Katherine Quinn is a researcher and poet from the frigid land of upstate NY. She spends her days scribbling words on old envelopes, pondering community dynamics, and attempting to grow plants.

Kyra Gross is an artist, theorist, and community organizer who believed a big man in the sky was watching her for most of her life. She now uses object making as a means to analyze the implications of religious thought on how people view themselves, others, and their communities from an anthropological point of view.Her work visualizes a the future of women as intellectual giants surviving and thriving in oppressive systems. She hopes to help others reorient their lives post-god and provide a platform for identities which have been historically suppressed. She believes the systems that we collectively live in today are producing a dying planet - requiring a new generation of thought and activity- divorced from present-day binaries.

Nava Levenson in a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Richmond, VA. She recently received a piece of paper from James Madison University notifying her of the completion of a BFA program. Her work investigates anthropological concepts such as ritualistic nature of food, depreciation of labor and the object-human relationship. Her work is largely comprised of installations, performances, gatherings, and recently, her own a brand of food.She can often be found crocheting spaghetti, listening to podcasts, telling inconclusive stories and at www.navalevenson.com or on Instagram @nava.levenson.

Please ship canning jars of studio dirt/scrap with your name and number to 325 S Pine St, Richmond, VA 23230.

Based in Minneapolis, Riley Kleve graduated Hampshire College with a BA in Curatorial Practice and Studio Art in 2017. Riley's work is concerned with the work we do in our living spaces and the living we do in our workplaces. Riley usually works in textiles but has dabbled with painting, stained glass, printmaking, and construction tarps.

House Manager / Curator

Avery Rose (they/them) is a 3rd generation dumpster diver, collector, maker, and jack of all trades wannabe raised in Waxhaw, NC. They have a BFA in painting and a range of professional experiences in furniture, upholstery, design, and restoration related fields. They like to explore color, shape, and line through textile work, tattooing, painting on unconventional surfaces, and collecting natural and discarded objects. Avery's work founded on interests in sustainable and communal living, travel and exploration, environmentalism, homesteading, and diy culture.

Avery has been the House Manager/Curator at Elsewhere since 2018. They have completed a number of projects including building a new front desk from collection, co-creating the Shelter Elsewhere Residency, and patching various holes around the museum in unexpected ways. Avery can be found at @dirt_soup on Instagram.

Aurora San Miguel uses the title of artist to wear many hats (poet, theorist, archivist, publisher, screenwriter, filmmaker, sculptor, party planner, proprietor, etc.). She is concerned with ZOOM (dilation, exposing in literal and metaphoric ways–intensities). She received a BFA in Photomedia and a BA in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington in 2018.Aurora loves email: aurorajsm@gmail.com

Kerri Mubaarak (Board Director / Executive Committee / Board Secretary)

If you encounter Kerri Mubaarak, it won’t take you long to figure out that her perspective is different. The way she approaches a subject—any subject— whether it’s an artist’s proposed work that she evaluates or a socio-political paradigm addressed in her performances is different. In fact, it’s difference that underlies all her works of theatrical art.

Kerri chose theater as a medium to express what she sees and senses interacting with “people in the periphery” a term she uses to describe those who are often marginalized by race, gender, religion or cultural norms. “The gift of this medium,” she says “is that the raw emotion of human experience can be shared openly and in the safety of an audience.” She considers the craft a practice of both art and healing that pre-dates modern theater.

Nadia Ahmed is a slow-reader, movie snob, and insomniac. She is also a performance artist, sculptor, and arts administrator currently based in Seattle, WA. She is interested in showing vulnerability as strength and exploring her perpetual discomfort through her work. After she leaves Elsewhere, she looks forward to creating inclusive, accessible, and collaborative art spaces. She can also out-karaoke anyone with Kelly Clarkson’s Since You Been Gone.

instagram: @nadiaahmed

Chee Earn Khor is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Malaysia. In the attempts of manifesting awareness from one body to another, she utilizes sculptures, installations, and performance to ponder, document and distort relatable human experiences. Personal narratives, observations of cultural signifiers, along with a tablespoon of curiosity and a dash of humor currently drive her studio practice.

Sam Cone is a financial consultant with Pinsker Wealth Management. He earned his JD cum laude from the New York University School of Law in 2008 and his BA in mathematics and philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. Following law school, he was a law clerk to Justice Mark Martin of the NC Supreme Court, after which he practiced in the litigation group of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, CA. Sam is active in the community and is presently involved with several non-profits devoted to youth health, gender equality, charitable giving within the Jewish community, and other causes. Sam is a certified professional stunt performer, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu student, and roller derby

Anna Bonesteel graduated this June with an estimable training in the canonical arts. [S/he thinks at eight percent irony.] Anna was briefly enrolled at Brown University and studied at RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. S/he currently reads predominantly fiction, much of it in translation from the French (?). An interest in soft systems animates hi/r Programs work at Elsewhere [[— as well as an insistent optimism in the human project. Anna acts on hi/r formalist compulsion by copy-editing freelance. Please contact at aboneste@alumni.risd.edu

Andrew Gelwick is fresh out of school having received a degree in business and arts administration. They also make art, usually with paper, and Gelwick's work deals with exploring narratives inspired by their use of vintage materials. Andrew's process involves estate sales, thrift stores, and a large, ever growing, personal collection of photographs, unique magazines, and other paper ephemera. They also love mopeds.

Imani Thomas is a filmmaker & photographer currently based in the Triad. As a kid she thought there were people in her air vents and would tell them stories. Much to the thrill of her family, she decided to pursue visual storytelling and not things that were expected of kids who talked to walls. Imani enjoys making movies, taking portraits, kayaking, trespassing, and buying clothes off the interwebs. Contact at: timani44@gmail.com

Once, Caitlin spent three weeks on a farm as pest control, attempting to reduce the overwhelming population of "potato bugs" (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) by hand. She couldn't ever seem to let go of this experience. Contact at caitlin.mccuskey@gmail.com

Sosena Solomon is an award winning social documentary film and multimedia visual artist from Ethiopia. Intuitively selecting subjects and stories, she is particularly interested in spaces of transition and change, acting as a cultural preservationist. Her work, whether presented as a film or an immersive 3-dimensional experience, explores cross sections of various subcultures and communities in flux, carefully teasing out cultural nuances and capturing personal narratives via arresting visual storytelling and cinéma vérité stylings.

During Solomon's residency, she created Untitled (Documentary).

Ben Seretan. The confused sound of blood in a shining person. Ecstatic joy exploder with loud bands, clouds of guitar, letter writing, guided meditations, sunrise songs, and an ambient music hotline. Looks up to Dolly Parton, Arthur Russell, Terry Riley, and Alice Coltrane. Grew up in southern California and once performed a concert at the National Gallery in Albania and another on a boat that was anchored off the coast of Maine during a tropical storm.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Seretan created Every Dawn Jubilation Blues and The See Major Arcana.

Daniel B. Coleman (he/they) lives a life-project centered life that de-compartmentalizes his work as an artist, scholar, and organizer between the U.S. South (NC) and the Mexican South (Chiapas). Each of these elements are an integral part of who he is in the world. Daniel is an Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at UNC Greensboro, a performance artist and choreographer and a transfeminist and abolitionist organizer. As an artist, Daniel has taught and performed throughout México, the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Poland, and Estonia.

During Coleman’s residency, they created Warriors: Beyond Unicorns and Erasures.

Samantha Burns an interdisciplinary artist based in Southwest Florida, working with sculpture, printmaking, and installation-based practices. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from Florida State University. Burns considers herself a composer of sorts, assembling and manipulating materials in order to create new temporal networks of dependence and dialogue. These arrangements aim to call attention to the inherent strengths and uniqueness of her objects investigating the relationships they have with one another, time, and the spaces they live in. Visually and conceptually, the sculptures examine concepts and interactions of the body mind connection focusing on the changes surrounding sudden trauma and recovery processes.

During Burns' residency, she created Nine out of Ten / Proceed with Caution.

Alexandra Ciardullo is a multidisciplinary fiber artist based in Baltimore, MD. Recently she completed her academic career at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Through puppetry, Alex seeks to convey the connections between story and performer. Utilizing costumes, soft sculpture, installations, and drawing, she works to develop characters and environments that evoke different voices, places, and her own familial ties. Alex began this line of work after completing a series of pieces in regards to craft and her relationship with her grandmother. As a part of her practice, Alex loves to cook, watch avante-garde films and create a better community. If you would like to get in touch with her about collaborating or making a good meal contact her at alexandraciardullo@gmail.com 😬