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.