Elsewhere is restoring its 100-year old building to make the museum more accessible, safe and sustainable. Since the beginning, we've been fixing up the building bit-by-bit, but now its time to secure our building for years to come. Restoring Elsewhere creates twelve live-work artist studios, year-round programming and museum operations, and three-floor public museum access.

A month-long residency brings a group of Chicago-based sound artists to the museum to create a series of new sound works and performances at the museum that turn the building itself into a musical instrument. The residency is curated by Shannon Stratton, Chief Curator of The Museum of Arts and Design in New York and Founder and Executive Director Emeritus of Threewalls in Chicago, and Joe Jeffers, musician, producer and Director of 8550 Ohio (Chicago and Chesterhill, OH). Throughout June and early July, Elsewhere will host a series of public workshops and events with these artists culminating in a July First Friday public performance to Play the Museum.

Hopscotch, Agustina Woodgate, Miami, FL, South Elm Projects. For her project, Agustina Woodgate charted a hopscotch course over public sidewalks throughout the South Elm neighborhood. Running from numbers 1693 to 3082, it first emerges from a drain opening by the rail line that divides downtown and then snakes around the neighborhood past businesses, residential homes, and community centers

FoodLab is a project of Elsewhere's education program, Colab, that partners teaching artists with local schools to produce collaborative art works, introduce contemporary creative practices and support learning across curricula. Teaching artist Anna Luisa Daigneault will guide the production of a cooking show created by students who take part in an afterschool program at Jackson Middle School, to share information on healthy eating and cooking fun. Organized through a partnership with Communities in Schools in Greensboro, NC, this project launches in March.