Nestor Armando Gil / Born in the deep south of North Florida, Nestor Armando Gil now comes to us from Pennsylvania where his family remains while Nestor is Elsewhere. Operating at the crossroads of sculpture, performance, and new media practices, Nestor produces installations, situations, and events that explore ideas of journey, borders, and interactivity. A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill's MFA program in studio art, Nestor has shown work widely, observing his own motto, "I make and I do, and as an artist I make do."

Kieran Morris is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a B.A. in Literature from Bard College in 2008. His creative interest in sound draws on a variety of worldly folk traditions, ritual song, noise, and electronic music. He has been performing and releasing albums as Young Rites since 2011.Kieran is gradually developing an understanding of applied electronics as integral to his independent study of analog synthesis. He aspires to a degree of technological literacy that will enhance his capacity to design interesting circuits for musical application. He periodically composes in collaboration with artists of various disciplines. His productions are forever concerned with questions of value, utility, and privilege.

Sallie Oliver is a building intern who enjoys long moonlit walks on the beach and things with shiny qualities. She enjoys designing promotional material for musicians of all genres in form of gig posters, backdrops, and album covers. At 19 years of age she aspires to  work in the creative art sector of a record label in New York City. These days, you can find her in a pile of amazing vintage clothes on the 2nd floor.

Kari Marboe and Erin Johnson met at University of California, Berkeley’s MFA program and began collaborating in 2011. Their practice involves crafting artworks of site-specific storytelling through research and response. Their time at Elsewhere marks their first residency together.

Kari Marboe received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Eisner Award for Art, in 2012 and her BFA, with honors, from California College of the Arts in 2008. Marboe is allergic to pineapple, does not feel comfortable with objects being kept in differently scaled versions of that same object (gingerbread houses constructed in houses), and prayed to a higher being during her youth for large feet which resulted in the size ten women's shoe she wears today.

Erin Johnson is currently a MFA candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the Eisner Award in Art in 2012. Johnson curated a ballet-line dancing system as a youth, and while donning a cowboy hat, bandana, denim shorts, and ballet shoes, performed these strange hybrids at county fairs, church talent shows, and barbecues. Her artistic objectives and systems of research remain the same today.

Emilio Rojas was born in Mexico City. He is interdisciplinary artist, yoga teacher and translator working primarily in performance, video, installation, movement and sculpture. His works explore the relationship between the artist and his audience, interacting and exchanging roles. The intrinsic relation with the body has been both his subject matter and medium. Exploring the mental and physical limits of his being, Emilio reevaluates language, gender, activism, tradition, ritual, displacement, migration and sexuality.

Virginia Yarboro, Education Intern, is an artist from Goldsboro, NC studying studio art, linguistics, and religion at Middlebury College. She is an avid collector of accents and children’s stories from around the world. By investigating imagery closely tied to childhood—especially wallpaper patterns and children’s book illustrations—Virginia aspires to maximize the potential of nostalgic art to engage with viewers. A master of playlist-making and Pokemon, she gets inspiration from Madeline, bookshelves, clothing, pixellation, embroidery, places of worship, and avocados. Ten years from now, you may find her illustrating books or farming sheep. Hopefully both.

Guadalupe Martinez lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she obtained a BFA from the National University of Arts in 2008. Her work investigates the relationship between individual and landscape as a platform to explore the borderland between Self and Other. Personal narratives function as the framework to access themes that speak of (mis)communication, displacement, failure and desire. Her main focus is to look for possible ways to develop work that integrally combines three-dimensionality, site-specificity, and performance art.

Cynthia Cukiernik / Education Intern is a student and artist currently living in Greensboro North Carolina. Cynthia attends the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she is completing her Bachelors degree in Anthropology. Concepts of  material culture, family history, story telling, cultural identity and memory inspire both her art and her research. Cynthia loves books, gardens, old photographs, hand made objects and small artifacts. While at elsewhere, she will working to catalog the Living Library as well as physically negotiating with the book collection.

An ex-ballerina and a self-proclaimed fashionista, Nicole Lane is the productions intern here at the living museum, Elsewhere. She finds solace in the depths of darkroom chemicals, extended exposures and over-priced Halloween masks. With her constant theme of identity and her skill of obnoxious laughing, Nicole will receive a BA in traditional photography at Guilford College in 2013.

Isabella Martin is an artist and writer hailing from the far distant lands of Norwich, England. Her work seeks to explore the potential of words in relation to spatial experience. She graduated from Brighton University of Art in 2010 with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture and since then has exhibited nationally and internationally. Since being released into the real world she’s worked as an artist in various projects worldwide from museum interpretation to urban regeneration. Following the same route she’s found her way to Elsewhere, to continue exploring and questioning, acclimatising to big America, telling bad jokes and hopefully getting a few good waves on the way.

Laura is an Interdisciplinary Artist. She creates experimental narratives through multiple mediums, including: installation art, film/video, sculpture, sound, photography, theatre, textile arts, architecture, and works on paper. Through the marriage of concept and craft, she explores the many facets of collective memory. As she perceives innate connectivity and relationships between environments, human behavior, and discourse, Laura creates artwork that expresses how we perceive the external world and its relation to our inner monologues.With a passion for travel and experience in other cultures, and a belief that we exist in a global art community, Laura seeks international experience, exposure, and to connect with other art communities and foster relationships.

From the swamps of Florida, Dana Robinson has spent her life taking things apart, scrambling them and putting them back together.  With her army of Frankenstein art, she has collected a BFA in Design from Florida State University as well as a variety of life skills such as drawing, designing, and obsessive organizing that have brought her to the door step of Elsewhere. She hopes to spread her love of design across the hemispheres.

Laura MacAulay is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. Her favorite media are drawing, fibres, installation, and her own body. Some of her favorite things are kids’ books and the kid detectives who inhabit them, and she likes to approach art-making as a sleuth trying to uncover a mystery. Since finishing her degree in fine arts two years ago, she has embroidered made-up zoological creatures, performed in an experimental folk choir, hawked desserts of her own creation, and administered many a temporary tattoo. She has also been practicing African dance for the past six years, translating her love of rhythm, pattern, and space into a corporeal form.

Meghan Macdonald is a Toronto, Canada-based artist working primarily in textiles. Most recently she has used embroidery and collage to re-imagine the domestic objects of a reclusive millionaire. Yard sales and abandoned places are a source of inspiration and materials for her art, and treasures for her online vintage shop. A recent graduate of the interdisciplinary BFA program at NSCAD University, she also holds an advanced honors diploma in textiles from the Sheridan College department of Crafts & Design. She is interested in exploring themes of collecting, memory and the found object.These collaborators met in 2011 while artists-in-residence at The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design.

At Elsewhere, they will be busy documenting the imagined histories of certain choice artifacts from the museum's collection.

Madelon McClure / Operations Intern is a class of ’12 undergraduate from Guilford College with a B.A. in fine art (printmaking concentration) and psychology. Madelon is an avid indie card game aficionado, mint tin collector, and enthusiastic thrift store adventurer. Given her tendency to accumulate trivial knowledge, and sentimental objects, she was immediately drawn to Elsewhere’s unique aesthetic and artistic practices. Her dreams currently include to one day make her own web-comic,learn how to play with fire, and attend graduate school for arts management.

Martyna Szczesna is an artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Fine Art. Exploring entropy, memory and longing, her work constructs fractured landscapes that deal with notions of place and cultural identity using photography, collage and sculpture. Her photographs run the gamut from documentary and portraiture (pirate utopias and alternate economies) to the ephemeral and textural. Her dimensional collage work mines the formal aspects of photography to probe its abstract qualities. In addition to working with Casera Era, she regularly collaborates with TradeSchool teaching photography classes.

Abby Helton is a Greensboro girl born and raised, which is why she's so excited to finally be involved in her favorite local artist collective as the Communications intern for the summer. She loves collecting, collaging, and covering everything in beeswax. Abby is a student at Appalachian State and in the fall of 2013 will receive her BFA in studio art with a concentration in Drawing and Painting.

Lauren Frances Moore lives and works in the greater Washington, DC area where she is currently working towards her MFA in Sculpture at the University of Maryland, College Park on a full graduate teaching assistantship. In 2011, she graduated from the Honors College at the College of Charleston with a BA in Studio Art as well as a BS in Business Administration. In the summer of 2010, Lauren received an Intern Artist Fellowship for a residency at Franconia Sculpture Park, in Schafer, MN, and this summer she is thrilled to participate in residencies at Elsewhere Living Museum, in Greensboro, NC, and the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT.When it comes to creative habit, Lauren endeavors to work in what she likes to call the “realm of or” – a liminal space, an in-between. A blurry place where distinctions collide and coalesce. Where things are almost, but not quite. Perhaps, but not really. Or is a place of comfortable tension, familiar ambiguity, and reluctant desire. Flesh, as both material and metaphor, is the common denominator of Lauren’s studio practice. As she dissects and constructs, she responds to the intricacies and oddities of our bodies’ largest organ.

Samantha Harthoorn (Documentarian Fellow) comes from the Sunshine State where she was born and raised. She has a knack for collecting and creating dream-like spaces which makes her feel at home in Elsewhere. She feels most comfortable behind a large format camera, documenting the growth of her toddler aged brother. She enjoys bookbinding and eating ice cream, and with these skills will earn her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in Spring 2013.

Elliott P. Montgomery uses designed artifacts and experiences to raise questions about impact responsibility. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London (Design Interactions - 2011) and at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. (Industrial Design - 2003). He has worked with start-ups, non-profits, design consultancies and government agencies.

Andrea Avery is a visual artist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Avery received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking, as well as her Bachelor of Science in Art Education degree, from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Avery completed her Master of Arts degree through the Peck School of the Arts, as well as receiving a Museum Studies Certification through Anthropology, in 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).  She received the Anderson Ranch Presidential Scholarship Award (2009), UW-Milwaukee Anderson Ranch Scholarship (2009), and the Layton Travel Grant (2009). Her active exhibition record includes shows in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Scotland, England, South Korea and Thailand. Avery just completed her Master of Fine Arts degree (2012) at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently the gallery manager and curator at UWM’s Union Art Gallery and the Community Arts Coordinator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.