Sophia Schultz is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist and activist from Sarasota, Florida who recently received a BA in Anthropology from New College of Florida. Through alternating and combining mediums such as analog photography, old school video cameras, fabric, screen printing, and metal Sophia explores themes of self-care, trauma, and memory in her work. Whenever she's not taking photos you'll find her learning about medicinal and edible plants, going on bike rides, and enjoying the outdoors.

Ava Zelkowitz is an Anthropology student, artist, vegetarian cook, and sculpture studio monitor at the New College of Florida. They like to help small people learn to use big saws, dream of futures in anarchy, and think about collective and collaborative art and action. They see good omens on the daily.

Yansa Fatima shaved the side of her head with a dull razor at the age of 6.

Jordan recently graduated from The New School where she majored in Integrated Design and Arts in Context with a focus in visual studies and psychology (?). Her practice is somewhat of a chaotic dance between the physical and the immaterial worlds. Jordan enjoys making material things, and finds comfort in the tactile world, but is overall more excited by the idea of creating the immaterial (interactions, emotions and empathy). She finds meaning in thinking metaphorically and believes that this can lead to a more sustainable, thoughtful and engaging world (!). 

Adam is from Pittsburgh, PA where he immersed himself in its theatre scene. After beginning his studies at Cleveland Institute of Music, he hopped from voice teacher to voice teacher and landed at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC where he broadened his focus to include journalism, art history, and queer advocacy. Adam sings in a post-punk band called Mall Goth, rarely goes a day without a green juice, and co-hosts a podcast called The LowDownBeat. His interests in public relations, curating, branding, and marketing underscore his work as Elsewhere’s communications intern. 

Koy Smith is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Virginia and currently based in San Francisco, CA. Their work has addressed themes such as gender and sexuality. An avid music lover, they are inspired by punk and metal subculture. They received their BFA in New Genres (Performance/Video) from the San Francisco Art Institute. Koy has a deep appreciation for craft processes and experimental film and video.

Lucas Baisch is a playwright and text-based visual artist, originally from San Francisco, currently based in Chicago. His work spawns from interests in youth culture, technology, and contemporary depictions of iconoclasm. The work aims for the queer, crude, and aesthetically curious, citing a punkish and playful affinity for the irreverent. He holds a BFA in playwriting from DePaul University, and will be pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Brown University starting fall of 2017.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Baisch created Conveyor Belt.

Vivian Charlesworth's objects and immersive environments create a space for physical interplay between the viewer and the artwork. Each piece fosters a sensation of stepping into the middle of a story. In order to make the viewer aware of their own gaze, Charlesworth immerses them within fragmented narratives that ask to be reassembled. Each viewer creates their own story based on the information they choose to process and engage with. She inserts the viewer into the position of explorer, bystander or spy, challenging them to interrogate and confront their own presumptions about narrative.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Charlesworth created Repository.

Edek Sher earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BA from Kenyon College in 2013. Sher's work focuses on the individual's creative role when confronted with faceless corporations and abstractions like climate change and mass surveillance. Blending his interest in literature, electronic media, and internet subcultures, Sher creates experimental music and multi-channel video installations that seek to overwhelm the viewer.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Sher created Repository.

Atlanta based artist Ben Bowden Lee enjoys exploring things like tragedy, loss, and dark humor. Lee typically works with photographic images, books, and the occasional knickknack. Often seen lurking around estate sales or abandoned buildings, he utilizes the found image/object as his main source of inspiration and material. Lee also grew up in a family of funeral home directors and learned to drive in a cemetery.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Bowden Lee created Blue Monday.

Lily Reeves's work looks at the epistemology of the sacred throughout history and into postmodernity. She incorporates spiritual ideologies alongside existential philosophy in her work to ratify ideas and interactions between the mind, body, and spirit. With her installations, performances and sculptural objects, Reeves delineates the boundaries of the soul and provides experiences to heighten the metaphysical side of being and the relevance of spiritual thought in contemporary life.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Reeves created Southern Static.

Craig Smith is an American media artist whose art and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human‐to‐human interactivity in contemporary art, especially photography, sound, and socially engaged performances. Smith’s research – based practice can be produced in innumerable locations because of its effort to combine the history of a particular site with its everyday use, its population, and the context of how such a population occupies a named ‘site.’ Site and its inherent operations become inclusive formal elements in that they make specific and incredible encounters possible for the viewer.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Smith created #NCTRIAD.

Anthony Warnick is an aspiring amateur librarian. He currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been in residence at FutureFarmers (San Francisco) and SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico) among others, and has exhibited at Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), SPACES (Cleveland, OH). His work is often a humorous engagement with systems of knowledge and power in our contemporary sphere.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Warnick created Everything in Life is Vibration and Conservation Labor.

Dana Robinson finds her paradise in Greensboro, North Carolina, surrounded by old toys and dusty fabric. She dives into the gleaming void and brings something like art back to the surface. The strange and mysterious Elsewhere holds many secrets and Dana will capture and bring back only the most alluring.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Robinson created The Still Lifes of Elsewhere.

Justin Rabideau's recent body of work has been focused on the exploration of discarded materials and how these materials can be utilized to create a connection between the forgotten/past to the new/now. By using found/salvaged pieces of wood, discarded furniture and other objects of personal interest, Justin creates works that have direct connections to the neighborhoods/spaces that he sources his materials from while also referencing notions of gentrification, object history, cultural wastefulness, and hidden beauty.

Montreal based artist Chris Flower animates the inanimate. His photo-based work often captures unexpected qualities found in everyday common objects. Flower currently resides at the Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro North Carolina where he is conducting an exploration of unseen, invisible, or interstitial spaces, the in-between, and the unfamiliar side of the familiar.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Flower created Contained Elsewhere, Barley Twist Column, Stranger Things (Books & Memory), and Little Bear Zoetrope.

Emily Jan is a huntress of objects and stories. She hails from Montreal, by way of southeastern Utah, South Africa, Mexico, and California. Her sculptures and installations recall both the museum and the wunderkammer, combining the found with the handmade, and evoking the faraway and fantastical as well as the everyday. She is guided in her work by the spirit of exploration, kinship, and curiousity. From time to time she writes and illustrates books; you can find them on her website.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Jan created Rangifer - Polyphemus - Polypore, Barley Column Twist, Stranger Things (Books & Memory) and Little Bear Zoetrope.

Franky Cruz is a multiplidisiplinary artist working in all mediums currently living in Miami, FL. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised by wolves in Hialeah, FL, Cruz received a BFA in painting at the New World School of the Arts in Miami in 2011.Cruz was a resident at the HomeBase Project in Berlin (2012), and participated in Airie residency in the Everglades National park (2015) where he continued to expand interests in multimedia painting, murals, sculpture, drawing, performance, and video collaborating with the Everglades. Cruz's practice has lead him to experiment and collaborate with plants, crystallization, and cycles in the flow of water, as well as found human and organic objects, whilst observing, and raising the beautiful winged insects and collecting their emergence secretions onto water color paper.  He documented a performance in which I embody the human animal in a photographic series I produced for the AiRiE residency billboard project, titled Some kind of Heron. This series was inspired by Pah Hay Okee (River of Grass), the plight of the plume birds, and his stay month-stay at the Everglades National Park. His most recent installation included a terra-formed couch and it is titled Cycles in Ellipsis and What It Takes To Make It.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Cruz created Fe3O4, [Fe]=O.

Michèle Fandel Bonner got a BA in Pre-Art Therapy from The University of Massachusetts in the 80’s, then dropped out of sight. She never stopped making but resurfaced in 2013 and started showing her work to the public. She is a multi media artist looking for beauty and meaning in the detritus of daily life; she has a vast collection of things, waiting their turn to be transformed. Outsider art and the deep felt impulse to create are an inspiration and impetus for her work. She has shown her work throughout New England and in Australia.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Bonner created Make Do and Mend.

Mike Nourse moved from Canada to study movement in America, the home of the free. He is interested to see how people navigate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nourse creates work towards a more perfect union for people of all kinds, at all times, in all places. 

During his residency at Elsewhere, Nourse created Untitled (Chalk Mind Map).