Mandy Messina is an interdisciplinary South African artist living and working in Oklahoma. Once, while filing out an application at a DMV they were asked to pick a different race (so as not to confuse hypothetical police during a hypothetical chase). A lot of art making ensued. Mandy is petty. During their residency at Elsewhere, Messina created CHANNELS.

Edison Peñafiel is an Ecuadorian visual artist living in South Florida. He studied Fine Arts and Art History at the Florida International University, Miami (2016). Having experienced and witnessed first-hand one of the turn of century’s everlasting dilemma—immigration and the economic/political instability in Ecuador/South America, Peñafiel brings the ambiguity of personal experience to global contexts. His installations are most often framed in paradoxical and absurd representations of specific events. Composing with video, drawing, sculpture, and animation, he transforms serious social incidents into potent poetic allegories. Conscious of our innumerable perspectives to interpret the world, Peñafiel uses large projections that blend with actual environments, extending his bizarre video and animated scenes into our reality.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Peñafiel created Ni Aqui, Ni Alla (Neither Here Nor There).

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn based artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates media projects about the urban experience that reveal hidden value, investigate individual roles in larger systems, and open avenues for intervention. Her work encompasses video, installation, interactive media and public art. Her current project, Invisible Seams, has taken her from New York to California to India to Sri Lanka and to Elsewhere in Greensboro to take a deep dive into the history, systems and people behind mass produced clothing. She teaches digital media art at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Wright created Invisible Seams.

Jeremiah Jones is an artist who creates objects and videos that explore the complex histories, landscapes and relationships that form our world. His process includes found image research, field production, and material projects in the studio to create complex works that bring to bear contemporary systems and mythologies. His work often incorporates the formal elements of projected light and sound.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Jones created Elsewhere Filters.