Once, Caitlin spent three weeks on a farm as pest control, attempting to reduce the overwhelming population of "potato bugs" (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) by hand. She couldn't ever seem to let go of this experience. Contact at caitlin.mccuskey@gmail.com

Alexandra Ciardullo is a multidisciplinary fiber artist based in Baltimore, MD. Recently she completed her academic career at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Through puppetry, Alex seeks to convey the connections between story and performer. Utilizing costumes, soft sculpture, installations, and drawing, she works to develop characters and environments that evoke different voices, places, and her own familial ties. Alex began this line of work after completing a series of pieces in regards to craft and her relationship with her grandmother. As a part of her practice, Alex loves to cook, watch avante-garde films and create a better community. If you would like to get in touch with her about collaborating or making a good meal contact her at alexandraciardullo@gmail.com 😬

Alex Lacey is a bum-poet from Rock Hill, South Carolina who is telling stories through various mediums including photography, videography, and poetry. Growing up around artists, musicians, and storytellers alike created an interest in documenting individual's stories and how they fit into the larger context of society. While studying for a degree in Tele-Productions Technology, he worked for a visual storytelling company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Alex enjoys running, making short films, and drinking excessive amounts of coffee.

Bit of a creator, liar, or some would say a story teller. Aspiring good human and proper collector of yr trash. Art-O-pologist, archivist, poet, collaborator. She is just really into slushies and movies and wants to collaborate w/ you. Leave her a voicemail w/ secrets, lies, or experiences (773) 888-1630 or fill her inbox w/ recordings or voicemails you have forgotten to delete (gloriag.studio@gmail.com)

Sarah Grace Faulk is an artist, writer, and art historian based in Seattle, WA. She received her BA from the University of Washington in 2017, specializing in contemporary art history & the comparative history of ideas. By manipulating form in writing, social media, and affect, she attempts to seek out/make room for the ineffable. Her work primarily concerns geography, embodiment, community, the archive, and language - including the violences, utility, and possibilities for resistance in all of these things.

Susan Hendley is a visual artist, who has spent the majority of her life roaming the Carolinas. She has a BFA in Studio Art concentrating in ceramics and sculpture, and a BA in Art History. Susan creates (mostly) functional ceramic objects, and has worked for various studios and maker spaces in the southeast. In her spare time she enjoys pretending she can sing well, picking plants and flowers, and thinking about rap air horns and good karaoke songs (even though she has never sung karaoke).

Amy is a painter, community organizer, and secular humanist from Indianapolis, Indiana. She has spent the past 9 months wandering about the US sleeping in strange places. Amy received her BFA in Painting from Herron School of Art and Design in 2015.

Rimona Law thinks the sink is keeping secrets and the pipes are spreading rumors. A scrappy plumber, rookie mechanic, and optimistic carpenter, she makes interactive sculptures that investigate hidden intimacies of water, place, and the body. Reimagining objects and architectures, she seeks to trace lines of material culpability and connection. Law joins Elsewhere as recent graduate of Whitman College, where she earned a BA in Environmental Studies-Art. Over the next three months, you’ll be sure to find her toying and tinkering, gleefully lost in the sea of Sylvia’s collection.

During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler in 2018, Law created What's Under That Rock?

While at Elsewhere in 2017, Law was the on-site Production Intern.

Sophia Schultz is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist and activist from Sarasota, Florida who recently received a BA in Anthropology from New College of Florida. Through alternating and combining mediums such as analog photography, old school video cameras, fabric, screen printing, and metal Sophia explores themes of self-care, trauma, and memory in her work. Whenever she's not taking photos you'll find her learning about medicinal and edible plants, going on bike rides, and enjoying the outdoors.

Ava Zelkowitz is an Anthropology student, artist, vegetarian cook, and sculpture studio monitor at the New College of Florida. They like to help small people learn to use big saws, dream of futures in anarchy, and think about collective and collaborative art and action. They see good omens on the daily.

Yansa Fatima shaved the side of her head with a dull razor at the age of 6.

Jordan recently graduated from The New School where she majored in Integrated Design and Arts in Context with a focus in visual studies and psychology (?). Her practice is somewhat of a chaotic dance between the physical and the immaterial worlds. Jordan enjoys making material things, and finds comfort in the tactile world, but is overall more excited by the idea of creating the immaterial (interactions, emotions and empathy). She finds meaning in thinking metaphorically and believes that this can lead to a more sustainable, thoughtful and engaging world (!). 

Adam is from Pittsburgh, PA where he immersed himself in its theatre scene. After beginning his studies at Cleveland Institute of Music, he hopped from voice teacher to voice teacher and landed at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC where he broadened his focus to include journalism, art history, and queer advocacy. Adam sings in a post-punk band called Mall Goth, rarely goes a day without a green juice, and co-hosts a podcast called The LowDownBeat. His interests in public relations, curating, branding, and marketing underscore his work as Elsewhere’s communications intern. 

Koy Smith is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Virginia and currently based in San Francisco, CA. Their work has addressed themes such as gender and sexuality. An avid music lover, they are inspired by punk and metal subculture. They received their BFA in New Genres (Performance/Video) from the San Francisco Art Institute. Koy has a deep appreciation for craft processes and experimental film and video.

Cat Walsh is a shape note howler. They graduated in 2016 from Wesleyan University with a BA in Classics. Their work tries to communicate emotionality, working through specific making practices to explore the simultaneous futility, and saving power of ritual in both personal and shared incarnations. They grow plants, sew things to other things, draw comix, and range up mountains with their beloved familiar, Astro the Wonderdog.

Surrounded by the quiet countryside of Yorkshire, Eve Goodby grew up in Cottingham in England. After studying at Michigan University and Loughborough University, she graduated with a BA in Graphic Communications. Eve currently resides in Greensboro occupying herself with painting, bike riding, swimming and drinking a lot of tea. Eve loves color, painting and traveling. She has always been fascinated by the connection between science and art and uses patterns found in nature to unite the two. Her work focuses on liquid crystals, a state of matter between liquid and solid. These intermediate phases flow, move and create textures like no other! Eve loves to challenge color and material to portray the essence of a living system through her own artistic expression.

Cecelia Kyoko is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and writer from Houston, Texas. In addition to being an artist, they also read tarot and astrological charts professionally. They make zines about identity politics and queerness, create experimental performances centered around the digital experience and queer technoscience, and organize activist dance parties. In their spare time, they like to seek Internet fame, throw glitter on things, and dance the night away.

Andy Jacobs is a visual artist from St. Paul, Minnesota, who recently graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Arts in Portland, Oregon. Playing with the mixed mediums of drawing, printmaking, sewing, and poetry she explores the natural environment and 'what it means to be alive in this body' through crafting visual metaphors. Often using her own body as subject matter, she attempts to define personal, spiritual, and mystical experiences, rooted in everyday moments. She also enjoys making lists, reading tarot, sleeping outside, and being a cat mom.

Coco is not a big fan of artist statements. Her favorite movie of all time is Space Jam, starring Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan.

Josie Vogel is a born and raised Jersey girl turned nomad, with an interest in all things sculptural, particularly when they can be climbed. She comes to Elsewhere after a four-year stay in Baltimore, Maryland--where she earned her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)--and a brief stint in Hudson, New York, where she taught sculpture to a bunch of unruly beasts and/or children. Whenever she's not contemplating vertical storage solutions in the third floor workshop, you might find her dancing, drinking coffee, or petting dogs in all sorts of unexpected locations.