Ruben Millares
Miami, FL
August 5, 2010 - August 24, 2010
website | ruben millares dot com
website | smiling gums dot com
Ruben Millares is a 1st generation Cuban American musician, composer, visual artist and entrepreneur born in Miami, Florida. He began playing drums at the age of 3 ½ and soon moved on to guitar which has remained his passion ever since. With his band Smiling Gums, he has been performing around the country for the past 10 years incorporating afro Cuban rhythms and improvisation into rock 'n' roll. As a visual artist he creates abstract landscape Sumi Ink drawings and metal, wire and shell mobile sculpture, both of which can be seen at his self designed office space in Coral Gables. He has recently been exploring video, installation and performance art as well. His office design for the family’s CPA and Asset Management firm was awarded the2008 Outstanding Interior Office Space Award by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce. Ruben is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) as well as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and is also involved with extensive charity work for the Daily Bread Food Bank of South Florida as well as other organizations such as Lotus House.
Hannah + Isaac Nichols
Philadelphia, PA
July 1, 2010 - July 27, 2010
blog | elsewhere elsewhere dot org slash blogs
Generally I (Hannah Nichols) don’t define myself as an artist. I don’t like to think of the things I make as art, rather I consider everything I do to be art. I think it is problematic to differentiate between art and life. Being strictly/solely an artist to me leads to an accumulation of objects, status makers, creating as a justification of oneself. I strive to not let my objects define me as an artist, instead I hope that my actions everyday define me as such. When I am creating an art, (art as noun) I exert the same energy dedication and discipline as when cooking bread or serving tables at work. Instead of being critical within my art I try to make every decision critically. With this in mind I strive to work in many mediums as a way of working at my ultimate goal, cultivating joy. Can I say I work in the medium of fun? Throughout my life I have been in search and pursuit of wonder, the bumper sticker “why do it if its not fun” comes to mind but to me that's a backwards and lazy out look. Rather “why not create fun” or better “lets make the most fun”. I strongly value a sense of community, partnership, collaboration. Wherever I find myself living, family dinner has become a staple to my life style. Action speaks louder than art. I just poured a cup of tea, it’s tag reads “be so happy that when others see you they become happy to”, it seems oddly appropriate to end here.
Isaac Nichols is an artist living and working in NYC. Currently attending The Cooper Union, his work investigates the human condition in the contexts of the contemporary, the commercial, the economic and the institution. His work often relies on a juxtaposition between economic classes, and their cultural and physical manifestations. This framework allows for a practice actively engaged in the production and exploration of objects, events, curations, documents, and performance. Currently Isaac is working on a performance documentation involving a Plymouth Voyager, as well as a series of publications challenging the relationship between education, capitalism, and the institution.
Annie Blazer
Jackson, MS
July 8, 2010 - August 10, 2010
blog | elsewhere elsewhere dot org slash blogs
Annie Blazer is a scholar of American culture. She received her PhD in 2009 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Religion and Culture. For the past two years, Annie has been teaching classes on religion and popular culture at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. In the fall, she will be moving to Princeton, NJ as a Research Fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion. While at Princeton, Annie will complete her forthcoming book, Faith on the Field: Sports, Gender, and Evangelicalism. As a scholar, Annie is interested in anthropologically investigating how people make meanings and how late capitalist consumerism affects these meanings. At Elsewhere, Annie will explore this relationship by observing how artists use American consumer culture creatively.
Caroline Mak
New York, NY
July 1, 2010 - August 4, 2010
website | caroline mak dot com
blog | brooklyn soda works dot blogspot dot com
Caroline Mak is an installation and mixed media artist based in New York and Hong Kong. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University (2002) and her MFA from the University of Chicago (2005). She has been the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park, and is currently participating in the residency program at Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ. Exhibition highlights include the installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY, 'Mirage' at Hong Kong Art Fair '08 and a collaborative project at New Life Gallery, Berlin. In addition to making artwork she is one of the co-founders of Brooklyn Soda Works and enjoys sharing her fizzy beverages with thirsty people.
Kate DeCiccio
San Francisco, CA
June 17, 2010 - June 29, 2010
Kate is a painter and mental health specialist who also spends a great deal of time making sushi. Since 2003, Kate's work has been focused upon collaboration with people in institutional settings. Kate spends as much time as possible in state psych hospitals, forensic wards and prisons, making are with people who have been identified as 'unsuitable for community life.' Much of Kate's work is about America's obsession with diagnosing and criminalizing people. In practice, she looks to utilize art and the activity of art making as a tool to work with people to successfully return to community life and cultivate a kind of inner peace that the loveless protocols of correctional and mental health systems will never synthesize.
Carole Frances Lung (Frau Fiber)
June 15, 2010 - July 5, 2010
website | elsewhere elsewhere dot org slash revolution textiles
Kathryn Lynn Shearman
San Francisco, CA
June 3, 2010 - July 6, 2010
website | kathryn lynn shearman dot com
myspace | myspace dot com slash music by kazoo
The body of Kate's work resists categorization as visual art, performance art or theater. Rather than squeeze her ideas, which move freely through media and histories into a well defined and understood form, she embraces the freedom that her relative position in the world affords her. She recognizes fully the importance of community and makes it a central aspect of her art making.
Dixon Stetler
Wilmington, NC
May 27, 2010 - June 8, 2010
blog | elsewhere elsewhere dot org slash blogs
Yucky items usually left alone when spotted on the sidewalk – gloves, flip-flops, and cigarette butts– these are Dixon Stetler's art supplies. Both children and adults can be intimidated when asked to produce, critique, or even consider art. The everyday nature of the materials Stetler uses and the safe confines of a group allow multiple voices to participate with pride and kinship. We are the sum of the goods we consume, the common denominator: a shared experience with all of our stuff. Stetler is co-founder of Independent Art Company, two buildings in downtown Wilmington, NC, that have been converted into 12 artist studios, an intimate gallery, and a 60-seat micro-cinema. She also curates documentary films for the Cucalorus Film Festival and serves as Ringleader for the Grand Procession of Peculiar Pets, an annual art parade. Dixon currently works with at-risk youth through the Dreams Center for Arts Education, teaches for the A+ Schools Program, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Creative Women’s Exchange.
Rose Luardo
Philadelphia, PA
May 20, 2010 - June 15, 2010
blog | rose luardo dot blogspot dot com
Rose Luardo creates dense and vibrant interactive performance installations that are original, character-based environments. Her bizarre and authentic creations aren't as experimental as they are experiential. To get a sense of her work, think of a dusty middle-aged pixie forging through a creative landscape full of big hair, press-on nails and chunky plastic. Rose is using her "less is more/focus on being unfocused" performance techniques throughout all her work. She does it by seeing what she can create out of a tissue, a comb, a baby stroller, someone else's shoes, a pen, a toothpick and a left pocket full of cheap tricks. Her brand of artistic creation is described as fun-driven, textured, and diverse. She is asking you to turn off part of your brain and turn on part of your body. She is one half of the performance duo The New Dreamz and recently started a comedy night in Philadelphia with her performance partner, Andrew Jeffrey Wright.
Christopher Moore
Montreal, Canada
May 6, 2010 - May 25, 2010
website | dis intermediator dot com
Christopher Moore is a Montréal-based artist, designer, and educator whose cross-disciplinary practice ranges from print publication to sculpture and media installation. His creative research currently focuses on satire as a progressive form of social critique, utilizing performance and absurdist humor to engage media-savvy public audiences.Christopher Moore studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. For the past 11 years, he has taught at a number of institutions across Canada, including NSCAD University, the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, and the University of Lethbridge. Moore currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Design & Computation Arts at Concordia University, and is a member of the Hexagram Research Institute.
Michelle Roche
Bristol, UK
May 6, 2010 - June 1, 2010
website | the wonder club dot co dot uk
Michelle Roche is the founding member of The Wonder Club and hails from Bristol, England. Michelle entered the theatre world five years ago, performing and directing with The Invisible Circus in squatted buildings in Bristol. She has since trained with Double Edge Theatre, Playback, John Wright (told by an idiot), Bristol Old Vic, Chickenshed among others, and has also taught drama to children and adults with learning difficulties and behavorial disorders. The Wonder Club was set up in 2007 and since then she has co-produced and co-directed The Juniper Tree (2008), At Tether's End (2008) and The Lamentable Tragedy (2010)- large scale site responsive promenade theatre in non traditional spaces. She endeavors to make theatre exciting, experiential and accessible for all. The Wonder Club is also a member of Residence, an artist-led organization creating space for artists to make performance, live art and theatre in Bristol, England.
Dayna Kriz
Chicago, IL
May 7, 2010 - May 31, 2010
website | wood lawn collaborative dot org
Dayna Kriz loves people, excess consumed materials and the creation process. Dayna sees her creativity as improvisational and informed by belief in the spiritual. She creates collaborative opportunities, experiments with discarded fiber materials and reflects on inequity and institutional limitations. Dayna teaches art and enacts programs that provide youth with resource, techniques, technique and a creative outlet, she sees all said interests as many parts that are in constant making of a whole.
Curtiss Martin
Waynesville, North Carolina
March 15, 2009 - November 17, 2009
Curtiss was the Urban Green Coordinator in 2009. He is in charge of Elsewhere's Urban Green program, as well as Elsewhere's Back Alley Garden. Aside from encouraging more efficient uses of natural and material resources at Elsewhere, Curtiss also coordinates collaborative relationships with community gardens, local farmers, academic institutions and like-minded organizations in the Triad area. Curtiss hails from Waynesville, North Carolina, a delightful little town in the hills of Haywood County. He has a diverse background in organic farming, medicinal plants, new media production and clean technology consulting. Outside of contributing to Elsewhere's many successes, Curtiss is interested in permaculture systems design, appropriate biotechnology and all sorts of weird ideas having to do with water.
Sarah Roach
Portland, Oregon
September 24, 2009 - November 15, 2009
Sarah is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She attended college at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. Since her graduation this spring Sarah has been traveling across the country in a 1982 Volkswagon Vanagon named “Buddy.” Sarah loves paper mache, house paint, making things, and most recently baking cake.
Anthony Lowe
Winston Salem, North Carolina
July 2, 2009 - August 14, 2009 as a resident
August 14, 2009 - November 6, 2009 as a producer
blog | swim dunk dot blogspot dot com
Immediately prior to his work as a collaborator (producer? creative assistant?) Anthony was a resident artist at Elsewhere Artist collaborative. He was accepted into the program because of his charming nature but was asked to stay because of his dynamic sense of humor. He was 'hardened by the business' working as a curator in a small art gallery and as an art handler in a much bigger museum, both in Winston. What's more, he has dabbled in marketing and branding as a social practice art steezley, screenprinting, automatic drawing, video artistry, music/sound production, light (as opposed to heavy) construction, the occult, photography and bird poetry. KaKaaaaw!
Shane Ward
October 8, 2009 - November 4, 2009
Shane has recently graduated with a BFA degree from the University of Kentucky in the department of New Media. After graduation, Shane cofounded the Artist Group, The Marionette Club, whose work has been shown at the Overgaden Museum of Contemporary Art and the New Life Berlin Festival 2008. Shane’s work explores the modalities of installation and performance as it relates to myth, humor, and art history.
Ashley Lamb
October 1, 2009 - October 27, 2009
website | ashley k lamb dot com
Ashley Lamb is a mixed media artist and poet who presently rests her head in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Kenyon college in 2007 with degrees in Studio Art and English literature, and has since been working at the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea, Manhattan. She recently returned from a three-month stint in Iceland at an artist residency on the Skagi Peninsula. She has a die-hard affection for objects, which brackets words and images alike. Her life has been filled with wonder and enthusiasm, and she looks forward to arriving at Elsewhere with enthusiastic wonder.