Josie Vogel is a born and raised Jersey girl turned nomad, with an interest in all things sculptural, particularly when they can be climbed. She comes to Elsewhere after a four-year stay in Baltimore, Maryland--where she earned her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)--and a brief stint in Hudson, New York, where she taught sculpture to a bunch of unruly beasts and/or children. Whenever she's not contemplating vertical storage solutions in the third floor workshop, you might find her dancing, drinking coffee, or petting dogs in all sorts of unexpected locations.

Benjamin Poulos works with film, animation, illustration, live action, and cartoons--sometimes all thrown together in a mish-mashed piece. His art-making focuses on relationships between individuals, groups, and media. Through these combinations, he fashions new realities; both visually constructed realities and stories of realities created through perception. He creates stories about tiny animals, serial monogamists, and loner cavemen. His good dreams include finding lost zippers under beds, walking through marble hotels owned by vampires, and not getting a foot wet after sticking his waterproof shoe in a puddle.

Bailey Roper is a recent graduate from University of the Arts where they received a BFA in Acting. They are primarily interested in movement based performance that provokes social change. This work ranges from divisive mime, to performance installations, to a self-composed form of comedy entitled "poop feminism." On the side Bailey enjoys denim, glitter, crafting, and cheese.

Pictured above is Hannah Bartman, a recent studio art graduate from Whitman College located in the transcontinental lands of Walla Walla, Washington. When she is not searching for ghost towns or trying to find and make friends with the elusive Big Foot, Hannah makes art installations and site-specific works pondering the big ideas of collective memory and public space. Working previously in community arts organizations, Hannah is excited to live and learn in the collaborative environment of Elsewhere and Greensboro.

Luke Hodges was schooled, publicly, at the University of South Carolina and the Governor's School for the Arts, where he studied English and Creative Writing. A freelance writer and aspiring film producer, Luke's interests in creative place-making, queer southeastern narratives, and trans-media storytelling were first kindled as an employee of the Indie Grits Festival in Columbia, SC. Luke is currently the Secretary of Symbolism for Borscht Corp., a Miami-based nonprofit that supports regional films and filmmakers in south Florida. He enjoys painting his toenails, listening to the music of Fiona Apple, and eating pimento cheese.

Milo Gallagher is a writer, gardener, and artist from the marshlands of South Carolina. They have a BA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, where they concentrated in poetry. They love plants, sewing, reptiles, queer theory, houses (preferably the doll and/or haunted variety), sugar snap peas, and the moon.

Janelle Beasley is a collage artist from Bloomington, Indiana. She responds to the beauty and absurdity in vintage printed materials, domestic objects, and social guidance films. Using found images as personal symbols, she makes work about the psychology of idealism and morality. Janelle received a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University in 2013 and is now the Works on Paper Preparator at the Eskenazi Museum of Art. She would like to dedicate her art endeavors to utopian feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Dada photomontage pioneer Hannah Höch.

During her time at Elsewhere, Beasley created Velvet Retreat.

Alex Meiser attends Cranbrook Academy of Art in his home state of Michigan. He creates fun and absurd spaces intended to mirror and shake up social relationships. He is also a long time participant of Site:Lab, an artist organization that creates site specific artist installations in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

During his time at Elsewhere, Meiser created Nothing Can Be Something

Alix Pentecost-Farren grew up in North Carolina, attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, studied illustration and filmmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts. Her work often takes the form of sequential images, and has included interactive comics, edifying instructionals, documentaries, mud murals, animations and installations. She has worked on projects for Radical Media, Mason Jar Music, and Nomadique Collective, and her work has been shown in multiple venues in New York and abroad including Pioneer Works, the Society of Illustrators Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival, Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo, The SoHo Digital Gallery, and the Grace Farms Foundation. Her practice draws on historical research, environmental concerns, humor and mysticism. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Pentecost-Farren created Indefinite Progress

Roger Miles's art practice is a combination of immersive installations, performance and the memorialization of found objects. He has used unusual residencies over the past three years as a source of objects and as a way of disrupting his normal work methods. The residencies include those at the local recycling and re-use centre, at a mannequin factory that was closing down, a window in Selfridges London, at the famous Olympic Studios in Barnes, London and at Elsewhere in Greensboro, North Carolina. Whilst studying for an MA at the RCA he created a fictive archaeological dig, excavating 500 dolls house pieces from a solid cube of beeswax. The dolls house pieces were from his late mother’s dolls house collection and the excavation revealed old family stories and memories. Titled, The Battersea Hoard, he presented the installation at the RCA’s work in progress show in January 2017, which was attended by circa 2000 visitors over 3 days. His final MA show in 2018, the Bureau of Found Art Objects, was equally well attended and successful and led onto being part of the 2018-2019 Kaiser Chiefs' curated show, at the York Art Gallery, When All is Quiet. He is currently helping the Olympic Studios pull together its archive of music, images, film and artifacts relating to the its rich music recording history. The owners opened a vinyl record shop opposite the studios in July 2018 and is managed by the artist as its official archivist – this has activated and housed the archive and provides a place where local residents can sell and buy vinyl records.

During his 2016 residency at Elsewhere, Miles created Resonate/Generate.

Megan Blythe Stewart is a theatre artist who creates solo and collaborative devised theatre, performative installations, and community-based theatre projects. She has a long-term fascination with (folk/outsider/visionary) art environment builders, hoarders and collectors. Through her work, she explores the transformations and accumulations that occur within theatre making and the lifelong processes of making oneself at home in the world. She completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, and currently spends her time traipsing between Canada’s east and west coasts, making art and performance on each side.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Blythe created Elsewear.

Trent Spivey is a cinematographer and visual storyteller currently attending the UNC School of the Arts. Trent believes strongly in the value of the possible exchanges between visual art and cinema, and enjoys creating art installations when he's not filming. His current work includes narrative shorts, music videos, and an upcoming Elsewhere documentary.

Grant Conversano is a filmmaker and photographer from Concord, North Carolina. He is a third year director in the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Earlier this summer he documented the cave emergence of Brazilian free-tailed bats in Texas, directed a music video for the Greensboro band Echo Courts, and wrote his next narrative film about a Trucker. He is currently directing a documentary on the resident experience of the 2016 Southern Constellations fellows at Elsewhere.

Maria Molteni is a Nashville/Boston based multimedia & performing artist, educator & organizer. Her practice sprung from formalist roots in painting and printmaking and has grown to incorporate research, participation, and spiritual experimentation. From fiber to found-object sculpture, painting to movement, performance to publication, she employs tactile and tactical processes per their ability to manifest elaborate conceptual orchestration and intuitive synaesthetic provocation. Exploring iterations of sport, craft, feminism, animism, glossolalia, urban planning, and more she takes interest in standardized systems that influence ritual in everyday functionality. She playfully asks audiences to imagine her serving Black Mountain College as a PE coach : )

During her residency at Elsewhere, Molteni created Revolving Spectrum.

Charisse Pearlina Weston is a Houston-based artist and writer. Her work focuses on the deconstruction and reconfiguration of language, representation, and history through the manipulation of various mediums including video, photography, and printed text. She has exhibited and performed in various venues including Project Row Houses, the Lawndale Art Center, and DiverseWorks, and has participated in residencies at Alabama Song Houston, Sunblossom Residency (organized by Carrie Schneider), Vermont Studio Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has received awards from the Artadia Fund for the Arts, the Santo Foundation, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation, and the Dallas Museum of Art's Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund. She will be attending the University of California-Irvine as a MFA in Art candidate this Fall.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Weston created Politics Surrounded.

Antoine Williams creates mixed media assemblage installations, paintings and collages, which are an investigation of identity, semiotics and social structures. Heavily influenced by speculative science fiction (specifically social science fiction and cosmic horror), hip hop, plus his rural working class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology of hybrid creatures that exist between the boundaries of class and race. Antoine is an Assistant Professor of Art at Guilford College.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Williams created Because They Believe in Unicorns.

Cosmo Whyte is a Jamaican-born, trans-disciplinary artist who employs drawing, performance, and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration—particularly migration as an unfinished arc of motion whose final resting point remains an open-ended question. He situates his work in the liminal space between early culture shock and final acclimatization. Cosmo's creative process begins through the interrogation of his own body and the personal memories that are embedded within it. He uses this archive as his entry point into collective political interrogations.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Whyte created Guess Who is Coming to Dinner.

Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist from Galway, Ireland and is currently is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. In 2008 she earned a Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin and in 2014 a MFA in Digital Art from Tulane University, New Orleans. Cassidy’s primary work is based around site-specific audio-visual installations with a focus on creating meditative, immersive environments. Past performances include the European Media Art Festival, Germany, the New Orleans Film Festival, Punto Y Raya Festival, Spain, Currents New Media, Sante Fe, Arts Council New Orleans LUNA Fete and group shows in Dublin, Galway, New Orleans, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Cassidy has had solo shows at the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, and at Tulane University and PARSE Gallery in New Orleans.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Cassidy created We Went Down To O'Shea's Woods.

Sheetal Prajapati is an artist and educator, raised in Kentucky, educated in Chicago, and now living in Brooklyn. She's currently Assistant Director for Learning and Artists Initiatives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) but works across the field organizing, making and thinking with herself and others. Her creative practice explores notions of intimacy and identity through an investigation of material processes. She's interested in the circumstances and conditions that welcome meaningful experiences and wonders about our relationship to the spiritual and cosmic worlds. She's interested in you, the stars, and making strangers talk each other.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Prajapati created We Are Not Alone.

Quilla is a Canadian-Peruvian songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist, DJ and electronic producer. Originally from Montreal, Canada, she resides in Greensboro NC. Weaving layers of infectious beats, piano melodies and mesmerizing vocal loops, Quilla's music is a refreshing dose of magical realism for the ears. She has participated in many events at Elsewhere, including playing music a several of the annual fundraisers, and also collaborated on the South Elm Projects.