Katrina Neumann
Katrina Neumann was born 1985 in Fullerton, California and grew up in Ashburn, Virginia. Neumann received her BFA from SUNY Purchase College with a minor in art history focused in 19th Century to Contemporary American and European Art. Neumann is a recent MFA Graduate of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Studio Art and Research. Katrina Neumann has received a number of awards and recognition including The Karsh Prize in Photography, SMFA President's Research Award, and the Montague International Travel Grant. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and her curatorial work has been reviewed in ArtNews.
The Hollow Earth Society
The Hollow Earth Society is a cabal of aesthetic scientists, writers, artists, paraphysicians, and philosophers who create fake science in order to open up new discourses about real science. Recent works include the books Suspicious Anatomy and Suspicious Zoology, group art shows RETROFUTUROLOGY and The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal, and many salons on the intersection of art, science, and bullshit, including the Para-Academia & Theory Fiction series with The Public School New York and the Body As Funhouse Mirror with The Cornelia Café. http://hollowearthsociety.com // twitter.com/hollowearths
Stephen Aubrey is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, dramaturg, lecturer, storyteller, and recovering medievalist. His writing has appeared in Publishing Genius, Commonweal, The Brooklyn Review, Pomp & Circumstance, Forté, and The Outlet. He is the co-writer and editor of The Hollow Earth Society’s Suspicious Anatomy and Suspicious Zoology. He is also a co-founder and the resident dramaturg and playwright of The Assembly Theater Company. His plays have been produced at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Flea Theater, The Collapsable Hole, The Brick Theater, Symphony Space, the Abingdon Theater Complex, UNDER St Marks, The Philly Fringe, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where his original play, We Can’t Reach You, Hartford, was nominated for a 2006 Fringe First Award. He has an MFA from Brooklyn College where he received the Himan Brown Prize and the Ross Feld Writing Award and a BA with Honors from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. He inexplicably holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Hollow Earth Society and is currently an instructor of English at Brooklyn College.
Wythe Marschal is a writer interested in how technologies influence eroticism, religiosity, and other areas of human culture. He believes that weird science will ultimately make "real" science more ethical (and funnier!). With artist Ethan Gould, Wythe is the founder of the Hollow Earth Society, LLC, and a member of Observatory, an art-and-science gallery/events space in Brooklyn. With The Public School New York, the Society organizes an ongoing series of free classes on Para-Academia & Theory Fiction. For Elsewhere, the Society and collaborating producer Kamomi Solidum recently organized Post-Space, a virtual para-academic conference. With Gould, Wythe is the creator of Suspicious Anatomy, an illustrated book of evil neuroscience, and Suspicious Zoology, a children's book of patently false animal science. Wythe's Surreal fiction and criticism have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and elsewhere. By day, Wythe writes advertisements for money. On weekends, Wythe teaches Brooklyn College students about writing, biopunk, Deleuze, Lovecraft, and so forth.
Elsewhere Project / Post-Space Conference
Primary Flight
Primary Flight is a collaborative curatorial organization dedicated to the production of site-specific, street level and indoor, murals and installations. Since its inception in 2007, Primary Flight has brought together more than 150 of the world’s most influential artists to install their bodies of work live in the streets of Wynwood, the Design District and greater Miami-Dade. Launching Primary Projects at 4141 NE Second Avenue, Suite 104 in December 2010, Primary Flight uses its 4,000-square-foot space as an art lab, giving professional established and emerging artists the opportunity to redefine the context in which their work is experienced.
Elsewhere Project / Greenway Mural
Bill Lusk
Bill Lusk grew up as a hybrid southerner/mid-westerner who always got in trouble with his mother for staring. Otherʼs lives fascinated him, hence, he became a photographer of people. Later, when he studied sculpture he focused on the formal aspects of visual expression; space, line, balance, etc. Combining this language and concepts involving otherʼs personal progressions of time and their connections or junctures en route emerged as a consistent theme in all aspects of his work. His focus on the post-production of imagery is a mnemonic that one is not viewing photo-documentations of events but, rather, one possible frame of reference for real events.
Lusk was educated as a fine artist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He works on commercial assignments, commissioned portraiture, print sales, educational workshops and book projects. Lusk divides his time between New York and North Carolina with his wife, Fran and his family.
Giada Tagliamonte
I’m Giada, an artist now living in Seattle. I was born in Vicenza, a little town in between the Alps and Venice. My artistic education/training began at about the age of 14 when I started high school. The next step into the world of Art was through University at the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia,” an ancient institution funded in 1750. After graduation, I moved to Hong Kong where I lived for almost three years. My arrival in Seattle had a big influence on my design and technique: perfecting, sharpening and cleaning them.My work involves different media, researching on optical illusion, symbolism and the primitive gesture. Lately I’ve been focusing on two almost 3 dimensional collages, telling stories and playing with different materials. The subject always varies according to the message or vice versa; they generate in symbiosis with the process. I never know what the work is going to look like until it's finished.
Louise Barry
Louise Barry is an artist who works in drawing and mixed media installation, usually creating work based on found images and text. She has been awarded residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space and Artists Alliance in New York, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC, and the Contemporary Artists Center in Troy, NY. She is also the recipient of a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship and has exhibited her work in venues throughout the Northeast US, including Cuchifritos Gallery in New York, the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, SouthOrange, NJ, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY, and Proteus Gowanus, Rabbitholestudio and The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Louise Barry received a BA from Smith College in 2004 and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2006. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in Northwest Pennsylvania.
Jessie Dodington
Jessie Dodington is a visual artist working primarily in oil, watercolor and drawing media. More recently she has explored textile, fiber, animation and video art. She graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada in 2008. Since then her work has been exhibited regularly in group and solo shows throughout the province and is a part of many private collections in Canada and internationally. Her current work explores spaces where fiction and reality converge and overlap. She adores books, animal and plant life. She now resides in New Mexico with her husband and many imaginary pets.
Emily Ensminger
Emily Ensminger, born in Durham, NC, is a conceptual artist and advocate for independent multi-use live/work organizations. Through programming, textiles and functional systems, Emily’s work addresses necessity as a creative practice operating at the intersection of admin, art, and daily life. Curatorial, project coordination and presentation focus is on experimental production and organizations outside art centers.
Emily led the organization as Creative Director (2018-2020).
Ben Gansky
Ben Gansky is a director, performer, writer, designer, and producer of performance - based events; he has worked independently and with collaborators all over the world. He believes that line-dancing offers the potential for transformative community experiences. He co-founded The Wild Plan, a (now-annual) national, ticket-less backyard tour of experimental theatre and cocktails in 2011, and from 2010 until its dissolution in 2011 served as an artist-in-residence and administrator of 1419, an interdisciplinary arts collective in Minneapolis operating, oddly enough, out of a historic three-story storefront space. Ben believes that confusion is very helpful. He is ambivalent about being raised in the suburbs of Baltimore and happy that he was born in California, although this happiness is complicated because it was Sacramento.
Aislinn Pentecost-Farren
Production Curator, 2012
Resident, August 5-31, 2010
Aislinn Pentecost-Farren is an artist, curator, and historian exploring historical and experimental museum design. At Elsewhere, Aislinn supported artists from selection to completion—guiding a site-specific residency process that links artists, objects, collections, and communities through works, events, and public actions. She has worked as Curatorial Design Assistant at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Curatorial Fellow at the Slought Foundation, and Research Fellow at SoundField, all in Philadelphia. She has worked and with for artists Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett, and Gene Coleman.
She has a background in postal correspondence, documentary, cartography and alternative education. She received a BA in anthropology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006, and has worked with the Chicago History Museum, the Raleigh City Museum, Cabinet Magazine. Her work borrows from artistic practice to develop museum exhibits that exploit the vulnerable area between intuitive experience and intellectual consumption to offer visitors an interaction with the polyphonic nature of reality.
Najva Sol
San Francisco, CA
September 14, 2011 - October 11, 2011
website | najva sol dot wordpress dot com
website | low brow society dot org
Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, The Rake, and Heavy Table. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. He is also Artists Resources Director at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul, where he runs a resource center and library for artists and small arts organizations. He was an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2011. His first voting experience was the 1998 mayoral election of Louisville, Kentucky, where pulled the lever for a former punk rock label owner running under the Reform Party banner.
Residency: September 7, 2011 - September 27, 2011
During his residency, Andy made Hard Catalog. Andy returned as a national artist commentator for Political Party 2012. Visit Andy’s Tumblr.
Tiny Circus
Grinnell, IA
August 24, 2011 - September 20, 2011
blog | the tiny circus dot blogspot dot com
website | tiny circus dot org