Chris Kennedy is a teaching artist and curator living in Greensboro, NC.  He makes place-based projects that experiment with social learning, queer identity, and civic play. His process is research-based and collaborative. He is currently working through education and the rise of academic capitalism by playing inside a living museum Elsewhere, and pursuing a PhD at the University of North Carolina. At Elsewhere Kennedy directs CoLab a youth-led platform for media experiments and digital storytelling that speaks to peers. His previous projects include an intergenerational free school in an abandoned park in North Brooklyn (School of the Future), a movement research platform exploring fungi as metaphor for connectivity (StrataSpore), and an ongoing investigation into queer identity (Queer Explorer's Club).

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.

Valerie Wiseman

Communications Curator (2012-2015)

Valerie is an artist and administrator interested in the intersection of public programs and creative fields. She also worked with the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a BA in Communications & Media and focus in Arts Administration from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD.

Valerie also worked as Operations Curator from 2011-2012 and as a Documentarian Intern and Assistant to the Directors from 2010-2011.

Walker Tufts / Communications Curator is a contemporary collaborator who uses writing, art, and dialogue to build new creative knowledge. Walker served as archivist and research librarian at Mildred’s Lane, and public liaison for the international collective Spurse. At Elsewhere, he supports the documentation, marketing, and public dissemination of Elsewhere’s creative production across media platforms. His practice explores institution’s capacity for propagation, lifestyle practice, and creative research. He worked as Artistic Director and Manager of Blue Nile Ethiopian Cuisine. Walker holds a MA in Studio Art from James Madison University.

Jan Detter is an artist adjunct lecturer at the Divinity School of Wake Forest University. She is a member of the Winston-Salem Foundation's ECHO Council.

Jody Servon is an associate professor and director of the Catherine J. Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Servon received a MFA in New Genre from The University of Arizona and a BFA in Visual Art from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Servon’s art projects include installations, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and video. Her work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and as public projects in the US, Canada and China. Servon attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Contemporary Artists Center and Super G Experiential Residency and is a recipient of an individual artist grant and a residency fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. Articles and publications include: The New York Times, Sun Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, The Miami Herald, Winston-Salem Journal, Tulsa World, Arizona Daily Star and New American Paintings.

Cecelia Thompson is the Director of Projects for Action Greensboro and has worked for Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro and the Guilford Green Foundation.

Carol Cole Levin (Greensboro) is an artist particularly invested in Elsewhere's growth and influence on a national stage and how Elsewhere reflects and participates in the contemporary art scene here in Greensboro. (Weatherspoon Art Museum, Board Member; Contemporary Collectors Group at Weatherspoon Art Museum; ArtTable, Inc. in NYC, a national organization of professional women in the arts; Lucy Daniels Foundation for the study of Creativity and Psychoanalysis, Advisory Board Member; Seymour and Carol Levin Foundation, Vice president; SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Board member; Penland School of Crafts, Board Member)

Minneapolis, MN

October 12, 2011 - November 8, 2011 

Portland, OR

September 21, 2011 - October 25, 2011

website | making stuff and doing things dot com

San Francisco, CA

September 21, 2011 - October 25, 2011

website | the weight of light dot com

Minneapolis, MN

September 14, 2011 - October 18, 2011

San Francisco, CA

September 14, 2011 - October 11, 2011

website | najva sol dot wordpress dot com

website | low brow society dot org