Buster Simpson has been active as an artist working in the public since the late 1960’s. His work ranges from stand alone sculpture to integrated and/or collaborative works. His work incorporates ecological, historical, social, and technological considerations, contextualizing them into a site specific aesthetic. His art, its medium and product vary, but the methodology and underpinning conceptual approach are consistent. All aspects of the public realm potentially could become part of the palette; the landscape, the infrastructure, the built environment, and the social and economic engagement. Simpson has stated, “I prefer working in public spaces. The complexity of any site is its asset; to build upon, to distill, to reveal its layers of meaning. Process becomes part and parcel to the art of the place.” Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. Simpson has completed numerous art master plans for urban centers and watersheds that integrate community, ecology and art. A retrospective of his work was recently presented at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Simpson will be conducting an international “Rising Waters” confab at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation durning the month of May focusing on the notions of climate change and the of empowerment of a social and economic commons.

Tom Russotti runs the Institute for Aesthletics, an organization dedicated to promoting sport as art practice. Tom has performed and exhibited his work at venues such as the Tate Modern Museum, SFMOMA, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, the Bronx Museum, and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Tom’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, Wired, Vice Magazine, BBC, NPR, and Tom has also organized performances for both Japanese and Lithuanian National Television. Tom received a BA in history from Stanford University and received his M.F.A. in Aesthletics from Rutgers University.

Poncili Creación (Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro) is a Puerto Rican group that generates performance and audio-visual experiences that sprout from their interactive sculptures they call objects. They have focused their body of work in the relationship between objects and reality. Since 2012, they have worked with large-scale objects, installations, and video. Although they are most known for their performances that involve live music, dance and experimental storytelling. Their performance tours have taken them around the United States, Canada, Europe, and The Dominican Republic. Their objects have been exhibited in museums such as the MAPR and the MoCa as well as in independent galleries 787 studios, Art lab, Gr_und, Edge zones, Meta-gallery, Poor Farm Experiment among others.

During Poncili Creación’s 2018 residency, they created Multi-Parade.

Megan Mosholder is a conceptual artist who operates in the real-world setting of the social-political landscape through site-responsive, sculptural installations. She is a graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has received numerous awards from institutions such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. A variety of publications have featured Megan's work including Beautiful/Decay, Hi-Fructose and The Creator’s Project and her diverse exhibition history includes participation in No Longer Empty’s Through the Parlor (2013) in Manhattan and an installation in Sirmione, Italy (2014), a body of work that speaks of the lasting impression a place of beauty can leave on an individual. Originally from Ohio, Megan is currently based in Atlanta, GA where she is a resident artist at the Creatives Project.

MILAGROS is Felici Asteinza & Joey Fillastre and sometimes others. MILAGROS is mainly based out of New Orleans & Miami. Their work is typically site-specific, with a vibrant and energetic feeling. MILAGROS strives to work hard and play harder in a style based in collaboration, pattern, installation, drawing, and painting.

MILAGROS created Neighborhood Murals during their residency.

Heather Hart is based in Brooklyn. For South Elm Projects, Hart created the Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables. She was an artist-in-residence at LMCC, Whitney ISP, shown at The Drawing Center, Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and reviewed in Art in America, NY Times, and Seattle Times. Hart received grants from Creative Capital Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Jerome Foundation and her MFA from Rutgers.

Camp Little Hope is a team of artists that translate abstract ideas into visceral experiences. We invent objects and situations that imagine the future in order to create space for action in the present. We make drawings, environments, gardens, free algorithmic restaurants, sustainable energy initiatives, alternative institutional forms and fun.

Chloë Bass (Brooklyn, NY) focuses on the co-creation of performances, situations, installations, and publications, all dedicated to deep questioning of the everyday. Her current project, The Book of Everyday Instruction (2015 – 2017), is an investigation into one-on-one social interaction.

Robert Lach is an eco-friendly, environmentalist, ecologist, and avid bird watcher. Born and raised in New Jersey, it is the local landscape that inspires and fuels his art practice - from the states post-industrial north to the beauty of its southern wildlife areas and beaches. Found objects, trash, and gathered detritus are muse for sculpture, photography, installation, and public art projects.

Robert created Stitched Together during his residency.

Mitchel Oliver

Documentary Curator (2014-2015)

Mitch works on visuals, audio, food and land with his cat Mica.

Patrick McDonnell | Education Curator and South Elm Projects Coordinator (2015)

Patrick McDonnell has worked in government, nonprofit, and start-ups and has a breadth of understanding about how to navigate the different sectors of city building. He holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning and Master’s in Higher Education from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Elsewhere he worked at Dallas City Hall as an Urban Designer for a year, and freelanced for two years consulting on creative placing making projects and youth education programs with nonprofits in the Dallas area. In 2012, Patrick was named to the Next City Vanguard class as one of 40 under 40 urban leaders in the county. He serves on the Association for Community Design board (2012-present), including a term as President from 2013-2014. As South Elm Projects Coordinator, he works closely with Elsewhere’s curators to launch and oversee the call for South Elm artist portfolios, articulate public place-making practices as well as expand relationships with local community stakeholders, businesses and partners.

Samuel Holleran is an urbanist, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and design educator. He works at the intersection of art, urban design, and civic engagement. He is interested in mobilizing popular forms of visual culture like hand lettering, vernacular printing, model-making, and animation to address real-life issues and explore under-examined histories.Sam works as a Design Educator at the Center for Architecture Foundation and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and previously worked at the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). From 2014-2015 he is the Participatory Design Fellow with the Design Trust for Public Space, working with the Queens Museum of Art and the NYC Parks Department to engage communities surrounding the Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Honi Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Blue Mountains, Australia and Berlin, Germany. 

Ryan works across media-arts, performance, social sculpture and installation. She is interested in art as alternative models for living. Her work has cross cultural concerns and approaches the body in dialogue with electronic media, a body that is both an organism and a part of social behaviour. 

Kate Gilbert is an artist and creative strategist exploring the role the arts and artists play in transforming our cities, our relationships, and ourselves. In her artwork, curatorial projects, and public art consultancy, she strives to facilitate joy and spontaneity and to help propel public appreciation of contemporary art practices.

In her practice, Gilbert employs humor, simulation, and meditative observation to question objects of comfort, the retail systems they operate in, our consumptive behaviors, and our collective fears.

Gilbert is a graduate of Connecticut College (MA ’96) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA ’13). She lives and works in Boston, MA.

Laura Bernstein is a multimedia artist who constructs idiosyncratic scenarios and vignettes through video and performance. Her fictional characters and creatures engage with the surrounding environment to expose unusual and absurd interactions. Playing with notions of public and private space, she pursues forms that disrupt distinctions between the interiority of imagination and habitual, uniform reality. Her sculptures sometimes perform without a body and toggle with time to conjure previous functions and future existences. Bernstein received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania with a certificate in Time-Based & Interactive Media in 2014. She was awarded a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2014) and was a fellow at Vermont Studio Center (2013) as well an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2013). She has shown her work in Philadelphia, NY and Austriaand is part of the permanent collection of the National Dance Institute in New York. Her most recent work includes public performance in Vienna as well as in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Moi Tran creates work that exists between abstraction, craft, assemblage, painting, installation and drawing. Her investigations of line, volume, colour, texture, shape, repetition and form are imbued with a sense of questioning, concerned with the need to examine visual assumptions of the use of craft in spatial compositions. Incorporating the idea that cloth wears, fades, stains, stretches and becomes an intimate record of our physical presence and history, her work denotes philosophies of the unfamiliar in the familiar.Textile is the primary material in Tran’s work and traditional textile craft the main tool for manipulation. Importantly the artist insists the textile performs with more prominence than as mere grounds onto which paint would be traditionally applied. Her work considers the process, consideration and time taken in making objects link the close geography concerned with small movements of the hand and arms with the larger mental and physical geographies involved in the engagement of the broader environment. Tran also creates set and costume design for theatre and performance.

Hannon is an East Coast gone West kind of cat. She travels with her collaborator, Paul, and prefers things wild'n'out and definitely with ranch dressing. Or not.

Armando was raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas where he also received his education in architecture at the University of Arkansas. He is constantly in search for the next adventure whether it is a road trip, moving to a place he has never seen before, sleeping in the passenger seat of cars, or sitting in silence. You can usually catch him daydreaming about the beach and the sun's warm rays. Armando was once asked, “What are you the best at?” to which he replied, “Being me.”

Georgie was born into a family of river otters on the banks of the Potomac not far from the heart of D.C., so she slipped right in to the merry crew at Elsewhere. She's most well known as DJ Dirty Dishes and one-half of Young Payne.