Milla Toukkari is a visual artist from Helsinki, Finland. She has graduated with an MFA and MoA, majoring in printmaking and design. Her works are indebted to the transformative and transitional processes essential to printmaking, even though the pieces also involve elements from photography, writing, and installation. Nonetheless, the ever-fleeing and ultimately deconstructive nature of the printed image is in the core of her philosophical and artistic interests.Important, reoccurring and very much cherished concepts in her practice include (the politics of) archive, (constructed) memory, and the ontology of and the otherness in the (printed) image.

She has contributed to a publication touching the notion of the expended field of printmaking, published in 2017 by the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland.

Toukkari is a serious but seriously slow thinker.

During Toukkari's residency, they created Lover's Ear.

Spencer Merolla studied religion as an undergraduate and had embarked on a career in academia before finding her way back to her first love, visual art. Her work explores the social practices and material culture of grief and remembrance through various affectively-charged materials.

During Merolla's residency, she created Album Amicorum.

Alejandro Franco’s work is a quest to find a new function for discarded objects, to give them a new role, a new life. In an industrial landscape where made objects and information flows overwhelm us, he finds fulfillment in building characters out of various objects that were previously resting without purpose. Seeking hidden similarities between objects and in parallel striving to interpret thoughts are his great passions. He feels a need to intervene with these forgotten elements, to work with their poetic potential and create a convergence engaging people with their new existence. A seamless search for beauty, sifting through the detritus of everyday life.

During Franco's residency, he created Live Streaming.

lydia see is a multidisciplinary practitioner, educator, and curator of art + archives who is passionate about the uses of art for social justice + civic engagement. Working primarily at the intersections of photography with fiber/object/craft/performance, her practice involves material and conceptual investigation through research and collection and is rooted in history: literal and conceptual, local and global, intimate and environmental, personal and anonymous.

Through processes of collecting, arranging, stitching, weaving, photographing, re-photographing, and combining, the archive is reinterpreted in mundane domestic materials, accumulations, and outdated media to draw connections between memory, ephemerality and changes in technology. In her social practice she advises as a creative consultant and strategist with a focus on inclusive and accessible interpretive collateral and expanded engagement.

During see's residency, she created The Records Room.

Kimberly Lyle’s work explores our human relationships to systems of language, communication, learning, and technology. Within each of these systems she often uses translation as a strategy for understanding the movement of meaning - between languages, between people, between mediums. By questioning these larger structures in often personal ways, she hopes to better understand how they come to shape our identity, relationships to each other, and perceptions of the world.

During Lyle's residency, she created Staircase Score.