Taylor Tower

Taylor Tower is a storyteller and teacher based in Montreal. Her writing has been featured on CBC’s WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein and Roman Mars’ Public Radio Remix, as well as on nerve.com and elsewhere. She was thrilled and honored to participate in The Moth GrandSLAM in St. Paul in June 2014, where the audience went wild, just like her mom said they would. She has taught storytelling workshops to students of all ages through Quebec Writers’ Federation and The Loft Literary Center. You can read more and listen to her radio voice at taylorgtower.com.

Mosaic photo and text below from Taylor’s blog, 2014

“I was fortunate enough to have been chosen for a two week artist residency at Elsewhere, a living museum in Greensboro, NC. My friend Andy Sturdevant [see Andy’s Elsewhere page] told me about Elsewhere – three stories of a former thrift store where artists from all disciplines come together to live in and work with this historic collection of….STUFF. An upholstery fabric store in the 30s, an army surplus store after that, and a thrift store after that until 1997, Elsewhere is full of the discarded objects of life. You’re not supposed to come to Elsewhere with a specific project in mind. Instead, you let the museum tell you what your project should be. Because Elsewhere is a “closed ecosystem,” nothing comes in and nothing comes out so the work you create stays in the museum and could potentially be incorporated into a future artist’s work.

I can’t articulately express how much of a transformative experience Elsewhere was for me. As my friend said after I described it to him: “It’s like someone took what’s inside your brain and turned it into a real place.” It is everything I love about art-making and artists. I never felt so alive.”

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