Daniel B. Coleman (Durham + Greensboro, NC / Chiapas, Mexico) Southern Constellations Fellow. October 2018. Performance and installation documentation. 7 min 14 secs. Gel medium transfers; acrylic; museum collection wardrobe and mirrors; HD video with sound. Dimensions variable. “Upon reflection, it is easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. Denial is facilitated by...

Click here to view the live google-doc. Jessica Gaynelle Moss, (Charlotte, NC) Southern Constellations Fellow. November 2018. Educational program. Future installation with velcro, museum collection wood. Dimensions variable. “What can we do together to ensure that the next generation of Arts leadership is inclusive, highly-skilled and has had the necessary practical experience?” Initiated in 2018 by artist, writer, and entrepreneur...

Mixed, Lonnie Holley (Birmingham, Alabama) Southern Constellations Fellow. December 2018. Installation view. Acrylic, museum collection garments, mannequins, and miscellaneous items. Dimensions variable. Much like his body of work extending over four decades, Holley’s compositions are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. The curated objects already imbued with cultural metaphors, including a blue-faced mannequin and baby...

  SHAN WALLACE (Baltimore, Maryland)  Southern Constellations Fellow. October 2018. Installation view. Museum collection mannequins, wire mesh, and found objects; spray paint; photographs. Dimensions variable. How do we remember? How do mourning and rituals look culturally? How does adaptation to marginalization and social exclusion influence one’s role in accessing memories, and their capacity to mourn? What does that look...

OVERVIEW REGISTER 2018 2016 OVERVIEW 2018 Convergence Registration is now Open! Join Elsewhere for our next convergence, a day of community, art, and connectivity, as part of our annual suite of programs offered through Southern Constellations (SoCo). This event is free and open to the public, and registration will be open in upcoming months.     Arts leaders and organizers dissect state resources with Corey...

Ben Seretan (Brooklyn, NY) Every Dawn Jubilation Blues (Dedicated to the Memory of Etta Baker) June 2018. Performance series video documentation. 5 min 57 secs. Electric guitar, keyboard, microphone. For Every Dawn, Seretan addressed each morning of his residency with an hour of public improvised singing and guitar performances from Elsewhere’s storefront theater, starting before the sun...

Samantha Burns (Seminole, FL) June 2018. Video documentation of performance series, Walking Is Still Honest. 8 min 44 secs. Museum collection plates and paper. Dimensions variable. Burns’s work typically explores the fragility and balance of the mind and body connection, with a special focus on time surrounding sudden traumatic experiences or injuries. Taking a different approach to the concept of...

Hale Ekinci (Chicago, IL) June 2018. Performance and process documentation. 5 min 7 secs. Museum collection fabric, polyfill, HD video with sound (music adapted from “Fork-Tailed Emerald” by Ben Seretan). Dimensions variable. Your Haint Blue is My Evil Eye is an interactive fiber and video installation that explores personal relationships with material objects and cultural comparisons of...

Andrea Vail, (Charlotte, NC) June 2018. Performance documentation. Performance series, geo-tracking application, oil on glass, HD video. Dimensions variable. Signalling Hello (Greensboro) is the first installment of a greeting initiative that collects genuine encounters with pedestrians and expands the experience of Elsewhere. This socially engaged project was informed by Vail’s daily practice of walking through Downtown Greensboro and greeting others...

Spencer Merolla (Brooklyn, NY) May 2018. Installation. Collection doll hair, 36 frames, sconce, mirror, wood, acrylic. 8’x 8′ x 12′. Album Amicorum is a storytelling, functional artifact: a bathroom installation that presents locks of hair from museum dolls in the style of a 19th-century friendship album. Merolla’s body of work investigates the use of hair as a personal reliquary and token...

Milla Toukkari (Helsinki, Finland) May 2018. 4-part text on vellum, paper, vinyl on glass. Lover’s-ear is a text series distributed through Downtown Greensboro and installed within the 3-floor museum that explores intimacy at a distance with the self, loved ones, and strange entities through distance and personal perspectives. Displayed at Elsewhere through bedroom love letters and window installations, Lover’s-ear asks audiences...

Kimberly Lyle (Phoenix, AZ) May 2018. Installation documentation. Museum collection wood and metal objects, programmed micro-controller board with audio. Dimensions variable. Staircase Score transforms a functional, transitional space into an interactive sound installation composed of drawer-like sculptures. The handles are an invitation to be held that mirrors the support and position of the adjacent handrail. When touched, each...