Jenny Lee Craig is an artist and a cultural producer currently based in Vancouver, BC. Her projects are diverse and interdisciplinary, often striving for community engagement and collaboration. Though she is inspired by almost everything, her work often draws directly from craft, DIY, surrealism, and storytelling. Highlights from her extensive list of accomplishments include competing in the FINA World Synchronized Swimming Championships in Riccione, Italy in 2012, writing and directing a play about a tender jewel that goes for a journey in a giant hat, and acting as co-director for the Tin Can Studio.

Samantha Persons is an interdisciplinary artist, who is currently working towards her MFA in Sculpture/New Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute, as well as studying internationally at the International Ceramic Studio in Kescskemet, Hungary. Her work is heavily engaged in issues of personal autonomy and social agency, individualism, and gendered space and materiality. She makes immersive installations that incorporate built shelters, complex written narratives, props, sound and video.

Elsewhere Project | A place for lost bois and girls

Carmen Tiffany received her BFA from Minnesota State University in 2005, and her MFA from the University of South Florida in 2010. Working in several mediums, including installation and video, Carmen has exhibited in the United States and Europe. Carmen focuses on personal histories and imaginative storytelling using references from popular and consumer culture.

Monica Lacey is a multi-disciplinary artist from Prince Edward Island, Canada, whose work focuses on the beauty of the broken, overlooked, or discarded. Monica spent many years traveling, working in the film industry, and developing her skills as a writer, dancer, and yoga teacher before returning to studies in Textiles and Photography at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. She believes deeply in the power of the arts to uplift, teach, and transform and regularly volunteers her time to those ends. She has received several awards and grants for excellence in her work as well as for service to her community. She lives in Charlottetown, PEI with her musician & digital artist husband, her trouble-making yet adorable cat, and a 3 minute walk to the ocean.

Elsewhere Project| Elsewhere Oracle

April Bartlett is a textile artist based out of Dawson City, Yukon Territory, driven to explore contemporary ideas through a traditional craft. Her recent artistic work is focused on the themes of navigation and the mapping both cognitive and physlcal landscapes.

Elsewhere Project | The Urban Explorers Guide to the Elsewhere Commonwealth

Nick Szuberla multimedia artist and the director of The Prison Poetry Workshop, a national radio series that connects audiences with the genre of prison poetry found within US jails, detention centers and prison. He  works with Appalshop -  a 40 year-old non-profit multi-disciplinary arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia producing original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books. Dedicated to the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner their resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others, Appalshop’s education and training programs support communities' efforts to solve their own problems in a just and equitable way.

Elsewhere Project / Elsewhere Book Project

Productions Intern

Operations Intern

Program & Productions Curator 2013-2015

Jennie was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and came to North Carolina by way of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.  Her writing and curatorial work focus on the relationship between art and cultural politics in the 21st Century.  She aims to lend ideas a social form by bringing people together to participate in conversations that shape social conditions and the physical and psychological spaces where ideas are shared.  

Jennie oversees Elsewhere’s residency programs and directs artistic processes and project production at the museum.  Additionally, she acts as a liaison between artists and communities and coordinates the production of public programs at the museum.  She is a curator and art historian focusing on situation driven aesthetics and radical ampersanding.  Jennie received a BA in Anthropology and Biology from Mount Holyoke College in 1999 and completed PhD course work in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011. Her curatorial projects have included contributions to “More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing,” “Counter Lives: Portraiture in Contemporary Art” and “John Wesley’s Boeing in Context” at the Ackland Art Museum.

Favorite Elsewhere collection:  The Chicken Nuggets.

Lucia Carroll, documentarian and curator, is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist most recently based out of Providence, RI. She was was born in Bogota, Colombia and grew up on four different continents. Lucia returned to the states to attend Smith College, where she received her BA in Studio Art. Her work explores the curation of self and our own narratives through physical and digital objects and strives to give those objects a voice. Using both photography and other forms of documentation she creates structure and systems to present them in frank means while also revealing the stories behind them. Her most recent work investigates how regional and national identity is integrated into our urban environments and how histories of place and space, both official and unofficial, can re-activate a neighborhood, town, or city through its inhabitants. 

Andrea Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology, whose practice includes media installation, public interventions, curating and directing art and community projects and writing. She holds a doctorate in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK and her latest book is Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles on Intellect Press.

Yahya Alazrak (Productions Assistant) is committed to living life more authentically (being true to himself) and anecdotally (getting good stories out of it). He studied Film, Religious Studies and Community and Justice Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro - a result of and resulting in a calling to the places where people make connections, and spaces where people create experiences larger than the sums of their collective parts.

2012 Productions Assistant

Jared Brown (Productions Assistant) is an electronics engineer, builder and former espresso machine mechanic from Virginia. He believes that learning is done by not just reading the writing on the wall but by playing with these words and even dissecting the wall itself.

2013 Fellow

Bridget Quinn is a wanderer from Austin Texas. Her recent work explores the places in-between; where paths cut through tiny urban forests and prairies and where accidental collaborations between strangers and wildlife span decades.

Billy Ghayas (Operations Assistant and jack of all trades) / An old soul experiencing life to the fullest, currently studying in a pre-med discipline focusing on psychology at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington. Previous exertions in the artistic field include carrying out street art activities and an internship with Nike in NYC. Future endeavors comprise designing an apparel line and continuing creative processes in a more classic sense with an interest in the connectivity of the universe and exploration of the mind, body, and soul.

Alison Wilder: “I associate “play” with liberating myself from habitual tasks. Familiar processes, even loved ones, can easily seem like “work” if they’re pursued for practical reasons. Remembering to integrate new processes can reinvigorate familiar practices. Starting a work of art is ideally a practice in playing.”

Jessie Martin (Documentarian Fellow) is a photographer recently graduated from the University of Westminster, UK.  She is interested in communities, how people respond to their environments, and the ways this can be researched, explored and recorded through a photographic creative practice.  Her most recent work explores the use of space and the privatisation of public space in Britain.