2019 Residents

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Nicoletta de la Brown ​
Nicoletta de la Brown (Maryland, U.S.) is a performance artist, interdisciplinary fabricator, producer, host, mother of four, filmmaker, self love champion, and unicorn. She is Black Latinx; proud to be a first generation Panamanian born in the United States. She is also a chamana (shaman), and founder of Vida Magica Love, a creative platform dedicated to healing-centered services. Nicoletta is motivated by the idea of collective oneness; art is not something that she does, it is how she lives, and who she is. Her sculptural, installation, and performance work addresses light, connection, community, healing, and self love. 

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Sean Montgomery
Sean Montgomery (New York, U.S.) is a technologist, educator and new-media artist in New York City. Sean's work uses research methodologies combined with emerging technologies to take a trans-disciplinary look at the human condition and examine the changing relationship between the physical and metaphysical world. After finishing his PhD in neuroscience, Sean founded Connected Future Labs, an agile R&D consulting group that utilizes a depth of expertise in circuits, algorithms and design to bring cutting-edge technology out of the research lab and create real-world applications. Continuing to develop the synergy between art, science and technology, Sean's lab is launching EmotiBit, a truly wearable open-source sensor module for capturing high-quality emotional, physiological, and movement data from the body. 

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Karey Kessler
​Karey Kessler (Washington, U.S.) is a visual artist who was born in South Dakota and raised in New Jersey. She received her BA in Fine Arts and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She then lived in Washington DC, where she created art and worked as the gallery manager of the District of Columbia Arts Center. She’s lived in Seattle for ten years, except for 2014, when she spent a year in Taiwan painting and exploring with her family. Her work is in the flat files of the Pierogi Gallery (N.Y.C) and is included in two books: The Map as Art and From Here to There: A Curious Collection From the Hand Drawn Map Association. She’s a member of Shift Gallery in Seattle, and CoDraw Seattle (a group of artists that creates drawings collaboratively).

Visit Karey's website here.
Innisfree McKinnon
Innisfree McKinnon (Wisconsin, U.S.) is a geographer with a long-time interest in mixed methods research, including mapping and cartography. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Oregon and currently works at the University of Wisconsin-Stout where she teaches GIS (geographic information systems) and human-environment geographies. Her interests include land use planning, critical and community-based GIS, and urban-rural interaction. Her research focuses on community change, conflict, and decision making around land use. Current projects include working with community members to develop participatory mapping processes for sustainable community development and using GIS modeling with community groups to develop strategies to reduce water pollution and blue-green algae blooms. She worked for a number of years as a science educator and continues to have a strong interest in how science is communicated, and how we imagine places, and represent landscapes.

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Geetha Iyer
Geetha Iyer (Panama) received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University in 2014. Her published and forthcoming work appears in Orion, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Account, The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, and National Geographic, among others. Recognition for her work includes the O. Henry Award, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Calvino Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. She was a 2016 writer-in-residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and a 2017 artist within the collaborative Art + Science Lab with Estudio Nuboso. She grew up in the United Arab Emirates and presently lives in Panama.

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Benjamin Scott
Benjamin Scott (Massachusetts, U.S.) is a neuroscientist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. His laboratory studies the neural circuits that regulate choice and memory using a combination of genetic engineering, brain imaging and computational modeling. He obtained his AB in biology from the University of Chicago, his PhD in neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed postdoctoral training at Princeton University.

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Tali Weinberg
​Tali Weinberg (Oklahoma, U.S.) is a multidisciplinary artist whose current research traces the entangled relationships between climate change, extractive industry, illness, and displacement. Her weavings of climate data merge practices of record keeping with practices of grieving and merge expressions of scientific research with expressions of lived experience. Her work is held in public and private collections and exhibited internationally, including at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of Colorado Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, and Zhejiang Art Museum. Her research is supported by multiple grants and residencies: a three-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Serenbe Fiber-Focus Fellowship, a Windgate Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, and a Collins Foundation-funded residency at Oregon College of Art and Craft, among others. Weinberg has taught at California College of the Arts (CCA) and lectures and gives workshops throughout the US. She holds an MFA from CCA and an MA and BA from New York University.

​Visit Tali's website here.
Oscar Senar
Oscar Senar (Spain) is a physical geographer and landscape ecologist currently researching the effect of changing climate on carbon cycling, algal blooms, and omega-3 fatty acid production in northern lakes. He developed a passion for cross-boundary landscape alterations in the Anthropocene while studying the changing shapes of Dutch rivers and the colors of Canadian lakes. Now his interests focus on combining data analysis, cartography, and visual design to explore and communicate how climate affects ecosystem functioning and the services they provide to humans, and how our societies interact with nature. His interest on human-nature interactions led him to participate in trans-disciplinary projects and lectures to explore the future of Canadian boreal landscapes and the present of rural communities in the Ugandan tropical forest.

​Visit Oscar's website here.