Stories change with each telling, being filtered and transform from one person to the next. Asuncion is interested in this space of translation and transformation where new perspectives are revealed, and connections can be made. The possibility of reconstruction helps Asuncion create characters for her video work she embodies with a sense of humanness and otherness. Each originating from the fabric of culture, woven from tradition, but outside and no longer a part of the community it once originated from. By researching local histories and stories she constructs abstract narratives that explore her identity as a multi-cultural female artist. She has a working studio at Erector Square in New Haven, CT. Her work has been included in Aspect EZ: Vol. 4, Déjà Vu a limited edition DVD printing by ASPECT: The Chronicle for New Media in Boston, MA; and has been curated by Olu Oguibe as a featured artist on RADICATE.EU Contemporary Art a digital journal edited by Tiziana Casapietra of Savona University in Savona, Italy.

Audrey Love is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Oakland, CA. She developed her skills as a photographer and videographer, before an electric synthesizer pushed her interests and art into the realm of music, sound, light, and interactivity. Her works are a dialectic of the past & future, drawing influence from both, to contextualize objects and aesthetics from history into a contemporary dialog. Currently she is working with the Robot Versus Future artist collective, and many other intersections of art, community, and technology.

Lyric has wandered to Elsewhere from the rolling farmlands of Iowa, where she studies Graphic Design at a tiny liberal arts college. Much of her work explores juxtaposing the rigid formalities often associated with typography and design with unexpected messiness — often in the form of nature, embroidery floss, or scribbles. She also enjoys writing/performing slam poetry, and sleeping in places with no roof over her head.

Katie Shlon is an artist/musician from Columbia, South Carolina. She is pursuing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is in her final year. As an artist, her interest lies in the relationship between physical spaces, natural aesthetics, and social relations.

Kelly Lloyd is currently pursuing a dual M.F.A. in Painting and M.A. in Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, Lloyd's practice includes putting 2 to 3 objects next to one another, faux lecturing, painting environments and forming her writing into objects. She is interested in working with what it means to have a body, and what it means for that body to be in the world.

Fionn was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives and works between Brighton, London and Glasgow. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice involves the curation of exhibitions and events, often choosing to work collaboratively with other artists, musicians, dancers and composers. She is especially concerned with the point where the transient nature of performance and the materiality of sculpture meet, questioning the duality of "here and there," "now and then," "you and me" and exploring the possibilities of these elements existing simultaneously as a whole. With an interest in improvisation and participation, each piece of work initiates a dialogue between the artist, performer and viewer, at times allowing roles to fluctuate and overlap.

Dotty LOVES her grand-babies.  And cruises.

Emily Lombardo is an artist who has been living and working in Boston for over 15 years. She received her BFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been shown and collected internationally. Lombardo applies her vast knowledge of sculpture and print across a wide range of conceptual projects. She engages with appropriative art practices as a mode of investigating personal and cultural identity.

Morgan Page is an interdisciplinary artist that works primarily in photography, video, and sound. In her work, she creates environments that allow for shared experiences that intend to spark a progressive dialog amongst her audience. Her current body of work focuses on guns as cultural artifacts and weapons in historical and personal narratives. At Elsewhere, she is concentrating on Greensboro's rich history of activism that has made for positive social change by inviting community members and activists into Elsewhere to provide testimony of their experiences in an effort to create a space that celebrates that history at the museum. She received her MFA from Rutgers University in New Jersey and her BFA from the University of Houston in Texas. Her work has been shown and collected nationally.

Rachael Layne Rush currently lives in Columbus, Ohio and is working on receiving her MFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. She works primarily in painting, mixed media drawing and printmaking. She received her BFA in Painting with a Minor in Art History from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her work focuses on beauty norms and body image through a societal, metaphysical and personal lens. Her work has shown at Columbus College of Art and Design, The Columbus Metropolitan Library, the Harrison Center for the Arts, Herron School of Art and Design and Stutz Art Gallery.

Andrew Fansler is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His installations and sculptures address our tenuous connection the psychic landscape and the possibility of finding each other there.

Emilio was born in San Pedro de Macorís, República Dominicana. He earned degrees in Fine Arts and Illustration from 2004-2007 at Altos de Chavon, affiliated with Parsons the New School for Design. Afterward he traveled to Puerto Rico to acquire more knowledge and skills from a position as workshop assistant and later workshop sub-manager at GGG furniture, designing, building and installing custom made furniture. In 2008 he began a BFA in Painting at Escuela de Artes Plásticas of San Juan, in San Juan Puerto Rico being acknowledged in 2011 with the Carlos Collazo Scholarship. At that moment he performed as part of the local film industry as art department and costume department assistant, art teacher, as well as a adjunct professor at Turabo International School of Design and Architecture on Gurabo, PR. Emilio was also a project developer, receiving his BFA May of the same year and actively participating on Puerto Rico art scene. He moved to the United States in 2012, obtaining a Painting MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2013 he went back to the Dominican Republic to participate in the 27 Santo Domingo Visual Arts Biennial while participating in SECAC Members Show in Greensboro, NC and Mixed Mediacy in Savannah, GA . He lives and work in St. Louis, MO.

Zipporah Thompson was born and raised in Charlotte, NC, although now she lives and works in Athens, Georgia. She received her BFA at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and is currently working towards her MFA at the University of Georgia. She is an avid collector and maker of things. Zipporah primarily works in mixed media sculpture, drawing, and installation. Her work explores various concepts & ideas, including death, ritual, nature, animism, primitivism and spirituality.  Her practice borrows from other interests including anthropology, archaeology and taxidermy.

Devin Balara is a product of the winding, aggressively pastel suburbs of Tampa, Florida. Her current sculptural works employ the visual language of the domestic along with the remnants and rejects of the home improvement industry. Balara fabricates instances that demonstrate the tedium, drollery and futility involved in the cultivation and perpetual re-creation of the material self within the home. Negotiating the spaces between unique individual taste and symbolic objects and the empty promises made by mass-produced banalities, her works question to what end a domestic identity can be realized. She received a BFA from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL and an MFA in Sculpture from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL, the Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH and Gallery 313 in Jersey City, NJ. She is a recent fellow of the Vermont Studio Center and is newly based out of Chicago, IL.

Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an award winning artist working in video, performance, installation and drawing. She was born in Mississauga, Canada where she received a BA from the University of Toronto. She now lives in Brooklyn where she is the Director of Special Projects at UnionDocs, a Center for Documentary Art.In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi’s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk. Through repeated interaction with the objects (listening, transcribing, re-enactment, play) narratives and imagery begin to manifest and inspire performances, videos, installations and drawings. The results are humorous, low-fi artifacts of an artist embodying the lives of others. Kobayashi’s short videos have been exhibited and screened widely in Canada, the United States and overseas. She was a guest artist at the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar and her body of work was a Spotlight Presentation at Video Out, Jakarta International Film Festival, Indonesia. In 2012, she was commissioned by Les Subsistances in Lyon, France to produce her first live performance, Defense Mechanism. She is currently developing her second live performance. Johanna Linsley is writing on Kobayashi’s work in relation to eavesdropping in the soon to be published Voice(s): Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience (Routledge).

Heidi Neilson is an artist addressing topics such as weather, fake snow, and the cultural landscape of outer space. Her work, often collaborative and publishing-based, has been supported by the Art Matters Foundation, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Center for Book Arts, the College Book Art Association, The Drawing Center, Flux Factory, I-Park, the International Print Center New York, the Islip Art Museum, Kala Art Institute, LMCC, the Lower East Side Printshop, Provisions Library, the Queens Museum of Art, Visual Studies Workshop, and Women’s Studio Workshop. She is a member of the ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative, co-founded SP Weather Station, and her work is included in over 60 museum and university collections. Born in Oregon, Heidi received a BA in biology from Reed College and an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, and lives and works in New York.

Kathryn Sclavi is a socially-engaged artist and educator who creates unique gathering spaces and events collectively with communities. Her work is about imagining new worlds and ways of being by creating new dimensions of shared experiences. The gathering spaces take the form of participatory projects such as colorful forts, collaborative projects, art parades, ephemeral events, and more using media including fiber, found objects, and costume making.  From building fort structures to organizing artistic events, Sclavi create imaginative spaces designed for people to interact and learn from each other and serves as a collective, process-oriented experience. She is an award-winning teaching artist, community artist, and a featured curriculum writer for a number of organizations, including the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Young Audiences of New Jersey/Eastern Pennsylvania and Louisiana. Sclavi was a co-founder of Philadelphia-based art collective Homeskooled Gallery, a 4-year-long nomadic art space creating participatory experiences through interactive art. She holds an M.Ed. in Art Education and a certificate in Community Arts Practices from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is based in Philadelphia, PA and New Orleans, LA.

Marta King

Operations

Marta King is a creative thinker from Portland Oregon. After graduating from the University of Oregon with a BA in both art history and religious studies, Marta returned to Portland in order to further explore her artistic practice.  She is interested in interactive artwork geared towards strengthening her local community, and is particularly drawn to dance, performance, and celebration as art form.

Nandita Batheja

Production

Nandita’s origins are contested. Some say she made herself up. Others postulate that she crawled out of a book that lay forgotten on her parents’ shelves. Still others believe she emerged from a food baby her father nursed after too much big-apple pizza. Regardless, she was born. She grew up a little then went off to study English Literature at Williams College. When she wasn’t lost in literary space, she was stomping and clapping on her college step team, writing, or wondering. She spent her summers and post-grad years working with arts organizations and teaching in urban America and rural India.

Program & Productions Curator 2013-2015

Jennie was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and came to North Carolina by way of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.  Her writing and curatorial work focus on the relationship between art and cultural politics in the 21st Century.  She aims to lend ideas a social form by bringing people together to participate in conversations that shape social conditions and the physical and psychological spaces where ideas are shared.  

Jennie oversees Elsewhere’s residency programs and directs artistic processes and project production at the museum.  Additionally, she acts as a liaison between artists and communities and coordinates the production of public programs at the museum.  She is a curator and art historian focusing on situation driven aesthetics and radical ampersanding.  Jennie received a BA in Anthropology and Biology from Mount Holyoke College in 1999 and completed PhD course work in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011. Her curatorial projects have included contributions to “More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing,” “Counter Lives: Portraiture in Contemporary Art” and “John Wesley’s Boeing in Context” at the Ackland Art Museum.

Favorite Elsewhere collection:  The Chicken Nuggets.