Naoko Wowsugi

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Naoko Wowsugi’s work centers around community engaged art and she is based in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. She also teaches at American University. 

View her work here. 

Kathleen Gutierrez

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Kathleen Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), Science & Justice Research Center of UC Santa Cruz. 

Her research interests are centered broadly on the politics of plant life and floral world-making in modern histories of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. She is currently developing a book manuscript, Sovereign Vernaculars in the Philippines at the Dawn of New Imperial Botany, that expands the "vernacular" in the history of colonial botany and examines ongoing epistemological tensions during the science's internationalist acceleration.

Faculty Profile. 

Wren Renquist

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Wren Renquist is an ecologist based in Iowa City, Iowa. 

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Aaron McIntosh

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Aaron McIntosh is a cross-disciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada. From his artist bio, his work “mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics in a range of works including quilts, sculpture, collage, drawing and writing. As a fourth-generation quilt maker whose grandparents were noted quilters in their Appalachian communities, this tradition of working with scraps is a primary platform from which he explores the patch worked nature of identity. Since 2015, McIntosh has managed Invasive Queer Kudzu, a community storytelling and archive project across the LGBTQ South.”

View his work here and on Instagram. 

Darya Warner

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Darya Warner (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Colorado, U.S.A. Their works sit at the intersection of art and science by bridging the creative process and growth/connections with human and non-human actors through the prism of Climate Change. 

During Darya’s time at Oak Spring, they witnessed the aftermath of the recent storm that damaged an unprecedented amount of trees, some over 200 years old. 

View their work and video of Darya’s time at Oak Spring here and on Instagram. 

Hillary Waters Fayle

Interdisciplinary Resident, Five-Week, Session I

Hillary Waters Fayle is a textile artist based in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. Her work is primarily focused around textile traditions in collaboration with botanical material. She is also an Assistant Professor and direct the fiber program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and teaches workshops domestically and abroad. 

View her works here or on Instagram.  

Ben Richter

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and ensemble director exploring the potential of the act of listening to create experiences of community healing based in Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. As director of Ghost Ensemble, Ben creates innovative new work with a diverse host of experimental performer-composers.

View his works here or follow Ghost Ensemble on Instagram. 

Tanya Stadelmann

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Tanya Stadelmann is a documentary filmmaker and digital media artist with over 25 years of experience based in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.  In 2020 she produced the documentary Nurture with Nature: A Story of Ecotherapy.

View Nurture with Nature or connect with her on Facebook or website. 

Kristina Martino

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Kristina Martino is a poet and visual artist based in Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Maureen Thompson

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Maureen Thompson is a PhD Candidate in History at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

Goldie Poblador

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Goldie Poblador is a New York based artist Filipina artist who uses glass blowing, performance,  video, installation and scent when considering themes of feminism, the environment, and decolonization as it relates to the body.

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Zoë Schlanger

Interdisciplinary Resident, Five-Week, Session I

Zoë Schlanger is a journalist based in both New York, New York, and the Pacific Northwest covering science, health and the environment.

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Yasmine Ameli

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two Week

Yasmine Ameli (she/her) is a biracial Iranian American writer from and currently based outside Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Tech.

View her work here, or on Instagram and Twitter. 

Nicole LaBouff

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-week, 2022

Nicole LaBouff is a Curator and Historian of Art, Science, and Genders Fiction based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

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Kim Beck

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-week, 2022

Interdisciplinary resident, Two-Week

Kim Beck is a visual artist based in Pittsburg, PA, U.S.A. Her work “evokes the tradition of landscape painting, while upending it, replacing the sweep of valleys and canyons with everyday weeds, lawn and billboards.”

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Victoria Kornick

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-week, 2022

Mary Bowden is a creative writer based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. She holds an MFA from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow and a Goldwater Hospital fellow. Currently, she is a Dornsife fellow in the English & Creative Writing PhD program at the University of Southern California, and is working on a manuscript of essays. Her critical work is on the commercial plant trade and British fiction.

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Mary Bowden

Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, 2022

Mary Bowden is a literary based in Newark, Delaware.

Jessica Aquino

Interdisciplinary resident, Two-Week, 2022

Jessica Elena Aquino (she/they) is a fiber interdisciplinary artist, educator, and poet based in Brooklyn, NY. From her website, “Jessica earned her B.A in Painting from Colgate University in 2014 and an MFA at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Her work has been exhibited at Da Vinci Art Alliance, PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI and Anna Zorina Gallery, NY.” 

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Elaine Searle, 2022

Dark Hellebore by Elaine Searle.

Botanical Artist in Residence, 2022

Elaine Searle is botanical artist based in Norfolk, UK. She is internationally recognized for her watercolor paintings of plants, fruit and vegetables. To view her work, visit her website.

Irina Neacsu, 2022

She Made Her Choice by Irina Neacsu.

Botanical Artist in Residence, 2022

Irina Neacșu is a designer and a botanical artist, member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and founder of the Romanian Society of Botaical Artists. Her projects cover a wide range of creative fields, from painting and graphics to art teaching, applied arts and interior design.