/ PAST & CURRENT ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
![Michael Benson](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1666749384416-0CC9SDG34U13K4IOJV4R/michael-benson.jpeg)
Michael Benson
![Rachel Summerfield](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1687216552108-M02BI57F9HSQWT29O85E/20220305_143826.jpg)
Rachel Summerfield
Rachel Summerfield is a Chicago-based painter and sometimes writer with a background in theater, set design, and creative writing.
![Raquel Lesser](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1687216182661-5FSCJCKFOAC5TF5JXSQF/p.jpg)
Raquel Lesser
My name is Raquel Lesser. I graduated from Manhattanville College with a bachelor's degree in digital media.
![Anya Liftig](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1681909447431-ESY73DO4TIL6BY9KDKPT/FFFfinal_anya%252B.jpg)
Anya Liftig
Anya Liftig is a writer and performer.
![Torey Akers](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669156429192-SZTT8Q005XSLIEKBASWF/Torey%2BAkers.jpg)
Torey Akers
Torey Akers is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY.
![Gunilla Svensson](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669156150776-JIVCT1MIWUDM9R4YYVJT/Gunilla%2BSvensson.jpg)
Gunilla Svensson
Gunilla Svensson has had a long life with multiple careers.
![Zoë Sadokierski](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669153966998-RK28732I2S97O3YPOTWT/Zoe%CC%88+Sadokierski.jpg)
Zoë Sadokierski
Zoë Sadokierski is an award-winning book designer, educator, and writer.
![Mallory Smith](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669152959551-GXGFL21L425K0NDVNUQX/Mallory%2BSmith.jpg)
Mallory Smith
I am an artist from New York living and working in Brooklyn.
![Kathryn Cahill](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669150903027-78TBPAMD3AUHF5HCUYRX/Kathryn%2BCahill.jpg)
Kathryn Cahill
Kathryn is an emerging Irish artist based in Dublin.
![Seth Oelbaum](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669150786172-GIFMA00TFTVUIPCDU4F6/Seth%2BOelbaum.jpg)
Seth Oelbaum
Seth Oelbaum is the author of macey [triolets] and Bad Balthazar.
![Lori Roper](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669148969338-735D2GJFRGG2PGRGR99M/Lori%2BRoper.jpg)
Lori Roper
Lori is a writer, teaching artist and producer, committed to using the power of the written word to instigate the reformation of social justice; especially for the marginalized and disenfranchised members of underserved communities.
![Dan Nagler](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669148809618-LLWA3W3RV9KWDWJJA8KD/Dan%2BNagler.jpg)
Dan Nagler
Dan Nagler is an experienced writer and narrative designer, primarily in the field of games and live, interactive experiences.
![Darryl Lauster](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669147850848-AKP8CWHNTMH29IHPBJBU/Darryl%2BLauster.jpg)
Darryl Lauster
A 2010 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, Darryl Lauster is an Intermedia artist, writer, and a Professor of Sculpture at the University of Texas Arlington.
![Rúni Weihe](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669077349980-GLZ8OCP186K31HNW4HBO/Ru%25CC%2581ni%2BWeihe.jpg)
Rúni Weihe
Rúni Weihe was born in 1985 on the Faroe Islands.
![Rashaun J. Allen](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669073908476-ZTIJSWETHV2WPLZLUSXW/Rashaun%2BJ.%2BAllen.jpg)
Rashaun J. Allen
Rashaun J. Allen is a writer, entrepreneur, poet and professor.
![Courtney Coombs](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669040130668-1KH1RQXWHXZGT1XSEKT9/Courtney%2BCoombs.jpg)
Courtney Coombs
Courtney Coombs makes art, writes, facilitates and collaborates to try to make sense of the world and their place in it.
![Corinne Lestch](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669039711858-1AA0CKYW9HZM7WUH0LDO/Corinne+Lestch.jpg)
Corinne Lestch
Corinne Lestch's fiction explores the fluctuating states of female adolescence, as well as how identities change over time into adulthood.
![Anna Kate Blair](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669028860832-U6240T24H6002O9T04F6/Anna%2BKate%2BBlair.jpg)
Anna Kate Blair
Anna Kate Blair is a writer and architectural historian from New Zealand.
![Elisa Taber](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669027403126-FQ3B5F9SYTJUFWOZ2ZKM/Elisa%2BTaber.jpg)
Elisa Taber
Elisa Taber is a writer, translator, and anthropologist who divides her time between Buenos Aires and Montreal.
![Liz Gallo](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/634c5e444925eb26bff8e513/1669017702320-O2HAOJ19QOHLR7KQ3W7M/Liz%2BGallo.jpg)
Liz Gallo
Liz Gallo is an artist and a consultant. Her work explores both the digital and analog worlds.