Laura Davis (b. 1971, Holland, Michigan) is a Chicago based artist working in sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work examines the intersection of craft, design and art by using display structures to conflate notions of value and context. Davis’ recent solo exhibitions include Unknown Pleasures at Chicago Artist’s Coalition (coinciding with her 2012-2013 Bolt residency there) and the upcoming site specific installation, Histrionic Renovation, in the Mies van der Rohe McCormick house at Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL. Her work has been featured in the group exhibitions Homebodies at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Two Histories of the World (Part 2) at Hyde Park Art Center, both in Chicago, IL. She’s been reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Rhizome.org and Artwrit. Abraham Ritchie listed her work in the “Top 10 of 2011,” for Art Slant and Jason Foumberg selected her as a 2013 “Breakout Artist” for Newcity. Davis received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 1996 and teaches in the department of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Martha Whittington’s constructed environments speak to the tenderness and innocence of the human spirit as it faces the harshness and treachery of life and labor. By recreating the history of significant objects and ideas such as manual tools, antique devices, and life experiences of laborers, she builds an immersive experience. This new view of life and labor asks the audience to re-examine concepts, archetypal associations and connotations. Whittington has been the recipient of artist residencies at the Bemis Center in Omaha Nebraska and the Hambidge Center-Creative Arts in Rabun Gap Georgia. In support of her work, she has been awarded grants from the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (WAP), Office of Cultural Affairs Atlanta and Austin Green. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally with shows at Moot Gallery, Hong Kong, Dans Kamera Istanbul, Turkey, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, and the AMOA-Laguna Gloria Austin Texas. Whittington received her B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. She received her M.F.A. in Sculpture From Tyler School of Art.

Justus Harris (he/they) is a healthcare design strategist, artist, educator, and the founder of MedSculp. MedSculp specializes in the development and consultation of data visualization, user experience, and patient communication strategies for healthcare institutions. Justus and MedSculp’s interactive health communication installations have been commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (Chicago, IL), the European Commission (Berlin, Germany), and The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).

He is a Stanford Medicine X 2019 ePatient Scholar and guest teacher, and a 2018-2019 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow.

Justus's superpower is his community of peers in healthcare, technology, art, design. Microphones have never scared him and his engagements include speaking at Stanford University (San Francisco, CA), Livongo (Mountain View, CA), The Kennedy Center, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and The Economic Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL). Most importantly Justus is a human being. Music is his primary go-to for healing, share your recommendations, please.

During Harris' 2014 Elsewhere Residency, he created Scenes from Sonship Past.

During Harris’ 2020 Elsewhere Cross-Sectors: HealthCare Residency, he created Sights of Change.

Courtney grew up on a house boat on the intracoastal waterways of the Atlantic ocean where she was bestowed the gift of bubble launching by the local mermaids. On a standard day she is dreaming of building tiny houses and extracting the essence of creative living through efficient objects. She is studying for her Masters in Sculpture as well as Creativity and Innovation at the University of Georgia in Athens, and she received her BFA at the University of North Florida.

Stephanie Williams is a tinkerer and doodler, whose work as a multimedia artist navigates autobiographical narratives of identity, memory and misconception; telling story through its pieces rather than its whole. Through self-directed processes of close examination, disassembly and reorientation of sensorial fragments, she curates a context in which our bodies’ amalgamated experience understands the world around us. Williams received her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and has shown both nationally and internationally including Irvine Contemporary, the Arlington Arts Center, Transformer Gallery, and Lawrence University’s Wriston Art Center. She was both a Vermont Studio Center and Toby Devan Lewis Fellow and was recently a resident artist at the Wassaic Project. She is also a member the DC Arts Center’s art collective Sparkplug and is Assistant Professor at James Madison University in Virginia.

Jacob Stanley is a sculptor who focuses on temporary site-responsive installations and loves to wear scarves and vests. His work is generated from informed intuition, design thinking and installed in improbable urban locations. His work exists in a state of dynamic stasis, which entreats viewers to question: is the work finished, has it just begun or is it a prank? These projects often subvert the original purpose of an industrial material to foster a dialogue that focuses on engaging a non-art audience.

Izel Vargas is a South Florida based mixed media artist and educator who hails from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (Alamo, TX). Raised in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Vargas cites his upbringing as playing a vital role in his approach to making art. He earned his BFA from the University of Texas Pan American and his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. As an educator, Vargas has taught art to all age groups and is an currently an instructor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL.

Molly is a confused youngster who grew up in the DIY spaces of northern California and is currently pursuing a double major in film & gender studies at Wesleyan University. Her favorite activities include reading comix, knitting, and dubbing cassettes, as well as existing as a perpetual amateur with ever increasing enthusiasm. Every dog is her friend.

Sam originates from the farmland outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is a bit of a wanderlust, always looking for a way to travel and see new spaces. Bicycling while listening to rock n roll is a big hobby of hers, as is partaking in and making peculiar creations. She currently studies Art and English at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC.

Stories change with each telling, being filtered and transform from one person to the next. Asuncion is interested in this space of translation and transformation where new perspectives are revealed, and connections can be made. The possibility of reconstruction helps Asuncion create characters for her video work she embodies with a sense of humanness and otherness. Each originating from the fabric of culture, woven from tradition, but outside and no longer a part of the community it once originated from. By researching local histories and stories she constructs abstract narratives that explore her identity as a multi-cultural female artist. She has a working studio at Erector Square in New Haven, CT. Her work has been included in Aspect EZ: Vol. 4, Déjà Vu a limited edition DVD printing by ASPECT: The Chronicle for New Media in Boston, MA; and has been curated by Olu Oguibe as a featured artist on RADICATE.EU Contemporary Art a digital journal edited by Tiziana Casapietra of Savona University in Savona, Italy.

Audrey Love is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Oakland, CA. She developed her skills as a photographer and videographer, before an electric synthesizer pushed her interests and art into the realm of music, sound, light, and interactivity. Her works are a dialectic of the past & future, drawing influence from both, to contextualize objects and aesthetics from history into a contemporary dialog. Currently she is working with the Robot Versus Future artist collective, and many other intersections of art, community, and technology.

Lyric has wandered to Elsewhere from the rolling farmlands of Iowa, where she studies Graphic Design at a tiny liberal arts college. Much of her work explores juxtaposing the rigid formalities often associated with typography and design with unexpected messiness — often in the form of nature, embroidery floss, or scribbles. She also enjoys writing/performing slam poetry, and sleeping in places with no roof over her head.

Katie Shlon is an artist/musician from Columbia, South Carolina. She is pursuing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is in her final year. As an artist, her interest lies in the relationship between physical spaces, natural aesthetics, and social relations.

Kelly Lloyd is currently pursuing a dual M.F.A. in Painting and M.A. in Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, Lloyd's practice includes putting 2 to 3 objects next to one another, faux lecturing, painting environments and forming her writing into objects. She is interested in working with what it means to have a body, and what it means for that body to be in the world.

Fionn was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives and works between Brighton, London and Glasgow. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice involves the curation of exhibitions and events, often choosing to work collaboratively with other artists, musicians, dancers and composers. She is especially concerned with the point where the transient nature of performance and the materiality of sculpture meet, questioning the duality of "here and there," "now and then," "you and me" and exploring the possibilities of these elements existing simultaneously as a whole. With an interest in improvisation and participation, each piece of work initiates a dialogue between the artist, performer and viewer, at times allowing roles to fluctuate and overlap.

Dotty LOVES her grand-babies.  And cruises.

Emily Lombardo is an artist who has been living and working in Boston for over 15 years. She received her BFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been shown and collected internationally. Lombardo applies her vast knowledge of sculpture and print across a wide range of conceptual projects. She engages with appropriative art practices as a mode of investigating personal and cultural identity.

Morgan Page is an interdisciplinary artist that works primarily in photography, video, and sound. In her work, she creates environments that allow for shared experiences that intend to spark a progressive dialog amongst her audience. Her current body of work focuses on guns as cultural artifacts and weapons in historical and personal narratives. At Elsewhere, she is concentrating on Greensboro's rich history of activism that has made for positive social change by inviting community members and activists into Elsewhere to provide testimony of their experiences in an effort to create a space that celebrates that history at the museum. She received her MFA from Rutgers University in New Jersey and her BFA from the University of Houston in Texas. Her work has been shown and collected nationally.

Rachael Layne Rush currently lives in Columbus, Ohio and is working on receiving her MFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. She works primarily in painting, mixed media drawing and printmaking. She received her BFA in Painting with a Minor in Art History from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her work focuses on beauty norms and body image through a societal, metaphysical and personal lens. Her work has shown at Columbus College of Art and Design, The Columbus Metropolitan Library, the Harrison Center for the Arts, Herron School of Art and Design and Stutz Art Gallery.

Andrew Fansler is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His installations and sculptures address our tenuous connection the psychic landscape and the possibility of finding each other there.