A place for lost bois and girls by Samantha Persons: This living installation- comprised of a series of fort-like cubbies on the 2nd floor of the museum- is in a state of flux, like the living museum itself. It was built using the scrap material from the 3rd floor woodshop area to fashion a structurally sound...
Born and raised in Detroit, Melissa Vandenberg is an artist, educator and curator living in eastern Kentucky. Her recent creative inquires investigate fear, impermance and power with everyday materials like fabric, stickers, temporary tattoos and found objects. Current events, nationalism and ancestry play a fundamental role in her studio practice through imagery of flags, gravestones,...
Lauren Bullock was born in Boston, Massachusetts but spent most of her life in Georgia where her interest in the arts developed from an early age. Her formal studies in textiles began at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design’s Pre College Program where she first studied pattern screen printing. She also traveled to...
“I wish. . .” was an open ended question posed by Joan Vorderbruggen to Elsewhere visitors and passing pedestrians during downtown Greensboro’s “First Friday” on May 3rd,2013. Participants were asked to share a wish on a small sheet of paper with the simple prompt, “I wish. . .” Twenty one wishes were selected from hundreds...
About StoryBank
This spring, Elsewhere launches StoryBank–a storytelling platform in Elsewhere’s museum that collects stories from museum visitors, artists, neighbors, and our online community. To launch the project, Appalshop, a 40-yr old media and social justice media collective based in Appalachia will visit Greensboro in March for a special residency of workshop collaborations with new immigrants, nearby...
Peter Pendergrass is a multidisciplinary artist from Greensboro, NC. Working primarily in visual media and performance, Peter’s work focuses on gender, sexuality, and personal identity; contemporary political issues, especially feminist movement; the evolving role of technology in culture; spirituality beyond the context of major organized religion; and the intersections thereof. He currently lives and works...
James Huckenpahler tosses away the software manuals before making images on his laptop. He is represented in Washington DC by Hemphill Fine Arts, teaches new media at George Washington University, is a fellow at Provisions Library, and serves on the advisory board of Transformer, non-profit, artist-centered organization that connects and promotes emerging artists locally, nationally...
Jenny Lee Craig is an artist and a cultural producer currently based in Vancouver, BC. Her projects are diverse and interdisciplinary, often striving for community engagement and collaboration. Though she is inspired by almost everything, her work often draws directly from craft, DIY, surrealism, and storytelling. Highlights from her extensive list of accomplishments include competing...
Samantha Persons is an interdisciplinary artist, who is currently working towards her MFA in Sculpture/New Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute, as well as studying internationally at the International Ceramic Studio in Kescskemet, Hungary. Her work is heavily engaged in issues of personal...
The Compartment Store by Suzy Kopf: Kopf dismantled Elsewhere’s former Department Store and erected in its place the Compartment Store, an installation of well over a thousand museum items curated, arranged and installed on numerous shelves, the surrounding counters and the Co-founder’s desks. Shelves labeled with humor infused signage like “Mostly Bowling” and “Bad Habits” reference...
The Urban Explorers Guide to the Elsewhere Commonwealth by April Bartlett is an interactive guide for the exploration of the city within a city; Elsewhere. The map is an exercise/ activity for the visitors of Elsewhere, encouraging them to engage with the environment, reveal to them the constant repurposing and re-imaginging of the city, as...
The Elsewhere Oracle by Monica Lacey is an interactive divination kit designed to assist the reader in accessing their own intuition and directing their energy while at Elsewhere. Objects from the collection have been selected for use as symbols and assigned specific meanings. The accompanying Guidebook provides full instruction and interpretation.
