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Nikita Gale is a self-taught conceptual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BA in Anthropology (Archaeological Studies) from Yale University and exhibits regularly throughout Atlanta, Georgia and New York City, New York. She was an Artist-in-Residence at The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, New York in 2011 and is currently in the Studio Artist Program at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. She currently serves on the board of directors for BurnAway, and Atlanta-based non-profit arts publication.Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Howard Greenberg Gallery collection in New York. Gale has had work featured in ART PAPERS, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Headline News, and Oxford American and has been profiled and reviewed by numerous publications including Frank151 and Artforum. Listen: Interview with WUNC's The State of Things July 16, 2013, Live from Triad Stage

Sarah Ann is an artist who explores domestic architecture, shapes formed around us, by creating sculptures, shapes formed in front of us. Utilizing materials such as tile, plaster, lumber, wallpaper, and latex paint, she makes abstract forms that speak to the intimate spaces where much of our lives are spent. She is currently living in Minneapolis, MN where she edits and publishes WOPOZI, an arts publication, with fellow resident Oakley Tapola.

Oakley Tapola is a multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis, MN. Her work focuses on the parallels between the abstruse and familiar. She is currently immersed in the process of editing and publishing a quarterly arts publication called WOPOZI (with Co-Editor and fellow resident Sarah Ann).

Thomas Choinacky is an actor, dancer, writer, maker. Based in Philadelphia he is a fan of the abstract and avant-garde. He tampers with unique audience-performer relationships, which are often voyeuristic and promenade style. He is an avid letter writer. A squirrel enthusiast.

Clinton Sleeper is a multidisciplinary artist exploring sound, video, collectivity, and technology. The work is often precariously caught between nostalgia and hope, using new technology to update old objects for the purposes of sound installations. Additionally, this work may range from online collaborative initiatives, public repairs, and neighborhood tree swings. Clint is an MFA student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC.

Lea Devon Sorrentino is an installation/mixed media sculpture artist who has had the opportunity of exhibiting her work prominently around the Minneapolis/Twin Cities and nationwide. These endeavors, along with thoughtful writing, and a few relational aesthetic performances had her named among the "Artists to Watch for 2013", by the Walker Art Center. She is a contributing writer for Quodlibetica, an online arts publication, and has been a Visiting Artist for the University of Minnesota. This summer she will be attending several residency including the Vermont Studio Center and Elsewhere Residency in June of 2013. Her practice is an auto-ethnographical investigation of life in pursuit of understanding contemporary American culture. Through her work she calls attention to the constructs of American success and the emotional investments placed on possessions and entertainment to create individuality. Or, in not art speak, she's interested in why we eat too much, spend too much, and cry at reality television.

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Greg Bloom has a decade of experience in community organizing. He seeks out spaces that foster collaboration, and likes to cultivate common resources from which anyone can benefit. He is currently researching alternative economic models such as mutual credit systems and cooperative enterprise. 

Elsewhere Project | The Great Reconomy

John Q is an idea collective whose name references “John Q. Public.” The “public” is left understood, though the work is considered a kind of public scholarship, and the “Q” is left hanging to reference the group’s interest in queer history and politics. The collective consists of Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. John Q has been funded by Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue (New York) and has participated in the 2012 National Queer Arts Festival at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco.

Joey Orr holds an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an ABD Arts and Sciences Fellow at Emory University’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. His dissertation, Practicing the Past: Socially Engaged Remembering in Contemporary Art, looks at cooperative memorial practices at the intersection of memory studies and art history. The study includes a practice component in the context of the collective, John Q, of which he is a founding member. Joey also currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal for Artistic Research (Bern, Switzerland). Past projects have been reviewed by Art Papers, Art in America, ARTnews, Contemporary (UK), Public Art Review and Sculpture magazine, among others.

Wesley Chenault is a certified archivist and head of special collections and archives at Virginia Commonwealth University’s James Branch Cabell Library. His interests in memory, place, and identity take forms as diverse as collection development, exhibitions, public art, teaching, and traditional scholarship. Chenault’s work on Atlanta LGBTQ archives, history, and memory includes the book Gay and Lesbian Atlanta; public artworks, exhibits, and publications with idea collective John Q; and exhibitions at the Atlanta History Center and online through OutHistory.org. He holds a PhD in American studies from the University of New Mexico and a MA in women’s studies from Georgia State University. 

Elsewhere Project | Untitled (Books)

Rebecca Noone is an artist from Canada. She makes installations that interrupt everyday experiences and tech-filled landscapes with playful meditations on the nature of information, preservation, participation, and memory. Recently, she has been planning science fairs, mailing people the Analogue Internet, making household archives, and playing with rainbow parachutes in city parks. Rebecca has a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and works as a curator for Toronto’s pop-up Children’s Own Media Museum. Yeah!

Elsewhere Project | [Insert Title]

Ashley Yeo Yakka creates work that reflects on the nature of being and existence. The personal effort of making her works has become her methodology in an attempt to repossess what she feels is becoming less visible in the human condition. Recent works explore the idea of slowness and work with ideas of creating depth and curiosity. Ashley recently completed her MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London.

Elsewhere Project | Blue Yonder

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