George Scheer
George Scheer is the co-founder and Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Other projects include Kulturpark, a public investigation of an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin, and South Elm Projects, a curated series of place-based public art commissions for downtown Greensboro. George is also the grandson of Elsewhere proprietress and puzzle maker Sylvia Gray, whose stuff he has been moving around for years! George holds an MA in Critical Theory and Visual Culture from Duke University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Communications. Currently, George is pursuing a PhD in Communication and Performance Studies, writing about the cultural economy of art and urbanism.
Stephanie Elyse Sherman
Stephanie Elyse Sherman is a director, producer, curator and social design strategist. Working within design, art and culture, her projects transform outmoded sites, systems and situations into platforms for co-production. Her proclivities include social structures, outmoded spaces, speculative futures and all things transit. Her talents include story design + wordplay, insight + foresight planning, team dynamics, on-the-fly logistics, UX interactions, and resource reallocation.
She is currently a phd candidate in Art Practice at the University of California San Diego. Her phd investigates design + desire in the process of platformation. She holds a B.A. in english literature from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Critical Theory from Duke University.
Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Artplace America, The Open Society Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Artmatters, and more.
Stephanie was born in New Orleans, travels incessantly, and calls London home.