Marta King

Operations

Marta King is a creative thinker from Portland Oregon. After graduating from the University of Oregon with a BA in both art history and religious studies, Marta returned to Portland in order to further explore her artistic practice.  She is interested in interactive artwork geared towards strengthening her local community, and is particularly drawn to dance, performance, and celebration as art form.

Nina Cochran

Communications

I’m here to tell you about the visual artist Niina Cochran.  I’m a piece of Niina’s artwork, so I will admit that I’m biased.  Niina started exhibiting her artwork, internationally, in 2005.  She is originally from New Jersey, but no she doesn’t have a Joisey accent.  She received her BFA in Illustration from Parsons the New School for Design in NYC and her MA in Visual Culture from Aalto University- School of Art, Design and Architecture in Finland.  She continues to live in a chosen state of limbo…for now.

Nicole Du Bois

Communications

Nicole Du Bois is currently a communications intern at Elsewhere.  After receiving her BFA degree in photography from UNCG this May, Nicole will be re-launched into the "real world" and is looking forward to creating works of art with a focus in collaboration, conceptual and alternative process photography, and she can't wait!

Nandita Batheja

Production

Nandita’s origins are contested. Some say she made herself up. Others postulate that she crawled out of a book that lay forgotten on her parents’ shelves. Still others believe she emerged from a food baby her father nursed after too much big-apple pizza. Regardless, she was born. She grew up a little then went off to study English Literature at Williams College. When she wasn’t lost in literary space, she was stomping and clapping on her college step team, writing, or wondering. She spent her summers and post-grad years working with arts organizations and teaching in urban America and rural India.

George Scheer (Co-founder / Board Director) is Co-founder and former Executive Director of Elsewhere. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. George is also the grandson of Elsewhere proprietress and puzzle maker Sylvia Gray, whose stuff he has been moving around for years! George holds an MA in Critical Theory and Visual Culture from Duke University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Communications.

Stephanie Sherman (Co-founder / Board Director / Program Committee Co-Chair) is a designer, director, and collaborative conspirator based in London, UK. She founded Elsewhere with George in 2003 and co-directed it with him for 10+ years. She since founded Common Field, Radioee.net, and Supervisions, a social design studio.