Molly Goldberg
San Francisco, CA
July 24, 2008 - August 19, 2008
Molly Goldberg and collaborator Mary Rothlisberger met elsewhere. Somewhere between the this and the that, the here and the there, the dear and the from, they built a landscape of friendship– a series of sites for shared belonging. Through the construction of temporary, moveable dwellings and gathering spaces, through storytelling amd music making, they explore questions of community, interdependence, migration, home and inbetweenness. Their collaborations merge in the passions of a dedicated community organizer and an inspiring teacher and friend-maker: making homes and crossing lines, dotting eyes, singing for supper, and setting a place at the table for every good idea. Together they made a project called Elsewhere Book Project, which is undocumented.
Laurencio Carlos Ruiz
State College, PA
July 10, 2008 – August 12, 2008
June 14, 2011 - July 3, 2011
The fifth of six children, he grew up in a traditional working-class Catholic family, and his education was in public schools. As a visual and performance artist, as a puppeteer, designer, and photographer, he is coming back into the international eye with his new Action Figure Drama.Ruiz received his B.A. in Graphic Design from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico City, 1992) and a M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Penn State University (2001). A free-lance artists and designer, and professor of Theatre and Integrative Arts at Penn State University Altoona, he resides with the love of his life Roselyn in State College PA, since 1996.
Travis Janssen
Tempe, Arizona
June 5, 2008 - July 8, 2008
website | travis janssen dot com
Travis Janssen received an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University in 2007 and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000. His creative practice focuses on printmaking while extending into the mediums of video and installation. Janssen is also engaged with collaborative processes and cross-disciplinary investigation, having collaborated with a variety of individuals on a diverse range of projects including prints and documentary videos. The exploration of perception and reflection within conscious and unconscious viewing experiences is a common thread throughout his work, often distilling events within the human condition. To this end, it is his implicit goal that viewers develop recognition of intriguing phenomena and further understanding about the visual world. Over the last five years he has shown work in over seventy exhibitions across the United States and venues in New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Claire van der Plas
Claire van der Plas (Sylva, NC)
“I currently live in Alamosa CO where I am the chair of the Art Department at Adams State University. I have taught in New Zealand, Singapore and North Carolina before moving to Colorado. While primarily a painter I also work in other media including installation, performance and collaborative art when the opportunity arises. I have exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.”
Residency: April 1, 2008 - June 16, 2008
During her residency, Clair created the Totally Nice Travel Agency and helped organize Elsewhere’s participation in Greensboro’s annual Fun Fourth Parade and Festival in 2009. That year, Clair organized a project of mail art of Elsewhere alumni (ETC’s) in New Zealand called “Elsewhen Meanwise Otherwhere” and its exhibition in Greensboro in 2009 called “Messages.”
Ian Gamble
Ian Gamble is a multimedia artist with strong ties to artists, farmers, and old time musicians in Rockingham County, NC. He hosts visiting artists and facilitates their work for the rural outreach project at Reckon Holler, a creative site and art project within his family home in Rockingham. Gamble curated the 2018 Rural Residency, facilitated on-the-ground work, and was a lead artist of Elsewhere Goes To Madison-- an off-site Elsewhere Elsewhere project in partnership with Reckon Holler.As a maker, Gamble toggles between carpenter, potter, sculptor, and tailor. Gamble was also an Elsewhere Curator in 2007 & 2008. While at Elsewhere in 2007, he produced The Skyscraper.
Susannah Mira
Philadelphia, PA
May 1, 2008 - May 31, 2008
website | susannah mira dot com
Susannah Mira completed her master's degree in Environmental Art at the University of Art & Design Helsinki in 2008. Born in San Francisco and raised in a nondescript Philadelphia suburb, she champions a highly itinerant artistic practice based out of a late '80s model station wagon. Currently, the Mesilla Valley of southern New Mexico is home.
Les Caison III
Greensboro, NC
April 16, 2008 - May 27, 2008
website | les iii dot com
North Carolina artist Les Caison III offers considerations of life every day. He paints and illustrates, layering oil and graphite capturing moments of life just before or just after . . . whether portraiture, urban landscapes, or narratives Les offers just a little bit more for you to gnaw on. This young internationally collected artist enjoys offering visual communication to the masses, citing a responsibility of the visual artist to display, provoke and interact with others.
Jason Watson
Boone, NC
April 8, 2008 - May 5, 2008
website | j watson art dot com
blog | jason watson dot vox dot com
Guerra de la Paz
Cuban born American artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the collaborative duo Guerra de la Paz . Originally sourcing their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti, Guerra De La Paz make their sculptures from the discarded items of daily life. Viewing their practice as a kind of ‘archaeology’, their work engages with the history inherent in common debris and its possibility for recycled usage.
Monique Besten
Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 7, 2007 - June 26, 2007
October 4, 2007 - October 23, 2007
website | monique besten dot nl
