Maria Molteni
Maria Molteni is a Nashville/Boston based multimedia & performing artist, educator & organizer. Her practice sprung from formalist roots in painting and printmaking and has grown to incorporate research, participation, and spiritual experimentation. From fiber to found-object sculpture, painting to movement, performance to publication, she employs tactile and tactical processes per their ability to manifest elaborate conceptual orchestration and intuitive synaesthetic provocation. Exploring iterations of sport, craft, feminism, animism, glossolalia, urban planning, and more she takes interest in standardized systems that influence ritual in everyday functionality. She playfully asks audiences to imagine her serving Black Mountain College as a PE coach : )
During her residency at Elsewhere, Molteni created Revolving Spectrum.
Charisse Pearlina Weston
Charisse Pearlina Weston is a Houston-based artist and writer. Her work focuses on the deconstruction and reconfiguration of language, representation, and history through the manipulation of various mediums including video, photography, and printed text. She has exhibited and performed in various venues including Project Row Houses, the Lawndale Art Center, and DiverseWorks, and has participated in residencies at Alabama Song Houston, Sunblossom Residency (organized by Carrie Schneider), Vermont Studio Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has received awards from the Artadia Fund for the Arts, the Santo Foundation, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation, and the Dallas Museum of Art's Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund. She will be attending the University of California-Irvine as a MFA in Art candidate this Fall.
During her residency at Elsewhere, Weston created Politics Surrounded.
Antoine Williams
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.
Cosmo Whyte
Cosmo Whyte is a Jamaican-born, trans-disciplinary artist who employs drawing, performance, and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration—particularly migration as an unfinished arc of motion whose final resting point remains an open-ended question. He situates his work in the liminal space between early culture shock and final acclimatization. Cosmo's creative process begins through the interrogation of his own body and the personal memories that are embedded within it. He uses this archive as his entry point into collective political interrogations.
During his residency at Elsewhere, Whyte created Guess Who is Coming to Dinner.
Jane Cassidy
Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist from Galway, Ireland and is currently is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. In 2008 she earned a Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin and in 2014 a MFA in Digital Art from Tulane University, New Orleans. Cassidy’s primary work is based around site-specific audio-visual installations with a focus on creating meditative, immersive environments. Past performances include the European Media Art Festival, Germany, the New Orleans Film Festival, Punto Y Raya Festival, Spain, Currents New Media, Sante Fe, Arts Council New Orleans LUNA Fete and group shows in Dublin, Galway, New Orleans, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Cassidy has had solo shows at the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, and at Tulane University and PARSE Gallery in New Orleans.
During her residency at Elsewhere, Cassidy created We Went Down To O'Shea's Woods.