Meet this month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: December 6th - December 19th, 2023
Angeline Meitzler
Brooklyn, New York
Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler is a writer and animator based in Brooklyn, NY. The 2nd daughter of a German scientist and a Filipino nurse. Her work and research utilize fiction and myth to deconstruct how power, race and colonialism are entangled in political and personal narratives of worth and value. She is the author of the lyrical collection of prose, A Drop of Sun (Fauxmoir Lit Press, 2023). Her poetry and hybrid writing was nominated as a finalist for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize. Her animated films and multimedia work has exhibited and screened internationally at the 46th Asian American International Film Festival, NYC (2023); San Diego Filipino Film Festival (2023); Tacoma Film Festivial, WA (2023); The Wrong Biennale (2023); Natasha Singapore Biennial, Singapore (2022); SummerWorks Festival, Toronto (2022); The Human Terminal, Anonymous Gallery, NYC (2021); Feminist Media Studio, Montreal (2018). Her work has been awarded fellowships and supported by MASS MoCA Fellowship, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Harvestworks and New York State Council of the Arts. Her collaborative work as an software and environment artist has been exhibited at MUDAM Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, the New Museum, Rhizome, de Young Museum, Istanbul Biennial 2019, Koenig & Clinton, Ringling Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Basel, Rubin Museum, Sadie Coles HQ, the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She received her MFA through Georgia Institute of Technology and the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago as a New Artists Society Scholar.
Felicia Nez
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Felicia Nez is a Navajo multi-disciplinary artist with a strong emphasis on writing. Through the honesty of her writing, she processes words into the medium they want to be. She parallels writing with working with clay — harvested from her homeland in the southwest. The clay tells her what it wants to be, and she never plans her pots or sculptures. These two disciplines helped her form her spring 2021 MFA thesis show Transference. This exhibition showcases Nez’s ability to tell her story in her own form of tangible/intangible communication. Within the layers of her complex narrative, she makes historical references to how Pueblo Potters and other Native artists coded their pot designs and art to preserve their traditions from colonists.
Nez graduated with her MFA at the University of New Mexico in spring of 2021.
David Askew
Virginia Beach, Virginia
David Alston Askew is a Black, Queer painter currently residing in Brooklyn, New York and is recent Aunspaugh fellow from the University of Virginia's art department. Their work is an exploration of self identity through abstract world building portraiture and is used as a tool for self reflection of how they perceive their sense of self and place in society.
“On a broad scale, my work is representational; it surveys and analyzes the idea of the human figure, with added elements of decoration through “destruction.” Portraiture considers the person, first; they are the forefront. My art is striving to claim my status as an artist and not jus a replicator of the human image. Ultimately, my goal is to diverge from this sense of iconography and ego that portraiture enforces, and I strive to destroy that in search of ownership of my own art and the adoption of the figure as my own. Ownership is the most prominent objective in my work, because without claiming myself in my work, there would be no reason to create. Leaving the existence of every piece an embodiment of self, no matter who I am painting whether a friend, a celebrity, or a self portrait, I am always reflecting on my own identity and existence making self-portraiture the true identity of my work. I paint to understand myself.”
Najee Haynes-Follins
Baltimore, Maryland
“In my current work I am experimenting with the concept of spirits/entities that are created out of combined human energy and imagining anti-black racism as such an entity. These ‘Haints’ get between the viewer and the subject and distort the subject. The Black body is a fetish, a fantasy and a nightmare. I’m examining the layered perspectives, misreadings and misconceptions of Blackness. I am attempting to externalize what it can feel like to be interacted with as a Black body; living with the constant possibility for both psychic and physical violence because of the impossibility of being fully seen. I am currently working through several sets of ideas around this but planning to narrow my focus during this residency period to continue my experimentations with encaustic, photo and found object collage using photos from my youth growing up in Northampton Massachusetts. I am materializing and hopefully exorcizing the psychic material of otherness and monstrosity that was imposed on me as a child being black and isolated from other black people. The memories captured in these photos are joyful but tainted with the damage done from never fully belonging in these spaces. I am also currently pursuing an M.F.A. at MICA.”
grace (ge) gilbert
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
grace (ge) gilbert is a poet, writer, and collagist based in Pittsburgh. they received their MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022, where they now teach. they are the author of 3 chapbooks: the closeted diaries: essays (Porkbelly Press 2022), NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK (Antenna Books 2023), and today is an unholy suite (forthcoming; Barrelhouse 2023). their work can be found in 2023's Best of the Net Anthology, the Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, the Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. They teach hybrid collage and poetics courses at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and they are a 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation. they are passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all. find course offerings and more at gracegegilbert.com.
Derek G. Larson
Brooklyn, New York
Derek G. Larson is an accomplished artist and animator with an MFA degree from the Yale School of Art. Larson has a background in media, having previously worked at PBS, and is the creator of the highly regarded animated documentary series, Très Mall. This unique series revolves around in-depth interviews with prominent academics, exploring a wide range of topics including philosophy, the environment, and the Anthropocene. Très Mall has featured esteemed guests such as Noam Chomsky, Michael Hardt, Graham Harman, McKenzie Wark, and Priyamvada Gopal. The series has garnered significant acclaim and has been screened at venues including Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Tranen, Times Square in New York City, MoCA Atlanta, and the Yale School of Architecture.
Stevie Imua’Kalani Cisneros Hanley
Chicago, Illinois
Stevie Cisneros Hanley has been anchored in Chicago for 11yrs where they work as an artist, curator, educator, and member of the Bargaining Committee of the newly unionized School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They teach Queer Color, a Research Studio class awarded the Pulitzer Campus Visit and a Course Enrichment Grant to work with Indigenous cultural preservationists and producers, such as Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu and Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu. Hanley is Co-Chair of the 2023 Terrain Biennia: Mycelium Connection. They have had solo shows at the International Museum of Surgical Science, University Club of Chicago, M LeBanc, and Center of Endless Progress Berlin. Hanley has participated in numerous international exhibitions including Tüyup, Istanbul; Artist House Jerusalem, Jerusalem; La Mama Galeria, New York City; Lodos Contemporary, Mexico City; Julius Caesar Chicago; September, Berlin; NADA Miami; Iceberg Projects, Chicago; and CANARY, Los Angeles, Twins Gallery Laundry, and the Poetry Foundation. Hanley is currently exhibiting in NO BIOS, for Visual AIDS in New York City. As a multiracial person of Mexican (Zacatecas), Irish, indigenous Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli), and Punjabi ancestry, I seek to uplift marginalized voices and cooperate in post-colonial community building.
Tammie Dupuis
Bremerton, Washington
Tammie was born and raised in Northwestern Montana, on the Flathead Reservation. Her father was Qlispe' (Upper Pend d'Oreille) and Seli’š (Bitterroot Salish) and her mother was the daughter of non-Indigenous settlers who moved to the reservation in the 1920s. Her aesthetic is situated between these two cultural heritages and explores their complicated history as well as her own identity as a mixed blood person.
Using both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of making and seeing, her work ranges across several different processes and materials including but not limited to paint, wood, fabric, resin, hair, bone, paper, and beads.
Tammie earned her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, located in Boston, MA, in 2022 and her BFA from Cornish College of the arts located in Seattle, WA in 2019. Additionally, she holds a BS in Anthropology/Archaeology from Montana State University, located in Bozeman, MT. She and her art practice are located in Bremerton, WA.
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arnab Gan Choudhury (b. 1994, Kolkata, India) is an Indian interdisciplinary artist. He held his first solo art exhibition in 1999 at the age of four at the Nehru Children’s Museum, Kolkata. Arnab has had solo exhibitions in Birla Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata, Gaganendra Shilpa Pradarshashala, Kolkata and Gateway 1 Gallery, Maryland. He has been featured in group exhibitions at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, Karnataka Chitrakala Parisath, Bengaluru, Abanindranath Tagore Gallery of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata, Eastern Zonal Cultural Center, Kolkata, Monmouth Museum, New Jersey, Area 405, Maryland, Ann Bryan Gallery, Philadelphia, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka and La Galleria Pall Mall, London among others. Arnab executed his first public sculpture commissioned by Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Ministry of Broadcasting, Government of India in 2022 and in 2023, he was awarded the Edmund Stewardson Prize in Figure Sculpture. He completed his BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art, USA in 2021 and is currently pursuing his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA.