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.