Art Residency Program

  As a collective, Elise Ashby & Stephanie Whitelaw, focus on ecological themes, in particular care for liminal spaces within communities and how they can activate dormant possibilities. Their practice is led by care, developing site-responsive works that seek to … Continued

  Foon Sham received a BFA from the California College of the Arts, and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a professor of Art at the University of Maryland. He has had 44 solo exhibitions in Washington DC … Continued

  Marcia Walker’s writing has appeared in The New Quarterly, Fiddlehead, The New York Times, PRISM international, Room, EVENT, Antigonish Review, University of Toronto Magazine, This Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC radio and The Broken Social Scene Story Project. … Continued

  Luis Eduardo Vivero is a writer of children’s literature, and is dedicated to conducting creative writing workshops for boys and girls. He has received the following awards and distinctions: first place in the First Librarian Short Story Contest, organized … Continued

  Marissa is a painter born in 1993 in Hartford, Connecticut, currently living and working in New York City. Her work revolves around food and identity – food’s deeply emotional nature and its relationship to her own queerness and adolescent … Continued

    Born in Mexico City, Daniel wrote his first short story at the age of 10 (an assignment by a literature teacher). From then on he continued writing but only as a hobby. Daniel studied psychology and later psychoanalysis; … Continued

    Born in 1987, Kristyna Erbenova currently lives and works in Australia. The author was presented for the first time with the series Fragile Moments – intimate portraits of people at their most vulnerable time, and afterwards with the cycle Private … Continued

  Cathy Kossack is a chef and food justice organizer with education in visual arts and art administration. For five years she worked at Headlands Center for the Arts, first on the programmatic side but quickly found her way into … Continued

  Ingrid Kristensen Bjørnaali (b. 1991, Norway). She is a video artist who recently graduated with an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, with parts of her studies spent in Helsinki at the Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemia’s “Time and … Continued

  Shuang-Tzu Yang is a novelist and researcher of popular literature. Since 2016, her novels have been attentive to both social justice and popular culture. An advocate for same-sex marriage, Yang was married as soon as same-sex marriage was legalized … Continued