Residents

Bee is a 35 year old trans woman with thick eyebrows and a big mouth. She helped found New Fruit, a studio space/venue/ print shop and collective in 2014 and was able to learn from and work alongside many renowned artists both local and national. Her graffiti past eventually lead her to learn sign painting and mural work. She has since installed large scale murals all over the country, both of her own works and the works of her peers.

Teresa Silva is a writer and curator with a focus on contemporary visual and performance artists whose work concerns self-determination, grief, identity, color and form. As an art administrator, she is interested in creating supportive spaces for artists to advance their creativity through experimentation, connection, and dialogue.

Emilie Stark-Menneg is an artist living on the coast of Maine. Her most recent show was Thread of Her Scent at the Farnsworth Museum of Art. She is included in the Shelburne Museum Biennial, New England Now: Strange States, in Shelburne, Vermont, open through October 20, 2024. Her work is in the collections of the Farnsworth Museum of Art and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Tigist Yoseph Ron was born Gondar, Ethiopia. She immigrated to Israel in 1984 and now lives and works in Ra’anana, Israel. The main themes in Yoseph Ron's work are femininity, motherhood, and community. The starting point for the works generally is a person Yoseph Ron is close to, but as the process progresses, the specific identity of the person is slightly obscured in order to emphasize the movement and rhythm that are created.

Grant Klarich Johnson is a writer, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles, where he serves as Director of Communications at Regen Projects and teaches at UCLA and ArtCenter College of Design. Interested in international artistic trajectories, shared aesthetic impulses, and formal exchanges, his research considers twentieth and twenty-first century art, craft, textiles, and fashion in a global context.

Victoria Fu is a visual artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pérez Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among others. Fu lives and works in San Diego, where she is Professor of Visual Arts at University of San Diego.

Dena Beard is the director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. She was Executive Director of The Lab in San Francisco from 2014–2023 and Assistant Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 2007–2014.

Becci Davis is a visual artist who finds inspiration in exploring nature, archives, memory, and connection to place. Born and raised in Georgia, she now calls Providence, Rhode Island home.

A.J. McClenon is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Washington, DC, and currently resides in Chicago. A.J. is a fellowship recipient at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Masters in Fine Arts (2014); and a Bachelor of Arts with a minor in creative writing from the University of Maryland College Park and also studied at The New School.

Triton Mobley is a new media artist and researcher, and professor of graphic + computation design whose interventionist works, and guerrilla performances have been exhibited at CURRENTS Virtual Festival, Geidai Games Online at Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Basel Miami and staged in New York, Boston, Providence, and Japan.

Kayla Mohammadi, born in San Francisco, received her B.F.A. from University of Washington and M.F.A. from Boston University. Her recent exhibits include Overlap at Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME; The Shape of Color at Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; One Place, Two Views at Maier Art Museum, Lynchburg, VA; Contemporary Responses to Modernism at University of Southern Maine; and Patterns of Influence at The Painting Center, NYC.

Sarah Rose Sharp is a writer, photographer and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for a number of print and online venues. Sarah was a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize.

Mary Temple may be best known for her immersive trompe l'oeil installations—subtle room-sized paintings of light and shadows of trees, flowers and shrubs. However, for the past ten years the artist has built a body of work on canvas and paper which both departs from and amplifies the installation work.

Minsoo Thigpen (she/her) is a storyteller and tech worker based in Boston, with a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and BA in Applied Math from Brown University in 2018. She is currently working on building and designing tools for the responsible/ethical development of AI at Microsoft. Her work spans across painting, multimedia, zines and comics with a specific focus on family, language, diaspora and grief.

Biba Bell is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Detroit. Her choreographic work, often set in unconventional venues, focuses on domesticity, labor, and architecture. Her current project investigates dance and arts activism as it intersects forest protection and conservation, through the lens of what she theorizes as epiphytic choreographies.

Cody Castle-Stack (born 1994) is an artist and a local arts organizer based in Portland. His artistic practice is an endless painterly exercise, a sandbox to form, and challenge his notions of creation.

Marisa Lerer, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art history and chair of the Art History & Digital Media Art Department at Manhattan College. She specializes in Latin American and Latinx art, public art, and memorials.

Dan Dowd is an assemblage artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Phippsburg, Maine since 2001. His artwork has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States.

Kemi Ilesanmi has been a DMV worker, retail clerk, receptionist, business school dropout, museum curator, foundation officer, and nonprofit administrator. From 2012-2022, she served as executive director for The Laundromat Project (The LP), a community-based arts organization.

Cedric Wilson is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Harlem New York, the son of a zookeeper father and a Roller Derby mother. His work contains an intimate immensity. The sense of colors and forms and movements in his art can be appreciated as visual symphonic poems.

Artist, writer and curator, Dell Marie Hamilton has performed extensively throughout the Boston and New England area including at the MFA/Boston, the Clark Art Institute, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.

Tanja Hollander is an artist who works with photography, video, social media and data to understand cultural and visual relationships.

Dorian Sylvain is a painter whose color and texture explore ornamentation, pattern, and design as identifiers of cultural and historical foundations.

JOJO ABOT is an interdisciplinary healer exploring evolving themes of spirituality, identity and community through music, film, fine art, fashion, photography and various other expressions.

Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners was installed in the five boroughs of NYC (2017-2022).

Athena LaTocha (b. Anchorage, Alaska) is an artist whose massive works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds, in the wake of Earthworks artists from the 1960s and 1970s.

As More Art’s founder, Executive Director, and Chief Curator, Micaela Martegani has deep experience working with both emerging and established artists at every stage of conceptualizing and producing new public art works.

Alexander creates images and objects that are inspired by natural forms and systems. Her drawing projects are rooted in close looking at the objects or fields that are her subjects.

Ryan Cardoso is a visual artist exploring portraiture through photography and filmmaking and its importance in archiving the elegance, domesticity, and relationships of black life.

Stina Puotinen is an artist, educator and occasional curator from New York City.