Rontherin Ratliff is known for creating textural assemblages and sculptural work that examines contemporary society. In 2009, Works and Process at the Guggenheim NYC commissioned the set installation for the production of Peter and the Wolf of which Ratliff lead the artistic direction and co-creation.

In 2010 Ratliff exhibited at Diverse Works in Houston Texas and in 2012 the Arts Council of New Orleans commissioned a site-specific art installation for The Norman Mayer Branch Library. Ratliff has exhibited at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery at Coastal Carolina University SC and was selected for the Joan Mitchell Foundations Artist In Residence Program in New Orleans in 2014. He was a collaborating artist for the nationally acclaimed street art installation ExhibitBe New Orleans.In 2015, the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator and NPN/VAN awarded Ratliff with an artist residency in Miami, FL. His commitment to his practice lead him co-found Level Artist Collective with local artist of color living in New Orleans. In 2016 Ratliff exhibited at Governors Island New York, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA and was a recipient of the Adeline Edwards Founders Award along with a Blights Out artist fellowship. In 2017 Ratliff exhibited at Xavier University Gallery at Xavier University and Carroll Gallery at Tulane University in New Orleans and was invited to the Netherlands where he created an outdoor installation in response to the 1717 charismas flood.During his residency at Elsewhere, Ratliff created Rosa No. 7 Yellow Independence.

Yatta is a Houston-born digi-poet, artist, and musician currently based in New York. Using incantations born of loop pedal drones, folk acoustics, and ecstatic beats, they alchemize and creolize jazz standards with Krio cries. Past performances, readings, and workshops have taken place at healing spaces, farms, backyards, festivals, galleries, museums, conferences and universities all over. They are currently seeking a circus group and a glass sphere in the sky.

Zeelie Brown is a visual artist and cellist who through sound, textiles, and installations depth charges wells of Afro-Atlantic dynamism to conjure up works which provoke a sense of environmental and cultural shift. Her work meditates black freedom in the 21st century, and the renegotiation of the parasitic networks of power and privilege weft into the global, colonial world order. She was born in San Antonio and was raised between there and Pollard, Alabama. She graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Africana Studies (Fine Arts) which they used to open their heart and soul to jazz, philosophy, and other great arts of the black world.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Brown created Fear No Joy.

Ash Smith is a director, designer and new media artist who grew up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. Ash incorporates strategies of play and speculation to solve problems, re-imagine systems and build worlds—to create interactive stories, mixed reality experiences, simulations and prototypes of the future. Data, science and/or humor may be used to tell stories for film, stage, and improvisation that may blur the distinction between art & life, fact & fiction, and nature & technology—a liminal space—that considers how myth and history modulate a present reality while simultaneously engendering future dreams. Ash is interested in the dreaming collective and how these virtual shared spaces may bleed into the real and shape our co-existence. Ash also plays music in a few bands and loves to parallel park.

During 2017 their residency at Elsewhere, Smith created 11½ Spells for Our Future Selves. In 2019 Ash was the resident artist for the 2019 Rural Residency in Appalachia and created Southern Devices//Appalachian Futures.

Saba Taj is a Southern Muslim artist and activist based in Durham NC. Heavily inspired by Islamic stories and speculative fiction, Saba uses mixed media practices to illustrate the liminalities of diasporic identity through the creation of hybridized femme-monsters. Taj remixes cultural references from her South Asian, American, Muslim, and queer identities, and explores themes of diaspora, inherited trauma and apocalypse.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Taj created Interstellar Uber/Negotiations with God.

Sophia Schultz is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist and activist from Sarasota, Florida who recently received a BA in Anthropology from New College of Florida. Through alternating and combining mediums such as analog photography, old school video cameras, fabric, screen printing, and metal Sophia explores themes of self-care, trauma, and memory in her work. Whenever she's not taking photos you'll find her learning about medicinal and edible plants, going on bike rides, and enjoying the outdoors.

Ava Zelkowitz is an Anthropology student, artist, vegetarian cook, and sculpture studio monitor at the New College of Florida. They like to help small people learn to use big saws, dream of futures in anarchy, and think about collective and collaborative art and action. They see good omens on the daily.

Yansa Fatima shaved the side of her head with a dull razor at the age of 6.

Jordan recently graduated from The New School where she majored in Integrated Design and Arts in Context with a focus in visual studies and psychology (?). Her practice is somewhat of a chaotic dance between the physical and the immaterial worlds. Jordan enjoys making material things, and finds comfort in the tactile world, but is overall more excited by the idea of creating the immaterial (interactions, emotions and empathy). She finds meaning in thinking metaphorically and believes that this can lead to a more sustainable, thoughtful and engaging world (!). 

Adam is from Pittsburgh, PA where he immersed himself in its theatre scene. After beginning his studies at Cleveland Institute of Music, he hopped from voice teacher to voice teacher and landed at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC where he broadened his focus to include journalism, art history, and queer advocacy. Adam sings in a post-punk band called Mall Goth, rarely goes a day without a green juice, and co-hosts a podcast called The LowDownBeat. His interests in public relations, curating, branding, and marketing underscore his work as Elsewhere’s communications intern. 

Koy Smith is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Virginia and currently based in San Francisco, CA. Their work has addressed themes such as gender and sexuality. An avid music lover, they are inspired by punk and metal subculture. They received their BFA in New Genres (Performance/Video) from the San Francisco Art Institute. Koy has a deep appreciation for craft processes and experimental film and video.

Lucas Baisch is a playwright and text-based visual artist, originally from San Francisco, currently based in Chicago. His work spawns from interests in youth culture, technology, and contemporary depictions of iconoclasm. The work aims for the queer, crude, and aesthetically curious, citing a punkish and playful affinity for the irreverent. He holds a BFA in playwriting from DePaul University, and will be pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Brown University starting fall of 2017.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Baisch created Conveyor Belt.

Vivian Charlesworth's objects and immersive environments create a space for physical interplay between the viewer and the artwork. Each piece fosters a sensation of stepping into the middle of a story. In order to make the viewer aware of their own gaze, Charlesworth immerses them within fragmented narratives that ask to be reassembled. Each viewer creates their own story based on the information they choose to process and engage with. She inserts the viewer into the position of explorer, bystander or spy, challenging them to interrogate and confront their own presumptions about narrative.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Charlesworth created Repository.

Edek Sher earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BA from Kenyon College in 2013. Sher's work focuses on the individual's creative role when confronted with faceless corporations and abstractions like climate change and mass surveillance. Blending his interest in literature, electronic media, and internet subcultures, Sher creates experimental music and multi-channel video installations that seek to overwhelm the viewer.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Sher created Repository.

Atlanta based artist Ben Bowden Lee enjoys exploring things like tragedy, loss, and dark humor. Lee typically works with photographic images, books, and the occasional knickknack. Often seen lurking around estate sales or abandoned buildings, he utilizes the found image/object as his main source of inspiration and material. Lee also grew up in a family of funeral home directors and learned to drive in a cemetery.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Bowden Lee created Blue Monday.

Lily Reeves's work looks at the epistemology of the sacred throughout history and into postmodernity. She incorporates spiritual ideologies alongside existential philosophy in her work to ratify ideas and interactions between the mind, body, and spirit. With her installations, performances and sculptural objects, Reeves delineates the boundaries of the soul and provides experiences to heighten the metaphysical side of being and the relevance of spiritual thought in contemporary life.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Reeves created Southern Static.

Craig Smith is an American media artist whose art and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human‐to‐human interactivity in contemporary art, especially photography, sound, and socially engaged performances. Smith’s research – based practice can be produced in innumerable locations because of its effort to combine the history of a particular site with its everyday use, its population, and the context of how such a population occupies a named ‘site.’ Site and its inherent operations become inclusive formal elements in that they make specific and incredible encounters possible for the viewer.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Smith created #NCTRIAD.

Anthony Warnick is an aspiring amateur librarian. He currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been in residence at FutureFarmers (San Francisco) and SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico) among others, and has exhibited at Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), SPACES (Cleveland, OH). His work is often a humorous engagement with systems of knowledge and power in our contemporary sphere.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Warnick created Everything in Life is Vibration and Conservation Labor.

Dana Robinson finds her paradise in Greensboro, North Carolina, surrounded by old toys and dusty fabric. She dives into the gleaming void and brings something like art back to the surface. The strange and mysterious Elsewhere holds many secrets and Dana will capture and bring back only the most alluring.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Robinson created The Still Lifes of Elsewhere.

Justin Rabideau's recent body of work has been focused on the exploration of discarded materials and how these materials can be utilized to create a connection between the forgotten/past to the new/now. By using found/salvaged pieces of wood, discarded furniture and other objects of personal interest, Justin creates works that have direct connections to the neighborhoods/spaces that he sources his materials from while also referencing notions of gentrification, object history, cultural wastefulness, and hidden beauty.