Amber PB
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
September 3, 2008 - October 9, 2008 as a resident
June 4, 2009 - September 22, 2009 as a producer
website | realm of reject dot com
Amber Phelps Bondaroff is a spatial navigator, a semionaut and a situationalist. Crafted environments act as backdrop for the observation of interactions between audience and objects. Enforcing certain elements of aesthetic and spatial control, the audience acts as participant and subject within the work. Amber arrived Elsewhere in the fall of 2008, and spent more time than anticipated, documenting, recording and viewing from above, as well as constructing the Elsewhere Confessatorium. In 2009 she returned South Elm Street as a re-visiting SWAP artist, in consideration of Elsewhere’s “Systems and Signs.”Interested in musical interludes, facial accessories, alimentary re-contextualization, the invention of new words and phrases, pata-physics, mapping and archiving, alliterations, polar exploration, and all things sweet, Amber is the co- founder of multidisciplinary enterprise, The Realm of Reject (www.realmofreject.com) She received a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2006 and currently resides in Montreal, Canada.Born on Treaty 7 lands, (Calgary, Alberta,) Amber lived and travelled to many places around the continent and around the globe, before settling in Saskatchewan in 2012. She was a resident artist at Elsewhere in 2008 and 2009. She is the founder of the NoDS project (Network of Domestic Spaces) a reticulum of artist residency spaces situated in people’s homes and co-artistic director of Swamp Fest - a music and arts festival in Regina. She received an MFA in Intermedia Arts from the University of Regina, in 2014 and a BFA in interdisciplinary fine arts from NSCAD University, Halifax in 2007.
Amber is currently the Programming Director at Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre.
More of Amber's work here: www.amberpb.com
Douglas Kelley
Douglas Kelley is a New York City artist, writer, commentator, and consummate talking TV head, philosopher and a connoisseur of esoteric history as regards American political or electoral events. A prolific documentarian he was also an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2008 where he co-hosted with George Sheer the 2008 election between Barack Obama and that other guy, the loser. He also is a well-known critic, arch art essayist, a freelance curator and a promoter of artists with an interest in politics. Personally he predicts a tighter closer race than that between George W. Bush and Albert Gore in the year 2000 and expects the election to end up in the courts."
Residency Fall 2008; Political Party 2012
Molly Goldberg
San Francisco, CA
July 24, 2008 - August 19, 2008
Molly Goldberg and collaborator Mary Rothlisberger met elsewhere. Somewhere between the this and the that, the here and the there, the dear and the from, they built a landscape of friendship– a series of sites for shared belonging. Through the construction of temporary, moveable dwellings and gathering spaces, through storytelling amd music making, they explore questions of community, interdependence, migration, home and inbetweenness. Their collaborations merge in the passions of a dedicated community organizer and an inspiring teacher and friend-maker: making homes and crossing lines, dotting eyes, singing for supper, and setting a place at the table for every good idea. Together they made a project called Elsewhere Book Project, which is undocumented.
Les Caison III
Greensboro, NC
April 16, 2008 - May 27, 2008
website | les iii dot com
North Carolina artist Les Caison III offers considerations of life every day. He paints and illustrates, layering oil and graphite capturing moments of life just before or just after . . . whether portraiture, urban landscapes, or narratives Les offers just a little bit more for you to gnaw on. This young internationally collected artist enjoys offering visual communication to the masses, citing a responsibility of the visual artist to display, provoke and interact with others.
Topher Lineberry
Chris Lineberry, Intern, 2004, 2007, & 2008. Producer 2021.
photo: Néstor Daniel Pérez-Moliére
Jason Watson
Boone, NC
April 8, 2008 - May 5, 2008
website | j watson art dot com
blog | jason watson dot vox dot com
Mary Rothlisberger
Palouse, Washington
June 7, 2007 – July 10, 2007 as a resident
June 5, 2008 – July 24, 2008 as a producer
Molly Goldberg and Mary Rothlisberger met elsewhere. Somewhere between the this and the that, the here and the there, the dear and the from, they built a landscape of friendship– a series of sites for shared belonging. Through the construction of temporary, moveable dwellings and gathering spaces, through storytelling amd music making, they explore questions of community, interdependence, migration, home and inbetweenness. Their collaborations merge in the passions of a dedicated community organizer and an inspiring teacher and friend-maker: making homes and crossing lines, dotting eyes, singing for supper, and setting a place at the table for every good idea. Together they made a project called Elsewhere Book Project, which is undocumented.
Jay Gamble
Jay Gamble is a longtime Elsewherian and outsider artist who enjoys speculating on agriculture and architecture while tubing down the Dan River. Working situation and site-specifically, participation and collaboration are integral to Gamble’s practice.
In addition to being a staff curator in 2005, 2007, and 2008, Gamble was a production and studio assistant for the Rural Residency: Elsewhere Goes To Madison— an off-site Elsewhere Elsewhere project in partnership with Reckon Holler.
George Scheer
George Scheer (Co-founder / Board Director) is Co-founder and former Executive Director of Elsewhere. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. 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.
Stephanie Sherman
Stephanie Sherman (Co-founder / Board Director / Program Committee Co-Chair) is a designer, director, and collaborative conspirator based in London, UK. She founded Elsewhere with George in 2003 and co-directed it with him for 10+ years. She since founded Common Field, Radioee.net, and Supervisions, a social design studio.