Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, The Rake, and Heavy Table. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. He is also Artists Resources Director at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul, where he runs a resource center and library for artists and small arts organizations. He was an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2011. His first voting experience was the 1998 mayoral election of Louisville, Kentucky, where pulled the lever for a former punk rock label owner running under the Reform Party banner.

Residency: September 7, 2011 - September 27, 2011

During his residency, Andy made Hard Catalog. Andy returned as a national artist commentator for Political Party 2012. Visit Andy’s Tumblr.

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