Benjamin Poulos works with film, animation, illustration, live action, and cartoons--sometimes all thrown together in a mish-mashed piece. His art-making focuses on relationships between individuals, groups, and media. Through these combinations, he fashions new realities; both visually constructed realities and stories of realities created through perception. He creates stories about tiny animals, serial monogamists, and loner cavemen. His good dreams include finding lost zippers under beds, walking through marble hotels owned by vampires, and not getting a foot wet after sticking his waterproof shoe in a puddle.

Bailey Roper is a recent graduate from University of the Arts where they received a BFA in Acting. They are primarily interested in movement based performance that provokes social change. This work ranges from divisive mime, to performance installations, to a self-composed form of comedy entitled "poop feminism." On the side Bailey enjoys denim, glitter, crafting, and cheese.

Pictured above is Hannah Bartman, a recent studio art graduate from Whitman College located in the transcontinental lands of Walla Walla, Washington. When she is not searching for ghost towns or trying to find and make friends with the elusive Big Foot, Hannah makes art installations and site-specific works pondering the big ideas of collective memory and public space. Working previously in community arts organizations, Hannah is excited to live and learn in the collaborative environment of Elsewhere and Greensboro.

Luke Hodges was schooled, publicly, at the University of South Carolina and the Governor's School for the Arts, where he studied English and Creative Writing. A freelance writer and aspiring film producer, Luke's interests in creative place-making, queer southeastern narratives, and trans-media storytelling were first kindled as an employee of the Indie Grits Festival in Columbia, SC. Luke is currently the Secretary of Symbolism for Borscht Corp., a Miami-based nonprofit that supports regional films and filmmakers in south Florida. He enjoys painting his toenails, listening to the music of Fiona Apple, and eating pimento cheese.

Milo Gallagher is a writer, gardener, and artist from the marshlands of South Carolina. They have a BA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, where they concentrated in poetry. They love plants, sewing, reptiles, queer theory, houses (preferably the doll and/or haunted variety), sugar snap peas, and the moon.

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.

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).

Catherine recently graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she studied English Literature & Communications. In her free time she enjoys listening to musical theatre soundtracks and cross stitching. She is very excited to join the Elsewhere team and to learn more about arts administration.

Coco Spadoni is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who floated over to Elsewhere Museum from Bellingham, WA. They recently completed a B.A. in Cultivating Community Activism through Art with a minor in Education and Social Justice. And now that they have a little room to breathe from structured academia they are excited to continue projects that explore ideas of counter-narratives, negotiating relationships, queer resiliency, making art more accessible and vulnerability as a route toward liberation.

Ava recently graduated from the University of Virginia, where she studied studio art/photography. She's interested in exploring symbols, language, repetition, and pattern through book arts, printmaking, textiles, quilting, and embroidery.

Born in Pittsburgh, Lottie has been residing in the gentle mountains of western North Carolina for the past five years occupying herself with printmaking, costume sewing, vegetable growing, chocolate selling, bike riding, and, most recently, wood carving. Cooking, plants, birds, insects, critters, and people make her very happy.

Ellis makes music and has a cat named PeePee.

Mor is a “sabra” from Tel-Aviv’s wild southern neighborhood. Her love for adventures brought her to North Carolina where she also received a BS degree in Art Management at Appalachian State University. In her spare time she enjoys petting cats and singing Dolly Parton songs.

Born in Ohio. Raised outside Charlotte. Educated in Boone. Zach is on the verge of graduating from Appalachian State University with a bachelor's degree in Art Management with a General Business Minor. An advent art maker himself, Zach has shifted his focus towards the ways in which community engagement can be obtained and utilized through the mysticism of art.

Christine Hargraves explores the intersection of art and spirituality. Her art is inspired by the idea that art can more easily embody concepts that are difficult to express in words. She is particularly interested in art as a helpful therapeutic tool as well as a tool for social activist work. She is a graphic designer by trade and paints in her free time.

"Nice to meet you internet person. I'm a retired professional golf player whose long life dream was to be a video game designer. Sadly my mom didn't believe in television and put me in the golf course at an early age. I believe that its time to pursue my dream and with Elsewhere I hope to gain the knowledge I need to create video games. my favorite games are risk, battleship, and clue. I also do work under Freelance Sloth Corporation" - Diego Vergara