Kyle Hazard is a red headed thinker who loves to learn and work. Having had jobs from being a hay baler to artist's assistant and reads everything from cognitive research and game theory to Fitzgerald's short stories. He works to experiment and explore with exhibitions and create information systems that empower the viewer.

Here we have Elliot Keeley, who traveled over half this great state to be here. He recently graduated from Appalachian State University, where he studied studio art and art management. His artistic practice focuses on metal, the line between craft and naivety, collecting, and the exploration of more sustainable artistic practices in an increasingly profligate world. He will go out of his way for a good swimming hole, or a nice piece of trash. His interests include, but are not limited to: Fruit, Bull Terriers, Minions, and pleasing his haters. Elliot wants to facilitate creative freedom at Elsewhere, and listen carefully to the lessons others offer.  ✍(◔◡◔)

Cassidy Frye is currently a MFA Sculpture candidate at the University of Tennessee. She Received a BFA from Herron school of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she focused her time studying sculpture, printmaking, and trying to solve the mystery of why anyone would build a city surrounded by corn, mystery is still unsolved. Her work focuses on her search for connections, experiences, and an understanding. She doesn’t know why most things exist, but she is glad they do.

Amelia Nura is a senior at UNCG, majoring in Photography and Media Studies. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a curiosity for uncovering psychological and social fabrications of identity and interpersonal relationships. Her fascination with uncovering truth and providing a platform for lives and narratives that are often neglected or misrepresented, manifests itself primarily through photography and film, where spaces and emotions are built into scaled-down worlds of light, sound and action, to communicate our constructed realities. Amelia likes journaling, night walks, Suspiria and Black Sabbath (minus the Dio years).

Emma Rosenberg is a writer and educator, creating hybrid work that investigates the limits of language. A Boston native based in Miami, she is interested in the tension between fiction and truth. Her practice draws on archival research, documentary storytelling, and the politics of narrative form. She leaves things everywhere.

Emma created A Meditation on Scatology during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Juana Valdes' artistic work is grounded in a multi-disciplinary practice that combines the process of printmaking, photography, sculpture and ceramic. An integral part of Valdes's practice elicits migration as a complex process, constructing history through a continuum that involves both the homespace of the diasporic community and their new homeland. In her current work, Valdes reevaluates the worth of artistic production once considered craft-like. She uses them as a medium to identify herself and as a means to subvert the modern conception of value in visual art. It integrates the social-political discourse within the art object to analyze relationships between contemporary and historical imagery and their connection to the social, political and economical dominance of the cultures that produce them and their impact on cultural memory. Her artwork brings into consciousness past histories (in present day experiences) and engages social justice to question economic inequalities due to race, class, and gender prejudice in society.

Juana created Those The Sun Has Loved during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Pioneer Winter is a Miami-based choreographer and performance artist – invested in physical theatre, contemporary dance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transmedia. His collective provides a platform for risk-taking, progressive, and experimental arts initiatives. As producer, Pioneer directs LEAP (Leaders of Equality through Arts and Performance), a program for queer youth, and Grass Stains, a fellowship and commissioning program for site-specific performance.Education: B.A. Psychology (2007), MPH Epidemiology (2009), MFA Choreography (2016)

Pioneer created A Love To Last 13 Hours during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Jessie Laino fascinates on the ambiguous nature of sense-memory, symbolic acknowledgment and recognition. She attempts to evaluate a city in terms of its economy, geography, industry, residence and salvage. Through her absorption of these characteristics, Jessie salvages what she can from her soundings to examine and conceptualize a universal connection and conversation between object, material, nature and human.

Jessie created 4 MIL and Catch during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

Matthew Evan Taylor is a composer, performer, and improviser. His music has been performed through the United States as well as Italy, France, and Russia. During his time at Elsewhere, Matthew will be exploring the connection between memory and music and the paradox of a concrete image representing an ephemeral sound, and vice versa.

Matthew Evan created In Living Memory during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

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Gui Villalba Portel is a Greensboro-based storyteller, theatre artist, and arts organizer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. An indigenous latinx and undocumented queer, Gui often thinks about visualizing: the amplification of marginalized narratives, collective deviation within social constructs, and "new" recipes.

Tattfoo Tan is an artist who collaborates with the public on issues relating to ecology, sustainability and healthy living. His work is project-based, ephemeral and educational in nature. He resides in Staten Island with his chicken collective named S.O.S.5p.m.During his residency, Tan worked on FoodLab 2016.

Jessica Gaynelle Moss is an artist, writer and entrepreneur.As an ardent advocate for artists, arts education and communities of color, in 2016 she founded The Roll Up, a national network of art incubators embedded in neighborhoods across the United States. Prior, she served as the Creative Director of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC and earlier, on the senior management team of Rebuild Foundation in Chicago, IL.In addition to her numerous management and leadership roles, Jessica continues to practice as an artist. Her work--often focused on race, class and accessibility--is in private and public collections across the United States including the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Baltimore, the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection (JFABC) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her curatorial projects include 2018’s ‘Black Blooded’ at the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC, which presented the work of 50 interdisciplinary artists from Kerry James Marshall to Sherrill Roland-- and the 2016 exhibition ‘1975 Paintings: Noah Davis’ at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, IL.

Jessica received a bachelors in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from Carnegie Mellon University; a masters in Arts Administration, Policy and Management from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and a masters in Studies of the Law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Her interests in innovation, activism and collaboration continue to influence her projects today.

During Moss' residency, she created The ABOVEGROUND RAILROAD Scholarship.

Shan Wallace is an award-winning photographer, artist, and freedom fighter from East Baltimore. Inspired by the service of social change and the social power of art, and harsh realities rooted in racial and economic divides during her upbringing in poverty, SHAN uses the lens to document communities of the African diaspora. Her work conveys and reveals the social, cultural, and political narratives of black life serving as photographic documentation and archive of Blackness. Dedicated to demonstrating and promoting the value of archiving and photography, and increasing Black visibility, SHAN distributes her photographs internationally. Inspired by the legacy of photo albums, this ongoing project is a grassroots and accessible method of storytelling and archiving, articulating and legitimizing Black people’s experience. The goal is to provide subjects with physical copies of images of themselves to build or contribute to their own archive and challenging us to consciously or unconsciously enforce new ways of seeing, thinking, and being a part of the African Diaspora. SHAN has received recognition from the Baltimore Beat for Best Solo Show, Best Photographer from the City Paper, and awarded 2nd Place for Small Outlet Feature of “Losing Conner’s Mind” by Association of Health Care Journalists'. Her work has received widespread support from publications like the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Essence, and the now-defunct Baltimore City Paper. SHAN has also exhibited work in museums internationally from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum to Mariano Arts Center, in Havana Cuba. More recently, she's working on confronting oppressive politics and histories of Black Americans through collages and installations.

During Wallace’s residency, she created THE BANSHEE UNDE[RAGE].

President of the Board of Trustees for the Phillips Foundation, which implements high-impact grants within the Greensboro/Guilford County community. At Phillips Management Group he oversees strategic growth for the organization and its portfolio of communities. Prior to his current position, Kevin worked for a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs as an analyst in Dallas, Texas.

Hồng-Ân Trương lives and works in North Carolina and New York. Her interdisciplinary projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.Her work has been shown at the International Center for Photography, Art in General, Smack Mellon, and The Kitchen among others. In 2013 she was recipient of an Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park EAF. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015. She was a studio art fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She is currently working on To Preserve, Destroy.

Xi Jie makes intimate encounters for a noisy world. She works across mediums like film, performance, installation, social practice and writing. She is interested in eccentric personal histories; everyday possibilities; the abyss of aging; the modern role of Clown (often Pierrot); silence and the universe. Based in Singapore, she invents little cosmic experiences for the real and imagined lives of humans.

Salty created Energy is Always Conserved, Never Created or Destroyed during her time here.

Common Ground is led by John Futrell, our neighbor and local landscape mastermind.  

Blair Bogin generates documentary-based hybrids of writing, performance, photo and video that measure facts about identity confusion, privacy, and love against its lesser quantifiable absurdities. Her work is characterized by collaboration, gift giving and interactions that allow people to relate on an equal plane of play and storytelling.

Blair created Non-Stop King Ratduring her time here.

Artist, Curator, and Culture Maker, Chris Cloud (b. 1983) is a fixture in Minneapolis’s creative milieu. Cloud has made collaboration and experimentation major components of his practice. He was the co-founder of MPLS.TV, an online Do-It-Together video network and MPLSzine, a submissions-based digital publication. Cloud exhibited work in June 2015 for "Last Year On The Internet" in Chicago, IL at Ordinary Projects as part of the collaborative Negative Jam with Former Elsewhere Resident Lea Devon Sorrentino and "SLOVV" as a part of the group exhibition "Brilliance: Made Here" in Minneapolis, MN, which was organized by Former Elsewhere Resident Joan Vorderbruggen. Cloud concentrates his practice on conceptual interdisciplinary projects that may include video, installation, performance, and mixed media and typically combine medium-hearted humor and irony.

Chris created Chasing Freedom during his time at Elsewhere.