Troy Briggs works with technology and sound and everyday objects to create subtle interventions in public and private space. These moments, ranging from audio jacks that connect the listener to far-away white noise and single, bare light bulbs that tap out morse code messages sent from across the world, speak to delicacy of human connection though the simplest of means.Briggs has exhibited widely in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, including Shane Campbell, Chicago; Rontoms, Portland, OR; A+D Gallery, Chicago; and 6018 North, Chicago, IL. He teaches in Contemporary Practices at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and sculpture, sound and new media at Cathege College. 

Michael Milano develops drawing and sound work through adapting systems of constraint as they are presented by the grid. Specifically drawing on the weaving draft as device to compose audio work, Milano explores the limits of the binary to produce conceptual “weavings.” Milano received a MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Humanities from Shimer College. He has shown at Roots & Culture, threewalls, Peregrine Program, Adds Donna, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. He recently co-curated the exhibition duckrabbit with Jeff M. Ward at Adds Donna.

David Moré is a sound artist, experimental musician and sculptor. His current projects include listening to weak electromagnetic waves from (maybe) Jupiter using a home built radio telescope. In the past he has collaborated with an elephant-nose fish named Alex Halsted on the creation on biomusic.

Mor is a “sabra” from Tel-Aviv’s wild southern neighborhood. Her love for adventures brought her to North Carolina where she also received a BS degree in Art Management at Appalachian State University. In her spare time she enjoys petting cats and singing Dolly Parton songs.

Born in Ohio. Raised outside Charlotte. Educated in Boone. Zach is on the verge of graduating from Appalachian State University with a bachelor's degree in Art Management with a General Business Minor. An advent art maker himself, Zach has shifted his focus towards the ways in which community engagement can be obtained and utilized through the mysticism of art.

Christine Hargraves explores the intersection of art and spirituality. Her art is inspired by the idea that art can more easily embody concepts that are difficult to express in words. She is particularly interested in art as a helpful therapeutic tool as well as a tool for social activist work. She is a graphic designer by trade and paints in her free time.

"Nice to meet you internet person. I'm a retired professional golf player whose long life dream was to be a video game designer. Sadly my mom didn't believe in television and put me in the golf course at an early age. I believe that its time to pursue my dream and with Elsewhere I hope to gain the knowledge I need to create video games. my favorite games are risk, battleship, and clue. I also do work under Freelance Sloth Corporation" - Diego Vergara

Maggie grew up in Durham, NC and discovered her love for all things artsy at a young age. A recent graduate from Guilford College, she is ready to bring her joy and creative spirit to the world of elsewhere!

Historical research and information preservation have become Cortni's passions. She believes Elsewhere explorers the history of humanity in a new refreshing way that allows for the preservation of history and interaction with the past to seamlessly blend. Her goal is to keep places like Elsewhere thriving in hopes that history will be kept relevant for future generations to enjoy.

2016 House(pitality) Curator

Fhalyshia Orians is an illustrator and crafter who finds inspiration in observation. Interested in the practice of art and aesthetics in the seemingly mundane activities of everyday life, she enjoys overlooked or unseen interventions that play with our relationships to memory, our senses, and the world around us.

2015 Intern

Fhalyshia emerged from a corn field in Northwest Ohio roughly five years ago, and has since received her B.A. in Painting from Guilford College. Her hobbies include crocheting, talking to plants, making playlists for every conceivable situation or mood possible, and taking walks with no intended destination. Can generally be found drinking coffee on the fire escape in the wee hours of the morning.

Sophie Trauberman just sold her machete and skipped town from Portland, Oregon. She is happiest when she is exploring the (she thinks not-so-solid) boundary between institutional organizing//community organizing//life organizing and art-making. Her ~academic~ background is in aesthetics, postmodern social theory, and 20th century american history. Her ~non-academic~ background is in meeting facilitation, event organizing, gamelan music, baking, landscaping, and having strong opinions. Sophie loves to garden, sing karaoke, fry eggs, dance, and support U.

Abena was born and raised in the urban jungles of Accra, Ghana where she discovered her love of art from her pet monkey Jojo. She currently resides in the arctic tundra of Aurora, New York where she is actively pursuing a B.A. in Visual Arts. Areas of special interest include how museums are reconfiguring traditional modes of display.(\__/)(='.'=)(")_(")

Carmen Papalia designs experiences that invite those involved to expand their perceptual mobility and claim access to public and institutional spaces. Often requiring trust and closeness, these engagements disorient the participant in order to introduce new modes of orientation that allow for perceptual and sensorial discovery. An open sourcing of his own embodiment, Papalia’s work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that come available through the non-visual senses. It is a chance to unlearn looking and to help acknowledge, map and name entire unseen bodies of knowledge.

Carmen created Blind Field Shuttle during his residency.

Julie Moore makes quietly delivered middle fingers. Through physical theatre-based and clown performance, installation, video and music she asks a million questions about if technology is making us more or less human, where words/practices/cultures come from, why you think we buy your bullshit, how we allow ourselves to take up space both physically and socially, and where you got those snacks.

Julie created Verasimilitude during her residency.

Kelly Jones is terribly fond of manatees, glitter, good stories, and dance parties. She is a North Carolinian who has a tendency to abandon her home state for large chunks of time for the charm and confusion of New Orleans. Kelly switches hats often; she has been a baker, a banker, a bartender, a ghost writer, an educator, and an events organizer. In her spare time she writes poetry, runs The Gambler Mag, splashes around in bodies of water, and tries to come to terms with the concept of infinity.

I think art has something to do with reality, truth, identity, access, misunderstanding, play, thing-hood, and possibly foolishness. There is also tragedy, comedy, and circus. These things sort of crash against each other, like a gyroscope of perception and experience, and whatever there is outside of that. I like to work collaboratively, creating a collective search party; a discursive art practice that uses play, improvisation, and the real world to feel our intersecting identities at work. Sometimes this looks like sculpture. At other times it looks more like an improvised play, or immersion journalism, or Kaprow's Happenings, or any number of art actions. I have a BFA from Indiana University's sculpture program. I'm moving towards an art practice in which I look at art making, arts administration and empowerment, and public activism and volunteerism as overlapping and sometimes indistinguishable practices. I'm excited to enact my internship with Elsewhere as a manifestation of this approach to art-doing.

Using sincere parody, I bring individual meaning to tired tropes and ask audiences to question authenticity in order to generate new ways of seeing, hearing, and experiencing personal, social, and historical events. Creating parallel planes is achieved through unapologetic appropriation of signifiers such as institutional voice and stock images, sociological and archival inquiry, pedagogical techniques such as socio-dramatic play, and temporal juxtaposition. Recent performances at venues including: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hillyer Art Space, The Back Alley Theater, and other DIY venues in D.C., as well as The Leslie – Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Manhattan, Panoply in Brooklyn, and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

Jane Claire created elsewherestock.com during her residency.

Cedric Blue II

Operations Curator

Cedric was raised in the non-profit world via volunteering and later project managing for The Greensboro Youth Council (under the Greensboro, NC Parks & Recreation Department) and Triad Health Project. After a stint in corporate sales working for FedEx Office in NYC Cedric returned to North Carolina to get back to his non-profit roots, working in development for the regional theater Triad Stage. For his next act Cedric has joined the curator's team at the living museum to apply his scientific approach to systems, fanatical flair for filing, and love for art in all of its forms to supporting the cultural revolution that is Elsewhere.

Works Progress Studio is an artist-led LLC based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota led by wife-husband Collaborative Directors Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker. The studio engages an expansive network of artists, scientists, organizers, and other creative people to realize imaginative public projects rooted in place and purpose.

They create the South Elm Water Bar during their residency. 

Chat Travieso is an artist, designer, and educator. He creates playful and functional urban interventions that respond to everyday needs and reinforce social bonds. His work has been commissioned by The Architectural League of New York, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, WHEDco, Design Trust for Public Space, NYCDOT, and the Cambridge Arts Council.