Sidney Stretz is an artist and educator originally from Columbia, MO. She received her MFA from the California College of Arts and her BFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Stretz makes work about everyday struggles, strange social situations, and failure. As an artist she works to highlight and improve circumstances and situations that others may not feel are valid or important. Through attempts to build community and mutual benefit, she develops a sense of engagement with a wide variety of groups of people that are looking for creative solutions to their community-based dreams. Sidney likes the Titanic, dogs, and making pies.

Stretz is currently an artist-in-residence for the Southern Constellations 2018: Rural Residency in Rockingham County–an Elsewhere Elsewhere project in partnership with the Reckon Holler Homestead.

During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler, Stretz created Instructions On Waving.

Adam Carlin is a social practice artist that lives and works in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is currently the Director of Greensboro Project Space, a contemporary art center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Program Director for the Community Arts Collaborative where he creates and oversees community engaged projects for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and advances partnerships between the college and the community. He is also co-Founder and co-Director of Creek Colleges, an organization that creates schools on the banks of rivers, lakes, and creeks that are going through active restoration. Carlin is interested in creating opportunities for formalized social interactions that take the form of institutes which constructs projects that highlight under-recognized histories, idiosyncratic activities, and public dynamics. Participation and collaboration are integral to his practice and he often work site and situation-specifically. It is common that he as a large variety of projects and institutes going on at one time which occasionally connect and cross, creating systems of engaged research and production. He received a BFA from California College of the Arts and is currently pursuing his MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University.

During his residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler, Carlin created Project #1 and Project #2.

ABCIV: a new breed of designer, the Animist, who channels the voice of the material, which speaks in the silence. CloudBank Productions: a multi-format media group portraying People & Places in Time. Floating Circus: in collaboration with Amazon Annie, a celebration of rare individuals & their incredible talents.

During his residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler, Cousins (ABCIV) created These Madison Times!

Amazon Annie has made a career out of wrestling; she is a self-made producer, performer and promoter who has thrown a decade's worth of concept parties in NYC.

As a fabricator and designer, she has built a wide array of installations from wrestling rings to mud pits. Her events include public participation as well as staged performances. Working alongside Avery Cousins, the 'Floating Circus' had its debut last August, and was her first foray into a more traditional circus theme. For more: August 2012 issue of The New Yorker.

During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler, Amazon Annie created Memory Lane Photo Booth.

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.

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.