Artist Residents

Kyle Dacuyan

Brooklyn, NY

Artist-in-Residence

Kyle Dacuyan is a poet and performer writing about work, the ways that work bears upon writing, where writing begins (in voice), where voice begins (in body), and how the body can be something more than a working body. His poems draw from a breadth of working word circumstances and matter: the sedimentary effects of labor and value on idiom, syntax, etymology, advertisement, law, embodiment, and ecology. Dacuyan is the...

Kyle Dacuyan is a poet and performer writing about work,...

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Ash Hanson

Moab, UT

Artist-in-Residence

Ash Hanson (she/her) is a social practice and theater artist with over two decades of experience working with rural communities to activate stories, connect neighbors, and exercise collective imagination. She is the Creative Executive Officer (CEO) of Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) — a nonprofit organization that works at the intersection of creativity and civic life in rural communities. In addition to her work with DoPT, she is the founder...

Ash Hanson (she/her) is a social practice and theater artist...

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Li Harris

Houston, TX

Artist-in-Residence

Li(sa E.) Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and researcher who uses voice, theremin, electronics, movement, improvisation, meditation, and new media to explore healing in performance and living. She is the founder/creative director of the multidisciplinary creative arts studio Studio Enertia. Her awards include a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and the 2021 Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Her recent solo exhibitions include...

Li(sa E.) Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and researcher...

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Sam Kim

Brooklyn, NY

Artist-in-Residence

Sam Kim is an experimental choreographer, dancer, and teacher who has been making and performing in dances for over two decades. She was born to Korean immigrants and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Sam's felt and direct experience of being an immigrant has uniquely honed her artistic lens and approach; it’s manifested in her work as an elegantly subversive form of agitation against traditional dance forms. Her body of...

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Helen Otterson

Excelsior, MN

Artist-in-Residence

Helen Otterson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami. Exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, her work has been published in American Craft Magazine and Ceramic Monthly. Her work can also be found in books such as Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process, 500 Sculptures, and 500 Figures in...

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Lisa Blake

Lisa Blake is CEO of Colorado Gardens LLC and the founder of Come Together Collective. Lisa was born in Englewood, Colorado, and is an avid outdoorswoman. Lisa loves nature and all that the mountains of Colorado have to offer. Lisa is a professional “Gardener for the Soul” by cultivating sacred spaces, an educator for those who are less fortunate, and a teacher of transparency in her multifaceted work. Lisa has...

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Christinia Eala American Horse

Coming from a deeply rooted foundation of social activism and movement building, Christinia Eala has championed human rights in many capacities over the years. As the founder and director of development of Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, meaning ‘Extended Family of Women of the Earth’ in the Lakota language, Christinia has led important work addressing crisis and systemic change for over 42 years now. She is originally from the Rosebud Indian Reservation...

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Queen

Founder and C.E.O. of Fort Collins’ first Black and Black Women-Led Non-Profit and Black Owned DEI Consultant Firm, Dedria Johnson, who goes by and prefers her chosen name “Queen”, is a 17-year resident of Larimer County, where she continues her journey as a Lived Experience Expert in marginalizing and oppressive systems—the most prevalent being the school pipeline to the prison system. With her sons, Queen has guided decisions to engage...

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Princess Mack

Princess Mack has immersed herself in the advocacy arena since 2010. As a conceptual intellect, Ms. Mack is a navigator and connector to others who may be uncertain or unable to maneuver through the school system and/or state agencies. The overlay of lived experience with continued education assists in guiding her moral compass from a “bigger than me” ideology. This ideology is her North Star, which mandates that she moves...

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LaQuetta Walker

LaQuetta S. Walker, MSW is the proud mother of an amazing son who was the 1 st in our family to graduate early from high school. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Her areas of study were Program Development, Policies, Research and Evaluation, and Community Organizing. As a strong community advocate and leader in social justice and social change, she is...

LaQuetta S. Walker, MSW is the proud mother of an...

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Jensen Morgan

Jensen Morgan has 14 years of experience in equity and sustainability program implementation in nonprofit, government, education, and business. While co-leading racial equity-centered community engagement for climate action at the City of Fort Collins, Jensen saw the transformative power of storytelling to transform hearts and inspire real action. In 2022, Jensen launched a brand new social good enterprise, Risking Joy Productions. A video production company dedicated to helping social good...

Jensen Morgan has 14 years of experience in equity and...

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Holland Andrews

Brooklyn, NY

Artist-in-Residence

Holland Andrews is a vocalist, composer, clarinetist, and improviser whose work focuses on generating expansive tapestries of cathartic and dissonant soundscapes. Frequently highlighting themes surrounding vulnerability, healing, and transformation, Andrews composes music with their voice, clarinet, and electronics to serve as a vessel for these themes. As a musician, their influences stem from a dynamic range of styles, including contemporary opera, free jazz, american experimentalism, as well as ambient, drone,...

Holland Andrews is a vocalist, composer, clarinetist, and improviser whose...

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Nina Elder

Gardner, CO

Artist-in-Residence

Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. She is the co-founder of the Wheelhouse Institute, a women’s climate leadership initiative. Nina lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, develops publicly engaged programs, and consults with organizations that seek...

Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s...

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jaamil olawale kosoko

Philadelphia, PA

Artist-in-Residence

jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, educator, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent, originally from Detroit, MI. jaamil’s practice considers emergence, queer Black theory, and critical rest-care strategies as a vehicle for BIPOC+ liberation and reparation. They work across education, performance, video, sculpture, fashion, and poetry, merging cultural, political, spiritual, and academic frameworks of inquiry. As an educator and community organizer, jaamil leads restshops...

jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance...

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yuniya edi kwon

Brooklyn, NY

Artist-in-Residence

yuniya edi kwon is a violinist, vocalist, and transdisciplinary performance maker based in New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. In addition to an evolving solo practice, yuniya collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi,...

yuniya edi kwon is a violinist, vocalist, and transdisciplinary performance...

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Cedar Sigo

Lofall, WA

Artist-in-Residence

Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish Nation. He studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of endless books and pamphlets of poetry, including All This Time (Wave Books, 2021), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005) and most recently Siren of...

Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish...

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Nick Wylie

Chicago, IL

Artist-in-Residence

Nick Wylie is an artist, organizer, and educator based in Chicago. Wylie's practice, which incorporates technology, performance, drawing, and queer time travel, has haunted galleries in Chicago and beyond for the past twenty years. His work recently focused on Elmer Ellsworth, dandy abolitionist and purported lover of Lincoln, who was first to die in the Civil War after taking down a giant Confederate flag. More recently, he's been a member...

Nick Wylie is an artist, organizer, and educator based in...

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Renae Jarrett

Brooklyn, NY

Artist-in-Residence

Renae Jarrett is a playwright living in Brooklyn. Her play Daphne was produced by Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 in the Autumn of 2023. She is a member of EST/Youngblood and a 2022 MacDowell/National Endowment of the Arts Fellow. She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group 2021–22 and graduated from UT Austin's MFA Playwriting program in 2021. In addition to writing plays, she has dabbled in arts criticism,...

Renae Jarrett is a playwright living in Brooklyn. Her play...

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