Residents

Aurora Tang is a curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. Tang has worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) since 2009, and currently serves as its program director.

Ja’Hari Ortega is a Boston-based artist and advocate interested in the idea of visual language vernaculars. She works in a variety of mediums but is primarily drawn to metal.

Nicki Cherry is an artist based in New York and Chicago. Cherry’s monstrous fiberglass and concrete sculptures incorporate active systems of growth and decay—tulips bloom from stretching tendrils, ceramic bodies leak milky fluids, spine-shaped candles burn and diffuse scent.

Meg Hahn is a painter based in Portland, Maine. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions such as the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Able Baker Contemporary, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Dunes, Zero Station, SOIL, and Collar Works among others.

Jake Price, Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor, Writer is a World Press Photo winning producer, director, immersive doc creator and educator. His films and immersive media convey intimate and poignant stories of the human spirit in demanding times.

Julia Jacquette is an American artist based in New York City and Amsterdam. Primarily a painter, she also has worked in ceramics and published a graphic memoir.

Enrique Mendía is a filmmaker, photographer, art educator, and programmer based in Brooklyn. He was born and raised in Miami and still claims it as his home sometimes. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College in Political Theory and studied narrative fiction filmmaking at the FAMU International Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is currently a Teaching Artist at the Brooklyn Museum.

Julee Holcombe (b.1972) lives and works in New England. She received her MFA in Photography and Electronic Media at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her work questions photography's truth-telling ability in which to distill our sense of time and curiosity. Her work is documentary, fictional, and autobiographical, reflecting today's world. The landscapes she documents can be decades apart or miles apart as they are reassembled to create mythical realities.

Jamie Roux is a painter who lives in Maine.

B​eatrice Wolert is a first-generation Polish American visual artist. She was raised in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where she lives and maintains her artistic practice. Wolert works between genres to explore concepts of impermanence, essentiality, and serendipity through the transformation of everyday materials and found objects.

Teresa Silva is the Executive and Artistic Director at the Chicago Artists Coalition, a nonprofit organization supporting emerging and mid-career artists and curators.

Olga U. Herrera is an art historian, independent curator, and scholar. She is currently Managing Director of the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Joe Mama-Nitzberg lives and works in Catskill, New York. He received his MFA from Art Center College of Design. He works in various forms and media including photography, video and collage.

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1970, García received her AAS from Altos de Chavon/The School of Design in the Dominican Republic in 1989, and her BFA in Communication Design from Parsons The New School of Design in 1991.

Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to convene communal dialogue around culture, social issues, and existential questions.

Bryana Bibbs (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based textile artist and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kate Fowle is a curator and the former Director of MoMA PS1. From 2013–2019 she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she was the executive director from 2009–13.

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen.

I have maintained a studio in NY since 1965. In 1969 I traveled in West Africa with a keen desire to witness first hand the culture and its creators. I am a Mcdowell Colony Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow A recipient of a Readers Digest Fellowship held at The Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France. I am also a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.

Cole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival.

Born and raised in Idaho, Bodett received his MFA from Boise State University in 2011. Seeking to dedicate himself more fully to a studio practice he moved to Chicago in 2013.

David Bunn Martine, born David Bunn Siklos in 1960 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, is of Shinnecock/Montauk, Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache from his mother Marjorie, a classically trained opera and concert singer. His father, Thomas Siklos is a Hungarian music director, organist and voice teacher. He comes from an artistic family for several generations.

Christophe Roberts (b. 1980, Chicago, Illinois) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting design and installation work.

Antonio McAfee is a photographer based in Richmond, IN. He received his BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Christophe Roberts (b. 1980, Chicago, Illinois) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting design and installation work.

Greg Jamie is a visual artist and songwriter living and working in Portland Maine. He received a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase and currently programs films at SPACE Gallery and The Apohadion Theater.

Naoko Wowsugi is a first-generation immigrant and community-engaged artist who lives and works in Washington, D.C.

Cosmo Whyte (b.) 1982, Jamaica, has exhibited his works in England, Jamaica, United States, Cuba, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, France, and South Africa.

Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) is a Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary artist and organizer whose socially engaged work draws from her experience as a community organizer, educator, and lightworker.

Tessa G. O’Brien received her MFA from Maine College of Art, and her BS from Skidmore College.