Current Residents
Sophie Sanders’ paintings, prints, and fiber works use gesture and iconic imagery to convey the inner potency and tenacity of her subjects. In recent works, she visualizes a space of feminist sanctuary, where individuals can find a sense of restoration and rejuvenation. Other works explore interconnectivity through the visual metaphor of a mandala, the human eye, and brain.
Charis Fleshner is a mixed media visual artist who calls Colorado home, along with Goober cat, the best and worst studio assistant ever. Charis was accepted into University of New Mexico's MFA program under painting and drawing but rebelled against categorization and fell in love with soft sculpture there instead. She is inspired by the middle schoolers she currently teaches art and fiber arts to, color, play, fabric, and intersectional feminism.
Mia Cinelli is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator. Driven by curiosity and informed by design methodologies, her practice produces a variety of creative outcomes— including digital typefaces, discursive objects, public installations, and sewn sculptures. In all of her work, she is most interested in designing experiences which engender meaningful interactions and discussions. She’s fascinated by language, longing, history, gesture, and corporeality.
Cara Hagan is a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities, and a dreamer. She believes in the power of art to upend the laws of time and physics. In her work, no object or outcome is sacred; but the ritual to get there is.
Upcoming Residents, Fellows, and Participants
Coming soon…
Staff
Thea Cohen (she/her) | Productions Manager 2020-2021
In her creative practice, Thea places an emphasis on process and experimentation and likes to learn by doing. She has a background in multimedia installation, furniture making, and methods of fabrication including woodworking, welding, and machine sewing. Her creations utilize various combinations of set, prop, puppet & costume design, video, animation, sculpture, projection, and performance. Thea enjoys non-linear storytelling and is especially interested in the distortions that occur within repetitions across materials, scale, and time. She is fascinated with functionality (or the lack there of) regarding the ways in which physical characteristics influence movement and provoke assumptions around how to inhabit space. Community is an integral part of Thea’s life, and she is always looking for ways to collaborate in all aspects of creating and living.
Communications
Yvonna is a Black Agender Diviner, Conceptual Artist, and Arts Organizer based out of Greensboro, NC. In their own work, they explore themes of gender+sexuality, memory, personal responsibility, and poverty. Through a variety of mediums, they navigate their experience and their desires. They study trends in beauty, homemaking, and sustainability in an attempt to make direct links with critical race, gender, and art theory. They also practice multiple forms of divination and understand the practice to be one of mapping narratives.They have curated interactive gallery shows, appeared on panels centered around southern sexuality, and organized affordable clothing pop ups in their community in low income areas. Through the continuation of organizing workshops, pop ups, and exhibitions, they aim to shift preconceived notions of inaccessibility.
House Manager / Curator
Avery Rose (they/them) is a 3rd generation dumpster diver, collector, maker, and jack of all trades wannabe raised in Waxhaw, NC. They have a BFA in painting and a range of professional experiences in furniture, upholstery, design, and restoration related fields. They like to explore color, shape, and line through textile work, tattooing, painting on unconventional surfaces, and collecting natural and discarded objects. Avery's work founded on interests in sustainable and communal living, travel and exploration, environmentalism, homesteading, and diy culture.
Avery has been the House Manager/Curator at Elsewhere since 2018. They have completed a number of projects including building a new front desk from collection, co-creating the Shelter Elsewhere Residency, and patching various holes around the museum in unexpected ways. Avery can be found at @dirt_soup on Instagram.
Emily Ensminger, born in Durham, NC, is a conceptual artist and advocate for independent multi-use live/work organizations. Through programming, textiles and functional systems, Emily’s work addresses necessity as a creative practice operating at the intersection of admin, art, and daily life. Curatorial, project coordination and presentation focus is on experimental production and organizations outside art centers.
Emily led the organization as Creative Director (2018-2020).
Residency Alumni
Kelsey Sharpe is a queer multidisciplinary conceptual artist and filmmaker of color from Jersey City, NJ of Jamaican-Indian and Irish-Slavic descent. Sharpe graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Studies and Anthropology. Sharpe’s practice examines the intersections between the digital and physical world and the ways in which those spaces alter human connection.
IG: @sharpekelsey
Website: kelseysharpe.com
Christian Lee is a Puerto Rican comic who draws comics, poetry, and books. Their illustrative work varies from subcultures, to horror, to speculative fiction. Under the skin, the heart of their art and uses fiction as metaphor to explore real human relationships.
As a performer, their drawings accompany them to the stage in mixed-media performances using humor and storytelling to digest their experiences as a Hispanic POC, gender expectations, and grief.
Rae Red (they/them) encourages the radical act of laughter in the face of darkness by translating everyday realities into performance and play. Their work exposes the magic and wonder within our daily functions, from the wizardry of sight and color theory, to the way water invisibly keeps our lives flowing smoothly like a ghost within the walls. They explore subjects that are universal like blood pumping through veins, while bringing light our own mortality and to the death that is continuously occurring around us. Through performances across the United States Rae Red investigates topics that unite viewers by exposing commonalities while examining the disparate facets within them. They have presented their work in every type of space imaginable from dive bars and the backs of donut shops to The Museum of Human Achievement, High Concept Labs, Cucalorus Stage Festival, and The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. They received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Towson University’s Theatre Arts Program.
Shelter Elsewhere Fellow
Kinari Council (he/they) is a Community based mixed media artist, designer located in North Carolina.
He attended NCA&T’S VISART Program and utilizes the skills he learned to create socially conscious art centered around creating awareness and engaging subjects concerning marginalized groups. His passion is to use my creativity to speak to and for those that often go overlooked.
Nicole Asselin is a textile artist and educator based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her work explores the intersection of craft, technology and the natural world. Asselin’s practice is narrative, telling the story of an object or material and its potential, both real and imagined. Her work utilizes magnification, abstraction, hyper-local material, and a hybrid digital/analog approach to making. She addresses and challenges themes of locality, tradition, innovation, handcraft, and sustainability.
In her practice, Elicia Epstein works across a variety of media, from sculpture and installation, to documentary photography and video, publication and collage. The objects and experiences Elicia creates serve as visual, physical and spiritual interventions. Whimsy and "nonsense" are essential to Elicia’s life and art practice; as a practicing Jewitch, magic and art are her sharpened tools for a more liberated future.
Kylee Jo recently finished her BFA in drawing from the University of Florida, and is still figuring out her identity as an artist. In her multi-media paintings and installations (which sometimes incorporate film and/or sound) she tends to use humorous modes such as cartoons and warped realities to present gendered stereotypes. Materials she uses range from crudely sewn fabrics, to used popcorn bags, horse stickers, and plaster.
Mimi Allin is a visual artist working with performance, photography and video. She uses her body as a visual territory for knowledge production, healing and exploration. Her practice is based in conceptual, performance art, photography and video. The practice’s conceptual intent seeks to activate a critical commentary on gender, power and human relationships. Allin’s work explores contemporary 4th wave feminist themes, encompassing oppressed/oppressor dynamics, the relationship between contemporary discourses about landscape and the self’s internal processes. Allin, while acknowledging death, also seeks paths of regeneration, opening a dialogue between relationship and function, in a proprietary culture that isolates the subject from its production. She reaches and teaches transformation by reclaiming her body and its charged relation to the landscape. The gestures in her work are poetic, ritual-based, seductive, fluid and playful. She falls cathartically in and out of rhythm with the world, aiming to elicit reflection and to disrupt the basic structures of things, real and imagined.
Anne Wu is an established exhibiting artist working out of northern New Mexico. Curiosity inspires her to explore a variety of media and techniques to create dimensional objects and installations. The last decade has been spent primarily in cutting perfectly good pieces of fabric into very tiny pieces and sewing them back together.
Kyla Gilbert's practice investigates the changeability of matter and the fusion of organic materials and industrial products, in parallel to the human body within its environment. Coming from a background in performance, Kyla is drawn to the intersection between movement, design and building. Her main interest lies in materiality as it relates to domesticity and commodity/consumption. She's interested in the metaphorical and physical weight of the objects we surround ourselves with, and how our lived patterns act on and modify our environments and our bodies. Kyla builds using repurposed and found materials collected from her surroundings in an attempt to explore her connection to place whether it be temporary or for an extended period of time.
Kyla created Someday My Prince Will Come.
Sareh Imani is an Iranian-born, multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Imani received an MFA in Painting from the University of Tehran and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York. In her practice, Imani explores the ways of achieving resourcefulness, through care, mending, and healing in times of inadequacy. For the past 2 years, she has been making a series of videos that study the relation between virtual and visceral, borrowing from medical methodologies and exploring the reparative potentials of art and science, intimacy and distance, instructions and poetics.Imani has been exhibiting her work in group shows both in the US (New York, Austin), Europe (Venice, Gothenburg), and the Middle East (Tehran, Dubai). She is the recipient of the one-year A.I.R fellowship (2020), and the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture scholarship in 2018. In addition, she participated in the MASS MoCA residency (2018), AIM program at the Bronx Museum (2018), BRIC Workspace Residency (2019), BRIC Media fellowship (2020), and NARS foundation (2020).
Piero Passacantando (b. 1979 in Rome, Italy) is an interdisciplinary artist. His work moves between painting, food, music, photography and participatory workshops focusing on dialogue, conviviality, and empathy. Passacantando holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC. In addition, for the past 8 years, while he has been actively working as an artist, Piero has also been delivering training and elbow-to-elbow support for healthcare software, specializing in electronic medical records for in-patient, emergency room, and operating room systems. He currently lives and works between Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, and Casablanca, Morocco.
Adam Eckstrom is half of the artist collaborative, Ghost of a Dream, with Lauren Was. The collaborative’s work embodies the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash. They mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals. Whether it is a Hollywood film that transports the viewer into a dream reality, a travel poster promising a luxurious vacation, or a lottery ticket that gives the possibility of a future full of rich decadence; they use these remnants to both re-create people’s dreams, and portray the dreamer. They have recently been included in exhibitions at the MAAM museum, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Crystal Bridges Museum, Telfair Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum, Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Courtauld, and The Mint. Other recent solo exhibitions include CES Gallery, Smack Mellon, and 601Artspace. Ghost of a Dream has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, World of Interiors, VICE Art Talks as a documentary, and Southern Foodways alliance as a short film. To learn more about Adam and Ghost of a Dream's work, please visit their C.V. on their website.
Antoine Williams creates mixed media assemblage installations, paintings and collages, which are an investigation of identity, semiotics and social structures. Heavily influenced by speculative science fiction (specifically social science fiction and cosmic horror), hip hop, plus his rural working class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology of hybrid creatures that exist between the boundaries of class and race. Antoine is an Assistant Professor of Art at Guilford College.
During his residency at Elsewhere, Williams created Because They Believe in Unicorns.
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.
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.
Emily Ensminger, born in Durham, NC, is a conceptual artist and advocate for independent multi-use live/work organizations. Through programming, textiles and functional systems, Emily’s work addresses necessity as a creative practice operating at the intersection of admin, art, and daily life. Curatorial, project coordination and presentation focus is on experimental production and organizations outside art centers.
Emily led the organization as Creative Director (2018-2020).
San Francisco, CA
September 14, 2011 - October 11, 2011
website | najva sol dot wordpress dot com
website | low brow society dot org
Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, The Rake, and Heavy Table. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. He is also Artists Resources Director at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul, where he runs a resource center and library for artists and small arts organizations. He was an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2011. His first voting experience was the 1998 mayoral election of Louisville, Kentucky, where pulled the lever for a former punk rock label owner running under the Reform Party banner.
Residency: September 7, 2011 - September 27, 2011
During his residency, Andy made Hard Catalog. Andy returned as a national artist commentator for Political Party 2012. Visit Andy’s Tumblr.
Grinnell, IA
August 24, 2011 - September 20, 2011
blog | the tiny circus dot blogspot dot com
website | tiny circus dot org
Andy Ducett (Minneapolis, MN) is from Winona, MN and received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois and his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Stout. He has over 20 years of creative experience, and has been working in higher education for the last 15, most recently as Visiting Faculty in the MFA Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work has been shown in galleries and museums around the country, and is in the collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and The Walker Art Center. He has been featured by Artforum, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post, as well as publications in Toronto, Berlin, Tokyo, and London. He was the recipient of a 2017 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship, and is listed on the curated registry of the Drawing Center in New York City. He is currently working on a commissioned wall drawing for Travail Kitchen and Amusements and recently completed a series of projects commissioned by SITE Santa Fe.
Residency: June 22, 2011 - July 5, 2011
Providence, RI
April 28, 2011 – June 17, 2011
Laurencia Strauss is an artist, designer and educator working across art, design and ecology. Her work expands experience by interrupting routines of seeing and learning and by asking people to reconsider their relationships to local social and ecological systems. She is currently teaching at the Boston Architectural College and will serve as a Scholar in Residence at New Urban Arts in Providence this summer. She recently received funding from RISCA for a spring project related to urban landscapes. She has a degree in sculpture from California College of the Arts, a master’s in landscape architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and has studied at Penland School of Crafts. Laurencia lives in Providence, RI.
Past Staff
Past Board of Directors
Facilities Associate
Joshua Barnes was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, attending Gillespe, Kaiser, Grimsley schools. He enjoys meeting new people, drawing, playing video games and sports, and loves to laugh. Since facing incarceration, Joshua has been hard at work in corporate cleaning services, landscaping, construction, and customer service.
After completing our Workforce Development Program in partnership with Guilford Works, he joined the team as the Facilities Associate, keeping the museum clean and safe for its many guests.
Joshua has also launched Joshua Barnes Cleaning Services, a new social enterprise business (est. 2022), creating second chance employment opportunities for those who are formerly incarcerated. He is currently seeking to grow his business and clientele.
Thea Cohen (she/her) | Productions Manager 2020-2021
In her creative practice, Thea places an emphasis on process and experimentation and likes to learn by doing. She has a background in multimedia installation, furniture making, and methods of fabrication including woodworking, welding, and machine sewing. Her creations utilize various combinations of set, prop, puppet & costume design, video, animation, sculpture, projection, and performance. Thea enjoys non-linear storytelling and is especially interested in the distortions that occur within repetitions across materials, scale, and time. She is fascinated with functionality (or the lack there of) regarding the ways in which physical characteristics influence movement and provoke assumptions around how to inhabit space. Community is an integral part of Thea’s life, and she is always looking for ways to collaborate in all aspects of creating and living.
Nich uses art to conjure immersive experience(s) and emotions within himself and others. Through human expression, he weaves together photography, poetry / creative writing, spoken word, illustration, multimedia, public installations, and bookmaking. He finds power in story--the way folktales travel through time, and how stories continuously shape many aspects in life. He seeks to create narratives that remind himself, and others, to unweave internalized harmful narratives / social standards, provoke self-love/smiles, create mischievous shenanigans, and to appreciate the many-varied emotions within the human experience.
Yari is a queer woman of color, an artist, and art historian focusing on bringing light and creating better opportunities in art spaces for queer artists of color. Even while pursuing her undergrad she took every opportunity to focus her papers on censorship of queer artist and lead seminar discussions on intersectional feminism. Her greatest affinity and source of inspiration for strength, courage, and charisma being the ballroom scene in 80's New York City. Truly falling in love with the mix of art, performance, and authenticity in personal identity and self-expression exhibited in the ballroom scene. She plans on focusing her future higher education on art history as it intertwines with the history of queer culture.
Communications
Yvonna is a Black Agender Diviner, Conceptual Artist, and Arts Organizer based out of Greensboro, NC. In their own work, they explore themes of gender+sexuality, memory, personal responsibility, and poverty. Through a variety of mediums, they navigate their experience and their desires. They study trends in beauty, homemaking, and sustainability in an attempt to make direct links with critical race, gender, and art theory. They also practice multiple forms of divination and understand the practice to be one of mapping narratives.They have curated interactive gallery shows, appeared on panels centered around southern sexuality, and organized affordable clothing pop ups in their community in low income areas. Through the continuation of organizing workshops, pop ups, and exhibitions, they aim to shift preconceived notions of inaccessibility.
Shameeka Davis-Dunning is an Illustrator in the Triad area, her work is influenced by futurism and anime. Her goal is to carve out space where seeing black characters in anime becomes the norm. She graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a BS in Fashion Merchandising and Design. she is also a lover of cinema; believes everything is worth watching at least once and you can occasionally find her hiking in the mountains.Ig: _pharaohs_queen
Riley Cox is a Greensboro native currently studying sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She grew up surrounded by a family working in textiles, which led to an early love for texture and material exploration. She is interested in the healing properties of creative play and working in a communal setting. Riley loves collecting discarded items, exploring and any event she has the excuse to wear a costume.
Mindy is a self-proclaimed master-of-none that enjoys taking things apart almost as much as she enjoys cozying up in dark corners. Currently working on her Bachelor's in Parks and Recreation Management, she loves getting dirt under her nails and has a well-honed talent for googling things to assist in the problem-solving process. In her free time, she writes, concentrating on narrative writing and performance poetry. She hopes that her time at Elsewhere will inspire her to refocus her creative energies both in work and in play.
Haley is an artist from Virginia. She graduated in 2018 from Virginia Tech with a BFA in Fine Arts as well as a BA in Art History. She would say that her focus is in mixed media sculpture but that’s because she does not really have a focus. She is interested in woodworking, metal working, painting, drawing and fiber arts. She likes collection, recycling of materials, and anything with a nice texture.
Jon Pulse is a flamboyant Aquarian and embroidery artist based in Savannah, Georgia. Utilizing his composition skills and strong eye for color theory, Jon likes to experiment with unconventional materials in creating art that dazzles the eye. He draws inspiration from the bright colorful patterning and geometric shape he finds in discarded fabrics, as well as his experience as a genderqueer person in the South.
Paige has BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work involves exploring human connections with nature. One can often find her outdoors, turning over rocks and logs to find a new critter to study.
Katherine Quinn is a researcher and poet from the frigid land of upstate NY. She spends her days scribbling words on old envelopes, pondering community dynamics, and attempting to grow plants.
Kyra Gross is an artist, theorist, and community organizer who believed a big man in the sky was watching her for most of her life. She now uses object making as a means to analyze the implications of religious thought on how people view themselves, others, and their communities from an anthropological point of view.Her work visualizes a the future of women as intellectual giants surviving and thriving in oppressive systems. She hopes to help others reorient their lives post-god and provide a platform for identities which have been historically suppressed. She believes the systems that we collectively live in today are producing a dying planet - requiring a new generation of thought and activity- divorced from present-day binaries.
Nava Levenson in a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Richmond, VA. She recently received a piece of paper from James Madison University notifying her of the completion of a BFA program. Her work investigates anthropological concepts such as ritualistic nature of food, depreciation of labor and the object-human relationship. Her work is largely comprised of installations, performances, gatherings, and recently, her own a brand of food.She can often be found crocheting spaghetti, listening to podcasts, telling inconclusive stories and at www.navalevenson.com or on Instagram @nava.levenson.
Please ship canning jars of studio dirt/scrap with your name and number to 325 S Pine St, Richmond, VA 23230.
Based in Minneapolis, Riley Kleve graduated Hampshire College with a BA in Curatorial Practice and Studio Art in 2017. Riley's work is concerned with the work we do in our living spaces and the living we do in our workplaces. Riley usually works in textiles but has dabbled with painting, stained glass, printmaking, and construction tarps.
House Manager / Curator
Avery Rose (they/them) is a 3rd generation dumpster diver, collector, maker, and jack of all trades wannabe raised in Waxhaw, NC. They have a BFA in painting and a range of professional experiences in furniture, upholstery, design, and restoration related fields. They like to explore color, shape, and line through textile work, tattooing, painting on unconventional surfaces, and collecting natural and discarded objects. Avery's work founded on interests in sustainable and communal living, travel and exploration, environmentalism, homesteading, and diy culture.
Avery has been the House Manager/Curator at Elsewhere since 2018. They have completed a number of projects including building a new front desk from collection, co-creating the Shelter Elsewhere Residency, and patching various holes around the museum in unexpected ways. Avery can be found at @dirt_soup on Instagram.
Kerri Mubaarak (Board Director / Executive Committee / Board Secretary)
If you encounter Kerri Mubaarak, it won’t take you long to figure out that her perspective is different. The way she approaches a subject—any subject— whether it’s an artist’s proposed work that she evaluates or a socio-political paradigm addressed in her performances is different. In fact, it’s difference that underlies all her works of theatrical art.
Kerri chose theater as a medium to express what she sees and senses interacting with “people in the periphery” a term she uses to describe those who are often marginalized by race, gender, religion or cultural norms. “The gift of this medium,” she says “is that the raw emotion of human experience can be shared openly and in the safety of an audience.” She considers the craft a practice of both art and healing that pre-dates modern theater.
Nadia Ahmed is a slow-reader, movie snob, and insomniac. She is also a performance artist, sculptor, and arts administrator currently based in Seattle, WA. She is interested in showing vulnerability as strength and exploring her perpetual discomfort through her work. After she leaves Elsewhere, she looks forward to creating inclusive, accessible, and collaborative art spaces. She can also out-karaoke anyone with Kelly Clarkson’s Since You Been Gone.
instagram: @nadiaahmed
Chee Earn Khor is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Malaysia. In the attempts of manifesting awareness from one body to another, she utilizes sculptures, installations, and performance to ponder, document and distort relatable human experiences. Personal narratives, observations of cultural signifiers, along with a tablespoon of curiosity and a dash of humor currently drive her studio practice.
Anna Bonesteel graduated this June with an estimable training in the canonical arts. [S/he thinks at eight percent irony.] Anna was briefly enrolled at Brown University and studied at RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. S/he currently reads predominantly fiction, much of it in translation from the French (?). An interest in soft systems animates hi/r Programs work at Elsewhere [[— as well as an insistent optimism in the human project. Anna acts on hi/r formalist compulsion by copy-editing freelance. Please contact at aboneste@alumni.risd.edu
Andrew Gelwick is fresh out of school having received a degree in business and arts administration. They also make art, usually with paper, and Gelwick's work deals with exploring narratives inspired by their use of vintage materials. Andrew's process involves estate sales, thrift stores, and a large, ever growing, personal collection of photographs, unique magazines, and other paper ephemera. They also love mopeds.
Imani Thomas is a filmmaker & photographer currently based in the Triad. As a kid she thought there were people in her air vents and would tell them stories. Much to the thrill of her family, she decided to pursue visual storytelling and not things that were expected of kids who talked to walls. Imani enjoys making movies, taking portraits, kayaking, trespassing, and buying clothes off the interwebs. Contact at: timani44@gmail.com
Once, Caitlin spent three weeks on a farm as pest control, attempting to reduce the overwhelming population of "potato bugs" (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) by hand. She couldn't ever seem to let go of this experience. Contact at caitlin.mccuskey@gmail.com
Alexandra Ciardullo is a multidisciplinary fiber artist based in Baltimore, MD. Recently she completed her academic career at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Through puppetry, Alex seeks to convey the connections between story and performer. Utilizing costumes, soft sculpture, installations, and drawing, she works to develop characters and environments that evoke different voices, places, and her own familial ties. Alex began this line of work after completing a series of pieces in regards to craft and her relationship with her grandmother. As a part of her practice, Alex loves to cook, watch avante-garde films and create a better community. If you would like to get in touch with her about collaborating or making a good meal contact her at alexandraciardullo@gmail.com 😬
Alex Lacey is a bum-poet from Rock Hill, South Carolina who is telling stories through various mediums including photography, videography, and poetry. Growing up around artists, musicians, and storytellers alike created an interest in documenting individual's stories and how they fit into the larger context of society. While studying for a degree in Tele-Productions Technology, he worked for a visual storytelling company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Alex enjoys running, making short films, and drinking excessive amounts of coffee.
Bit of a creator, liar, or some would say a story teller. Aspiring good human and proper collector of yr trash. Art-O-pologist, archivist, poet, collaborator. She is just really into slushies and movies and wants to collaborate w/ you. Leave her a voicemail w/ secrets, lies, or experiences (773) 888-1630 or fill her inbox w/ recordings or voicemails you have forgotten to delete (gloriag.studio@gmail.com)
Sarah Grace Faulk is an artist, writer, and art historian based in Seattle, WA. She received her BA from the University of Washington in 2017, specializing in contemporary art history & the comparative history of ideas. By manipulating form in writing, social media, and affect, she attempts to seek out/make room for the ineffable. Her work primarily concerns geography, embodiment, community, the archive, and language - including the violences, utility, and possibilities for resistance in all of these things.
Susan Hendley is a visual artist, who has spent the majority of her life roaming the Carolinas. She has a BFA in Studio Art concentrating in ceramics and sculpture, and a BA in Art History. Susan creates (mostly) functional ceramic objects, and has worked for various studios and maker spaces in the southeast. In her spare time she enjoys pretending she can sing well, picking plants and flowers, and thinking about rap air horns and good karaoke songs (even though she has never sung karaoke).
Amy is a painter, community organizer, and secular humanist from Indianapolis, Indiana. She has spent the past 9 months wandering about the US sleeping in strange places. Amy received her BFA in Painting from Herron School of Art and Design in 2015.
Rimona Law thinks the sink is keeping secrets and the pipes are spreading rumors. A scrappy plumber, rookie mechanic, and optimistic carpenter, she makes interactive sculptures that investigate hidden intimacies of water, place, and the body. Reimagining objects and architectures, she seeks to trace lines of material culpability and connection. Law joins Elsewhere as recent graduate of Whitman College, where she earned a BA in Environmental Studies-Art. Over the next three months, you’ll be sure to find her toying and tinkering, gleefully lost in the sea of Sylvia’s collection.
During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler in 2018, Law created What's Under That Rock?
While at Elsewhere in 2017, Law was the on-site Production Intern.