2026 artists
Nicole Betancourt
I create films and multimedia installations that explore liminal spaces between life and death, dreams and reality, and the self and the Earth. In the past decade, I’ve been shifting from traditional documentaries towards more nonlinear and metaphysical projects.
Ari Borazjanian
Ari Borazjanian is a multidisciplinary artist from Houston, TX who uses their work as vessels to explore living at intersections of queer femininity & emotional dysregulation. Displaying grotesqueness with a sardonic lens their work indulges & critiques “female rage”. They has had work featured in several galleries in TX and reside in Austin, TX.
Thomas Bosket
Thomas Bosket (MFA Yale, 1995) has taught drawing for thirty-six years across twenty-two countries. Working daily in ink on paper, his marks move at the speed of attention.
He lives on the Upper Delaware in NY, co-founder of ENGN Civic Creative Center — drawing as civic tool, “taking its capacity to invent mutant coordinates to extremes.” (Guattari)
Addie Boswell
Addie Boswell is a multidisciplinary artist and author whose work illuminates the stories of ordinary people and everyday moments. Most of her career has been dedicated to public art and children’s picture books, and more recently she has dedicated her practice to working entirely with gleaned and trash materials.
Nicole Cassidy
Originally from Woodbury, Connecticut, Nicole Cassidy (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist currently residing in Denver, Colorado. The themes present in Nicole’s work often relate to her personal history of growing up in rural New England, with a focus on the importance of ritual and the various facets of grief.
Isa Dorvillier
Isa Dorvillier is a place-based multidisciplinary artist from Queens, NY. She researches human relationships with the urban environment through material experiments, work with public archives, and physical engagement with the landscape.
Sammi Eady
Sammi Eady is a fiber artist based in North Carolina who navigates memory and embodiment through domestic machine-sewn panoramas.. She earned her MFA this past spring at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to her hanging fabric drawings, she worked in oil painting in her home state of Florida, where she received a BFA at the University of Florida.
Abby Huston
Abby Huston is a Baltimore-based multi-disciplinary collage artist. Drawing from her BA in sociology and personal experiences as an ex-Mormon and eldest daughter, her work explores themes of religion, family, identity, and emotional complexity through layered compositions. Her practice emphasizes narrative, symbolism, repetition, and process.
Jeanne Jo
Jeanne Jo is a filmmaker, writer, and performance artist investigating femininity and power through the moving image and written word. She has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a PhD from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Jasper Jones
Jasper Jones is a nonbinary musical artist based in the American Northeast. Their debut EP “Shadoweaver” (2025) is a collection of songs about sitting in the shadows of love. Jasper is also an accomplished film composer, with their works debuting at a wide range of international film festivals including the Cannes Short Film Corner (2023).
Jonas Lamb
Jonas Lamb is a poet raised in Michigan, now living on Tlingit Aaní in Juneau, Alaska. His poetry collection What Turtle Blood Tastes Like was published by Finishing Line Press in 2025. He is distractable, curious, impulsive and struggles with time distortion, which is to say he is drawn to wonder and to writing.
Leo Louise
Leo Louise is a wood artist and educator based in Baltimore, MD. They transform found wood into sculptural objects that honor queerness, abundance, and cooperation in nature, featuring intricate carved and burned patterns and bold colors contrasted with natural wood grain.
Dan Koh
Dan Koh is an organic architect and artist guarding historic natural building in the east fjords of Iceland. Her practice centers on the spiraling relationship between survival and the synthetic. She seeks shelter for body and brain in a post-environment Ecosystem, testing these ideas in architecture, academia, and artistry.
Caroline Mercier
Designer, artist, teacher.
Go outside the lines: mix everything up: create!
Mikhaila Quezada
Mikhaila Quezada is a New York City-based artist and art teacher whose practice explores unconventional uses of materials and distorts the intended use of everyday objects. Drawing on craft processes – ceramics, fibers, and printmaking – she incorporates household materials as both a medium and a reference point.
Anna Reidister
Anna Reidister (b. 1998) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician living in Boston, MA. She has performed at Massachusetts College of Art’s Alumni & Founders Day, Club Passim’s campfire festival, and the Winthrop Pride Festival hosted by Senator Lydia Edwards. She holds a BFA from MassArt.
Abigail Loree Ruppert
Abigail Loree Ruppert is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and emerging poet living in western Kentucky. Her work explores personal and universal themes of passing time, place, and self reflection through languages of abstract terrain and candid storytelling.
Emily Sabino
My paintings celebrate harmonious human interaction with the natural world. I am fascinated by plants as evolutionary catalysts, inspiring humans to expand into healthier ways of being, in sync with the natural cycles and rhythm of the earth.
Maske Maiden
I am an interdisciplinary artist working with fiber, found objects, and storytelling to build immersive worlds through sculpture and mask-making. My practice explores embodiment, ritual, and transformation, combining intuitive material processes with narrative.
Joseph Sexton
Joseph Sexton is a playwright and visual artist whose work explores tension, memory, and human contradiction through bold visual and theatrical storytelling. His plays have been recognized in audience-choice competitions, and his visual art continues the same fascination with atmosphere, identity, and unease.
Brian Wagoner
Outsider artist from New Hampshire. Making it up as I go along.
past residents
Maya Attean
Summer 2025
Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki artist living in Machigonne or Portland, Maine. Her work reflects her ancestry, and connection to the natural world. Through exploring the duality she embodies within the colonized world she exists within, she marries mediums and techniques to create new realities and possibilities through photography.
Ashley Blanton
Fall 2025
Ashley Blanton is a visual artist who creates mixed media works on paper that explore the liminal spaces between internal and external experiences. Inspired by the interplay between somatic sensations and psychological states, Ashley creates artwork that contemplates connections between mind, body, and environment.
Catus Chaos
Summer 2025
I am a multidisciplinary artist interested in exploring the intersection between visual arts, performance, and immersive experience. At the heart of my practice is my love for stories: both to tell them and to record them. I see art as an experience – one that invites presence, play, and exchange.
Dorothy Dickie
Fall 2025
Dorothy Dickie is an award-winning producer/director of documentaries and digital shorts. Her work has been recognized with three emmy awards, a neta/public media award and a peabody award. Her current focus as a non-fiction storyteller is pursuing stories for and about marginalized communities to enact positive change.
Julia Forrest
Summer 2025
I use film photography without digital manipulation to pose women in landscapes, creating illusions through mirrors, reflections, and forced perspective. Though they appear still, they exude a quiet power, subtly shaping and transforming their surroundings.
Caitlin Gill
Summer 2025
Caitlin Gill is a mixed media artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. In exploring the divergence between craft and fine art and the implicit misogyny within the distinction between the two, Gill uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork that explores ideas of identity, femininity, and domesticity.
Julie Hensley
Fall 2025
Julie Hensley is an Appalachian writer and core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches both poetry and fiction. She is the author of several books, including Viable, Landfall: A Ring of Stories, and Five Oaks.
Ellie Liu
Fall 2025
Ellie Liu is a neurodivergent textile artist based in Seattle. She explores themes of immigration and generational trauma, using the sensuality of fabric and form to draw viewers in and confront uncomfortable societal truths. Through meticulous hand work, close observation, and research, her textiles act as a slow and deliberate unveiling.
Juliana Ramirez
Summer 2025
Juliana Ramirez is a non-toxic printmaker and conservation biologist who works with seabirds during her summers. Inspired by her fieldwork, she mainly practices relief, collograph, and intaglio, and is currently exploring printing marine debris/found objects from the ecosystems that she finds herself in.
Nora Revenaugh
Fall 2025
Nora is a multidisciplinary folk artist from the Mohawk Valley. Her practice includes traditional music, oral storytelling, writing, sewing, gardening, and hosting the Folkist Space Residency. She has worked as a touring storyteller, teaching artist and story director for The Moth and is currently the Product Director of Foreign Affairs Magazine.
Borey Shin
Summer 2025
Composer, improviser, and visual artist Borey Shin makes synth ballads, ambient music, animations, chamber music, and moody songs. He works with minimal means to create delicately undulating soundscapes using pianos, synthesizers, accordions, and other keyboard instruments.
Andrea Volpe
Summer 2025
Andrea Volpe is a cultural historian who writes essays and criticism, often about photography. She is working on a novel, Advice to Women Artists, about motherhood, art, and late capitalism, told entirely through the spaces of art–studios, museums, and galleries–in New York, Los Angeles, Munich, London, Dusseldorf, and Boston.
Aislinn Weidele
Summer 2025
Trained as a photographer, I work across printmaking, digital and mixed media to tell narrative-driven stories about environmental crisis, often reimagined through a fantastical lens. My current project—a series of illustrated “survival guides”—blends satire, speculative fiction, and visual storytelling to explore contemporary dystopian anxieties
Maya Williams
Fall 2025
Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who was selected as Portland, ME’s seventh poet laureate for a July 2021 to July 2024 term. You can find essays of Maya’s in The Daily Beast, Honey Literary, The Rumpus, LGBTQ Nation, Black Girl Nerds, and more.
Elizabeth Withstandley
Summer 2025
Elizabeth Withstandley is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist originally from Cape Cod, whose work explores identity, disappearance, and speculative archives through video installation, photography, and participatory platforms. She is a co-founder of Locust Projects in Miami and Prospect Art in Los Angeles.