Madge Evers

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session II

Madge Evers uses foraged plants and fungi to explore cross-species collaboration. Her work has been exhibited at the Danforth Art Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, throughout the east coast, and acquired by private and institutional collectors. Madge was a Critical Mass finalist in 2019 and a 2021 Mass Cultural Council photography finalist. Images from The New Herbarium series were published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Artist residencies in Ireland, at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Kinney Renaissance Center at UMass, on Cape Cod, and in Maine have allowed Madge to interact with landscapes and their histories. After teaching for 25 years in Rhode Island and Massachusetts public schools, she now works as a full-time artist in western Massachusetts.

Susanna Kwan

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session II

Susanna Kwan writes, edits, and draws in San Francisco. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Kundiman, Storyknife, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The Writers' Grotto, and Vanderbilt University.

Audrey Bell

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session II

Audrey is a fine artist and medical illustrator who combines her artistic and scientific talents with her love for the natural world in a project titled Transformative Encounters. The project is a series of illustrations and maps that depicts interactions of plants and animals in three different ecosystems in Ohio, and explores some of the impact of those interactions on our world. Taking inspiration from diverse materials in the Lloyd’s collection, Audrey’s artwork highlights some of the overlooked connections in our human and natural histories. With a fresh look, she hopes to find clues to a healthier future where our relationship with the non-human world is more respectful and symbiotic.

Paula Whyman

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session II

Paula Whyman new book, Bad Naturalist: One Woman’s Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop, is forthcoming from Timber Press/Hachette Book Group in January 2025. It’s a blend of memoir, natural history, and conservation science, a chronicle of her attempts to restore retired farmland to natural habitat. Her first book, the linked short story collection You May See a Stranger, won praise from The New Yorker and a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and won the Towson Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in journals including McSweeney’s Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, and The Southampton Review. Her fiction was selected for the anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. Her nonfiction has been featured on NPR, in the Washington Post, and in The Rumpus. She is co-founder and editor in chief of the literary journal Scoundrel Time.

Tami Banh

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I

Tami Banh is a Senior Designer at SCAPE and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Urban Design program at Columbia University. With a background in landscape and architecture, she is interested in pushing disciplinary boundaries and investigating the relationship between politics, ecology, landscape, urbanism, and architecture. Her works and research focus on displacement, climate resilience, critical cartography, and human-nonhuman cohabitation. Tami holds a dual Master’s in Architecture and Landscape Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Penny White Travelling Fellowship as well as Student Honor Awards from ASLA and BSLA. She also holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the University of Southern California.

Douglas Dale

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I

Douglas Dale was born in Springfield, MA in 1993. They received their BA from Grinnell College in 2015 with honors and time at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. They have spent years working at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, textile studio Carolyn Ray Inc. in Yonkers, NY and product incubator FCTRY in Brooklyn.

Their work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, working with Fiber Art Now, The American Craft Council, Craft Alliance, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts California, The Galesburg Civic Art Center, The North Dakota Museum of Art, The Center for the Visual Arts of Wausau Wisconsin, and the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Dale is trans non-binary and currently lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Brenda Biondo

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I

Brenda Biondo is an American artist who uses traditional camera techniques and a formalist aesthetic to explore the perception of atmospheric light and color and their role in the construct of landscape. Her work emphasizes the use of unconventional contexts to create new ways of looking at common subjects, while challenging viewers' perception of color and three-dimensional space. Her interest in atmospheric phenomena and other components of the natural world is informed by her degree in journalism and her previous career as a writer specializing in environmental issues.

Brenda's work has been exhibited throughout the country and published in numerous print and online publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Her photographs are held in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Denver Art Museum, the Center for Creative Photography and the San Diego Museum of Art. A solo exhibit of her work opened at the San Diego Museum of Art in 2017. 

Her first book of photographs, Once Upon a Playground, was published by the University Press of New England in 2014 and is now the subject of a five-year traveling exhibit organized by ExhibitsUSA.

A native New Yorker, she’s been a resident of Colorado since 1999 and currently divides her time between Manitou Springs, CO and Marfa, TX.

Shastri Akella

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I

Shastri Akella's is a writer and teacher. His debut novel "The Sea Elephants" has been published by Flatiron Books (USA, Canada) and Penguin (India). He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center (2021) and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation (2023). He's winner of 2022 FracturedLit Flash Fiction Contest and the 2023 Best Microfiction Contest. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, CRAFT, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, World Literature Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and PhD. in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He's an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University.