Announcing Our 2017 Fellows
Congratulations to our 2017 fellows! Southern Constellations and Baltimore Goes Elsewhere offer six fellowships each (room/board/travel/$1000 honorarium) to artists based in the chosen cities to participate in an Elsewhere Residency, creating site-specific projects in or around Elsewhere’s 100-year-old building.
Full 2017/18 list of artists-in-residence coming soon...
PICNIC
P.I.C.N.I.C. (Partners In City, Neighbors In Community) promotes community-based development that celebrates creativity in the Triad through a crowdfunding dinner. On First Friday, February 3rd, we broke bread together and voted on proposals from individuals and organizations that engage Creative Action. Congratulations to the winners: Sherrill Roland (1st place- The Jumpsuit Project) + Cherizar Crippen...
Thing Tank
Scholars will discuss “things” in the context of contemporary art, new materialism, theories of assemblage, re-assemblage, and the problem of ephemerality in June 2017. The weekend long retreat celebrates Elsewhere’s 15th birthday by thinking about the future of things for a thrift-store turned museum. The evening is a collaboration between Elsewhere, Cabinet Magazine.
Elsewhere Goes To Cuba
The Elsewhere brigade traveled to Cuba over the winter holidays with NEEM, a non-profit dedicated to the Cuban agroecological organipónico model. This special travel group explored Cuba’s experimental styles in art and agriculture by meeting with farmers, artists, and cultural leaders for in-depth access to studios, agricultural cooperatives, and arts institutions.
Seder
Elsewhere's 7th annual evening of traditional foods with an untraditional telling of the Passover story across the museum’s three floors. Elsewhere’s Seder connects Jewish liberation with historic and contemporary liberation texts.
Reserve your spot by Wednesday, April 12th here.
Apply
Elsewhere--a living museum, residency and creative laboratory set inside a former thrift store--is accepting applications from artists and researchers working across all media, fields and disciplines for 2016 and 2017. Opportunities include residencies, fellowships, internships, staff positions and creative retreats for students and creative groups.
Creature Comforts
Building off their experiences as past residents, Jay Gamble, Mary Rothilisberger, and Angela Zammerilli transformed bleek residential rooms on Elsewheres second floor into comfortable, open platforms for creative living and collaborative art making.
Using materials from the collection they conceptually explore the line between public and private working/living environments within the institution that accommodate both the needs...
The Kitchen Commons
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The Kitchen, situated on the busiest & most public floor of the museum, was built in 2011 as a collaboration between artists J. Morgan Puett & Building Curator Ian Montgomery. They conceived the space as a functional installation, emphasizing openness & hospitality to both Elsewhere & the greater Greensboro community.
We keep our kitchen stocked with...
Political Party
Elsewhere's third quadrennial Elections Return Spectacular: Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 8 o’clock (doors open at 7pm) until all the seals are broken. Co-Hosted by Elsewhere + Triad City Beat + #BlackLivesMatter: GateCity + Greensboro Project Space (GPS). We're putting the Party back in Politics, with a night of returns coverage and insight on the hilarity,...
Fundraising Extravaganza
SAVE THE DATE:
Saturday, October 28th, 2017 | 3-Floor Art Party
Elsewhere’s 9th Annual Extravaganza features three floors of artworks, music, craft cocktails, & performances. Join us in celebrating a fantastic season with an all-night, fundraising, art party in the world’s only thrift store turned museum.
Tickets are already on sale. Don’t be late to the party!
Contact museum@goelsewhere.org...
Miami Goes Elsewhere
Six Miami interdisciplinary artists were residents at Elsewhere from June 8th-July 6th, 2016 for a curated fellowship. Elsewhere partnered with select Miami artists and arts leaders to curate this special residency exploring the local ecology of artists and creative practitioners from one of the world's most vibrant scenes.
