FIELD/WORK Residency 2017-2018

Allison (Hales) Ellingson is an artist based in Chicago working primarily with textiles and the social fabric.

Charle Luckett is a writer, stargazer, and community volunteer.

Denise Hoover is an artist discovering that making art is a silent conversation on many levels, an awareness of internal and external nuances that prompt her to create.

J. Slater (artist name Onyx) builds light installations as a means of public and communal gathering as well as a set to experiment with their performance works.

Luis Mejico is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator.

Monica Rezman is an artist working with textiles, paint and embroidery to create a series of paintings and sculptures that speak about her collective experience.

Nora uses choreography, words, and melody to delineate and unspool patterns of contemporary existence-often those that govern gender, popular culture, and relationship dynamics--and point to possibilities for queer reimagining.

Sandra Bridges is primarily an oil painter. Sandra is known for creating emotionally charged paintings—be it her ability to capture the energy of a jazz performance or the strength of character on a subjects face.

Simon Pyle’s work deals with preservation and loss in the digital age. His aesthetic is influenced by imaging technologies: the shape of LCD pixels, the compression of a jpeg file, or a low-resolution image used for computer-vision and facial recognition. With an intermedia approach, his work draws on the fundamental units and idioms of technology.

Susan Dwyer is an artist interested in making sculpture that elicits tactile curiosity.

Udita Upadhyaya is an interdisciplinary artist who uses her body as a primary material for making.
Her work spans live art, devised theatre, performative photographs, sculpture, installation, video, writing, text, and fiber arts.

Christa Donner is an American artist, writer, and organizer exploring the human/animal condition and its metaphors.

Dana Bassett is the Development Director for ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions).

Edra Soto (b. Puerto Rico) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and co-director of the outdoor project space THE FRANKLIN.

Felicia Holman is a co-founder of both the Art Leaders of Color Network ('ALCN') and Honey Pot Performance (‘HPP’), and she is also Communication Director at Chicago's venerable Links Hall.

Jason Pallas is an artist, archivist, curator, and educator primarily concerned with projects at the intersection of the personal, the popular, and the political.

Julia Fischbach is a co-founder and director of PATRON Gallery.

Kate Schutta is an artist, educator, and Director of Career and Professional Experience (CAPX) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lee Anderson is the founder of Starkweather, designer, creative strategist and fashion advocate.

Mark Jeffery is a Chicago based performance/installation artist, curator and educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Patrice N. Perkins is the founder of Creative Genius Law®.

Lauded as a 2017 Artadia Awardee, artist-scholar Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) manages a living studio practice across an extensive list of cultural production modes, including photography, performance, writing, drawing, installation, and video art.