Hannah Lewis (Fort Myers, FL) March 2018. Performance documentation. Repurposed museum collection garments, fabric, mannequins, wood, found bubble wrap. Dress-Up is comprised of vintage garments – sizes 2-4 – from Elsewhere’s collection that have been deconstructed and expanded to accommodate sizes 22-26. The altered clothes are displayed on mannequins that Lewis altered to reflect her own body’s measurements....

Antoina B. Larkin (Savannah, GA) March 2018. Installation documentation. Hair in museum walls, collection glass & wood, gold leaf, interactive book. Dimensions Variable Vessel is an installation that explores what it means to preserve one’s identity, which the artist believes involves more than the traditional ways of record keeping such as census records and birth certificates. Inspired...

Ásgerður Birna Björnsdóttir (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) February 2018. Documentation demonstrating interactive elements of sculpture. 27 Elsewhere items, epoxy resin, fiberglass, Qi charging system, receivers. 18.5″ x 22″ x 33″ in.  PERIODIC CHARGE is a public smartphone lounge and practical charging commons at the museum’s admission desk. Focusing on Elsewhere’s collection materials as a natural resource, Björnsdóttir and local...

Carolyn Clayton (North Adams, MA) February 2018. Documentation demonstrating interactive elements of sculpture. Pulverized museum collection objects, wood, glass, masonite, metal armature, Raspberry Pi. 10″ x 33″ x 42″ in.  Past-life viewing station Glimpse gives viewers the ability to experience and speculate on the past, present, and future forms of Elsewhere collection. Four objects were intuitively chosen by artist...

Edison Peñafiel (Sunrise, FL) January 2018. Installation documentation. Video projection, rope, luggage, trunks. 10′ x 12′ x 10′ ft.  Peñafiel’s works, influenced by his experiences as a migrant, are immersive multi-media installations that integrate animated video projections and sound seamlessly with physical objects. Ni Aquí, Ni Allá (Neither Here, Nor There), on Elsewhere’s 3rd floor, is a fantastical parade of...

Mandy Messina (Oklahoma City, OK) January 2018. Video. 4 minutes. CHANNELS imagines various African Nations as former colonizers through the familiar format of TV. Installed on museum televisions, the video surfs channels showcasing snippets of fictional commercials and programs. Stitched into each short is a fabricated language Messina constructed that is both recognizable yet unidentifiable with any particular existing...

Jeremiah Jones (Brooklyn, NY) January 2018. Sculptures made with miscellaneous museum collection materials. Dimensions variable. Elsewhere Filters are a set of small sculptures comprised of collection crystals, gems, and objects Jones selected through exploring the museum with his cell phone lens. Inspired by the lack of permanence at Elsewhere, these non-descript objects were made to be lost and found: a wire inserted...

Sarah Nelson Wright (Brooklyn, NY)  January 2018. Photo, video, audio documentation for augmented reality tour. Above: Photographs from factory visits, Photo Credit: Sarah Nelson Wright, Rimona Law. Below: Interactive map with respective locations. Invisible Seams, an ongoing project with Jennifer Stock, is an augmented reality walking tour centered on the globalization of the fashion industry. Invisible Seams’s first iteration takes place in...

Congratulations to our 2018 artists-in-residence! View full list here.

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.