Hale Ekinci is a Chicago-based Turkish interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Art at North Central College, teaching a variety of courses in the Digital Art field. She spent childhood and much of her young adult years in Turkey, the homeland that she brings in and out of focus throughout her works. She completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago. Focusing on pictorial histories, gender politics, and folk traditions, her works vary from non-linear narrative videos and mixed media paintings that are juxtaposed with craft to fiber installation. Her recent projects touch on social issues, cultural stereotypes, and political unrest. Despite the sometimes dismal nature of these controversial issues, her works are often playful as she uses vibrant colors, patterns, and hopeful moments.

During Ekinci's residency, she created Your Haint Blue is My Evil Eye: Making an Amulet.

Andrea Vail is interested in the emphasis that American culture places on amassing stuff in pursuit of happiness and the ironic emptiness to which it leads. Hinged on textile traditions and techniques, her practice materializes as sculpture, installation, and collaborative exchange. Vail is an artist, teacher, and facilitator based in Charlotte, NC. She is the recipient of the ASC Regional Project Grant; North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship (2016-17); Happenings CLT Visual Artist Grant; CultureWORKS Richmond Arts and Cultural District MicroGrant; and residencies at Goodyear Arts, McColl Center for Art + Innovation. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA).

During Vail's residency, she created Signalling-Hello (Greensboro).

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).

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.

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 😬

I am a worker in the field of Performing Arts (initiator, director, coach, performer, producer, designer) with a background in movement theatre and devised theatre. Projects are often context driven, and strive for trans-disciplinarity and trans-culturality; depending on the work, I collaborate with professionals and/or amateurs from different backgrounds and disciplines. I also currently teach at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.

I am interested in the absurd that lies in the tragic and the beauty hidden in the banal. I attempt to approach the indefinable very precisely in the hope of touching people through that which we do not completely understand but can feel. Inevitability and necessity in the making is essential.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Van Hinte created Slow Dance.

Kirsten Southwell is an artist and designer native to Huntersville, NC and based in Chicago, IL. By day, she works as a designer for the Art Institute of Chicago. By night, she is a textile artist, lapidary, gem faceter, and a modern girl who likes to talk about her feelings. Her work is centered around introspection and vulnerability, sharing her life experience in ways that range from melodramatic to scientific. Kirsten earned her Bachelors in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University (2012) and has previously been an artist-in-residence at Epicenter (2016).

During her residency at Elsewhere, Southwell created Emotional Exercises for the Trumpet and An Invitation That Might Break.

Lía García ‘La Novia Sirena’ (Mexico, 1989) is a poet and performance artist. Her actions take form of affective encounters in public spaces, where a pedagogical and radical tenderness takes place through the caress, touch, and the voice, echoing the fissures in a system that hides and annihilates trans women’s lives. Lia transforms the performative act into an intimate scar, one of justice and memory for dissident bodies.

Lia was a Southern Constellations Fellow in 2017 and returned to build upon her residency project for a special residency in 2021.

Alex Lacey is a bum-poet from Rock Hill, South Carolina who is telling stories through various mediums including photography, videography, and poetry. Growing up around artists, musicians, and storytellers alike created an interest in documenting individual's stories and how they fit into the larger context of society. While studying for a degree in Tele-Productions Technology, he worked for a visual storytelling company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Alex enjoys running, making short films, and drinking excessive amounts of coffee.

Bit of a creator, liar, or some would say a story teller. Aspiring good human and proper collector of yr trash. Art-O-pologist, archivist, poet, collaborator. She is just really into slushies and movies and wants to collaborate w/ you. Leave her a voicemail w/ secrets, lies, or experiences (773) 888-1630 or fill her inbox w/ recordings or voicemails you have forgotten to delete (gloriag.studio@gmail.com)

Sarah Grace Faulk is an artist, writer, and art historian based in Seattle, WA. She received her BA from the University of Washington in 2017, specializing in contemporary art history & the comparative history of ideas. By manipulating form in writing, social media, and affect, she attempts to seek out/make room for the ineffable. Her work primarily concerns geography, embodiment, community, the archive, and language - including the violences, utility, and possibilities for resistance in all of these things.

Susan Hendley is a visual artist, who has spent the majority of her life roaming the Carolinas. She has a BFA in Studio Art concentrating in ceramics and sculpture, and a BA in Art History. Susan creates (mostly) functional ceramic objects, and has worked for various studios and maker spaces in the southeast. In her spare time she enjoys pretending she can sing well, picking plants and flowers, and thinking about rap air horns and good karaoke songs (even though she has never sung karaoke).

Amy is a painter, community organizer, and secular humanist from Indianapolis, Indiana. She has spent the past 9 months wandering about the US sleeping in strange places. Amy received her BFA in Painting from Herron School of Art and Design in 2015.

Rimona Law thinks the sink is keeping secrets and the pipes are spreading rumors. A scrappy plumber, rookie mechanic, and optimistic carpenter, she makes interactive sculptures that investigate hidden intimacies of water, place, and the body. Reimagining objects and architectures, she seeks to trace lines of material culpability and connection. Law joins Elsewhere as recent graduate of Whitman College, where she earned a BA in Environmental Studies-Art. Over the next three months, you’ll be sure to find her toying and tinkering, gleefully lost in the sea of Sylvia’s collection.

During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler in 2018, Law created What's Under That Rock?

While at Elsewhere in 2017, Law was the on-site Production Intern.

April Camlin is a textile artist, percussionist, and ventriloquist born and raised in Baltimore. She is honored to have lived a very strange life thus far. She has toured the globe with music and performance projects and shown visual work both nationally and internationally. Her practices are an attempt to probe the subconscious mind and subvert the embedded forces of capitalism in whatever small way she can. She recently quit her job to focus on her creative practices and hopes to never go back.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Camlin created To Climb the Mountain.

Gina Alexandra Denton is a visual artist based in Baltimore, MD. Her sculptural practice is rooted in intuitive play, and her material index spans several craft based media, including fiber and ceramics. Viewing art making as a form of intuitive cosmology, Gina creates work that explores the concept of space, both internal and external, micro and Marco. Her interactive, modular, "playable" sculptures aim to cast the viewer in the role of the mystical child who, upon encountering foreign objects, see only potential playthings, and through exploratory play, deepen their understanding of context and empathy.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Denton created Big Girl Wanna Play Too.

Hamida Khatri is an artist, writer, curator, arts educator, community activist, and a creative arts therapist, raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and living in Baltimore, U.S. She works in a variety of mediums, from figurative drawings, to photography, to sculptural puppets, to animation. She holds an MFA in Community Arts and a Certificate in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art (U.S.), Certificate in Humanistic Counseling (U.K.), and an MBA in Marketing (Pakistan). Her personal work embodies the spirit of feminist ideologies and seeks to document the uncharted memories of domesticated women, within patriarchal societies. As the Founder and Director of 'Creative Therapy Platform — A Voluntary Travel-Community Project, she helps transform space into healthy communal place where meditative art-making is practiced.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Khatri created City of Scraps.

Antonio McAfee’s work addresses the complexity of representation. Through appropriating and manipulating portraits, he engages in prescribed views of individuals and rework images to provide an alternate - more layered image and concept of the people depicted. His photographs oscillate between formal considerations (modifying appearances and prints) and imaginary potential (establishing new back stories and roles) for the portraits.

During his residency at Elsewhere, McAfee created The Break in the Game.

Beau Vasseur is a new media artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. His work has been shown at Big Law Country Club in Brooklyn, NY, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA, Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore, MD, and the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, FL. His mediums include film and immersive installation. By harnessing the power of conspiracy documentaries, advertising, and architecture, his work attempts to shed light on the detrimental effects of unfeasible expectations set by first world ambitions. These explorations are inspired by real life immersive sets such as Las Vegas, Dubai, and Disney world, and scrutinize architecture as a means to convey progress, human achievement, and utopian aspirations.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Vasseur created Department No. 1.

william cordova's work attempts to reconcile ideas of displacement and transition through the use of alchemy, ephemeral residue and vernacular architecture that continually shifts and shapes what could be described as our contemporary situation.During his residency at Elsewhere, Cordova created untitled: or obsneerg y las cronicas marcianas.