Southern Constellations (SoCo) is a residency program that explores experimental practices across a network of Southern artists. SoCo Residents receive full funding to attend the month-long residency, including room and board in the historic museum, with additional travel support, plus a $1000 honorarium. SoCo Residents are specially featured in press, public events and exhibitions.
Applicants eligible for this residency are required to indicate so on the application and answer an additional question. These residencies are strengthened through nominations from professional artists, curators, collectors, and university educators, but anyone eligible can apply.
Once accepted, SoCo Residents are required to sign a contract and participate in the full-month residency.
Southern Constellations is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
To be eligible for SoCo, artists must be based or raised in the Southern United States* and able to attend a month-long residency, participating fully in all aspects of the program. Elsewhere seeks residents who demonstrate a commitment of applied skills, design intention, site-specific interest, and community participation.
SoCo is primarily based on an expanding group of professionals in order to expand a regional network of experimental practitioners, and foster an exciting cohort of exceptional artists. In an effort to reach and create space for those operating outside of our artistic networks, self-nominated applications are also welcome. Applicants, especially those nominated and hearing about Elsewhere for the first time, should thoroughly review the Residency webpage to ensure Elsewhere is indeed a good fit.
This funded residency is very competitive (offered to 5 individuals with approx. 80 applications), thus candidates are encouraged to express on the application if they are interested in the residency without funding. This will not hurt one’s ability to receive funding.
*Seeking applicants primarily from: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands. We are open to other regions with sufficient response.
2019 | YEAR 7
Alma L. Leiva (Miami, FL)
Project: Guess who’s coming to dinner (or The last supper)
Diana Laurel Caramat (Norfolk, VA / Seattle, WA)
Project: Social Sensory Stimulation
Josh T. Franco (Hyattsville, MD)
Project: PICTURES ELSEWHERE
Kevin Brophy (Tampa, FL / Pittsburgh, PA)
Project: Keeping Young & Living Longer
Michelle Lisa Polissaint (Miami, FL)
Project: Dine nan Nwa
Rosa Nussbaum (Austin, TX)
Project: Keeping Young & Living Longer
2018 | YEAR 6
Daniel B. Coleman (Durham & Greensboro, NC / Chiapas, México)
Project: Warriors: Beyond Unicorns and Erasures
SHAN Wallace (Baltimore, MD)
Project: The BANSHEE UNDE[RAGE]
Jessica Gaynelle Moss (Charlotte, NC)
Project: The ABOVEGROUND RAILROAD Scholarship
Poncili Creación | Pablo + Efrain Del Hierro (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Project: Multi-Parade
Lonnie Holley (Atlanta, GA)
Project: Mixed
2017 | YEAR 5
william cordova (Miami, FL / Lima, Peru)
Project: untitled: or obsneerg y las cronicas marcianas
Zeelie Brown (Pollard, AL / Brooklyn, NY)
Project: Fear No Joy
Rontherin Ratliff (New Orleans, LA)
Project: Rosa No. 7 Yellow Independence
Saba Taj (Durham, NC)
Project: Interstellar Uber / Negotiations with God
Ash Eliza Smith (Morganton, NC / San Diego, CA)
Project: 11½ Spells for Our Future Selves
2016 | YEAR 4
Jane Cassidy (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Project: We Went Down To O’Shea’s Wood
Maria Molteni (Nashville, TN)
Project: Revolving Spectrum
Charisse Weston (Houston, TX)
Project: Politics Surrounded | From Giving (Medley)
Cosmo Whyte (Atlanta, GA)
Project: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (from the Manifest Destiny Musical Series)
Antoine Williams (Chapel Hill / Greensboro, NC)
Project: Because They Believe in Unicorns
2015 | YEAR 3
Regina Agu (Houston, TX)
Project: A Living Index
Rachel Debuque (Washington, DC)
Project: Future Holiday
Jana Harper (Nashville, TN)
Project: New Walks in an Old Field
George Jenne (Chapel Hill, NC)
Project: Two Bizarre and Unexplained Deaths
Iman Person (Atlanta, GA)
Project: All Acts of Pleasure
Hồng-Ân Trương (Chapel Hill, NC)
Project: To Preserve, Destroy
2014 | YEAR 2
Izel Vargas (Boynton Beach, FL)
Project: Looking for Ghosts
Hillerbrand + Magsamen (Houston, TX)
Projects: Mandalas, Elsewhere China and Elsewhere Rainbow + Collected and Recollected
Martha Whittington (Atlanta, GA)
Project: Flannery’s Bunker
Lee Deigaard (New Orleans, LA)
Project: Horses at the Museum
Nsenga Knight (Durham, NC)
Project: Make Safe, Make Space
Stacy Lynn Waddell (Chapel Hill, NC)
Project: Leukerbad
2013 | YEAR 1
Nick Szuberla of Appalshop (Whitesville, KY)
Project: Appalshop Goes Elsewhere
Melissa Vandenberg (Richmond, KY)
Project: Sew to Speak
Joey Orr + Wesley Chenault of John Q (Atlanta, GA)
Project: Untitled (Books)
Andrew Raffo Dewar (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Project: Material Music
Nikita Gale (Atlanta, GA)
Project: Untitled (Legend)
Jillian Mayer (Miami, FL)
Project: LifeBox
