Current Residents
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Naheen Ahmed (Self_Saboteur)
Resident since Summer 2022
“I create art rooted in my experience as a disabled south Asian woman navigating healing, healthcare and hope.”
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Vân Anh
Resident since Summer 2022
“My work explores queer identity performance and commodification using traditional garment making techniques and 3D/4D world-building tools. “
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Lisa D. Archigian
Resident since Spring 2020
“My work is an exploration of narratives of space (architectural and mental), referencing the urban landscape, domestic interiors, and archival images of the Armenian Genocide.”
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Milenka Berengolc
Resident since Spring 2020
“I have found the universal in the personal. I continue creating a lifelike, connective art that is not ironic, but compassionate.”
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Moni Brar
Resident since Summer 2022
“Through writing and photography, I explores the immigrant experience, diasporic guilt, and religious violence. “
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Margaret Chase
Resident since Spring 2020
”All forms of art are living languages, and catalysts to expand the vocabulary of the imagination.”
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Melos Chilianis
Resident since Summer 2022
“I am an improvising musician and audio artist working with the breath, flutes and, generally, electro-acoustic sound extension and mixes.”
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Emma Kath Cullen
Resident since Summer 2022
“I believe that constraint, both thematically and formally, offers opportunities for creativity and reflection that envision a non-normative, accessible world.”
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Ali El-Chaer | علي الشاعر
Resident since Spring 2020
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Courtney Felle
Resident since Summer 2022
“I am a big fan of long road trips, large mugs of tea, ultra-specific Spotify playlists, and disabled community support.”
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Dustin Flocken
Resident since Spring 2020
“I don't like wind. But mosquitoes are worse.”
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Kate Gorman
SDA Co-founder | Community Member since Spring 2020
“From fabric to shimmery ink to video to books, I create systems of language and visual elements that experiment with how we see, how we read, how we hear, and the ways our perceptions are blended, confused, or heightened.”
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Faye Harnest
Resident since Summer 2022
“My illustrations are investigations into grief, depression, anxiety and disability politics, and experiments to discover ways of drawing myself when I don’t know who I am anymore.”
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Sherry Muyuan He
Resident since Summer 2022
“I wonder how images could surpass the language barriers and foster more empathy among people who grow up differently.”
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Lisa Hosokawa
Resident since Summer 2022
“A second-generation atomic bomb survivor, I am drawn to interrupted journeys and to fiction and games finding innovative ways to evoke compassion for difference, resonance in likeness, and relief in agency.”
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Kellie Kawahara-Niimi
Resident since Summer 2022
“I am just a loud introvert trying to waddle my way through the world. I make things and have anxiety. “
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Molly Kiefer
Resident since Summer 2022
“I believe in artistic practices that deepen our curiosities about being human, are rooted in disability justice work, and involve providing and/or receiving care. “
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Samir Knego
Resident since Summer 2022
“I've sometimes said that accessibility has to be multidisciplinary because that’s the only way to account for the variety of ways of sensing/learning/being in the world.”
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Akari Komura
SDA Co-founder | Community Member since Spring 2020
“With my background in voice, dance, and piano, I have always experienced performance spaces to be very intimate because they bring together discrete individuals in a collective experience. “
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Tammi Jean-Fedestin
Resident since Summer 2022
“My favorite thing in the world is to see someone being their most authentic selves. Seeing people embracing all aspects of themselves brings me immense joy.”
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María Jesús Maury
Resident since Summer 2022
“I am moved by the experience of listening and resonance, and the paths and traces of relations that are forged into our collective memory by sharing times and spaces with other human beings —and any connected matter.”
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Amaranthia Sepia
Resident since Summer 2022
“I provide marginalized women/femmes tools for utilizing their creativity to gain confidence to make a difference in their communities.”
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Tessa Shank
Residents since Spring 2020
“Focused on traditional Ojibwe teachings as a basis of my work, I hope to share knowledge and positivity by taking these teachings and messages to the community to encourage growth in others.”
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Ciaran Short
Resident since Summer 2022
“Coming from a background in community organizing and working with less traditional artistic mediums, my creative practice has been guided by the intention of making art more accessible.”
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Hanna Sheehan
Resident since Summer 2022
“I'm passionate about making the world more accessible. My work explores intimacy, time, the body, memory and perception.”
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Kate Snow
Resident since Summer 2022
“Rooted in the tenuous relationship between order and chaos, my work represents a desire to control the uncontrollable, while acknowledging the impossibility of such.”
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Quinn West
Resident since Summer 2022
“I am a Deaf artist with a few other disabilities. Since 2017, most of my conceptual work focuses heavily on accessibility and my experiences as a Deaf and disabled person.”
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Yifeng Yvonne Yuan
Resident since Summer 2022
“I considers music as the language before languages were invented. Fascinating natural phenomena are often featured in my music, as I explore the sonic possibilities of the wonders found in my daily life, including my imperfect skin, the origin of the universe, and forests.”