2025 Artists-in-Residence
We are excited to invite another cohort of artists to San Juan Island for our Artist Residencies and Artists in Community program. Below is a list of our 2025 Artists-in-Residence. Working in printmaking, ceramics, photography, textiles, and mixed media, these artists will spend 1-2 months with us during our residency season, which runs from spring to fall. Scroll on to learn more about each of them.
For past AIR participants, go here.
Dustin Low
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics
Dustin Low is an artist and designer based in Seattle. Holding a BFA in design from the Cleveland Institute of Art, he primarily works in clay, creating functional pieces that explore the interaction between the natural and manufactured world.
Learn more about Dustin here.
Erin Tyler
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia and textiles
Erin Tyler is an artist and writer from Bend, OR living in Golden, CO. She makes multi-layered prints and art objects, and is devoted to sewing and soft goods repair. Her art practice centers intuition and play, while being anchored in process – a way of being and working meant to make space for magic. Her work seeks to connect to the wisdom and wonder of childhood, plants, and Self.
Learn more about Erin here.
Grant Brownlow
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia
Grant M. Brownlow is a Detroit Michigan based artist working in printmaking and mixed media paintings. Grant creates intricate industrial-inspired compositions exploring his post-industrial midwestern psyche via signage, layersing, and rustbelt ephemera. Informed by his upbringing around industrial spaces including plastics factories, auto body shops, racetracks and half-abandoned warehouses, Brownlow's artworks confront ideas including class, identity, and inherited self-destructive tendencies within the region and his experience.
Learn more about Grant here.
Rox Boyle
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Photography
Rox is a multidisciplinary artist of Italian-Anglo descent, born and raised on the territory of the lək’wəŋən peoples (Victoria, BC, Canada). In 2023, they completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, specializing in Photography at Concordia University. Rox’s process is tactile and collaborative, often intertwining various artistic practices and photographic mediums with archival or found objects. They are interested in creating community engagement through grassroots projects and are passionate about the possibilities of combining activism and storytelling through art.
Learn more about Rox here.
Kira Joy Williams
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Community art
Kira Joy Williams (she/they) is a multimedia artist, storyteller, and community builder based in Brooklyn, NY on unceded Munsee Lenape land. Kira installed her solo thesis exhibition, Home is in the Stories, at a local community garden in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in 2022. This project strives to contribute positively and generatively to existing visual representation of Black people in the U.S. by creating archival materials in collaboration with the very people being represented.
Learn more about Kira here.
Janeth Aparicio
2025 Artist-in-Residence, mixed media
Janeth Aparicio Vázquez is a Los Angeles-based visual artist, permaculture enthusiast, and historian as curandera of Mixtec and P'urhepecha. Her interdisciplinary work spans drawing, mural painting, crafts-based mixed-media, and horticulture. The artist uses this range of materials to create tender offerings to her communities: past, present, and future. Aparicio Vazquez holds a BA in studio art and art history from Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA).
Learn more about Janeth here.
Evie Hidysmith
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Community art
Evie Hidysmith is a multimedia artist born and raised in San Francisco. Her work translates the strength and fragility found in natural forms—moss, termite paths, and cactus skeletons—into reflections of how an individual’s vulnerability paradoxically contributes to the power of a collective. Her work offers a glimpse of another world where communities are resilient enough to support individual needs through mutual care and shared strength.
Learn more about Evie here.
Jane Burleigh
2025 Artist-in-Residence, textiles
Jane is a textile artist and social organizer living in Bellingham WA. Right now, Jane is most interested in making comforting domestic shapes with techniques that connect us to past generations. She is satisfied when she can fill a want or need with an object that is delightful, functional, and economical.
Learn more about Jane here.
Emerald Vernon-Lapow
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Mixed Media
Emerald Vernon-Lapow is a singer, songwriter, and visual artist. Emerald has written and performed a full set of original songs each summer she's been at Alchemy, in addition to learning screen printing, ceramics, and continuing her work in collage and drawing. She lives in Berkeley, California and graduated from UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies, where she focused in drawing. Emerald joins us for a fourth AIR season and will be helping anchor our Artists in Community program after joining us in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Ella Rose Avery
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Mixed media
Ella Rose Avery is a multi-disciplinary artist, raised and residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing is the foundation of her creative practice. She melds observed reality with her inner fantasies, valuing exploration over perfection. When Ella Rose is not inside making she likes to be outside playing.
Learn more about Ella Rose here.
Lily Nash
2025 Artist-in-Residence, textiles
Lily Nash is a California-based textile artist who earned her B.A. in Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Thinking about a future with fewer resources and inspired by the resilience and adaptability of past generations who made do with what they had, she immerses herself in the slow, embodied tradition of quilting. Through her craft, she tells stories that connect the women who came before her with those who will live on after her.
Learn more about Lily here.
Nelli Astvatsarian
2025 Artist-in-Residence, mixed media
Nelli Astvatsatrian is an Armenian-American artist and educator based in Los Angeles. Her interdisciplinary practice investigates how memory is embedded in objects and serves as a tool against erasure and historical revision. Working across figurative illustration, printmaking, ceramics, and found object assemblage on quilts, she materializes trans-generational narratives that bridge personal and collective histories. Nelli holds a BA in Art Practice and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Richmond Art Center, Tilden Preparatory School, and TUMO Studios in Armenia.
Learn more about Nelli here.
Isai Soto
2025 Arist-in-Residence, Printmedia
Isai Soto is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores disguise through Mexican iconography. He mainly utilizes print media such as zines, posters, and serigraphs. He holds a BA in Anthropology from Columbia University, which informs the ethnographic perspective in his practice.
Learn more about Isai here.
Nathen Peck
2025 Arist-in-Residence, ceramics
Nathen Peck is potter and printmaker from northern Idaho, located on Haida Gwaii BC.Nathen creates art that deals with the natural world focusing on magical moments and stories from his past experience. In pottery, Nathen creates vessels and manipulates or sculpts on top of them, and is seeking to better understand how to create engaging art through imagery, sculpture and form and make points of connection between people and the natural world.
Learn more about Nathen here.