Katie Ford is a visual artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work grows out of print techniques to incorporate objects and installations that dig into the relationships we build with and within the places we inhabit. She is intrigued by the age of exploration, improbable landscapes, and place as metaphor. Katie has exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions and has been awarded artist residencies by the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, The Proper Residency in St. Louis, and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's Tough Art program.

Kirsty Robertson is a writer, curator, and professor of museum studies and contemporary art at Western University, Canada. Her research focuses on activism, visual culture, textile histories, changing economies and labour practices. For her residency at Elsewhere she is exploring clutter: of things, facts, fictions and memories.

Bridget Beck grew up in South Dakota where she soaked in the plains and the sky until graduating from Augustana College in 2000 with a BA in English and Art.  She then spent some time at Franconia Sculpture Park in MN as an intern in 2001.  After finishing the internship, she went East and worked in the same capacity for Socrates Sculpture Park, Mark DiSuvero’s Spacetime Studio, and the Connecticut Sculpture Park.  After her time out East, Bridget returned to the Midwest where she continued to make sculpture in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.  She went back to Franconia Sculpture Park again as an intern in 2004.  Bridget then  supplemented her eclectic resume with an AS degree in geomatics (civil engineering) which she completed in 2006.  After receiving her AS degree she was employed by Ramsey County, MN where she designed roads in 3D, surveyed the lay of the land, inspected road projects, and tested soils until 2012.  She has recently left her Franconia Sculpture Park Resident Artist position, where she mentored emerging artists and wrote the Franconia Blog from 2010- 2012, to attend graduate school at UCLA. Bridget is a fellowship recipient and is now creating sculpture in California's thriving Los Angeles art scene.

Michelle Marie Murphy creates photography and video art about beauty "tools" and the idealization of beauty in the United States.  This work takes place in the form of large-scale photos and videos of the applications of make-up, exercises, or macro photography showing the tactility of the products themselves.  Murphy's practice is influenced by Third-Wave Feminism (or Post-Feminism), advertising, scientific imaging, performance art in the 1970s, Post-Modern Photography, and abstract painting. Murphy received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography with a minor in Digital Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2004. Her artwork has been published and exhibited Internationally, including exhibitions in Geneva Switzerland, Guatemala City, Chicago, and San Francisco. She is a Professional Photographer at the NASA Glenn Research Center and co-curator of the international art and culture online magazine MAKE8ELIEVE. In 2012-2013 her work was featured in DISCOVER Magazine, Buzzfeed, Art & Science Journal, DivineCaroline, SFMOMATumblr, NATIVE Publications, Maybelline NY Tumblr, Newsweek and the Daily Beast - Picture Dept Tumblr, 20x200, Popular Photography magazine, and the Drawing Center Viewing Program.

Jeannette Petrik considers design as an opportunity for public empowerment and skill sharing, as a tool for everyday political engagement. Behind the production and consumption of objects lies a fundamentally subjective use value, be it of a cultural, ideological, political or other personal nature. This, she explores through her practice. Petrik sees the role of the designer as grounded in an in-depth analysis of the dynamics inherent in social arrangements and material cultures. Putting into doubt our socio-ontological constants, our discursive and material routines, which structure our lifeworlds, catalogue them into separate registers and provide them with the aura of the inert and rigid, would necessitate us to “overcome the laziness of consciousness" (J. Beuys) and to explore a mode of thought which cuts across convenient totalizations. In her practice as a designer, researcher and writer, she is dedicated to the facilitation of those events of doubt in dialogue with her surrounding environment.

Jazz Leeb is a Visual Artist from San Jose, California whose work examines certain metaphysical truths by focusing on forces of creation, growth, transcendence and death. He investigates the space between spaces as a way to see into things, past the surface where possibility exists and new structures unfold. Through his process he plays with preconceptions of that which is recognizable, in order to re-incorporate new identities and question the nature of becoming. Jazz has recently been awarded the ISC(International Sculpture Center) Student Achievement Award In Contemporary Sculpture Honorable Mention.

Dao Nguyen is a Vietnamese American artist based in Chicago and a recent MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Working through performance, writing and installation, she creates participatory situations that reflect upon ontology, epistemology, and subjectivity through play.She has shown work at Hyde Park Art Center, Sullivan Gallery, Carousel Project Space, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Brea Art Gallery, Anaheim Museum, BC Space Gallery, Cypress College Photography Gallery, Long Beach Arts Gallery, The Foundry Arts Centre, and Irvine Fine Arts Center.

Ezra Reaves (they/them) is a professional actor, performer, comedian, singer and experimental theater artist. They've tour nationally and internationally with The Neo-Futurists, performed over 150 shows as Velma in the immersive show "The Speakeasy" and most recently played Spike/Shorty in Patricia Cotter's world-premiere play "The Daughters" at SF Playhouse. As a comedian, Ezra has opened for Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, John Hodgman, Paul F. Tompkins and even shared the stage with Michael Ian Black at SF Sketchfest.

Casey Middaugh is an immersive experience designer from Seattle, WA. Her work frequently has elements of games and theater, and endeavors to evoke and engender strong emotions.

Casey's work has led her to found a company that helps people organize their possessions when they find that they are getting in the way of their enjoyment of life.

She holds a MMus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

sleeper (born 1987 in Miami, Fl) is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on sculpture and installation. His work draws lines between relationships. It calls on the false realities created to cope with societal constraints, sometimes masked, layered, stitched or intangible. He received his BFA in sculpture from New World school of the Arts with concentrations in electronic media and art history. sleeper currently lives and works in Miami, FL.

Marin Abell's itinerant practice is fueled by a desire to en/joy his environment and culture through entanglement; his goal is to beguile communities in ways powerful enough to sustain attention and deliberate reflection. He is inspired by the shape shifting trickster who walks the boundary between the imaginary and the real, and erases the distinction along the way. Marin was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and grew up in southeastern Virginia. He teaches Sculpture at the University of Alabama Huntsville.

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Nikita Gale is a self-taught conceptual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BA in Anthropology (Archaeological Studies) from Yale University and exhibits regularly throughout Atlanta, Georgia and New York City, New York. She was an Artist-in-Residence at The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, New York in 2011 and is currently in the Studio Artist Program at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. She currently serves on the board of directors for BurnAway, and Atlanta-based non-profit arts publication.Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Howard Greenberg Gallery collection in New York. Gale has had work featured in ART PAPERS, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Headline News, and Oxford American and has been profiled and reviewed by numerous publications including Frank151 and Artforum. Listen: Interview with WUNC's The State of Things July 16, 2013, Live from Triad Stage

Sarah Ann is an artist who explores domestic architecture, shapes formed around us, by creating sculptures, shapes formed in front of us. Utilizing materials such as tile, plaster, lumber, wallpaper, and latex paint, she makes abstract forms that speak to the intimate spaces where much of our lives are spent. She is currently living in Minneapolis, MN where she edits and publishes WOPOZI, an arts publication, with fellow resident Oakley Tapola.

Oakley Tapola is a multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis, MN. Her work focuses on the parallels between the abstruse and familiar. She is currently immersed in the process of editing and publishing a quarterly arts publication called WOPOZI (with Co-Editor and fellow resident Sarah Ann).

Thomas Choinacky is an actor, dancer, writer, maker. Based in Philadelphia he is a fan of the abstract and avant-garde. He tampers with unique audience-performer relationships, which are often voyeuristic and promenade style. He is an avid letter writer. A squirrel enthusiast.

Clinton Sleeper is a multidisciplinary artist exploring sound, video, collectivity, and technology. The work is often precariously caught between nostalgia and hope, using new technology to update old objects for the purposes of sound installations. Additionally, this work may range from online collaborative initiatives, public repairs, and neighborhood tree swings. Clint is an MFA student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC.

Lea Devon Sorrentino is an installation/mixed media sculpture artist who has had the opportunity of exhibiting her work prominently around the Minneapolis/Twin Cities and nationwide. These endeavors, along with thoughtful writing, and a few relational aesthetic performances had her named among the "Artists to Watch for 2013", by the Walker Art Center. She is a contributing writer for Quodlibetica, an online arts publication, and has been a Visiting Artist for the University of Minnesota. This summer she will be attending several residency including the Vermont Studio Center and Elsewhere Residency in June of 2013. Her practice is an auto-ethnographical investigation of life in pursuit of understanding contemporary American culture. Through her work she calls attention to the constructs of American success and the emotional investments placed on possessions and entertainment to create individuality. Or, in not art speak, she's interested in why we eat too much, spend too much, and cry at reality television.

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