Artists-in-Residence
Below, you'll find our current artist-in-residence. You can find our alumni artists-in-residence here.
Shaunie Berry
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Denver based multimedia artist Shaunie Berry is a portrait artist who focuses on capturing the essence of unique individuals and themes within the mundane. Inspired by people and vibes, she uses art as a form of advocacy and representation. Well versed in mediums of pen and ink, oil pastel and paint to express herself; her bright, energetic work evokes both a sense of calm and pride. Originally from Kansas City, MO, she is the descendant of black country folk who’s elders passed down a love of growing food, nature, gardening, and remembering one's “roots”. Common themes within her work focus on personal experiences, celebration of culture, growth, spirituality and healing.
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She is passionate about community, play, teaching and indulging in life's many experiences. With a BFA in drawing and ceramics and a Masters in Public Health, Shaunie is always finding ways to integrate health promotion within the act of creating. Educator and community advocate, she has found her niche not only as a teacher, but within a career as the Art Education Manager at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, CO and runs various education programs there. She has shown her work throughout the Denver area and beyond and enjoys expanding her horizons and learning more about diverse communities and the world.
Jason Lord
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Jason Lord is an interdisciplinary artist using relentlessly experimental practices to explore questions about systems, language, ritual, pattern, and time. He grew up queer in a working class, Catholic family in a small town in Vermont. From religion, he developed a metaphysical curiosity and an affinity for ritual; from humble beginnings, he inherited the experimental resourcefulness of the New England tinker; and from queerness, he gained the fluidity and flexibility of an improvisational approach.
His practice is prolific and my work is often obsessive, driven by curiosity–an inquiry-based practice that embraces physical and conceptual wandering. After 25 years of experience as an arts educator where his primary job was to know how to do many things, he has a multitude of competencies and utilizes a wide toolbox of materials, processes, and strategies for thinking and making. The questions he asks continually change, though certain themes reappear in his work, including the formal relationship between repetition and variation, the unfixed nature of identity, and two overarching questions: “what does it mean to be human?” and “what can art do?”
In May 2024, he graduated with an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro. Since 2020, he has participated in six solo exhibitions and twenty-four group exhibitions, including drawing, sculpture, video, assemblage, installation, artist’s books, relief and letterpress print, painting, sound collage, and text. He looks forward to a series of upcoming residencies, workshops, and exhibitions in 2024/2025, including Penland School of Craft, the Hambidge Center, the Peter Bullough Foundation, Wilma W. Daniels Gallery, Arts Access Gallery, RebusWorks (via Peel Gallery), and the Horace Williams House.
Carmen Perry
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Carmen Perry is a singer, songwriter, and multiinstrumentalist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her writing deals with themes of memory and repetition, guilt and shame, mundanity and celestiality, routine and compulsion, the personal and the universal. Remember Sports, the band she has fronted for the last twelve years, has been featured in publications such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Fader, and NPR, and has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. When she's not working or touring with Remember Sports, Carmen spends her at time at home in Philly working on a new solo project, teaching, and living with her partner and their two cats.
Drew Spielvogel
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Drew Spielvogel is a queer visual artist and writer who lives and works in State College, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a painting degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in January 2024. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition of paintings at Afternoon Projects in Vancouver, Canada, and recently participated in a group presentation at NADA New York with the same gallery. In 2023, he attended the KuBA: Kulturbanhof residency in Brandenburg, Germany. He has also participated in group shows at the RISD Museum’s German Gallery and
Brown University’s Granoff Center.
Polina Vee
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Polina Vee has been working with textiles for 13 years and holds a BFA as a textile designer. For six years, she worked as a leading artist in one of the top Russian textile design studios. Although born and brought up in Russia, she has always had a desire to experience living in a diverse location.
In 2019, Polina moved to the USA. Her immigration journey has been profound and transformative, leading her to position herself as a visual artist. Embracing interdisciplinary approaches, she works with a range of media, including textiles, embroidery, sculpture, and installation.
In 2023, Polina had two solo shows: "Featured Show" at Frank Gallery and "Vulnerable Reality" at EUtopia Design Gallery (Durham, NC). In 2022, her textile sculpture "The Well" won Best in Show at the 43rd Annual National Juried Art Show (Goldsboro, NC). In 2023, the same sculpture secured 3rd place in the National Multi-Media Juried Art Show (Wilson, NC).
Scheduled for the year 2024 are two solo shows—one at the Horace Williams House (Chapel Hill, NC), and the other at Peel Gallery (Carrboro, NC). Polina actively participates in numerous group exhibitions across various locations, including New York, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas.
Polina Vee aspires to be a part of the fusion of American culture and contribute her unique perspective to this blend of cultures.
Shlagha Borah
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Shlagha Borah (she/her) is from Assam, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cincinnati Review, ANMLY, Bat City Review, EcoTheo Review, Salamander, Nashville Review, Florida Review, and elsewhere. She got her MFA in Poetry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the Reading Series Coordinator at Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) and an Editorial Assistant at The Offing. She has received support for her work from Brooklyn Poets, SAFTA, and The Hambidge Center. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India.
Dave Kube
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Dave Kube (he/him) is a contemporary photo-based artist with a strong focus on pushing the boundaries of photography. His exploration revolves around queer theory, particularly how photography holds the power to present a seemingly straightforward world while sidelining perspectives outside the frame (marginalization). These ideas merge with personal experiences to create conceptual or visual modes of infiltration within photographic imagery. Much of his newest work is adaptive 2D installations that extend from floor to ceiling and/or utilizes full walls to radically transform the gallery into queer art spaces.
His artwork has been featured in numerous exhibitions across the United States, including Chicago, Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Notably, he was honored with the Best in Show distinction for his work at The William Way LGBTQ Community Center in Philadelphia and received a residency fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has also served as a juror and curator for exhibitions that revolve around themes of sexuality and identity. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at Commonwealth University and holds an MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art.
Elan Schwartz
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Elan Schwartz (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. They hold a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a certificate in Pre-Art Therapy from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Schwartz explores the active practice of individualized love in an everyday sustainable manner. He sees the power and value in vulnerability and asks for the ones sharing in the work to be open in whatever capacity they are comfortable with. His pieces reflect the possibilities of growth when being vulnerable with yourself and others.
Iain Wall
Artist-in-Residence Fall 2024
Iain Wall is an interdisciplinary artist incorporating printmaking sensibilities to their drawing, sculpting, and writing practice. Their work amalgamates references to medieval art and British material culture through drawn sculptures and embellished frames that depict the confluence of ancestral inspirations and narratives of companionship. Between interior and exterior, ornamentally-seen and graphically-staring back, their work seeks to question the nature of presentation, what it means to “queer the outline”, and the transformative power of objecthood—how love, labor, and pictorial weight may transmute as artifacts and agents to queer life force. Wall holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their work has been included in “Memories and How We Hold Them” as well as “Black: Color/Context/Meaning” at the RISD Museum’s Gelman Gallery and “Lost & Found” at the Dye House.
