Doug Baulos

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

From their urban studio in downtown Birmingham, artist Doug Baulos creates rich and earthy installations from found objects as well as homemade textiles and pigments. The UAB Assistant Professor of Drawing has built an impressive career as a fine artist, with an upcoming show at the Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, Japan and a current exhibit at the newly opened Shelby County Arts Center titled Root, Branch, and Star. Doug’s hand-bound books, mixed-media installations, and woven work is grounded in themes of nature, mortality, and loss but feels hauntingly fragile — beautiful with a delicate darkness. Doug shares with us their own sources of inspiration and how they hope to inspire young artists in the south.

Jessica Dalrymple

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Jessica Dalrymple studied Fine Art at Hamilton College and trained as a painter at The Art Student's League of New York and studied with prominent landscape painters; Gregg Kreutz, Scott Christenson, and John Osbourne. She has exhibited with many national and regional juried shows and has received numerous awards including the Fenimore Award which granted her a solo exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY. She earned a certificate in horticulture from Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, is a licensed city tree pruner through Trees New York, and actively volunteers with local environmental groups.

She collaborates with organizations to create art events that raise awareness about the local landscape and environmental issues such as; co-creating ArtLab Gowanus, a pop-up structure hosting landscape related art workshops taught by local artists, made possible by the Gowanus Public Art Grant, applied for in collaboration with The Gowanus Canal Conservancy (2015). In 2014 she created a “Plein Air On The Canal” event hosting orgs such as local chapters of The Urban Sketchers and Oil Painters of America on the banks of the canal to capture the evolving landscape. Other events include a Spring Botanical Draw for the Gowanus Dredgers focusing on local vegetation, multiple Botanical Drawing events for The Old Stone House Brooklyn featuring their gardens, and a Botanical “Drink N Draw” event to raise funds for The Human Impact Institute. Most recently she leads monthly “Mindful Nature Journaling Hikes” through New York City Parks.

Suzy Kopf

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Suzy Kopf is a multidisciplinary artist who scrutinizes the paper ephemera of midcentury consumer culture to probe the enduring mythos of the American Dream. Through water media paintings, collages and site-specific installations she excavates archival materials and inherited nostalgia for planned utopias erected and cast aside. Vibrant and pastel colors unify her work across media and evoke the built landscape of the eroding Silicon Valley where she grew up. Conscious of how much byproduct can result from art-production, Suzy strives to have a “no waste” practice, recycling materials back into her work and making her own paint.

Suzy has been the recipient of numerous residency fellowships including most recently Kala, The Studios at Mass MoCA, Playa and VCCA. Projects related to her research-based practice have been funded by the Hagley Museum, Baltimore National Heritage Area, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and the Design History Society.

Eleanor Olson

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Eleanor Quist Costello Olson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, surrounded by nature, dogs, and women. Eleanor's work has become focused on interactions with the built and natural environments we live within and complicating the narratives usually thought of as black and white. They are influenced by gender and race theories, social and political histories, nature, and our current ecological state. Activist and politically engaged painting and other visual art forms have largely become the focus of their work, with an emphasis on conservation, destruction, and intersections within environmental, gender, and race issues. 

Eleanor Quist Costello Olson recently received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, Class of 2020 with concentrations in Race, Gender, and Sexuality and Nature, Culture, and Sustainability. 

Francisco Vazquez Murillo

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Francisco Vazquez Murillo is a visual artist living in Rosario, Argentina. He has exhibited his work internationally throughout Argentina, Mexico, Netherlands and now at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, in Upperville Virginia with his site-specific installation Deadline. To see more of his work visit his online portfolio here: https://fvazquezmurillo.com.ar/Deadline

Scarlett Peterson

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Scarlett Peterson is a poet, essayist, and lesbian. Her first collection, The Pink I Must Have Worn was published by Kelsay Books in 2023. She is currently working on her second manuscript of poems, Notes from the Field, and a lyric memoir, Groundwork.  She is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University working on additional graduate certificates in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as Gerontology. She is the 2022 winner of The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize, a recipient of a Martha’s Vineyard Creative Writing Fellowship, and attended an Oak Spring Garden Interdisciplinary Artist Residency in the Summer of 2023. Her work can be found in Moon City Review, The Lavender Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Peculiar, Pidgeonholes, Gargoyle Magazine, Ponder Review, Madcap Review, Counterclock Journal, The Shore, Poetry Online, Skink Beat Review,  Eunoia Review, and more. You can find her on X [Twitter] and Instagram @scarlettpoet.

Gavin Ryan

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Gavin Ryan is a musician and native of Payson, Utah, he has performed and taught throughout the United States, as well as in Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Haiti, and China. After completing a US Fulbright Fellowship in Bali, Indonesia, he founded and directed Gamelan Madu Kencana, a community Balinese gamelan based in Provo, Utah. Recent accomplishments include the inaugural award of the Utah Performing Arts Fellowship in 2020, the 2023 Brehm Prize in Instrumental Composition, an Oak Springs Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Residency, and the Rackham Presidential Graduate Fellowship. He currently directs Gamelan Kyai Telaga Madu and Gamelan Madu Biru at University of Michigan.

Parul Naresh

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Parul Naresh is a textile designer, visual artist and educator who practices sustainable art. She aspires to put environmental awareness at the forefront of her work with a strong belief in utilization of natural renewable resources. As a dyer and printmaker, she explores silkscreen printing using plant-based dyes & earth pigments. She has been indulged in supporting the sustainable textile & art practices and related artisan communities. With noticeable change and after years of team efforts, today with artisans as her partners, she continue to be part of it as an entrepreneur turning her passion and dedication for handwoven and natural material, into a textile craft business–weavesandwildflowers.com

Kylan Rice

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Kylan Rice has writing published in RHINO, West Branch, Seattle Review, Booth and elsewhere. He has an MFA in poetry from Colorado State University and is currently a PhD candidate in literature at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Lauren R. Cannady

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I

Lauren R. Cannady is a scholar working at the intersections of art and architectural history, intellectual history, and the environmental humanities. Her research and teaching explore artistic production as the material evidence of intellectual trends in early modern Europe and colonial North America. She is co-editor of Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks, which appeared in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series in 2021, and her current research project is a book manuscript on early modern taxonomies of knowledge and the ordering of the natural world through patterned gardens and vernacular botanicals. Her research has been supported by the Huntington Library, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Clark Art Institute, and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte. She holds a PhD in Art History from New York University.

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.

Anna Wyngaarden, 2023

Plant Science Research Fellow 2023

Anna Wyngaarden is a population ecologist and botanist interested in the population dynamics driving the persistence of rare and endemic plant species. She is currently focusing on three globally imperiled species endemic to granite outcrops in the southeastern US, utilizing observational studies and modeling approaches to tease apart the broad and local drivers of the species’ observed patterns of abundance and occupancy.

Nazafarin Lotfi, 2023

Eliza Moore Fellow 2023

Nazafarin Lotfi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and her BA from the University of Tehran in 2007. Lotfi is a multi-disciplinary artist who studies how the self and notions of identity formation are understood in relationship to architecture, landscape, space, and place. She explores humanness in relation to nonhuman bodies and places that are defined by practices of map-making and gardening. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Regards, Chicago, IL; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; MOCA Tucson, AZ; Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL, among many more. She is the recipient of 2023 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence.

Lotfi’s practice has received support from Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Grant, Night Bloom: Grants for Artists, and CAAP Grant from the City of Chicago. Lotfi was a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University in 2021-22.