THE DIRT PALACE
November Curator Cohort in collaboration with ODD-KIN Gallery
Open house & talk Saturday Nov 22nd
Abigail Satinsky is the Program Officer and Curator of Arts & Culture at the Wagner Foundation, based in Cambridge, MA. Formerly, she was the Curator & Head of Public Engagement at Tufts University Art Galleries where organized a variety of exhibitions and public projects including with artists Sofía Córdova, Museum of Capitalism, Faheem Majeed, Josh MacPhee, and Elizabeth James-Perry, amongst others, as well as co-curating Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities (with Erina Duganne), which toured nationally, and focused on the 1980s artist-activist campaign against US intervention in Central America and its ramifications in the present. At Tufts University Art Galleries, she was also the founding Program Director for the Collective Futures Fund, supporting artist-run projects in Greater Boston through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Brittni Ann Harvey (b. 1992, RI) is a sculptor and textile-based artist and educator living and working in Fall River, MA. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge), NOW: Gallery (Lima), Someday (New York), and Anthony Greaney (Somerville), among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art and holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Danni Shen is a curator and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is currently organizing exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Upcoming exhibitions include "Knowledge is Myth: Chimeric Continuities" (Fall 2026). Previous curatorial roles include at The Kitchen, Empty Gallery, and Wave Hill in New York. She has been a visiting critic at RISD, NYU-ITP, and Cornell AAP, and was also Critic-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), as well as Curator-in-Residence at Residency Unlimited. Shen is a contributor to various publications including BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Heichi Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, AICA Magazine, and the Boston Art Review among others. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) Bard College.
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in Providence, RI, where he is a PhD student at Brown University in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. His work explores the relationship between publics and publications and how the cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past. Wesley held roles as a Curatorial Associate at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Program Director at Recess, Brooklyn; Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter, Queens; and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Wesley has been adjunct faculty at Bennington College, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Yale School of Art. He is a cofounder of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon', a project dedicated to contemporary African artists’ books, art books, and independent art publishing. Wesley received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991, MA) is an autodidactic artist who lives and works in Fall River, MA. Harvey’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain; List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laborer, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY; and Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kate Irvin is Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum. Her current exhibition, on view now at the RISD Museum, is Liz Collins: Motherlode, which celebrates the richly varied career and work of the New York-based Queer feminist artist known for her bold abstract patterns, inventive use of materials, and radical experiments with fiber. Other recent exhibitions include Sensory Silhouettes: Experiencing South Asian Garments (2024) and Sensing Fashion (2023), both of which were curated in collaboration with RISD faculty and students as experimental projects exploring ways of creating displays of global fashion fostering immersive intimacy.
In 2022/2023, Irvin co-curated the initiative Inherent Vice with textile conservators Jessica Urick and Anna Rose Keefe, a project that comprised a year-long exhibition), deaccessioning and other collections-care activities, community-building conversations, and related RISD courses and creative output produced therein. As a whole, the project reframed collections care as a reparative, empathetic act that embraces both literal and metaphorical cracks as opportunities for revealing and making room for neglected narratives. Previously Irvin curated Repair and Design Futures (2018–2019), another year-long multidisciplinary exhibition and programming initiative that investigated mending as material intervention, metaphor, and as a call to action. With Markus Berger, she co-edited a related book Repair: Sustainable Design Futures, published by Routledge in 2022.
M. Rachael Arauz, Ph.D., is an independent curator of modern and contemporary art, with research interests across all media, especially under-recognized artists, movements, and materials. She has organized exhibitions and contributed to museum catalogues in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She was co-curator of the 2019 exhibition In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 for the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently working on projects for the MFA Boston and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Zach Ngin is an art worker and writer from San Francisco. They are currently the curatorial assistant at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where they organized the first US solo museum exhibitions of Kite (with Selby Nimrod) and Elif Saydam. They also serve as an art editor at n+1, and their writing has appeared in Momus, C Magazine, Boston Art Review, e-flux, and The Amp, among other publications. They live in Providence.
December Maintenance Schedule Related Residencies
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Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos (they/them) is a cultural worker who uses storytelling across mediums to create immersive worlds of magic and liberation. They focus on photographic annotations, social practice art, and ritual-based performance. Rivera has 15 years of experience in the arts and culture sector, interweaving artistic practice with community development, cultural equity, and gender justice. As founder of Studio Loba -a cultural production studio and consulting firm- they curate cultural placekeeping activations, live performances, and exhibits; designs and facilitates artist cohorts and workshops; and advises on cultural planning. In 2024, Rivera was selected for Providence Commemoration Lab, a one year residency of social practice art for reimagining commemoration. Rivera has exhibited work and live performance in various cities across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Mexico City. Born and raised in Borikén (Puerto Rico), Rivera lives and works in Providence, RI, land of Narragansett and Wampanoag peoples, where they have set deep roots. Photo Credit: Cat Laine
Hernán “Nan” Joubá is an Argentinean-born, Providence-based director, writer and producer with over 10 years of experience leading special projects for public spaces, theater and film, and designing cultural programs in Providence and across New England. Over the last decade, Nan Joubá’s work emerged in local theaters, community libraries, museum galleries, abandoned buildings, and rural landscapes. Today, he maintains an interdisciplinary practice centering theater, writing and video while stewarding cultural programs for collective learning and co-creation. Photo Credit: Susanna Turner
Rafay Rashid (b. 1990, Pakistan) is a Providence-based artist, musician, and mental health practitioner whose work spans socially engaged and participatory practices. Blurring the boundaries between exhibition, performance, and collective care, his projects often take the form of gatherings, ambient installations, and improvised social spaces. His ongoing project Wreck Room transforms the gallery into a clubhouse or rec center with ping pong tables, recovery meetings, and modular spaces for rest and conversation. Rashid has performed at institutions including the Whitney Biennial, Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), and Kaldor Public Art Projects (Sydney). His practice foregrounds healing, play, and mutuality, reimagining the exhibition as a living social organism.
JANUARY 10-19 WARP
open house/artist talks Sun.Jan 18th
Becci Davis (she/they) is a mother and conceptual artist who finds inspiration in nature, history, connection to place and ways of remembering. She was born on a military installation in Georgia named after General Henry L. Benning of the Confederate States Army and now calls Providence, Rhode Island home. Becci is a member of the WARP Collective housed in Olneyville’s historic Atlantic Mills and teaches in Brown University’s Department of Visual Art.
Cybele Collins paints and researches biogeochemical cycles: molecules and microbes that change greenhouse gases and are involved in the origin of life. Before research, they established Providence Books Through Bars and played frenzied violin as Blueshift.
Eliza Squibb creates textile patterns to bridge the worlds of art and science: collaborating with healthcare providers, artists, and artisans to communicate health information for populations with low literacy or language barriers that prevent equitable healthcare access. Eliza’s collaborations have been grant-funded, including two Grand Challenge Exploration grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her designs have been used in health campaigns to promote reproductive and infant health. Eliza is part-time faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When not in the studio or in the classroom, Eliza can be found canoeing on Rhode Island’s many rivers and marshes.
Photo by Dominique Sindayiganza @sindayiganza
Eric Sung is a lens-based artist, scholar, and cultural worker whose creative vision has brought numerous interdisciplinary ideas to life in collaboration with diverse stakeholders. His experiential creative practices, scholarship, and related works have been presented internationally at peer-reviewed and juried conferences and venues, including the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), and Imagining America (IA).
Sung’s artworks have been exhibited in internationally recognized galleries and public spaces. His community-engaged art and empowerment projects have received support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), the Mellon Foundation, the Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism (ACT), and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA).
He is a Full Professor of Art at Providence College and a Lab Faculty member at College Unbound. Currently, he is part of the WARP Collective Artists Group and serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). He has also served on the Board for the Rhode Island Humanities Council.
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson is a visual artist, scholar, composer, and curator. Her practice centers on the interplay of animation, printmaking, music, and dance, informed by a yearning to understand how our current circumstance is tethered to the past. Through her visual, sonic, and movement investigations across time and technology she disrupts and asserts ideas of history, body, liberation, and otherness. Above all, she is interested in redistributing the privileges that allow her to maintain her creative and scholarly practice.
Jeremy Ferris was born in Washington County, New York in 1989. He went to school to learn about art and cognitive science in Rochester, NY, and then to learn about libraries in Boston, MA. Now he lives in Providence, RI working as a librarian and artist. Unorthodox explorations of abandoned mills and overgrown farmlands, folk ballads and fairytales, photocollage, sumi ink, graphite, HTML, etc. Jeremy also makes music and audio recordings under the name Cla-ras.
Jordan Seaberry is a painter engaging questions of racial memory and civic life. He has received support from institutions such as Art Matters, Skowhegan, Yaddo, and the Verge Center for the Arts, and his paintings are held in the collections of the RISD Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the deCordova Museum, and elsewhere.
Seaberry is an active organizer and legislative advocate, contributing to several landmark criminal justice reforms in Rhode Island. He is Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Seaberry lives and works in Providence.
Nat Brennan is an artist and educator focused on textiles, printmaking, documentation, and the connections between guilt and comfort.
Simon Slowinski artist, printmaker and aspiring toolmaker living in Pawtucket RI. When he’s not hunched over the lathe cutting metal at work he can be found rollerblading wicked fast Woonasquatucket bike path. In 2014 he helped found WARP, an art collective in Atlantic Mills, Providence.
JANUARY 28th to Feb 6th
open house/artist talks Thursday Feb 5th
Rafay Rashid (b. 1990, Pakistan) is a Providence-based artist, musician, and mental health practitioner whose work spans socially engaged and participatory practices. Blurring the boundaries between exhibition, performance, and collective care, his projects often take the form of gatherings, ambient installations, and improvised social spaces. His ongoing project Wreck Room transforms the gallery into a clubhouse or rec center with ping pong tables, recovery meetings, and modular spaces for rest and conversation. Rashid has performed at institutions including the Whitney Biennial, Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), and Kaldor Public Art Projects (Sydney). His practice foregrounds healing, play, and mutuality, reimagining the exhibition as a living social organism.
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WINTER 25/26 AIR BIOS
November Curator Cohort in collaboration with ODD-KIN Gallery
Open house & talk Saturday Nov 22nd
Abigail Satinsky is the Program Officer and Curator of Arts & Culture at the Wagner Foundation, based in Cambridge, MA. Formerly, she was the Curator & Head of Public Engagement at Tufts University Art Galleries where organized a variety of exhibitions and public projects including with artists Sofía Córdova, Museum of Capitalism, Faheem Majeed, Josh MacPhee, and Elizabeth James-Perry, amongst others, as well as co-curating Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities (with Erina Duganne), which toured nationally, and focused on the 1980s artist-activist campaign against US intervention in Central America and its ramifications in the present. At Tufts University Art Galleries, she was also the founding Program Director for the Collective Futures Fund, supporting artist-run projects in Greater Boston through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Brittni Ann Harvey (b. 1992, RI) is a sculptor and textile-based artist and educator living and working in Fall River, MA. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge), NOW: Gallery (Lima), Someday (New York), and Anthony Greaney (Somerville), among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art and holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Danni Shen is a curator and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is currently organizing exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Upcoming exhibitions include "Knowledge is Myth: Chimeric Continuities" (Fall 2026). Previous curatorial roles include at The Kitchen, Empty Gallery, and Wave Hill in New York. She has been a visiting critic at RISD, NYU-ITP, and Cornell AAP, and was also Critic-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), as well as Curator-in-Residence at Residency Unlimited. Shen is a contributor to various publications including BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Heichi Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, AICA Magazine, and the Boston Art Review among others. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) Bard College.
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in Providence, RI, where he is a PhD student at Brown University in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. His work explores the relationship between publics and publications and how the cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past. Wesley held roles as a Curatorial Associate at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Program Director at Recess, Brooklyn; Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter, Queens; and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Wesley has been adjunct faculty at Bennington College, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Yale School of Art. He is a cofounder of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon', a project dedicated to contemporary African artists’ books, art books, and independent art publishing. Wesley received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991, MA) is an autodidactic artist who lives and works in Fall River, MA. Harvey’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain; List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laborer, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY; and Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kate Irvin is Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum. Her current exhibition, on view now at the RISD Museum, is Liz Collins: Motherlode, which celebrates the richly varied career and work of the New York-based Queer feminist artist known for her bold abstract patterns, inventive use of materials, and radical experiments with fiber. Other recent exhibitions include Sensory Silhouettes: Experiencing South Asian Garments (2024) and Sensing Fashion (2023), both of which were curated in collaboration with RISD faculty and students as experimental projects exploring ways of creating displays of global fashion fostering immersive intimacy.
In 2022/2023, Irvin co-curated the initiative Inherent Vice with textile conservators Jessica Urick and Anna Rose Keefe, a project that comprised a year-long exhibition), deaccessioning and other collections-care activities, community-building conversations, and related RISD courses and creative output produced therein. As a whole, the project reframed collections care as a reparative, empathetic act that embraces both literal and metaphorical cracks as opportunities for revealing and making room for neglected narratives. Previously Irvin curated Repair and Design Futures (2018–2019), another year-long multidisciplinary exhibition and programming initiative that investigated mending as material intervention, metaphor, and as a call to action. With Markus Berger, she co-edited a related book Repair: Sustainable Design Futures, published by Routledge in 2022.
M. Rachael Arauz, Ph.D., is an independent curator of modern and contemporary art, with research interests across all media, especially under-recognized artists, movements, and materials. She has organized exhibitions and contributed to museum catalogues in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She was co-curator of the 2019 exhibition In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 for the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently working on projects for the MFA Boston and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Zach Ngin is an art worker and writer from San Francisco. They are currently the curatorial assistant at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where they organized the first US solo museum exhibitions of Kite (with Selby Nimrod) and Elif Saydam. They also serve as an art editor at n+1, and their writing has appeared in Momus, C Magazine, Boston Art Review, e-flux, and The Amp, among other publications. They live in Providence.
December Maintenance Schedule Related Residencies
Hernán “Nan” Joubá is an Argentinean-born, Providence-based director, writer and producer with over 10 years of experience leading special projects for public spaces, theater and film, and designing cultural programs in Providence and across New England. Over the last decade, Nan Joubá’s work emerged in local theaters, community libraries, museum galleries, abandoned buildings, and rural landscapes. Today, he maintains an interdisciplinary practice centering theater, writing and video while stewarding cultural programs for collective learning and co-creation. Photo Credit: Susanna Turner
Rafay Rashid (b. 1990, Pakistan) is a Providence-based artist, musician, and mental health practitioner whose work spans socially engaged and participatory practices. Blurring the boundaries between exhibition, performance, and collective care, his projects often take the form of gatherings, ambient installations, and improvised social spaces. His ongoing project Wreck Room transforms the gallery into a clubhouse or rec center with ping pong tables, recovery meetings, and modular spaces for rest and conversation. Rashid has performed at institutions including the Whitney Biennial, Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), and Kaldor Public Art Projects (Sydney). His practice foregrounds healing, play, and mutuality, reimagining the exhibition as a living social organism.
Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos (they/them) is a cultural worker who uses storytelling across mediums to create immersive worlds of magic and liberation. They focus on photographic annotations, social practice art, and ritual-based performance. Rivera has 15 years of experience in the arts and culture sector, interweaving artistic practice with community development, cultural equity, and gender justice. As founder of Studio Loba -a cultural production studio and consulting firm- they curate cultural placekeeping activations, live performances, and exhibits; designs and facilitates artist cohorts and workshops; and advises on cultural planning. In 2024, Rivera was selected for Providence Commemoration Lab, a one year residency of social practice art for reimagining commemoration. Rivera has exhibited work and live performance in various cities across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Mexico City. Born and raised in Borikén (Puerto Rico), Rivera lives and works in Providence, RI, land of Narragansett and Wampanoag peoples, where they have set deep roots. Photo Credit: Cat Laine
January Maintenance Schedule Related Residencies
JANUARY 10-19 WARP
open house/artist talks Sun.Jan 18th
Becci Davis (she/they) is a mother and conceptual artist who finds inspiration in nature, history, connection to place and ways of remembering. She was born on a military installation in Georgia named after General Henry L. Benning of the Confederate States Army and now calls Providence, Rhode Island home. Becci is a member of the WARP Collective housed in Olneyville’s historic Atlantic Mills and teaches in Brown University’s Department of Visual Art.
Cybele Collins paints and draws from thoughts on elements and energy. Particles undergoing turbulence, creation and destruction as those found in movement of star cores and inside cells are worked at until they feel like portraits of matter. Cybele lives in Providence and researches biogeochemical cycles and the microbes that change and consume greenhouse gases. They have exhibited art and taken part in residencies in the U.S., France and Belgium, and they play violin in Blueshift.
Eliza Squibb creates textile patterns to bridge the worlds of art and science: collaborating with healthcare providers, artists, and artisans to communicate health information for populations with low literacy or language barriers that prevent equitable healthcare access. Eliza’s collaborations have been grant-funded, including two Grand Challenge Exploration grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her designs have been used in health campaigns to promote reproductive and infant health. Eliza is part-time faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When not in the studio or in the classroom, Eliza can be found canoeing on Rhode Island’s many rivers and marshes.
Photo by Dominique Sindayiganza @sindayiganza
Eric Sung is a lens-based artist, scholar, and cultural worker whose creative vision has brought numerous interdisciplinary ideas to life in collaboration with diverse stakeholders. His experiential creative practices, scholarship, and related works have been presented internationally at peer-reviewed and juried conferences and venues, including the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), and Imagining America (IA).
Sung’s artworks have been exhibited in internationally recognized galleries and public spaces. His community-engaged art and empowerment projects have received support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), the Mellon Foundation, the Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism (ACT), and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA).
He is a Full Professor of Art at Providence College and a Lab Faculty member at College Unbound. Currently, he is part of the WARP Collective Artists Group and serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). He has also served on the Board for the Rhode Island Humanities Council.
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson is a visual artist, scholar, composer, and curator. Her practice centers on the interplay of animation, printmaking, music, and dance, informed by a yearning to understand how our current circumstance is tethered to the past. Through her visual, sonic, and movement investigations across time and technology she disrupts and asserts ideas of history, body, liberation, and otherness. Above all, she is interested in redistributing the privileges that allow her to maintain her creative and scholarly practice.
Jeremy Ferris was born in Washington County, New York in 1989. He went to school to learn about art and cognitive science in Rochester, NY, and then to learn about libraries in Boston, MA. Now he lives in Providence, RI working as a librarian and artist. Unorthodox explorations of abandoned mills and overgrown farmlands, folk ballads and fairytales, photocollage, sumi ink, graphite, HTML, etc. Jeremy also makes music and audio recordings under the name Cla-ras.
Jordan Seaberry is a painter engaging questions of racial memory and civic life. He has received support from institutions such as Art Matters, Skowhegan, Yaddo, and the Verge Center for the Arts, and his paintings are held in the collections of the RISD Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the deCordova Museum, and elsewhere.
Seaberry is an active organizer and legislative advocate, contributing to several landmark criminal justice reforms in Rhode Island. He is Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Seaberry lives and works in Providence.
Nat Brennanis an artist and educator focused on textiles, printmaking, and visual documentation. His work explores the intersections of comfort and guilt through queer/trans narratives. In 2021, they received a grant from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts for a collaborative, community painting project at the George Wiley Center in Pawtucket. They were an artist in residence at the Dirt Palace in Olneyville from 2021 to 2023.
Simon Slowinski artist, printmaker and aspiring toolmaker living in Pawtucket RI. When he’s not hunched over the lathe cutting metal at work he can be found rollerblading wicked fast Woonasquatucket bike path. In 2014 he helped found WARP, an art collective in Atlantic Mills, Providence.
JANUARY 28th to Feb 6th
open house/artist talks Thursday Feb 5th
Dailen Williams is a self-taught artist, musician, DJ, organizer, and educator. Her main area of focus is on cultivating spaces for others - a theme most visible in her recent medium of choice: dance music. @caloric, @pyxis.pvd, @__clubclub__
Giuliana Funkhouser - Trans-disciplinary artist Giuliana Funkhouser combines digital code and synthesized audio with analog stills and animations to produce story-driven installations, soundscapes and performances. Her work focuses on celebrating people and ecosystems surviving and thriving through unprecedented environmental turmoil. Funkhouser completed her Dual-Degree MFA/MA studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in May 2020, with a focus on sound synthesis and critical theory in art + technology. Her most recent collaboration with Eli Phelan-Harder and Kate Rannells, titled "The Whispering Giant," was presented at the 2021 SLSA Conference online, and in the same year artists Christina Balch and Mac Pierce commissioned the "24/7" soundscape by Funkhouser for their exhibition On Being Seen 👀 at Installation Space in Northampton, MA. After releasing their "MMXXI" EP (Component Recordings), she performed with her musical collaborator Elizabeth Virosa at the 2022 New England Synthesizer Festival. In 2023, Funkhouser was honored with an Individual Pandemic Recovery Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her solo experimental electronic music project CtLT collaborated with VJ slimebubble on video art featured in conjunction with Pablo Pérez Palacio's painting exhibition 'La Tensión Necesaria' at the QCC Art Gallery, NY, as well as backing visuals for her October 2025 Northeast US mini-tour. In line with her personal mission to support fellow artists Funkhouser hopes to establish a residency with a focus on musicians and sound artists in Utuado, Puerto Rico, where her maternal family hails from.
Kirstin Lamb is a painter living in Providence, Rhode Island and working in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her AB in Visual Art and Literatures in English from Brown University in 2001. Kirstin's work has been shown in venues across the country and abroad, recently showing at the Wassaic Project in Amenia, NY, Sarah Crown Gallery in Tribeca, NY, Overlap Gallery in Newport, RI, Geary in Millerton, NY, Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence, RI, Spring Break Art Fair in NY, the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA and Providence College Galleries in Providence, RI, among others. She has attended residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, the Wassaic Project, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Ora Lerman Trust Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. Kirstin recently completed a two-year contract curator position at The Yard, Williamsburg, a coworking space in Brooklyn that hosts solo and group shows quarterly, and has begun planning online and new curatorial projects in New England. Her work is in the collections of Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA, and Providence College, Providence, RI, among others. Kirstin’s work is represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston.
Liz Welch is a Providence, Rhode Island based ceramic artist, educator, and community builder. She learned how to work with clay in a community ceramics studio in Somerville, MA, and has pursued her craft largely outside of the traditional classroom environment. Welch explores color, shape, and materials with curiosity in order to create objects that embody utility and individual expression. Coupled with her studio practice, Welch has cultivated a commitment to sharing her design process, creativity, and technical skill as a design educator.
Brooke Erin Goldstein is a textile artist, curator, and teaching artist living and working in the Providence RI area. She began taking art and sewing classes at the age of 3 because she refused to leave when her older sister was being dropped off. She learned machine sewing at 6 from the most lovable chain smoking Italian seamstress Carmella, who let Goldstein experiment on an industrial sewing machine while Italian soap operas played in the background. Goldstein fell in love with quilting at sleep away camp at 10. Since then she’s spent her time graduating RISD in Textiles, designing for Reebok including projects for the NFL, MLB, NHL, WMBA, and the Superbowl, and leaving all that behind to focus on creating art experiences that aim to make people feel less alone. Goldstein’s Quilted Room installations, quilted paintings, artist books, surface design based drawings, public art stuff, soft sculptures, and miscellaneous etc have shown regionally and nationally. Her current passion outside of making art is teaching anti-capitalist personal finance to artists, activists, and others to help make their lives sustainable in a system that sets us up to fail.
Jen Corace: Long time illustrator, short time ceramicist.
Rafay Rashid (b. 1990, Pakistan) is a Providence-based artist, musician, and mental health practitioner whose work spans socially engaged and participatory practices. Blurring the boundaries between exhibition, performance, and collective care, his projects often take the form of gatherings, ambient installations, and improvised social spaces. His ongoing project Wreck Room transforms the gallery into a clubhouse or rec center with ping pong tables, recovery meetings, and modular spaces for rest and conversation. Rashid has performed at institutions including the Whitney Biennial, Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), and Kaldor Public Art Projects (Sydney). His practice foregrounds healing, play, and mutuality, reimagining the exhibition as a living social organism.
Feb 15th to 21st Family/Teen residency
open house/artist talks Friday Feb 20th
Elia Gurna - Elia Gurna is an artist, educator, and mother with 20+ years of experience in visual arts, community practice, and arts education. Working across painting, printmaking, murals, gardens, and site-specific installations, she believes in creative practice as a force for healing, social change, and connection to self, others and nature. A dedicated mentor, Elia has taught art history and drawing, led residencies, and served as Executive Director of New Urban Arts. She is a Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory facilitator and a permaculturist. Currently Elia works as the artist in residence at the BH LINK and RI’s 988 Call Center engaging staff and caregivers in creative conversation and practice. eliagurna.net
Julia Handschuh finds home though making things for and with friends. Recently there has been a lot of death and change in their life, including becoming a new parent to two teenagers. They have a long-time movement-based collaboration with Anna Hendricks which sometimes includes rolling in the grass, making sound caves, hiding under blankets, holding heavy sticks, writing lists, reading theory, and making performance and video. Julia likes sparkly trash and found treasures, etymology, and being alive. They will be spending their time at Wedding Cake House writing and making some works on paper that reflect on care and loss. www.forandwith.com
Jo Dery is an artist who experiments with visual storytelling. Her creative practice is exploratory, but is rooted in drawing and writing. Her projects take myriad and hybrid forms. Each project takes the form that is most appropriate for its concept and content: a film, a book, an installation, a performance, or something new. She aims to balance the use of digital tools with evidence of the handmade, embracing an idiosyncratic personal aesthetic that is playful and poetic. While much of her work uses the natural world as a setting, Jo's recent projects have become more overtly autobiographical, inspired by the literary forms of memoir and the personal essay. She is currently working on an experimental animation inspired by her experience as a foster/adoptive parent.
@oh_deary_
Megan Cornell is a writer whose hybrid work explores the textures of lived experience through a distinctly female lens. She holds a master’s degree in psychology from University College London and has worked as an educator, researcher, and project manager. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her teenage children, her parents, and her dog. You can find her on Substack: @mmcornell and Instagram: @m_m_cornell.
March 3rd to 12th Caregiver Residency
open house/artist talks Wed March 11
Addie Verhoosky is a trans queer creator, musician, printmaker, storyteller and supporter of emotions and community. She is most at home in nature, a small cabin, a dimly lit bedroom, a camp fire or a subway station, but can often be found sharing stages throughout the eastern seaboard with musical collaborators and community. As a child of educators and creative folk, she has a familiar foundation based in collaboration and empowering others to join in the creative process and share their voice. Addie has been a life long creator and has been creating music and visual art for as long as she can remember. As a teenager she pulled away from her small town boundaries and was taken in by one of her art teachers and their partner to learn the craft of historic restoration and be surrounded by chosen family and the queer community. Addie went on to study at Montserrat College of Art and holds a BFA in Printmaking and Art Education. During her time at Montserrat she dove deep into community organizing, visual art practice and the music community. Finding a passion for immersive art experiences, she began to create soundscapes for her art installations, document the world around her and share in the collaborative world of music performance.
Amelia Garretson-Persans is a multi-media artist based in Portland, Maine. She makes books, experimental short films, installations, and live performances - most recently a psychedelic short play set in an anthropomorphized hospital. She is inspired by psychedelic artwork, genre writing - such as mystery, erotica, and self help, and motherhood. She lives with her two children, Paul and Lily, small and powerful emissaries of the mysterious and unspoken.
Ollie Becker is a composer, improviser, guitarist, and vocalist based out of Boston, MA. Their work is an exploration of anxiety, calculated chaos and uneasy beauty, playing with the tension between their self-taught background in the DIY scene versus more recent studies in composition. Current projects include noise rock band Rong, experimental grind band Obsolescence Technician, ensemble Premium Velvet Headache Pillow, solo guitar, and composing for chamber groups. They have participated in residencies hosted by the Australian Art Orchestra and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and in 2024 they received a Mass Cultural Grant for Creative Individuals to produce a suite of music for string quartet. Since 2023 they have been assisting at New Alliance Audio in Somerville.
Ellyn Gaydos writes creative nonfiction and is the author of Pig Years (Knopf 2022). Her work has appeared in Harper's, VQR, The Common and other publications. She is working on a book about gravestone carvers in Vermont and taking a break from farming while caring for her youngest child.
Isabel Mattia is an artist, teacher, birthworker, and parent living on a small sheep farm in rural Rhode Island. She makes work that explores experiences of love, loss, and longing and the beginnings and endings of life. Though her practice is rooted in sculpture, she expands into other mediums, including video/performance, drawing, and printmaking. IG: @IsabelMattia, website: Isabelmattia.com
Marchaé Grair (they/she) is a storyteller, spiritual seeker, and facilitator making meaning of life’s liminal spaces. They are an alum of residencies and workshops presented by Tin House, Anaphora Arts, Voices of our Nations (VONA), the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and Roots. Wounds. Words, where they were also a writer-in-residence. Marchaé’s work embodies their Black, queer, nonbinary, disabled, and polyamorous experiences. They are working on a queer, young adult romance novel loosely based on their life and essays about identity.
Spring Duo Residencies
March 23rd to April 1st
Priscilla Carrion (b.1985, RI) is an Ecuadorian American multidisciplinary artist based in Providence, RI. Her work centers around piecing together colors and memories in honoring ways for herself and others. Either through textiles, quilts, or paintings she seeks to serve and collaborate with both animals and their human companions.
priscillacarrion.net
Carmel Dundon works from her studio in Providence, RI as a freelance costume builder working with designers and production companies in New England and New York on various stage and film productions.
Kei Soares Cobb is a Cape Verdean-American multidisciplinary healing artist whose work moves fluidly through dance, sound design, video, and poetry. Rooted in deep-listening as method and material, Kei’s practice investigates the intersection of personal mythology, collective ecology, and ancestral memory.
Their sound and video work has been featured at Trinity Repertory Theatre, RISD Museum, and the Brown Arts Institute. Since 2019, they have performed in ongoing collaboration with world-renowned dance artist and choreographer, nora chipaumire.
Beyond the studio and stage, Kei’s artistry extends into the realm of care. They are a death-doula in training, Licensed Massage Therapist, practitioner and teacher of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Ashtanga Yoga–integrating touch and movement as devotional technologies of listening.
jasmine akarolo is an interdisciplinary artist, traveler, and birth worker whose practice arises from the fertile ground of a Nigerian–Black American lineage. Moving fluidly between dance, fiber, text, painting, and photography, She channels the spiralic movements of the unseen—energies of birth, life, and death that shape and reconfigure the vessel of the self.
She weaves womb intelligence with the physical sciences, crafting a unique language of becoming. “Ink,” She says, “is my way of moving energy through space and body—from the depths toward the surface.” In this process, She refrains from naming what moves through, allowing the energies to remain neutral, free to alchemize into forms of beauty or rupture—expressions of nature’s own creative law.
This lifelong dance of embodiment and surrender informs her parallel work as a traditional birth worker, educator, and wellness practitioner. Through art, She continues to document and translate the energies shaping our collective evolution.
Lou Najjar-Rulin is a multi-disciplinary artist and avid collector of junk. Raised in Providence, Rhode Island by two moms, Lou has always found safety and space to be creative in queer communities. He often explores thoughts of gender and the malleability of our bodies in his works, many of which are non-traditional self-portraits imbued with a similar genderlessness. Lou obtained his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before returning to Providence where he lives with his cat Zorps amongst many piles of scrap leather, metal, paper, and wood.
See more of Lou’s work and upcoming exhibition news at lounajjarrulin.com or @lounajjarrulin on instagram.
Rhode Island newbie, Isaac Wood is an ink and paper enthusiast! Wood works in collage, relief print, and illustration and explores themes of the strange, sexy, magic parts of history, identity, and emotion within his art. isaacwoodart.com
Spring Duo Residencies
April 6th - 15th
Deb Todd Wheeler's projects generate intimate experiences through interactive installations, objects, and participatory happenings, creating provisional communities through gathering, grief work, and holding commemorative space. In a recent project, Radio Silence, she guided hundreds of participants on a geo-located audio-walk in the partially remediated landscape of Lost Pond, which you can read about in her recently released Book of Walks. She continues her interest in site partnership and loss processing in her ongoing collaborative project with Sue Murad, NO SLEEPING. She is on the MFAV Graduate Faculty at Clark University, a Deep Listening facilitator, and a founding member of the LENNYcollective, which provides unusual opportunities for amateur musicians of all ages and levels. debtoddwheeler.org. @dtwheel
Sue Murad develops an intuitive language with moving pictures, common objects and found narratives, re-contextualizing these cultural artifacts through her interdisciplinary practice of performance, installation, sculpture, collage, and film. This past fall, her project ASSEMBLE reimagined public tours of the Boston Common in an interactive performance commissioned by the “Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument” public art initiative. Other collaborative endeavors include the feature film Old North, created from a year-long residency at Boston’s historic Old North Church; the interactive media experience, NO SLEEPING, with Deb Todd Wheeler; and the pop synth band UV Projection, through which she received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Choreography. @muradsue, suemurad.com
My name is Abisola Florence Ashamu aka Flo. I am a painter, sculptor, and poet living in Providence, RI. I am an alum of the Rhode Island School of Design and a current masters student at Northeastern University. I love, eat and breathe art as it has been the facet of my life that has been the most commanding and enjoyable. I am a Nigerian born woman and come from a loving family of six. My family both inspires and protects me. My painting work often depicts mental health as a monstrosity realized, while my sculptures are more representational, my poetry and raps give off a feeling of lives lived and romantic despair. I hope to be an artist of full time practice one day. @florenceashamu @abisolaashamu
Taliq Tillman Vigil [b. 2000 Providence, Rhode Island] is a conceptual artist engaging in ritual practice that lets them autonomously create and alter the world around them. “Through spatial justice, I wanna create moments of healing relationships between the land, place & the people there. I wanna create a practice of art as ritual that can follow me wherever I go”
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Spring Duo Residencies
April 20th - 29th
Ali Newhardis an artist living between Brooklyn, NY and Providence. Her lens-based practice uses photography, video, and installation to explore gestures of queering narratives through images. Working with experimental editing and storytelling, her films and photographs act as spaces of rupture from traditional climactic structures. She holds an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design and has shown work at the Brooklyn Museum, Microscope Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts, Gallery 263, and Brant Gallery. As a film editor she has led post-production on short films and feature length narrative projects. She formerly taught at Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute.
Laine Rettmer is a visual artist and opera director working across photography, video art, and performance. Their practice explores how images shape intimacy, behavior, cultural myths, and systems of power, often through site-responsive production, staged environments, and collaborative research. Their projects have been presented internationally at museums, galleries, and festivals, including Manifesta, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MoMA Public, REDCAT, and the Yuan Art Museum. Rettmer is the Graduate Program Director of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, where they teach lens and time-based media.
www.lainerettmer.com, @lainerettmer
Summer Family residency
July 26th-Aug 1st
Liz Iversen’s fiction and essays explore migration, motherhood, and the history of the Philippines, where she was born. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Passages North, and Fourteen Hills, and has received support from Aspen Words, Tin House, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. She lives with her husband and children in Maine, where she is at work on two novels.
Rachel Maeve: I am a photographic artist working with wet plate collodion tintypes, ambrotypes, and other alternative photographic processes to explore intimacy, memory, and belonging. My work is rooted in slowness and presence, using time and attention to build relationships with people, land, and their histories.
My practice extends into research, public art, and environmental storytelling. I am currently a Providence Preservation Society Community Heritage Fellow for Dreams for the Waterfront, a collaborative project documenting South Providence’s Allens Avenue shoreline through tintypes, cyanotypes, solargraphs, and written narratives centered on environmental justice and speculative futures. I was recently an American Antiquarian Society Fellow, researching tintypes as artifacts of intimacy and memory, exploring radical relationships and chosen family in the late 1800s.
My work is shaped by care, community, and lived connection. I often make this work alongside my daughter, whose presence reminds me that art can model ways of being —funny, demanding, deeply empathetic, and fiercely alive.
https://www.rachelmaevephotography.com/. https://www.instagram.com/rachelmaevephotography/
Sanya Hyland is an illustrator and printmaker who is based between Massachusetts, USA, and Mexico City, Mexico. She is part of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative; she also works as an English teacher and takes care of her young son.
Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice— including video, sound, performance, and writing— explores the position of witness within fragile systems and the socio-political and personal dimensions of sensing technologies. Their work considers gender, queerness, technology, disability, and illness in connection with environmental research. They are a primary organizer of the ongoing project lucky dragons (2005-present). Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London’s Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 in New York, REDCAT and Human Resources in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, Documenta 14 in Athens, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Rara is Assistant Professor of Moving Image at Williams College.