I think art has something to do with reality, truth, identity, access, misunderstanding, play, thing-hood, and possibly foolishness. There is also tragedy, comedy, and circus. These things sort of crash against each other, like a gyroscope of perception and experience, and whatever there is outside of that. I like to work collaboratively, creating a collective search party; a discursive art practice that uses play, improvisation, and the real world to feel our intersecting identities at work. Sometimes this looks like sculpture. At other times it looks more like an improvised play, or immersion journalism, or Kaprow's Happenings, or any number of art actions. I have a BFA from Indiana University's sculpture program. I'm moving towards an art practice in which I look at art making, arts administration and empowerment, and public activism and volunteerism as overlapping and sometimes indistinguishable practices. I'm excited to enact my internship with Elsewhere as a manifestation of this approach to art-doing.

Using sincere parody, I bring individual meaning to tired tropes and ask audiences to question authenticity in order to generate new ways of seeing, hearing, and experiencing personal, social, and historical events. Creating parallel planes is achieved through unapologetic appropriation of signifiers such as institutional voice and stock images, sociological and archival inquiry, pedagogical techniques such as socio-dramatic play, and temporal juxtaposition. Recent performances at venues including: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hillyer Art Space, The Back Alley Theater, and other DIY venues in D.C., as well as The Leslie – Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Manhattan, Panoply in Brooklyn, and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

Jane Claire created elsewherestock.com during her residency.

Cedric Blue II

Operations Curator

Cedric was raised in the non-profit world via volunteering and later project managing for The Greensboro Youth Council (under the Greensboro, NC Parks & Recreation Department) and Triad Health Project. After a stint in corporate sales working for FedEx Office in NYC Cedric returned to North Carolina to get back to his non-profit roots, working in development for the regional theater Triad Stage. For his next act Cedric has joined the curator's team at the living museum to apply his scientific approach to systems, fanatical flair for filing, and love for art in all of its forms to supporting the cultural revolution that is Elsewhere.

Works Progress Studio is an artist-led LLC based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota led by wife-husband Collaborative Directors Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker. The studio engages an expansive network of artists, scientists, organizers, and other creative people to realize imaginative public projects rooted in place and purpose.

They create the South Elm Water Bar during their residency. 

Chat Travieso is an artist, designer, and educator. He creates playful and functional urban interventions that respond to everyday needs and reinforce social bonds. His work has been commissioned by The Architectural League of New York, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, WHEDco, Design Trust for Public Space, NYCDOT, and the Cambridge Arts Council.

Buster Simpson has been active as an artist working in the public since the late 1960’s. His work ranges from stand alone sculpture to integrated and/or collaborative works. His work incorporates ecological, historical, social, and technological considerations, contextualizing them into a site specific aesthetic. His art, its medium and product vary, but the methodology and underpinning conceptual approach are consistent. All aspects of the public realm potentially could become part of the palette; the landscape, the infrastructure, the built environment, and the social and economic engagement. Simpson has stated, “I prefer working in public spaces. The complexity of any site is its asset; to build upon, to distill, to reveal its layers of meaning. Process becomes part and parcel to the art of the place.” Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. Simpson has completed numerous art master plans for urban centers and watersheds that integrate community, ecology and art. A retrospective of his work was recently presented at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Simpson will be conducting an international “Rising Waters” confab at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation durning the month of May focusing on the notions of climate change and the of empowerment of a social and economic commons.

Tom Russotti runs the Institute for Aesthletics, an organization dedicated to promoting sport as art practice. Tom has performed and exhibited his work at venues such as the Tate Modern Museum, SFMOMA, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, the Bronx Museum, and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Tom’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, Wired, Vice Magazine, BBC, NPR, and Tom has also organized performances for both Japanese and Lithuanian National Television. Tom received a BA in history from Stanford University and received his M.F.A. in Aesthletics from Rutgers University.

Poncili Creación (Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro) is a Puerto Rican group that generates performance and audio-visual experiences that sprout from their interactive sculptures they call objects. They have focused their body of work in the relationship between objects and reality. Since 2012, they have worked with large-scale objects, installations, and video. Although they are most known for their performances that involve live music, dance and experimental storytelling. Their performance tours have taken them around the United States, Canada, Europe, and The Dominican Republic. Their objects have been exhibited in museums such as the MAPR and the MoCa as well as in independent galleries 787 studios, Art lab, Gr_und, Edge zones, Meta-gallery, Poor Farm Experiment among others.

During Poncili Creación’s 2018 residency, they created Multi-Parade.

Megan Mosholder is a conceptual artist who operates in the real-world setting of the social-political landscape through site-responsive, sculptural installations. She is a graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has received numerous awards from institutions such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. A variety of publications have featured Megan's work including Beautiful/Decay, Hi-Fructose and The Creator’s Project and her diverse exhibition history includes participation in No Longer Empty’s Through the Parlor (2013) in Manhattan and an installation in Sirmione, Italy (2014), a body of work that speaks of the lasting impression a place of beauty can leave on an individual. Originally from Ohio, Megan is currently based in Atlanta, GA where she is a resident artist at the Creatives Project.

MILAGROS is Felici Asteinza & Joey Fillastre and sometimes others. MILAGROS is mainly based out of New Orleans & Miami. Their work is typically site-specific, with a vibrant and energetic feeling. MILAGROS strives to work hard and play harder in a style based in collaboration, pattern, installation, drawing, and painting.

MILAGROS created Neighborhood Murals during their residency.

Heather Hart is based in Brooklyn. For South Elm Projects, Hart created the Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables. She was an artist-in-residence at LMCC, Whitney ISP, shown at The Drawing Center, Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and reviewed in Art in America, NY Times, and Seattle Times. Hart received grants from Creative Capital Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Jerome Foundation and her MFA from Rutgers.

Camp Little Hope is a team of artists that translate abstract ideas into visceral experiences. We invent objects and situations that imagine the future in order to create space for action in the present. We make drawings, environments, gardens, free algorithmic restaurants, sustainable energy initiatives, alternative institutional forms and fun.

Chloë Bass (Brooklyn, NY) focuses on the co-creation of performances, situations, installations, and publications, all dedicated to deep questioning of the everyday. Her current project, The Book of Everyday Instruction (2015 – 2017), is an investigation into one-on-one social interaction.

Robert Lach is an eco-friendly, environmentalist, ecologist, and avid bird watcher. Born and raised in New Jersey, it is the local landscape that inspires and fuels his art practice - from the states post-industrial north to the beauty of its southern wildlife areas and beaches. Found objects, trash, and gathered detritus are muse for sculpture, photography, installation, and public art projects.

Robert created Stitched Together during his residency.

Mitchel Oliver

Documentary Curator (2014-2015)

Mitch works on visuals, audio, food and land with his cat Mica.

Patrick McDonnell | Education Curator and South Elm Projects Coordinator (2015)

Patrick McDonnell has worked in government, nonprofit, and start-ups and has a breadth of understanding about how to navigate the different sectors of city building. He holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning and Master’s in Higher Education from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Elsewhere he worked at Dallas City Hall as an Urban Designer for a year, and freelanced for two years consulting on creative placing making projects and youth education programs with nonprofits in the Dallas area. In 2012, Patrick was named to the Next City Vanguard class as one of 40 under 40 urban leaders in the county. He serves on the Association for Community Design board (2012-present), including a term as President from 2013-2014. As South Elm Projects Coordinator, he works closely with Elsewhere’s curators to launch and oversee the call for South Elm artist portfolios, articulate public place-making practices as well as expand relationships with local community stakeholders, businesses and partners.

Samuel Holleran is an urbanist, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and design educator. He works at the intersection of art, urban design, and civic engagement. He is interested in mobilizing popular forms of visual culture like hand lettering, vernacular printing, model-making, and animation to address real-life issues and explore under-examined histories.Sam works as a Design Educator at the Center for Architecture Foundation and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and previously worked at the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). From 2014-2015 he is the Participatory Design Fellow with the Design Trust for Public Space, working with the Queens Museum of Art and the NYC Parks Department to engage communities surrounding the Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Honi Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Blue Mountains, Australia and Berlin, Germany. 

Ryan works across media-arts, performance, social sculpture and installation. She is interested in art as alternative models for living. Her work has cross cultural concerns and approaches the body in dialogue with electronic media, a body that is both an organism and a part of social behaviour. 

Kate Gilbert is an artist and creative strategist exploring the role the arts and artists play in transforming our cities, our relationships, and ourselves. In her artwork, curatorial projects, and public art consultancy, she strives to facilitate joy and spontaneity and to help propel public appreciation of contemporary art practices.

In her practice, Gilbert employs humor, simulation, and meditative observation to question objects of comfort, the retail systems they operate in, our consumptive behaviors, and our collective fears.

Gilbert is a graduate of Connecticut College (MA ’96) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA ’13). She lives and works in Boston, MA.