Lía García ‘La Novia Sirena’ (Mexico, 1989) is a poet and performance artist. Her actions take form of affective encounters in public spaces, where a pedagogical and radical tenderness takes place through the caress, touch, and the voice, echoing the fissures in a system that hides and annihilates trans women’s lives. Lia transforms the performative act into an intimate scar, one of justice and memory for dissident bodies.

Lia was a Southern Constellations Fellow in 2017 and returned to build upon her residency project for a special residency in 2021.

President of the Board of Trustees for the Phillips Foundation, which implements high-impact grants within the Greensboro/Guilford County community. At Phillips Management Group he oversees strategic growth for the organization and its portfolio of communities. Prior to his current position, Kevin worked for a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs as an analyst in Dallas, Texas.

Common Field connects, supports and advocates for the artist-centered field by providing a network for independent arts organizations and organizers.

Elsewhere co-founder, Stephanie Sherman, co-founded Common Field and Elsewhere is a founding member organization.

Providence, RI

April 28, 2011 – June 17, 2011

Laurencia Strauss is an artist, designer and educator working across art, design and ecology. Her work expands experience by interrupting routines of seeing and learning and by asking people to reconsider their relationships to local social and ecological systems. She is currently teaching at the Boston Architectural College and will serve as a Scholar in Residence at New Urban Arts in Providence this summer. She recently received funding from RISCA for a spring project related to urban landscapes. She has a degree in sculpture from California College of the Arts, a master’s in landscape architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and has studied at Penland School of Crafts. Laurencia lives in Providence, RI.

Quinn Corey is a Providence, RI based artist specializing in psychedelic pop art paintings, prints, sculptures, and more. He is also a member of the art collective PIPS (Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies) which hosts festivals, and events to help art infiltrate everyday life. He enjoys curating and participating in alternative gallery events and has been doing so in various places including Providence, for nearly 10 years. Currently, he is roaming the country looking for new places to work, collaborate, and spread the seeds of art.

website | quintronix dot org

Ian Montgomery (Gravelville, Iowa) is an artist and builder with professional construction, carpentry, and installation experience. He joined Elsewhere in 2009 to oversee the preservation and safety of Elsewhere’s building and collection, and works directly with artists on installation and sculpture to ensure structural integrity and visitor safety. Ian previously worked in a similar capacity for Flux Factory in New York and has a BA from Bard College.

Building Curator, October 1, 2009 – November 2011

Residency September 10, 2009 – October 8, 2009

Project: Glass Forest

Agustina Woodgate (1981, Argentina) is an artist whose practice focuses on the politics of landscapes and infrastructures as a conceptual and public geography. She recombines, activates and repurposes available resources while setting alternative systems in motion. Her work comes about through a logical process of discovery rather than invention, utilizing displacement as a strategy. Woodgates’ approach is speculative, practical, and site and context-responsive, presenting critical alternatives to concepts on social orders, resource management and information distribution bringing clarity, scale, and accessibility.

Agustina is one of the artists commissioned for South Elm Projects. She completed Hopscotch across the South Elm neighborhood during her one-week residency in April 2015.

Residencies:

September 10, 2009 – October 8, 2009

August 7, 2011

April 2015

website | radio espacio estacion dot com

website | agustina woodgate dot com

Project: Glass Forest, Hopscotch, Radio Espacio, Kids Radio FM

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

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.

mixed media

website | bureau of public recollection dot org

blog | whistle stop dot vox dot com

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.