Residency Panelists
For each edition of our residency program, we assemble a new panel of jurors to help us select our Artist in Residence and Runner Up Artists.
Each member of our board of directors is responsible for inviting one new panelist per season — also included on this panel is the previous season’s Artist in Residence.
Together the panel and our board review all applications, conduct several rounds of voting, and hold group discussions to develop a thoughtful consensus on our winners.
These panelists are highly accomplished and hard working artists in their own right, and they very graciously volunteer their time to help us develop and build this program. We love ‘em! Take a few minutes to check out the links below and explore their work.
Spring 2021 Panelists
LaNia Sproles
LaNia Sproles lives and works in the segregated city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she also graduated with a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2017.
Her body of work spans several disciplines including: printmaking, drawing and collage. The philosophies of self-perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas are essential to Sproles’s work. In 2020, she completed her year as a 2019 Mary L. Nohl fellow, continued as a teaching artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden and guest curated an exhibition hosted by NADA art fair with Green Gallery. Most recently, she created an illustration of Art Preserve artists for the west wall in the Social STUDIO, which will be on view February through December.
George Wu Teng
George Wu Teng is a Montréal-based classical pianist and writer. He has won numerous competitions and awards with long names, and has performed across several continents. His writing has been featured online and in print. In his free time, George eats arugula-based salads, and refills his humidifer. George currently attends the Université de Montréal, where he is pursuing a master's degree in piano performance under the mentorship of Paul Stewart. He is scared of pigeons.
Wesley Allbrook
Wesley Allsbrook was born in Durham, North Carolina. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Wesley has been recognized by The Art Directors Club, The Society of Publication Designers, The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, the Television Academy and The Peabody Awards. She writes and draws.
John Bielenberg
John Bielenberg is a designer, entrepreneur, and imaginative advocate for a better world. He is the founder of Project M, and co-founder of Future, Common, Thinknado and 3rdActivist.
In 2003, John Bielenberg created Project M, an immersive program designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their “wrongest” thinking—can have significant impact on communities. Project M has developed projects in Alabama, Baltimore, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Detroit, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Maine, Minneapolis, Montana and New Orleans.
In 2016, John co-wrote a book called Think Wrong that inspires people to conquer the status quo and do work that matters.
Jenevieve Hubbard
Jenevieve is a multidisciplinary visual artist.
She spent much of her childhood in Native Y’Upik Villages in Alaska and her adult years in an urban environment. She began creating as a means of returning to elemental themes of her childhood drawing on her experiences in nature and mythology from stories village elders generously shared to age-old symbols boiled down to their most intrinsic meaning.
Her work has been exhibited at the Rio Gallery, Nox Contemporary, A Gallery, Kayo Gallery, Maridadi Gallery, Charley Hafen Gallery, Studio Elevn and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.
Fall 2020 Panelists
Marielle Allschwang
Gio Black Peter
Alex Gartelmann
Antonina Clarke
(Spring 2020 Artist in Residence)
Nick Goettling
Spring 2020 Panelists
Blythe Roberson
Randy Russell
Amanda Mills
Tiffany St. Bunny
(Fall 2019 Artist in Residence)