/Previous Artist-In-Residence

Our residency program invites artists from around the world to join our V/R ecosystem from anywhere from 2-4 weeks. We provide residents with a private studio space and put them up in a cozy airstream on-site. We cover travel, food, and offer a small material budget and a weekly stipend. At this time, we select artists based on recommendations from our studio members and community partners.

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Annie Russell is a painter and sculptor from the East Coast whose work is an evolving lexicon of symbols and images springing from myth and the natural world. She draws inspiration from dreams, symbiotic ecologies, and systems of collective care to create visual narratives and objects of ritual, connection, and function. She has exhibited in numerous group shows in the Midwest and East Coast. She works in the Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

Phi Nguyen is a poet-philosopher &  transdisciplinary artist who explores being & becoming, violence & justice, god & secular idolatry, tradition & modernity, & that they will die in their work & installations. Her work is concerned with experience & how that informs action first & foremost. She explores the life of a refugee & immigrant, of a people removed from their land, of nearness & separation from  each other, of the inheritors of slavery, how to shape the sword of peace with which we can cut down civilization.

Madeleine Soich (she/they) utilizes materials including light, “dust”, and discarded objects to explore impermanence as transmutation within a causal cycle. Soich references the body and the constructed world to instill empathy within the viewer in relation to others but also to our surroundings as a reminder that all are empty and pending change. Soich currently teaches at Syracuse University and earned her BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Aysha Hamouda (she/they) is a Swiss-Tunisian artist based in the U.S. Hamouda’s installations, lit by UV rays and constructed with threads, create perceptual experiences that exist between the tangible and the intangible, the definite and the hypothetical space. Hamouda completed her MFA degree in Studio Arts (2018) at Syracuse University in upstate New York, where she currently teaches.

Luis Vasquez La Roche is an artist and educator at George Mason University. Their practice is interested in aspects of the transatlantic slave trade that repeat themselves in varying ways in the present. An essential part of their research is an inquiry regarding material, space, smell, and sounds and how these sensory experiences become challenging to grasp in historical documents. The work also functions as a way to explore the gaps in historical archives and to fill the intentional void by summoning and collapsing past, present, and future.

Dathan Kane (b. 1991) is a contemporary abstract painter and muralist based in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He holds a BFA in Art & Design from Virginia State University. His work focuses on the constant duality of life's choices using bold, organic, black and white shapes to explore this complexity and gain a sense of balance.

Hannah Parrett is an artist and educator based out of Cincinnati, OH whose work explores the malleable boundaries of perception through expanded painting practices.she finished her masters degree at Ohio State University where she taught as a lecturer from 2020-2022, and co-founded Dream Clinic Project Space, an artist-run gallery that operates out of a shared studio collective in Columbus, OH.

Shane McFadden (b. 1999) is a lens based artist from Newport News, Virginia and is currently living and working in Richmond, Virginia. He holds a BFA in Photography+Film with a minor in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and continues his own artistic practice around creating stories through still images while exhibiting domestically and internationally. His work has been collected by Candela Books+Gallery (Richmond, VA) and published in RVA Mag.

Lucia Jones is a painter based in Wales. Her practice explores memory and perception of self through the constructs of paint and film. Primarily utilising cinematic source imagery from obscure 1950s-90s b-movies, she addresses the intangible nature of memory and the shifting impressions of lived moments.

Dylan Williams is a painter based in Swansea, Wales. He received his MFA and BFA from Swansea College of Art.

Rommy Torrico (they/them) A formerly undocumented, queer, trans nonbinary visual artist born in Iquique, Chile, and raised in Florida. They have been involved in social movement spaces encompassing (im)migrant, queer, and trans rights struggles for over a decade. They infuse much of their work with personal experience and the stories their communities share. Over the years, Torrico’s work has been included in several publications and exhibited at the Getty Museum, the Smithsonian Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, as well as many galleries and museums throughout the Americas and internationally.

Sonia Guiñansaca (they/them) An international award-winning queer migrant poet, cultural organizer, and social justice activist. They emerged as a national leader in the migrant artistic and political communities, where they coordinated and participated in groundbreaking civil disobedience actions.

Nadd Harvin is a self taught painter, illustrator, and teaching artist based primarily in Richmond and Hampton Roads, Virgina. As a teacher and prolific sketchbook artist, Nadd’s work is heavily process based and influenced by the act of creating and mark making. Their work is also deeply interested in utilizing realism as a vehicle for abstract expression and creating compositions that open up a world of endless storytelling possibilities.

Matt Dhillon Matt is a poet and writer most recently from Blacksburg, VA. When not nomadically roaming from coast to coast, Matt is a freelance journalist. You can read some of Matt’s poetry on our Instagram.

Walker Bankson (he/him) Walker “makes pictures to investigate how historical narratives and myths shape current institutions and power dynamics in small towns and throughout the South. I’m interested in collaboration with folks, places and archives while using fiction and levity to challenge the singular gaze of the photograph”. Walker graduated in 2021 with a BFA from Bard College and is currently working in the darkroom at Richmond’s Visual Arts Center. Walker joined us for the month of October, 2021.

jackie summell (she/her) Jackie is a multidisciplinary artist and abolitionist inspired most by the lives of everyday people. Her work has been successfully anchored at the intersection of activism, education, mindfulness practices and art for nearly two decades, and it has been exhibited extensively throughout the world. sumell’s work with Herman has positioned her at the forefront of the national campaign to end solitary confinement and seek humane alternatives to incarceration.

Olivia Crowe Reavey (she/her) Olivia is a photo artist who works primarily in the dark room and is currently interested in the phallus as a fine art object. She holds a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design (2020) and is currently working in the darkroom at Richmond’s Visual Arts Center. Olivia joined us for the month of October, 2021.

Terry Burton Terry A. Burton is a an artistic entrepreneur, citizen journalist and small business marketing consultant of 10+ years. He crafts a variety of mediums and creative pursuits: painting, collage, photography, video art, graphic design, poetry and sound art. His art work has been presented at the Toledo Museum of Art Community Gallery (OH), Mansfield Art Center (OH), Laneway Festival (Australia), 333 Midland (Highland Park, MI), Collingwood Arts Center (Toledo, OH) and 555 Gallery (Detroit, MI). Terry joined us as the first ever Visiting Artist in Residence in July 2021.