Ron Longsdorf
Wilmington, Delaware
July 9, 2009 - July 21, 2009
Ron Longsdorf is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Wilmington, DE. He has exhibited throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, nationally and internationally including, Delaware; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; Brooklyn, NY; Arlington, VA; Baltimore, MD; Lexington, KY; Minneapolis, MN; and Berlin, Germany. Ron has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm in Nebraska. In 2009, he received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Ron holds an MFA from the University of Delaware and a BFA from Pennsylvania State University.
Derya Hanife Altan
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
June 18, 2009 - July 21, 2009 as a resident
website | cuts like hanife dot com
Derya Hanife Altan (b. 1982, Worcester, MA) used to design clothes and page layouts; now she makes sculptures and diagrams. Sometimes she makes baskets. Her great great great great great grandparents on both sides were nomads of the Central Asian Steppe. This explains a lot, like the lilapsophobia (tornadoes) and her having lived all over. Currently, as she finishes her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Derya lives in Michigan.
Casey Droege
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 4, 2009 - July 7, 2009
website | casey what dot com
blog | casey droege dot com
website | spoke punchers dot com
Casey Droege's parents were both artists and made it clear to her that she should go into computers. She is now living and working as an artist in Pittsburgh, Pa. You can find her sprucing up her new home, teaching, or selling her wares at spokepunchers.com.
Ernesto Gómez
Milledgeville, Georgia
June 11, 2009 - June 30, 2009
Ernesto is originally from Highland, Michigan. He earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in sound, installation and instrument building. He has performed in many experimental and standard rock ensembles. Currently, he is enrolled in the Sculpture MFA program at The University of Georgia in Athens and is employed as a Graduate Research Assistant for ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration). He lives in Milledgeville, Georgia with his wife, Emily.
Dakota Gearhart
Safety Harbor, Florida
May 7, 2009 - June 23, 2009
website | dakotagearhart dot com
Dakota Gearhart is a photographer, installation artist, and tactile bookmaker who also works with sound and performance from Safety Harbor, Florida.
Erika Villarreal
Lafayette, Indiana
May 28, 2009 - June 16, 2009
Erika works across media, including: sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, and installation. She's currently working on her MFA at Purdue in Lafayette, Indiana.
Valerie Powell
May 15, 2009 - June 16, 2009
website | valerie powell dot com
Valerie makes installations with shrinky-dinks, as well as paintings, crafts, and multiples.
Jeanne Stern
Austin, Texas
May 14, 2009 - June 16, 2009
website | jeanne stern dot com
Jeanne Stern creates surreal microcosms using animation, clockwork, puppet films and dioramas. Her work has shown at festivals, television, and galleries including the Smithsonian, PBS, SXSW, the Orlando Museum of Art, Texas State Art Gallery, Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams, and the San Diego Women's Film Festival. She received her MFA in film from the University of Texas, and her BA in Studio Art & Computer Science from Connecticut College. In 2007 she received a commission from the Connecticut College Arts & Technology Symposium for which she produced a short stereoscopic film. She continued her exploration of stereoscopy during her residency at Elsewhere where she made a series of stereoscopic works. Her stereoscopic works were shown at her solo show "Shadow Tiger," at Texas State University in 2009. Jeanne lives in Austin TX where she works as a freelance animator.
Adam Brody
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 2, 2009 - May 5, 2009
myspace | the great swamp
Adam Chad Brody is a music & performance maker. He is the band leader of The Great Swamp, a theatrical rock group based in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a member Cha-cha'razzi, a South Philly art/studio space that hosts events and such. He received an Edward Albee Fellowship for Writing in 2008 and has written & produced two plays for the Philly Fringe Festival.
Steve Beatty
Portland, Oregon
April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009
Steven Beatty was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1966. He is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher living and working in Portland, Oregon. His work addresses environmental and social issues, and includes mixed media, sculpture, installation, public intervention, painting, digital photography, material exploration lectures and collaborations with Portland-based artist, Laurel Kurtz. He received his BA from Humboldt State University, 2002 and his MFA from Portland State University, 2006. He has shown work internationally in Liverpool UK, Ulsan Korea, and Stuttgart Germany and the west and east coasts of the United States. Beatty won the 2006 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in Hamilton, NJ and his work was shown in Sculpture Magazine.
Laurel Kurtz
Portland, Oregon
April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009
Laurel Kurtz is in her second year at Portland State University’s (PSU) Art and Social Practice program. Kurtz earned a BA from PSU in Fine Art/Sculpture. Kurtz often works collaboratively and some of her past works include working with Avalon Kalin and the local NW Dowser, Mike Doney; Sandy Sampson and Kurtz created a public speaking platform that was influenced by their involvement in Toastmasters; Kurtz and Steven Beatty have an on-going collaborative practice involving plastic bottle caps collected from the community. They have traveled to the East coast and overseas to the UK with their bottle caps. Most recently, Kurtz is working with Bill Harrelson, a neighbor, to create a back scratcher museum. Kurtz’s work focuses on the social as a vehicle to highlight people and issues of interest and relevance in a community.
Marc Israel
Northampton, Maine
April 2, 2009 - April 8, 2009
video | vimeo dot com slash marc israel
Filmmaker Marc Israel from Northampton, Massachusetts writes- “ a brief statement regarding myself: Somewhere along the line somebody took off my head and stuck it on a ballerina. I feel incredibly disproportional as a result, and make films to balance out the difference. Most of the time I feel like screaming, 1/3 of the rest of the time like crying, and the remaining time allotment is spent holding up daisies in solidarity with some crazy woman or singer that maketh the heart tremble and pound. I laugh over spilled milk, if it's done right. Timing is everything. I value friends and inherently have a distrust of heads of state. I come from sour beginnings but toil daily to be ready and glad for the sweetened earth.”
Rob Hamilton
Rob Hamilton / Building Curator is a carpenter, builder, maker, doer, radical educator and secret agent. He has worked at Elsewhere since 2009. As Building Curator, he oversees the Skyshop, supports and collaborates with resident artists, ensures safety protocols, manages the historic renovation of Elsewhere's building, and keeps it from falling down in the meantime.
Claire van der Plas
Claire van der Plas (Sylva, NC)
“I currently live in Alamosa CO where I am the chair of the Art Department at Adams State University. I have taught in New Zealand, Singapore and North Carolina before moving to Colorado. While primarily a painter I also work in other media including installation, performance and collaborative art when the opportunity arises. I have exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.”
Residency: April 1, 2008 - June 16, 2008
During her residency, Clair created the Totally Nice Travel Agency and helped organize Elsewhere’s participation in Greensboro’s annual Fun Fourth Parade and Festival in 2009. That year, Clair organized a project of mail art of Elsewhere alumni (ETC’s) in New Zealand called “Elsewhen Meanwise Otherwhere” and its exhibition in Greensboro in 2009 called “Messages.”
