Aaron Finbloom
Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, improviser and social structure experimenter. His artwork consists of interdisciplinary and intermedia investigations exploring different ways of structuring philosophical conversation.
Caro Clark
Caro Clark hails from Rhode Island, lives in Maine, and is earning her MFA in fiction at the University of New Hampshire. She recently finished walking across Spain and feels very tired, leaving her with little to say about herself or her writing save for this rudimentary list: boats, lobstermen, a pack of squirrels collectively named Deb, dream space, goat friends, quinoa, brothers, the ocean, the water, the sea.
Michael Webster
Michael Webster’s work focuses on the manifestations of status through historical memory and spatial politics. Michael has worked with architects, designers, social workers, historians, and educators, and he pursues knowledge that is generated between fields. Over the past three years, Michael has been part of a collaborative group investigating the concealed history of urban renewal in Greenville, NC. In 2010 he curated the geographically-contextual exhibition Countertransference at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Heidi Wiren Bartlett
Heidi Wiren Bartlett is an Interdisciplinary artist, teacher, amateur entomologist and taxidermist living and working in Nebraska. Bartlett investigates the potential of environments as conduits for performance and drawing. Paper, wood, animal artifacts, and architecture create the framework for her performances. She explores the line that runs through all things; revealing relationships between our body and its surroundings. Within this landscape she is interested in marks, light, movement, ritual and the dialog between our symbolic and animal selves.
Kristen DeGree
Kristen DeGree lives in Iowa City, Iowa and is currently working towards a MFA in intermedia arts and printmaking. She was raised in North Dakota, where she developed an interest in landscapes, agriculture, and the quest for autonomy. She is interested in ferments: biotic, political, artistic and otherwise. Though she probably came to artmaking much earlier through the kitchen, she was officially drawn to art through printmaking: the collaborative environment of the print shop with its methods for spreading information cheaply and efficiently. Her love for print has more recently led to an intuitive shift towards video, sound, and social practice. She often works in collaboration with others, and is currently preoccupied by the language of the future.
Sair Goetz
Sair Goetz is a North Carolina artist who works primarily in installation, moving image, and painting, trying to make tangible the ephemeral connections in the spaces between people, ideas, and aesthetics. sarah looks for the visually delicious and the conceptually poetic and seeks to create intense immersive experiences. She received her undergraduate degree in making/ thinking/ looking/ feeling/ talking about the visual in space & time from Duke University. She plans to change the universe, or at least your vision of it.
Benjamin Boyles
Benjamin Aaron Boyles/ Video Intern
Ben is a multidisciplinary artist from Winston-Salem NC. He is currently finishing a BA in Media Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In addition to film and animation he is also passionate about art, philosophy, religion, psychology, and most any form of music. Bridging the gaps between fields of study and understanding the interconnected nature of the universe excites Ben. He is DJ Extra at the college radio station WUAG 103.1, works for the Carolina Film and Video Festival, and is the President of UNCG's all male accapella group The Spartones. Avid instagramer, lover of bad pop culture, and amateur Tai Chi and Yoga practitioner he strives to get the best out of life and leave the rest behind.
Nestor Armando Gil
Nestor Armando Gil / Born in the deep south of North Florida, Nestor Armando Gil now comes to us from Pennsylvania where his family remains while Nestor is Elsewhere. Operating at the crossroads of sculpture, performance, and new media practices, Nestor produces installations, situations, and events that explore ideas of journey, borders, and interactivity. A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill's MFA program in studio art, Nestor has shown work widely, observing his own motto, "I make and I do, and as an artist I make do."
Kieran Morris
Kieran Morris is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a B.A. in Literature from Bard College in 2008. His creative interest in sound draws on a variety of worldly folk traditions, ritual song, noise, and electronic music. He has been performing and releasing albums as Young Rites since 2011.Kieran is gradually developing an understanding of applied electronics as integral to his independent study of analog synthesis. He aspires to a degree of technological literacy that will enhance his capacity to design interesting circuits for musical application. He periodically composes in collaboration with artists of various disciplines. His productions are forever concerned with questions of value, utility, and privilege.
Sallie Oliver
Sallie Oliver is a building intern who enjoys long moonlit walks on the beach and things with shiny qualities. She enjoys designing promotional material for musicians of all genres in form of gig posters, backdrops, and album covers. At 19 years of age she aspires to work in the creative art sector of a record label in New York City. These days, you can find her in a pile of amazing vintage clothes on the 2nd floor.
Erin Colleen Johnson + Kari Marboe
Kari Marboe and Erin Johnson met at University of California, Berkeley’s MFA program and began collaborating in 2011. Their practice involves crafting artworks of site-specific storytelling through research and response. Their time at Elsewhere marks their first residency together.
Kari Marboe received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Eisner Award for Art, in 2012 and her BFA, with honors, from California College of the Arts in 2008. Marboe is allergic to pineapple, does not feel comfortable with objects being kept in differently scaled versions of that same object (gingerbread houses constructed in houses), and prayed to a higher being during her youth for large feet which resulted in the size ten women's shoe she wears today.
Erin Johnson is currently a MFA candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the Eisner Award in Art in 2012. Johnson curated a ballet-line dancing system as a youth, and while donning a cowboy hat, bandana, denim shorts, and ballet shoes, performed these strange hybrids at county fairs, church talent shows, and barbecues. Her artistic objectives and systems of research remain the same today.
Emilio Rojas
Emilio Rojas was born in Mexico City. He is interdisciplinary artist, yoga teacher and translator working primarily in performance, video, installation, movement and sculpture. His works explore the relationship between the artist and his audience, interacting and exchanging roles. The intrinsic relation with the body has been both his subject matter and medium. Exploring the mental and physical limits of his being, Emilio reevaluates language, gender, activism, tradition, ritual, displacement, migration and sexuality.
Virginia Yarboro
Virginia Yarboro, Education Intern, is an artist from Goldsboro, NC studying studio art, linguistics, and religion at Middlebury College. She is an avid collector of accents and children’s stories from around the world. By investigating imagery closely tied to childhood—especially wallpaper patterns and children’s book illustrations—Virginia aspires to maximize the potential of nostalgic art to engage with viewers. A master of playlist-making and Pokemon, she gets inspiration from Madeline, bookshelves, clothing, pixellation, embroidery, places of worship, and avocados. Ten years from now, you may find her illustrating books or farming sheep. Hopefully both.
Guadalupe Martinez
Guadalupe Martinez lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she obtained a BFA from the National University of Arts in 2008. Her work investigates the relationship between individual and landscape as a platform to explore the borderland between Self and Other. Personal narratives function as the framework to access themes that speak of (mis)communication, displacement, failure and desire. Her main focus is to look for possible ways to develop work that integrally combines three-dimensionality, site-specificity, and performance art.
Cynthia Cukiernik
Cynthia Cukiernik / Education Intern is a student and artist currently living in Greensboro North Carolina. Cynthia attends the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she is completing her Bachelors degree in Anthropology. Concepts of material culture, family history, story telling, cultural identity and memory inspire both her art and her research. Cynthia loves books, gardens, old photographs, hand made objects and small artifacts. While at elsewhere, she will working to catalog the Living Library as well as physically negotiating with the book collection.
Nicole Lane
An ex-ballerina and a self-proclaimed fashionista, Nicole Lane is the productions intern here at the living museum, Elsewhere. She finds solace in the depths of darkroom chemicals, extended exposures and over-priced Halloween masks. With her constant theme of identity and her skill of obnoxious laughing, Nicole will receive a BA in traditional photography at Guilford College in 2013.
Isabella Martin
Isabella Martin is an artist and writer hailing from the far distant lands of Norwich, England. Her work seeks to explore the potential of words in relation to spatial experience. She graduated from Brighton University of Art in 2010 with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture and since then has exhibited nationally and internationally. Since being released into the real world she’s worked as an artist in various projects worldwide from museum interpretation to urban regeneration. Following the same route she’s found her way to Elsewhere, to continue exploring and questioning, acclimatising to big America, telling bad jokes and hopefully getting a few good waves on the way.
Laura Elayne Miller
Laura is an Interdisciplinary Artist. She creates experimental narratives through multiple mediums, including: installation art, film/video, sculpture, sound, photography, theatre, textile arts, architecture, and works on paper. Through the marriage of concept and craft, she explores the many facets of collective memory. As she perceives innate connectivity and relationships between environments, human behavior, and discourse, Laura creates artwork that expresses how we perceive the external world and its relation to our inner monologues.With a passion for travel and experience in other cultures, and a belief that we exist in a global art community, Laura seeks international experience, exposure, and to connect with other art communities and foster relationships.
Dana Robinson
From the swamps of Florida, Dana Robinson has spent her life taking things apart, scrambling them and putting them back together. With her army of Frankenstein art, she has collected a BFA in Design from Florida State University as well as a variety of life skills such as drawing, designing, and obsessive organizing that have brought her to the door step of Elsewhere. She hopes to spread her love of design across the hemispheres.
Laura MacAulay + Meghan Macdonald
Laura MacAulay is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. Her favorite media are drawing, fibres, installation, and her own body. Some of her favorite things are kids’ books and the kid detectives who inhabit them, and she likes to approach art-making as a sleuth trying to uncover a mystery. Since finishing her degree in fine arts two years ago, she has embroidered made-up zoological creatures, performed in an experimental folk choir, hawked desserts of her own creation, and administered many a temporary tattoo. She has also been practicing African dance for the past six years, translating her love of rhythm, pattern, and space into a corporeal form.
Meghan Macdonald is a Toronto, Canada-based artist working primarily in textiles. Most recently she has used embroidery and collage to re-imagine the domestic objects of a reclusive millionaire. Yard sales and abandoned places are a source of inspiration and materials for her art, and treasures for her online vintage shop. A recent graduate of the interdisciplinary BFA program at NSCAD University, she also holds an advanced honors diploma in textiles from the Sheridan College department of Crafts & Design. She is interested in exploring themes of collecting, memory and the found object.These collaborators met in 2011 while artists-in-residence at The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design.
At Elsewhere, they will be busy documenting the imagined histories of certain choice artifacts from the museum's collection.