This Year’s Residents
Dec 2024

Carrington Ware

Carrington Ware (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist working with illustration, video, sound, textiles, and installation. She utilizes various mediums to sustain an unrestricted practice characterized by play and curiosity. Reflection of place, identity, and culture underpins her work with current themes centering on Black narratives, nostalgia, and archiving.

Ware received her MFA from Florida International University in 2020 and her BFA from Valdosta State University in 2016. She currently lives and works in South Florida.

Selected solo exhibitions include Soft (2023) Tunnel Projects and Leisure (2021) Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami, Florida. Selected group exhibitions include Tunnel Annex + Miami Design District, Meditations On Waking Up (2024), The Frank Gallery, Voices of Experience: Invited Artists’ Works (2024), The Arc, Evidence of Contrary Instincts (2024), The Lowe Museum, Banned!: Story Tellers (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, 2022 South Florida Cultural Consortium (2023), and Stoveworks, Y’all Don’t Hear Me: The Black Appalachia (2023).

Joella Kiu

@joellaqkiu

Currently, she is Curator at the Singapore Art Museum. Her recent curatorial projects include 'Lost & Found: Embodied Archive' (2024), 'Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey' (2024), 'SAM Contemporaries: Residues & Remixes' (2023), 'Lonely Vectors' (2022) and 'REFUSE' (2022) at the Singapore Art Museum, and 'to gather: The Architecture of Relationships' (2021) at the Singapore Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

She has published writing about curatorial research, more-than-human worlds and counter-cartography in esteemed journals such as AAA Like A Fever, FIELD, The Garage Journal and PR&TA. In terms of independent initiatives, Joella started the discursive online platform, Object Lessons Space, and was host, writer and producer of Mushroomed, a podcast about the visual arts produced in collaboration with Singapore Community Radio. She holds an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2017), and a BA in History of Art from the University of York (2015)

Joella Kiu is a curator and art historian based in Singapore. She focuses her research on how artists arrange, assemble, or organise large amounts of information, especially in relation to ecological systems and environments.

Tatiana Muzquiz

@tatimuzquiz

Tatiana Muzquiz is a performing artist, visual artist, and art historian with a special interest in photography. Born and raised in South Texas, she began dancing Ballet Folklorico at the age of two, and quickly developed a passion for sharing her culture through art.

Her work focuses on the intersectionality of heritage, spirituality, sexuality, and disability and has been featured in a number of group exhibitions, including The Border Is Beautiful (2024) and Narrative and Visual Culture (2023). Student exhibitions include the University of Texas at San Antonio’s College Of Liberal and Fine Arts Research Conference (2024) and the University of Texas at San Antonio’s 39th Annual Juried Student Exhibition (2023) for both of which she was awarded second place in the undergraduate category.She has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including, the Jane Findling Award (2024) and the Lavender Leadership Award (2023) both for her commitment to leadership and service.

Tatiana graduated Cum Laude from the University of Texas at San Antonio, in 2023 with her BA in Art History and Criticism. She is currently pursuing her MS in Library Science with a focus on Archival Studies and Imaging Technology from the University of North Texas.

Maddie Grandusky-Howe (they/them) is an artist and songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. They are releasing their debut EP Volena in early 2025; the project is named after their paternal grandmother. Inspired by artists including Connie Converse, Lomelda, and Joan Armitrading, their work is often informed by their environment and sensory experiences, exploring queer identity and power dynamics. They have performed in venues including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Baby’s All Right, and DIY spaces throughout New York. Drawn to analog mediums, Maddie also collects vinyl records and organizes curated queer dance nights around the city.

Maddie Grandusky-Howe

@volenaband

(they/them)

Dr. Mirabelle Jones is a queer, non-binary creative technologist, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher critically investigating creative practices in technology. Their work explores the immersive storytelling potential of sensors, spatialized sound, LEDs, animatronics, XR, wearables, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, deep fake, and computer vision.

Dr. Mirabelle Jones

@mirabellejonesart

(they/them)

They have a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Copenhagen within the Human-Centered Computing section and possess an M.F.A. in Book Art & Creative Writing from Mills College and a BA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Their works have most recently been featured at the Harvard Art Museum, Catch: Center for Art, Design, and Technology, ATA Gallery, the Museum Meermanno and the Center for Performance Research and appear in several collections including the One National Gay & Lesbian Archives and the Center on Contemporary Art’s historic Hear Our Voice collection. Their performances and visual works have been heralded by the Huffington Post, ArtNet, Ms. Magazine, Ingeniøren, Bustle, ATTN, Refinery29, Inquisitr, Mic., Sleek Magazine, Feminist Magazine, Deutsche Welle, Google News, Yahoo News, PBS, Berliner Zeitung and elsewhere. Portfolio: MirabelleJones.com

Ren Allathkani

@folkloren_

Her most recent projects include ‘The Passport Of Witness’ (2024) a collaboration with artist Sun Young Kang as a commission through Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Which highlights the ongoing struggle and longings of Palestinians in exile. As well as her recently shown work ‘Within Our Lifetime’(2024) at the SOMArts Gallery. Through her work, she seeks to reestablish her connection to spirituality and her Palestinian cultural heritage, serving as a means to reclamation and explore themes of identity, displacement, and belonging. Her work serves as an imagery of a hopeful future of the Palestinian reality and livelihood. Hoping to be viewed not as a longing but a promised future for the Palestinian people.

Ren Allathkani is a Palestinian artist who spent her formative years moving between various states in the U.S- - as well as Jordan, where most of her family resides. Her family's roots trace back to Jaffa and Nablus in Palestine before they were displaced to Amman, Jordan. Ren earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Studio from UC Davis in 2021. In 2019 she was awarded the Gary Pruner Scholarship. Ren's artistic practice encompasses the traditional Palestinian art form of tatreez embroidery, along with incorporating natural materials into her pieces.

Hanna-Katarina Edwards

@hannakatarinaalexandra

Hanna-Katarina was born by the Sea and grew up in the mountains of Northern California. She currently resides and works in her studio in Guadalajara, Mexico

Simultaneously she creates garments out of fabric and found objects. These garments and costumes are meant for performance and ritual, and meant to act as deities for the body. Her goal is to weave a story into material for it to in turn be told by the adorned. Consistently investigating the links between the meditation of the intimate craft process and expression of the body through performance. She is interested in the balance of intimacy between maker, wearer and witness. She is consistently collaborating with artists of different médiums to explore different worlds. Together with video artist Rodrigo Courtney they make video art and short film pieces that dive into dreams, myths, memories,visions, and perspectives of reality.

Artist statement Hanna-Katarina“I enjoy playing with the balance of light and dark and the parallels of fantasy and reality. I am fascinated with investigating light, reflection and movement as a Language of storytelling. I make objects and tell stories because of my desire to interpret indescribable things."

Hanna works mostly creating one of a kind jewelry, adornment, performances and creative direction for videos, photography and performance in order to create stories with the body. Her focus is on utilizing ancient and experimental jewelry and metalsmithing techniques to make ritual adornments and ornaments.

@ADORNEDBYDEE

@ASIBARAFOREST

Derrienne Reese

Meet Derrienne Reese – a self-taught embroidery artist, forest school instructor, and urban farmer who's on a mission to transform urban spaces into thriving hubs of community and learning.

Derrienne believes that everyone deserves access to green spaces and quality education. She spends her time cultivating gardens in abandoned lots, creating open-air classrooms in the heart of Detroit, and using her hand-embroidered art to tell stories of resiliency and belonging.

Derrienne's vision is bigger than any one project. She sees a future where nature and education come together to uplift marginalized communities and bring people closer to the land. Where every child can learn in a way that's engaging and inclusive. And where art becomes a tool for sparking real, lasting change.

Join Derrienne as she transforms cities, uplifts communities, and inspires us all to cherish our connection to the natural world. Every stitch, every seed, every story is a testament to the power of creativity and community.

Hoxsey

(they/them)

@falcorrrr

Hoxsey is a mixed-media artist, chef, and master gardener whose work focuses on narrative driven and experiential events and projects. They have worked on large-scale, narrative-driven art pieces (The Last Apothecary, The Mazu Temple of the Empty Sea) as both fabricator and story-building specialist. As a chef, their focus has been on telling the stories of food: where it comes from, how it gets to us, who holds it sacred and why. This crosses over with their passionate relationship with creating thriving, edible landscapes and food forests, while cultivating curiosity and wonder in their clients to develop a deeper understanding of our relationship to the food we eat and what we grow.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area (CA), Hoxsey is 2nd generation southern Italian whose family instilled in them the deep importance of family and cultural legacy in the tiniest of seeds. Hoxsey is currently working on a mixed-media narrative cookbook inspired by Scandinavian folktales and ancient food traditions. Recently employed by the University of Austin Texas to revitalize their largest dining hall's menu, they actively encourage taking time for beauty, quality, and narrative menu-crafting to nourish a new generation of academics.