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Jessie Dodington

Jessie Dodington is a visual artist working primarily in oil, watercolor and drawing media. More recently she has explored textile, fiber, animation and video art. She graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada in 2008. Since then her work has been exhibited regularly in group and solo shows throughout the province and is a part of many private collections in Canada and internationally. Her current work explores spaces where fiction and reality converge and overlap. She adores books, animal and plant life. She now resides in New Mexico with her husband and many imaginary pets.

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Emily Ensminger

Emily Ensminger, born in Durham, NC, is a conceptual artist and advocate for independent multi-use live/work organizations. Through programming, textiles and functional systems, Emily’s work addresses necessity as a creative practice operating at the intersection of admin, art, and daily life. Curatorial, project coordination and presentation focus is on experimental production and organizations outside art centers.

Emily led the organization as Creative Director (2018-2020).

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Ben Gansky

Ben Gansky is a director, performer, writer, designer, and producer of performance - based events; he has worked independently and with collaborators all over the world.  He believes that line-dancing offers the potential for transformative community experiences. He co-founded The Wild Plan, a (now-annual) national, ticket-less backyard tour of experimental theatre and cocktails in 2011, and from 2010 until its dissolution in 2011 served as an artist-in-residence and administrator of 1419, an interdisciplinary arts collective in Minneapolis operating, oddly enough, out of a historic three-story storefront space. Ben believes that confusion is very helpful. He is ambivalent about being raised in the suburbs of Baltimore and happy that he was born in California, although this happiness is complicated because it was Sacramento.

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Aislinn Pentecost-Farren

Production Curator, 2012

Resident, August 5-31, 2010

Aislinn Pentecost-Farren is an artist, curator, and historian exploring historical and experimental museum design. At Elsewhere, Aislinn supported artists from selection to completion—guiding a site-specific residency process that links artists, objects, collections, and communities through works, events, and public actions. She has worked as Curatorial Design Assistant at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Curatorial Fellow at the Slought Foundation, and Research Fellow at SoundField, all in Philadelphia. She has worked and with for artists Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett, and Gene Coleman.

She has a background in postal correspondence, documentary, cartography and alternative education. She received a BA in anthropology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006, and has worked with the Chicago History Museum, the Raleigh City Museum, Cabinet Magazine. Her work borrows from artistic practice to develop museum exhibits that exploit the vulnerable area between intuitive experience and intellectual consumption to offer visitors an interaction with the polyphonic nature of reality.

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Andy Sturdevant

Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, The Rake, and Heavy Table. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. He is also Artists Resources Director at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul, where he runs a resource center and library for artists and small arts organizations. He was an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2011. His first voting experience was the 1998 mayoral election of Louisville, Kentucky, where pulled the lever for a former punk rock label owner running under the Reform Party banner.

Residency: September 7, 2011 - September 27, 2011

During his residency, Andy made Hard Catalog. Andy returned as a national artist commentator for Political Party 2012. Visit Andy’s Tumblr.

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