceptual ideas into physical reality. These ideas | creations take the form of murals, ephemeral street art, performance, sculpture, furniture, and lighting.

Carrie Schneider: My work includes Care House; a video, sound, and material installation in the house I grew up in, Hear Our Houston; public generated audio walking tours and dérives, and Sunblossom; an evolving skill share between local creatives and kids who are refugees from Burma. I also write about art and dance Argentine tango every chance I get.

Intern 2012

Paul Howe is the Commissioner of The Bureau of Maintenance, Repair, and Rebuilding. "The Bureau of Maintenance, Repair, and Rebuilding is a public service dedicated to improving the health of our infrastructures, machines, and commodities, because we believe that the health of these things is at the root of our political, economic, and cultural health." He is also a turnkey creative infrastructure developer. He received his education from Cynthia Parry, Drew Goerlitz, John Hock, and Andy Dunnill, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in home repair and bellying through muddy crawlspaces under the wisdom of Hernan Durango. 

Building Curator 2013

Paul is a sculptor, builder, re-arranger, and maintenance expert. He fixes public infrastructure for free, engineers off the cuff, and believes that the value of a thing lies in the stuff it is of, not its decorations, though decorations are okay sometimes. He has worked at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, has exhibited his publicly scaled sculptures up and down the east coast and midwest, and has built two wood fired pizza ovens. He holds a BFA from SUNY Plattsburgh, and an MFA in sculpture from UNCG.

Paul Howe on GOOD on Facebook.

Elizabeth Thompson, education intern at Elsewhere, loves creative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches. She is completing a MA in folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she has been learning about the power of artistic performance as it relates to constructions of identity and community from labor singing ensembles and roller derby skaters. She is a collector of stories, friend to all creatures, and an existentialist of the everyday.

Colin Bliss is a sculptor, tinkerer, writer and sometimes fake astronaut. Born and raised on the island of Manhattan, he now lives and makes work in Providence, RI. His personal work tends to explore the emotional lives of objects, and how those emotions coincide, or completely butt up against those of humans. His sculpture ranges from devastatingly permanent and heavy to fleeting and transient. For nearly a decade he has worked as a key member of a public art and education collective, making large, temporary, collaborative murals with tape, and using them as a tool for education.

Peter Maarseveen is a photographer/sculptor from Tasmania, Australia. He builds his own functional pinhole cameras out of discarded objects, using them to create series of photographs unique to the cameras themselves. He is currently experimenting with 'Anthotypes', a technique which uses plant materials as a photographic printing medium.

Amy Flaherty: My work calls for a "game like" mentality to re-create objects I miss or have lost. I try to use my limited skills and resources to create shapes that resemble things or people I love.

Brandy Bajalia is an artist based in sweet southern Birmingham, Alabama. She received her BFA from the University of Montevallo in painting and art history. Brandy's work is informed by language, natural patterns, immigrants, national geographic magazines, memory, disaster, ritual, and her grandmother’s stories. The concept that best applies to her work are revolving themes of the human condition, while posing questions that pertain to social class, the family unit, and the importance of physical memory.

Ashley Ivey is a designer and maker living in Tallahassee, Florida. She has a BFA in Art (design focus) from Florida State University. She apprenticed at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2008 where she learnt screen printing and wet felting processes, and fell head over heels for rhubarb pie. Ashley currently works as designer and media specialist for the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance at Florida State University. In the fall, she will start a position with FSU's Facility for Arts Research where she will help with the development of its residency, education, and public outreach programs.