Our 2023–2024 Residency Recipients
Robert Powers
Writer (Jun 26–Aug 14, 2024) In his fiction, Robert Powers seeks to "tell stories that explore and account for historical and present-day injustices—racial, social, climate, class-based, war, gender inequality, and others—all the while drawing from contemporary, global, and decolonized literary canon traditions." Robert writes, "I credit my eight years living abroad in Mainland China for influencing how I view my creative work as an individual part of a greater American literary landscape comprising a multifarious chorus of singular voices... This worldly perspective I gained has also fueled a continuing interest in postcolonial and -imperial writings that address transglobal postmodern alienation in addition to language and culture itself as national constructs. It also led me to intentionally craft all my writing projects to be overtly globally minded in scope and focus even as they aesthetically straddling the blurry lines that often separate fact and fiction, history and fabulism, reality and unreality." 
Ed is an artist based in Vancouver, BC Canada, or the unceded traditional territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He has worked as a commercial illustrator in the feature and television animation industry since 2006. Presently he works in editorial, publication, gaming, and interactive media field. From 2013 to 2019, he owned a paper and textile design company called “Forest & Waves.” Aside from his commercial work he practices fine art printmaking reinforced with ink making and paper making. Currently, his research is to highlight natural biodiversity and conservation of endemic plant specimen research through his art practice. Fu-Chen is his Taiwanese name. Ed was born and partly raised in a fishing village in southern Taiwan, surrounded by jungle and volcanic beach. 
May Parlar is an NYC based multidisciplinary artist with a background in Architecture & Environmental Design. She creates performance based images that playfully explore the human condition in contemporary realities. The sense of self, perception, loss, grief, memory, (non) belonging and various forms of alienation within the dominant sociopolitical paradigm are recurrent themes in her work, which has been widely published and exhibited around the globe. Apart from her fine art practice, she is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and lecturer at different art &design institutions. |
JT Baldassarre is a writer, filmmaker, and educator in Brooklyn. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in English with Honors in Creative Writing. JT won the James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting in 2020 and was published in CRAFT magazine as winner of its Creative Nonfiction Award in June 2022. JT writes everything from short horror stories, to young adult speculative fiction, to memoir essays about her experience working at a cockroach farm in Ohio. JT is passionate about resourcing and encouraging children’s creative expression, and creating quality television, movies, and books for kids to get inspired by. 
William D. Caballero is a multimedia filmmaker and writer that tells big stories using small figures. His 3D printed macro-protagonists examine American, Latino, gender/sexuality, and existential identity, becoming hosts to discussions on issues far larger than they. This is sometimes accomplished with humor and other times through somber introspection, allowing each new miniature world to take on new traits across many eclectic genres, using the medium of film and video. His creative mantra is "empower, enlighten, and express", and it underlies his desire to spread the gift of creativity amongst diverse people, liberating them from the oppression of mainstream tastes and values. Caballero's video work champions a new reality, where brown-skinned nerds and LGBT geeks feel empowered to tell their own stories using their own voice. After all, if we don't tell our own stories, then who will? 
From Tallahassee by way of Texas, Remy Barnes's work has been featured in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, The Southampton Review, Southern Humanities Review and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the University of Texas, the Catskill Center, and Cornell University where he taught courses on fiction, poetry and film. He is currently a Graduate Fellow in the Creative Writing and Literature PhD program at the University of Southern California. He is at work on a novel. |
In his works, Sam Llewellyn-Jones "deals with themes of landscape, time, archaeology and architecture. [He works] both in the field and with found objects, photographing them using a range of analogue processes and experimenting with alternative darkroom printing techniques." He writes, "photography always functions as a starting point for me, a transportable practice that I use to collect information whilst employing an archaeological approach to making. My work investigates the indexicality of the photographic object: how the photograph can function as a direct physical imprint of something and I am interested in how this process of recording information can be used to explore the essence of materiality... I see my sculptural practice evolving concurrently with my photographic work. I find both mediums, specifically casting, operating in a similar indexical manner, that is: in the translation of information from one surface to another." 
David Andree is an artist whose work explores landscape as a subject of flux through painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound. Attracted to moments of tension between what was, what is, and what will be, David’s work strives to create meaningful abstractions through perpetually chasing the qualities of the fleeting present. A Minnesota native, David maintains tribal affiliation with the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe. David holds a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of New York (SUNY), received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the School of Art in Fayetteville, AR where he resides in the Ozarks. |