Dorothy Melander-Dayton
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.
Tim Fite
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.
Will Owen
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.