Previous Artists-in-Residence

Stephanie J. Woods, a multidisciplinary artist, and Johannes Barfield, a sample-based visual and sound artist, spent two inspiring weeks at the Back River Road artist residency and retreat. During this time, they reconnected with nature, worked on a collaborative...

Antoine Williams

Antoine Williams

Antoine Williams’ practice is an investigation of power, perception, semiotics, and fear as they relate to institutional inequities. Influenced by sci-fi literature from such authors as Octavia Butler and H.P. Lovecraft, Williams has created a mythology, concerning...

Anna Hepler

Anna Hepler

 Anna Hepler works in ceramics, crocheted wire, soft sculpture, collage, etching, and virtually any other medium pulled into her creative orbit. Hepler has worked with air to create non-static sculptures, restless with cycles of inflation and deflation; and has built...

Jessica Segall

Jessica Segall

Jessica Segall is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, performance and video. In her work, she presents acts of endurance and builds tools for survival in a precarious time. Travels to hostile climates inspire her work, which is designed to unpack ideas of...

Pamela Council

Pamela Council

Pamela Council makes sculptures, performances, dedications, and jokes that transform materials, people, and institutions. Using an Afro-Americana camp aesthetic which she calls BLAXIDERMY, objects are set into motion in unique ways, exploring how we soothe, protect,...