As a child, Lottie was confused that her friends wanted to play with Barbies. In her house, dolls and their disembodied parts were her father’s domain, along with broken kitchen appliances, Indian educational posters about personal hygiene, and hundreds of recorded VHS tapes of “very important” movies, recorded from TV. Lottie’s art draws on her family tradition of hoarding, using found objects, images and sounds to create sentimental and unsettling connections to the past. Her sculptures, soundscapes and installations explore relationships between remnant, memory and temporal experience. Lottie moved from Sydney, Australia to live in Berlin for reasons that have entirely to do with the vibrant arts scene, and nothing at all to do with the abundance of flea markets and second hand shops. Nothing at all.

Interdisciplinary artists Erin Ethridge (left) and Colleen Marie Foley (right) have been working together as Thorn since 2015. As a collaborative, Thorn questions ideas of shared or composite identity, memory and body. Thorn takes their relationship as subject and tool, searching for places where the physical and psychic boundaries between them soften and become permeable. They negotiate dualities of distance/closeness, pleasure/pain, self/other in pursuit of their limits. These efforts take the form of performance work, sculptural tools, and electronic media.

Thorn created Fly Down From Us during their residency.

Katie Hubbell’s multimedia practice operates within the formal slippages of installation, sculpture, performance, and video. She examines mass-media aesthetization, highlighting the tensions and comforts embedded within sensuous images. Using objects from everyday life, Hubbell’s practice reveals the flirtations and repulsions, states of boredom and states of obsession, parallels and contradictions which inhabit twenty-first century advertisement culture and self-help models of care. Katie received an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

April Danielle Lewis (b. 1980 in Okinawa, Japan) is an artist, visionary, and community cultivator. Her work explores the intersections of history, place, and identity with a social justice and community building lens. Interventions, performances, installations and experiences are vehicles she uses to express these themes.In her early childhood, she went to work with her mother in her grandparents’ millinery shop. She was often given scrap materials from the hats that were being manufactured to keep her busy while her family worked. She was able to use bits of fabric and trimmings and was given her own space in the back of the shop where she was able to attach things to the walls and create her own unique space and sculptural forms. This introduction to making and materials has rooted the themes of placemaking and the use of found materials that continue to appear in her work. Over the past 20 years Lewis’ daughter has often been a subject, participant or had a hand in her artistic practice allowing motherhood to also play an integral role in creating a lens through which she sees and creates. Derived from a printmaking background, her performances and interventions often involve working in multiples, repetitive actions and building a framework that allows for works and performances to naturally evolve. Her work collaborates and invites her audience to be participants in engaging and building community.

Coe Lapossy works in Massachusetts, trolling modernism and queerly lecturing at UMass. Their work investigates how popular culture gets into your heart, your mind, and changes you. Their current project connects the movie Prelude To A Kiss, the magicians trick of sawing a woman in half, and Donald Judd’s stacked sculptures. These stories and objects are reinterpreted with a new cast of characters, through painting, sculpture, and performance. 

During Lapossy's residency, they created Trap Door.

Marina Peng (b. Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a multimedia installation artist living and working in St. Louis, MO. She received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her practice combines performance, video, text, and built structures to comment on the rigid social structures that restrict marginalized identities.

During Peng's residency, she created PSA: Satellite.

Silvi Naçi’s practice investigates gender and cultural identity, language and time, the body as subject/object, and the consequences of patriarchy. The work engages in the dialectic between the aesthetically beautiful and historical genealogy, identity and socio-political structures, the ‘puritan’ and the ‘bitch’. Rooted in feminist ideas, Naçi’s work examines the relationship between power and privilege, weight and trauma, and uses historical references to expand on broader truths, while underscoring debates around social politics, identity and representation through contemporary art practices. Their interest lies in the subtle and violent ways decolonization and migration affects and reshapes a people, language, gender identity, as well as social and cultural dynamics.

They created {Don't} Touch My Flower during their residency.

Jay Gould is a Baltimore based artist and educator whose work is work engages ideas of science and exploration fused with storytelling to create work that invites audiences to share a sense of discovery and a moment of curiosity. He has been dreaming of spaceships, wormholes, time travel and other paradoxes his entire life. Jay now uses a combination of wet-plate photography and handcrafted wood sculpture, along with the influence of abundant coffee, to create bizarrely inquisitive works that traverse space and time. 

During Gould's residency, he created Silver Spirits.

Eva Wǒ is a Chinese-New Mexican multimedia artist, curator, hustler, and sex magik worker. Her work casts spells of homoerotic cultural nourishment, liberation, and self-love set in a fantasy future dream for infinite gender/sexual self-determination. Currently she is co-curating Hot Bits, a touring queer sex-positive film and arts festival. Eva is also a recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award.

During Wǒ's residency, she created Welcome.

Yixuan Pan is an artist who was born and raised in the land of fish and rice, Hunan, China.To deal with issues of translation and communication as well as reimagining the western hegemony through a global outlook, her anti-disciplinary practice merges multiple media and modes of presentation such as installation, video, performance, lollipop making, music therapy practicing, choral conducting, and more. By dislocating language from its context and form, Pan questions the linguistic structures people learn and unlearn in relation to comfort, temperature, transparency, hierarchy and power dynamics.

During Pan's residency, she created An Orchestra At Elsewhere.

Marie Alarcón is a multi-medium artist with a focus on experimental non-fiction filmmaking and performance. Alarcón has worked as a community media educator and producer in Philadelphia since 2009 and is inspired by liminality, hybridity and the way that cinema functions as collective memory. Alarcón’s art focuses on the silent historical relationships embedded in geography through sound collage, movement, & performance and use digital manipulation and animation with an interest in developing a tactile relationship to the hyper-real. They currently perform and exhibits work both as a solo artist and in collaboration with various artists and institutions.

During Alarcón residency, they created Love You To Life.

Jesse Kudler is a musician, composer, performer, and sound artist using improvisation, collaboration, and site-specificity to to examine authorship, intention, agency, ambiguous affects, and modes and practices of listening. He works with electronics, recordings, guitar, synthesizers, radios, tapes, keyboards, and text.

Kudler lives in Philadelphia, PA. Current and past projects include: solo organ performance; performance duo with dancer Christina Gesualdi; site-specific composition for church organ, guitar, and recordings, with Chris Forsyth; a commissioned sound piece for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program; live music with film; sound installation; and various improvised music duos. He has performed across the US and Canada and presented workshops at universities and community spaces.

During Kudler's residency, He created Voicing Elsewhere (#103 & 42).

Rosa Nussbaum is a British/German visual artist based in Austin, Texas. Rosa works at the intersection of performance and sculpture, of object and objectification. Her work explores the place where the (female) body touches the institution, submitting to it’s projected desires.

During Nussbaum’s residency, she created Keeping Young & Living Longer: How to stay Active & Healthy past 100, or How to avoid Life Shortening Errors with fellow Kevin Brophy.

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.

Julia Gutman is an emerging Australian artist, best known for her intricate textile sculptures and commitment to narrative installation. Her work spans textiles, sculpture, painting and prose, with a distinctive irreverence that permeates all forms. Her growing collection of sculptures and stories intersect and build on one and other, continually investigating themes of gender, mythology, religion and fashion. Equal parts pointed and absurd, abject and romantic, Julia’s work is a surreal investigation of cultural behaviors and systems of belief.

During Gutman's residency, she created Try Sitting On Me Now.

Kale Roberts is an explosion of queer sportsing energy with a laundry list of identities that informs their practice as a radical storyteller and sculptor. Blasting out of Tampa, FL, they activate SPACE in an art as life practice. One mouthful of the South, a dollop of blind fandom, and an abundance of misinformed history, they are dedicated to creating new rituals and objects imbued with humor and sincerity.

Comic books, the Bible belt, sports, fashion, and a slew of gender layers inform their practice. It is through this embodiment that infinite possibilities and the power of storytelling and vulnerability emerge.

In 2016 Tailgate Projects was incepted. Driving this rainbow hatchback truck with teeth and collaborative flags flapping in the wind, it is their conscious choice to live in full visibility combating toxic socialization through daily navigations.

Right outa the mouth of the truck bed Roberts hijacks rituals around food and celebration in collaboration with local artists and across the globe. Through this exchange they activate multiple voices and identities that become the catalyst for empathy and change.

Roberts created 100 sips, 4 ways to feed you, pole service during their residency.