Catherine recently graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she studied English Literature & Communications. In her free time she enjoys listening to musical theatre soundtracks and cross stitching. She is very excited to join the Elsewhere team and to learn more about arts administration.

Coco Spadoni is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who floated over to Elsewhere Museum from Bellingham, WA. They recently completed a B.A. in Cultivating Community Activism through Art with a minor in Education and Social Justice. And now that they have a little room to breathe from structured academia they are excited to continue projects that explore ideas of counter-narratives, negotiating relationships, queer resiliency, making art more accessible and vulnerability as a route toward liberation.

Ava recently graduated from the University of Virginia, where she studied studio art/photography. She's interested in exploring symbols, language, repetition, and pattern through book arts, printmaking, textiles, quilting, and embroidery.

Anna Kohlweis, also known as Squalloscope, is a multi media artist, songwriter, illustrator, and music producer. She was born and raised in Klagenfurt, Austria, and spent the last ten years living in Vienna. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is interested in the expansion of reality through fiction, puns, cartoons, repurposed found footage, good conversations, weird dreams, and perfectly ripe avocados. Anna created Permanent Resident during her time at Elsewhere.

Kayla Anderson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, organizer, and human being based in Chicago, IL. Using a playful approach to methods of excavation, her work engages with cultural artifacts of the past in order to propose parallel worlds. Through installations involving video, sculpture, and found objects she challenges perceived boundaries between subject, object, and image. She earned a BFA and BA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited across the US and Southeast Asia, and her writing has been published by Leonard Journal (MIT Press) and the Royal College of Art.

Kayla created All Broken Glass Goes to Heaven during her residency.

Mica Donna Pocket Penelope

Cuteness Curator

Mica works with Mitch in a good cop/bad cop type of way; you know she's the bad cop. Incidentally, she despises 'cute' art and would rather listen to noise. Catch her around town as DJ Furmica. 

Born in Pittsburgh, Lottie has been residing in the gentle mountains of western North Carolina for the past five years occupying herself with printmaking, costume sewing, vegetable growing, chocolate selling, bike riding, and, most recently, wood carving. Cooking, plants, birds, insects, critters, and people make her very happy.

Rachel Debuque is currently an Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator in the Art department at George Mason University. She has exhibited extensively including, New York, Croatia, and Philadelphia. She was recently awarded to attend the internationally recognized Bemis Center for Contemporary Art’s residency program. Her research spans installation, sculpture, video, and performance. Debuque de-familiarizes space and objects using common decorating design strategies such as pattern, paint, and the arrangement of objects. Her work purposefully plays with two and three-dimensional realms, creating a push/pull in perceptions. Vibrant colors to create directional line patterns that suggest dimensional space and flatten objects with matte paints.

Rachel created Future Holiday during her time at Elsewhere.

Jana Harper is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the themes and tensions between materiality and transcendence, chance encounters and human willfulness, relationships and connectivity, and the natural world and human acts of meaning making. Materially, her work takes many forms: drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, sculpture, photography, installation, social practice, and video. Originally trained as a printmaker, Jana has a broad definition of what constitutes her practice. She divides her time between teaching, research, and creative activity: working both individually and in collaborative settings.

Jana created New Walks in an Old Field during her time here.

Samara Smith creates site-specific documentary projects in and about public space. Her work, which utilize mobile strategies to invite “the people formerly known as the audience” to actively explore common urban spaces, has been featured at the Hammer Museum, the NYC Transit Museum, Open Engagement/Queens Museum, Conflux Festival, Visual Evidence and beyond.

Samara created On Hamburger Square during her residency.

Iman Person is a visual artist and sculptor based in the Atlanta area. Her use of natural materials and ritual consciousness, create a hybrid reality between physical space and ethereal realms. Coupled with the concept of authentic nature; she embeds qualities of the feminine, primordial memory and anthropological customs to illustrate lineage and identity within the new, synthetic landscape.In 2010 she received her B.F.A from Georgia State University and has become a fixture both in exhibition spheres and public art arenas. In 2012, she was included in Barbara Archer Gallery’s, “Talent Loves Company”, and named one of the 30 most influential artists in Atlanta. She is a member of the Atlanta based collective, Dashboard Co-Op, is a 2011 Hambidge fellow and is 2013-2014 Walthall fellow.

Iman created All Acts of Pleasure during her time here.

Regina Agu is a visual artist and writer based in Houston, TX. Agu’s work has been included in exhibitions, public readings, and performances at New Museum, labotanica, Diverseworks, Project Row Houses, University Museum at Texas Southern University, Box 13, and Lawndale Arts Center, among other venues. She is a 2012 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant recipient, and received a 2014 The Idea Fund grant for her collaborative project “Friends of Angela Davis Park” in Houston, TX. Agu is a partner at Alabama Song, a collaboratively-run artist space in Houston, TX, and a co-founder of paratext, an independent small press. Published experimental texts include ON | OFF (onestar press, Paris via Book Machine Houston), Visible Unseen (Nyx, a nocturnal, Goldsmiths, University of London), and Index, With and for: “Black Mo'nin',” by Fred Moten (Book Club Book, Future Plan and Program).

Regina created A Living Index during her time at Elsewhere.

Ellis makes music and has a cat named PeePee.

Meredith Kooi (b. 1985, Chicago) is a visual and performance artist, editor, arts writer, and curator based in Atlanta, GA. She is a Hambidge Fellow and a recipient of Atlanta's Office of Cultural Affairs 2014 - 2015 Emerging Artist Award. Her recent performance and installation work has been presented by venues across Atlanta including Eyedrum, The Goat Farm Arts Center, MINT Gallery, and The High Museum of Art.Since 2011 she has been the editor for the Chicago-based experimental radio broadcast platform Radius, which received a Propeller Fund award for its 2014 series GRIDS. With Radius, she has curated playlists featured on WFMU's Free Music Archive (NYC) and Kunstradio (Vienna), commissioned artists' works for two series: GRIDS and RANGE, been a visiting artist at ACRE Residency, and participated in participated in the Museum as Instrument residency at Elsewhere.

Jeff Kolar is a sound artist and curator working in Chicago, USA. His work, described as "speaker-shredding," "wonderfully strange," and characteristically curious," includes cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. His work activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices. Jeff is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform, which participated in the Museum as Instrument residency. Since 2011, Radius has commissioned over 50 original works by artists from over 20 countries.

Amy Siegel's work focuses on the way space, history and memory inform the way we experience the world. The ghosts of people, objects and moments breathe life into a place, even in their absence. Physical environments are experienced on multiple levels: what we see, what we remember, and the stories we’ve heard. A particular focus of Amy's is shadow play and the space beyond light both visually (in terms of projection and illusion) and metaphorically (exploring dream worlds, death and the psyche).

Amy created Remember Well during her residency. 

Beth Cohen created Object Obituaries during her residency. 

Jon Brumit works creatively with interactive social design, structured improvisation and multi-layered interventions. By design, his objects and public performance situations often produce unpredictable results – occasionally humorous, often sonorous, and always highly interpretable. Brumit has presented solo and collaborative works widely in the US and abroad at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial (as Neighborhood Public Radio), MOCAD (Detroit), SF MOMA, the DeYoung Museum (SF), Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), YBCA (SF), Novi Sad Contemporary Museum (Serbia), Cranbrook Museum of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Krannert Museum (Urbana Champlain), Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago), and the Borderline Academy / Fadaiat (Tarifa, Spain).

Joe Jeffers is a co-curator of Museum as Instrument: A Sound Art Residency at Elsewhere. Joe is a musician, producer and Director of 8550 Ohio (Chicago and Chesterhill, OH).