Trent Spivey is a cinematographer and visual storyteller currently attending the UNC School of the Arts. Trent believes strongly in the value of the possible exchanges between visual art and cinema, and enjoys creating art installations when he's not filming. His current work includes narrative shorts, music videos, and an upcoming Elsewhere documentary.

Grant Conversano is a filmmaker and photographer from Concord, North Carolina. He is a third year director in the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Earlier this summer he documented the cave emergence of Brazilian free-tailed bats in Texas, directed a music video for the Greensboro band Echo Courts, and wrote his next narrative film about a Trucker. He is currently directing a documentary on the resident experience of the 2016 Southern Constellations fellows at Elsewhere.

Maria Molteni is a Nashville/Boston based multimedia & performing artist, educator & organizer. Her practice sprung from formalist roots in painting and printmaking and has grown to incorporate research, participation, and spiritual experimentation. From fiber to found-object sculpture, painting to movement, performance to publication, she employs tactile and tactical processes per their ability to manifest elaborate conceptual orchestration and intuitive synaesthetic provocation. Exploring iterations of sport, craft, feminism, animism, glossolalia, urban planning, and more she takes interest in standardized systems that influence ritual in everyday functionality. She playfully asks audiences to imagine her serving Black Mountain College as a PE coach : )

During her residency at Elsewhere, Molteni created Revolving Spectrum.

Charisse Pearlina Weston is a Houston-based artist and writer. Her work focuses on the deconstruction and reconfiguration of language, representation, and history through the manipulation of various mediums including video, photography, and printed text. She has exhibited and performed in various venues including Project Row Houses, the Lawndale Art Center, and DiverseWorks, and has participated in residencies at Alabama Song Houston, Sunblossom Residency (organized by Carrie Schneider), Vermont Studio Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has received awards from the Artadia Fund for the Arts, the Santo Foundation, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation, and the Dallas Museum of Art's Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund. She will be attending the University of California-Irvine as a MFA in Art candidate this Fall.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Weston created Politics Surrounded.

Antoine Williams creates mixed media assemblage installations, paintings and collages, which are an investigation of identity, semiotics and social structures. Heavily influenced by speculative science fiction (specifically social science fiction and cosmic horror), hip hop, plus his rural working class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology of hybrid creatures that exist between the boundaries of class and race. Antoine is an Assistant Professor of Art at Guilford College.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Williams created Because They Believe in Unicorns.

Cosmo Whyte is a Jamaican-born, trans-disciplinary artist who employs drawing, performance, and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration—particularly migration as an unfinished arc of motion whose final resting point remains an open-ended question. He situates his work in the liminal space between early culture shock and final acclimatization. Cosmo's creative process begins through the interrogation of his own body and the personal memories that are embedded within it. He uses this archive as his entry point into collective political interrogations.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Whyte created Guess Who is Coming to Dinner.

Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist from Galway, Ireland and is currently is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. In 2008 she earned a Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin and in 2014 a MFA in Digital Art from Tulane University, New Orleans. Cassidy’s primary work is based around site-specific audio-visual installations with a focus on creating meditative, immersive environments. Past performances include the European Media Art Festival, Germany, the New Orleans Film Festival, Punto Y Raya Festival, Spain, Currents New Media, Sante Fe, Arts Council New Orleans LUNA Fete and group shows in Dublin, Galway, New Orleans, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Cassidy has had solo shows at the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, and at Tulane University and PARSE Gallery in New Orleans.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Cassidy created We Went Down To O'Shea's Woods.

Sheetal Prajapati is an artist and educator, raised in Kentucky, educated in Chicago, and now living in Brooklyn. She's currently Assistant Director for Learning and Artists Initiatives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) but works across the field organizing, making and thinking with herself and others. Her creative practice explores notions of intimacy and identity through an investigation of material processes. She's interested in the circumstances and conditions that welcome meaningful experiences and wonders about our relationship to the spiritual and cosmic worlds. She's interested in you, the stars, and making strangers talk each other.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Prajapati created We Are Not Alone.

Quilla is a Canadian-Peruvian songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist, DJ and electronic producer. Originally from Montreal, Canada, she resides in Greensboro NC. Weaving layers of infectious beats, piano melodies and mesmerizing vocal loops, Quilla's music is a refreshing dose of magical realism for the ears. She has participated in many events at Elsewhere, including playing music a several of the annual fundraisers, and also collaborated on the South Elm Projects.

Kyle Hazard is a red headed thinker who loves to learn and work. Having had jobs from being a hay baler to artist's assistant and reads everything from cognitive research and game theory to Fitzgerald's short stories. He works to experiment and explore with exhibitions and create information systems that empower the viewer.

Here we have Elliot Keeley, who traveled over half this great state to be here. He recently graduated from Appalachian State University, where he studied studio art and art management. His artistic practice focuses on metal, the line between craft and naivety, collecting, and the exploration of more sustainable artistic practices in an increasingly profligate world. He will go out of his way for a good swimming hole, or a nice piece of trash. His interests include, but are not limited to: Fruit, Bull Terriers, Minions, and pleasing his haters. Elliot wants to facilitate creative freedom at Elsewhere, and listen carefully to the lessons others offer.  ✍(◔◡◔)

Cassidy Frye is currently a MFA Sculpture candidate at the University of Tennessee. She Received a BFA from Herron school of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she focused her time studying sculpture, printmaking, and trying to solve the mystery of why anyone would build a city surrounded by corn, mystery is still unsolved. Her work focuses on her search for connections, experiences, and an understanding. She doesn’t know why most things exist, but she is glad they do.

Amelia Nura is a senior at UNCG, majoring in Photography and Media Studies. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a curiosity for uncovering psychological and social fabrications of identity and interpersonal relationships. Her fascination with uncovering truth and providing a platform for lives and narratives that are often neglected or misrepresented, manifests itself primarily through photography and film, where spaces and emotions are built into scaled-down worlds of light, sound and action, to communicate our constructed realities. Amelia likes journaling, night walks, Suspiria and Black Sabbath (minus the Dio years).

Emma Rosenberg is a writer and educator, creating hybrid work that investigates the limits of language. A Boston native based in Miami, she is interested in the tension between fiction and truth. Her practice draws on archival research, documentary storytelling, and the politics of narrative form. She leaves things everywhere.

Emma created A Meditation on Scatology during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Juana Valdes' artistic work is grounded in a multi-disciplinary practice that combines the process of printmaking, photography, sculpture and ceramic. An integral part of Valdes's practice elicits migration as a complex process, constructing history through a continuum that involves both the homespace of the diasporic community and their new homeland. In her current work, Valdes reevaluates the worth of artistic production once considered craft-like. She uses them as a medium to identify herself and as a means to subvert the modern conception of value in visual art. It integrates the social-political discourse within the art object to analyze relationships between contemporary and historical imagery and their connection to the social, political and economical dominance of the cultures that produce them and their impact on cultural memory. Her artwork brings into consciousness past histories (in present day experiences) and engages social justice to question economic inequalities due to race, class, and gender prejudice in society.

Juana created Those The Sun Has Loved during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Pioneer Winter is a Miami-based choreographer and performance artist – invested in physical theatre, contemporary dance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transmedia. His collective provides a platform for risk-taking, progressive, and experimental arts initiatives. As producer, Pioneer directs LEAP (Leaders of Equality through Arts and Performance), a program for queer youth, and Grass Stains, a fellowship and commissioning program for site-specific performance.Education: B.A. Psychology (2007), MPH Epidemiology (2009), MFA Choreography (2016)

Pioneer created A Love To Last 13 Hours during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Jessie Laino fascinates on the ambiguous nature of sense-memory, symbolic acknowledgment and recognition. She attempts to evaluate a city in terms of its economy, geography, industry, residence and salvage. Through her absorption of these characteristics, Jessie salvages what she can from her soundings to examine and conceptualize a universal connection and conversation between object, material, nature and human.

Jessie created 4 MIL and Catch during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Matthew Evan Taylor is a composer, performer, and improviser. His music has been performed through the United States as well as Italy, France, and Russia. During his time at Elsewhere, Matthew will be exploring the connection between memory and music and the paradox of a concrete image representing an ephemeral sound, and vice versa.

Matthew Evan created In Living Memory during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

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Gui Villalba Portel is a Greensboro-based storyteller, theatre artist, and arts organizer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. An indigenous latinx and undocumented queer, Gui often thinks about visualizing: the amplification of marginalized narratives, collective deviation within social constructs, and "new" recipes.

Tattfoo Tan is an artist who collaborates with the public on issues relating to ecology, sustainability and healthy living. His work is project-based, ephemeral and educational in nature. He resides in Staten Island with his chicken collective named S.O.S.5p.m.During his residency, Tan worked on FoodLab 2016.