Past Artists-in-Residence
Since 2018, artists from across the country have lived and worked at Alchemy, teaching classes and leading free community art on San Juan Island. Meet every AIR, from our 2026 season back to the first.
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2026 Artists-in-Residence
Zoe Nielsen
Printmedia
Zoe Nicole Nielsen is a contemporary printmaker, painter, sculptor, and speculative taxidermist making work about loss of life, grief, renewal, and human/animal relationships. She received her MFA in interdisciplinary art from Purdue University where she worked as an Instructor of Record and Printmaking Studio Technician. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio arts from Wayne State College.
Zoe is teaching Mouse Taxidermy, Pewter Metal Pouring, and Electro Etching and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Zoe here.
Katherine Finkelstein
Photography
Katherine Finkelstein is an artist and teacher working with the medium of photography. She is interested in art as a site of collective experience that can build communities and worlds. She received her BA from the Bard College Photography program and completed her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She runs Motherbox Gallery, an exhibition space, out of her apartment in Brooklyn, NY.
Katherine is teaching an Introduction to the Darkroom series and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Katherine here.
Madeleine Burns
Ceramics
Madeleine Burns is a ceramic artist who mainly focuses on wheel thrown functional vessels. She loves combining sculptural elements to her wheel thrown pieces and taking the time to hand paint surface designs.
Madeleine is teaching Sgraffito Storytelling Platters, Sculptural Elements on Ceramic Forms, and Weekend Wheel during her residency.
Learn more about Madeleine here.
Adrienne Renée Weiss
Textiles
Adrienne Renée Weiss is a research-based artist and educator based between Chicago and San Francisco. She spins yarn, weaves, felts, welds, molds clay, and performs rituals in service of radical imagination and collective palliative care. Adrienne’s work draws on pre-modern European magic histories, lesbian poetry, and textural intimacy to lure people towards liberatory desires. She holds BA’s in Art History and American Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Adrienne is teaching Intro to Floor Loom Weaving and Intro to Spinning, and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Adrienne here.
Guadalupe Najar
Mixed media
Guadalupe Najar is a multidisciplinary artist from Austin, Texas, who explores her familial legacy through crafting, collecting, and material heritage. Lupe’s intuitive practice engages with the material, geographical, and social meanings of fiber, ceramics, and found objects in mixed-media tapestries and sculptures, utilizing aesthetic languages of tackiness and making-do found in her childhood nostalgia.
Lupe is teaching Re-imagined Stuffed Animals, Fabric Collage with Natural Dye and Wax, and Felted Finger Puppets, and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Ivy Mattson
Ceramics
Ivy Mattson is a ceramicist and art educator from Minneapolis, MN. Her wheel-thrown and altered pottery explores nostalgia, memory, and wonder. Mattson’s work integrates stained-glass–like imagery with organic, botanical forms; using repetition, carving, and layered surfaces to examine emotional dichotomies of grief and love, loss and hope.
Ivy is teaching Yoga and Pinch Pots, Slip Trailing and Surface Design, and June Weekend Wheel, and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Ivy here.
Cora Armstrong
Textiles
Cora May Armstrong is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. Working predominantly in knitting, their work draws on real and imagined relationships between animals, plants, and other beings to speculate on ecologies of the present and future. Cora received their BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2024.
Cora is teaching Embroidery for Painters, Knitted Pictorial Tapestries, and Pronto Plate Lithography and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Cora here.
Maya Koneval
Ceramics
Maya Koneval is a ceramicist and educator living in San Francisco. Maya creates functional and sculptural ceramics that reflect her love of the process of working with clay. She is currently excited about the process of wood-firing, and focusing on the continuing to improve as an educator of ceramic arts.
Maya is teaching July Weekend Wheel and 3D Slab Wall Hangings, and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Maya here.
Tess Aykanian
Ceramics and painting
Tess Aykanian is a ceramic artist, painter and educator from Los Angeles and currently located in Oakland, California. Her art practice is based around material mysteries and a quest for further understanding and questioning. She has recently been making work that centers around capturing the legacy of a plant, organism, object or event as it relates to its environment. She holds a BFA in Ceramics and Visual Studies from California College of the Arts.
Tess will be teaching Intuitive Coil Building and Ceramic Reliquaries (links coming soon!), and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Tess here.
Claire Waterman
Mixed media
Claire Waterman is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Davenport, Iowa. She has resided on Lopez Island for the past four years, learning about caring for the land and working with her hands through farming and carpentry. In her creative practice, Claire explores variations of place, light and color most often through painting and ceramics. She hopes, through varied forms of art-making, to learn to wield attentiveness, empathy, and curiosity more abundantly.
Claire is teaching a Gouache Painting class (link coming soon!) and will be giving an artist talk at the SJIMA during her residency.
Learn more about Claire here.
Emerald Vernon-Lapow
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 fifth AIR season and will be helping anchor our Artists in Community program after joining us in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Emerald will be teaching Mindful Making – Body-Mind Aligned Art (link coming soon!) during her residency.
Sophia Larsen
Printmedia
Sophia Larsen is a visual artist, educator, and thinker currently living in Detroit Michigan. She attended the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, and holds an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she is currently the Critical Studies Teaching fellow. Her work utilizes new age aesthetics to explore childhood, play, grief, and intimacy across drawing, print, ceramics, and textiles.
2025 artists-in-residence
Dustin Low
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
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
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.
Kira Joy Williams
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.
View Kira’s artist talk here. (Kira starts @ approximately :12 in the video).
Janeth Aparicio
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
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.
View Evie’s artist talk here. (Evie starts @ approximately 1:11:20 in the video).
Jane Burleigh
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.
View Jane’s artist talk here. (Jane starts @ approximately 34:56 in the video).
Ella Rose Avery
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.
View Ella Rose’s artist talk here.
Lily Nash
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.
View Lily’s artist talk here.
Nelli Astvatsarian
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.
View Nelli’s artist talk here. (Nelli starts at approximately 43:24 in the video).
Isai Soto
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.
View Isai’s artist talk here. (Isai starts at approximately 39:41 in the video).
Nathen Peck
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.
In addition to the artists listed above, Alchemy welcomed back Emerald Vernon-Lapoe (2022, 2023, and 2024 AIR). Scroll down to read her bio and learn more about her work.
2024 artists-in-residence
Ben Driggs
Ceramics
Ben Driggs is a Chicago-based artist and construction worker interested in the nature of workmanship and the home as an artist built environment. His work often engages abstraction through the materials and processes of the building trades along with aluminum casting, coppersmithing, sun prints, mosaic and ceramics. At Alchemy Art Center he will be working toward making a ceramic tableware set for his home.
Learn more about Ben here.
Abigail Hendrix
Photography
Abigail Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Hendrix holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Washington and an MFA in film from Emerson College, with emphasis on analog film, experimental media, and ethnography. Hendrix’s current artistic practice consists primarily of exploratory films and audiovisual installations, stemming from her parallel interests in folklore and expanded cinema.
Learn more about Abigail here.
Andy Thomas
Photography and Video
Andy is a photographer and video/sound artist living in New Orleans. She enjoys playing with music for the emotions it celebrates, and can be found trying various methods of joining music with her personal and professional life. Her work includes music videos, abstract sensory video, and spatial audio experiments. Has many songs on deck to die to.
Learn more about Andy here.
Jo Becker
Printmedia
Jo Becker is an artist from northern Indiana, now living and working in Washington State. Her work is inspired by history, the philosophy of consciousness, and a humanist approach to the divine. Through painting and printmaking, she seeks to create objects that offer opportunities for transcendence.
Learn more about Jo here.
Benji Hernandez
Ceramics
Benji is a first generation Mexican-American potter based in Bellingham Washington. He primarily focuses on wheel thrown vessels intended for everyday use. As a student of clay, he is always striving to learn from the medium in hopes to create community around the art. Benji draws inspiration from his family’s roots in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Learn more about Benji here.
Laura M Cañas
Printmedia
Laura’s mediums of choice are printmaking, comics, digital illustration and writing. Laura was born in Medellín, Colombia and her creative work is made from her perspective as a Latina and woman. Through her art she explores the themes of the feminine, gender violence, the power to heal, resilience and relationships within nature. She is also interested in the questioned relationship between Global North-South and economies. Currently, she is directing her career towards community art and maintaining her personal art practice.
Learn more about Laura here.
Maren Lamb
Printmedia
Maren Lamb is a mixed media printmaker from Philadelphia, P.A, and earned her B.A. from Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. Her current work explores themes of mental illness, nature, and religion, and employs bright colors and densely layered textures. She is drawn to printmaking because of its tradition as the art form of social movements.
Coco Leeper
Mixed media
Coco Leeper is a multi-disciplinary artist from San Francisco who plays with the boundaries between organic and human-made imagery. Coco has a passion for things that grow and the beauty of the natural world around her; native plants of California often weave in and out of her work like the fine threads. Her mediums include but are not limited to screenprinting, ceramics, tattooing, painting illustration, sewing, weaving, mending and stop animation.
Learn more about Coco here.
Sophie Stratyner
Printmedia
Sophie Stratyner is a fiber artist, printmaker, photographer, and traveler. Currently, Sophie lives on the road, working seasonally. Her work is shaped by the ever changing environments she finds herself in, utilizing natural pigments, found objects, and personal narratives to document internal and external landscapes.
Learn more about Sophie here.
In addition to the artists listed above, Alchemy welcomed back Emerald Vernon-Lapoe (2022, 2023 AIR) and Maya Djiji (2021, 2022 AIR). Scroll down to read their bios and learn more about their work.
2023 artists-in-residence
Selden Paterson
Ceramics
Selden Paterson is an artist based in Chicago. She received a BFA in sculpture and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown locally and internationally. Her work deals with a wide range of ways that people build purpose and relate to the world around us, probing niche religious and wellness movements online and off as well as communal experiments old and new.
Learn more about Selden here.
Julia Vidrio Nadbornik
Photography
Julia is a young artist pursuing her BFA in photography from Arizona State University, who will be joining us in June as a photography artist-in-residence. Julia works in a wide variety of photo darkroom techniques, including techniques that involve natural plant-based dyes.
Robert Summerlin
Mixed Media
Rob is a multifaceted Bay Area-based artist working in illustration, filmmaking, writing, music, and more. He joins us this July as part of our outreach team.
Learn more about Rob here.
Joel Diepenbrock
Special Projects
Joel is a Port Townsend-based potter and ceramicist who learned the ways of clay while living amongst the redwoods of coastal, northern California. Joel’s focus is on functional pottery. His work explores relationship between earth materials and humans, in hopes that his creations can be integrated into daily life, enriching the user’s experience through their presence and intentional use.
Learn more about Joel here.
Charlie Bloede
Printmedia
Charlie Bloede holds a BFA in Printmaking from Kansas State University. Her work explores the historical context of beautification through the medium of printmaking. She is inspired by fashion, trends, and societal expectations. Her prints utilize a combination of techniques such as watercolor screen monoprint, woodblock, and etching. She cuts and folds the prints to create 3D elements, bringing the narratives to life.
Learn more about Charlie here.
Sarah Gonzales Busse
Printmedia
Sarah is a textile and print media artist based in San Antonio, TX. She is a Generation X artist, activist, Tejana futurist, advocate, and mother of three, whose work focuses on individuals as signifiers and paradoxes within the human condition. Her materials and approaches have ranged from painting, drawing, and sculpture, to more recently working with natural dyes and traditional methods on paper, print, and textile works, as she reacts to being an artist and mother in these times of evolving cultural narratives, performative digital living, and really dire global climate and economic uncertainties.
Learn more about Sarah here.
Camila Giraldo
Ceramics
Camila is a ceramics artist from Chicago, recently graduated from the University of Illinois in Chicago with a BA in Urban Studies. Camila’s family is Columbian, and she is fluent in Spanish and considers herself bi-cultural. During her residency at Alchemy, Camila will be helping us provide Spanish language programming.
Learn more about Camila here.
Jenna Tessler
Photography
Jenna Tessler is an artist working through her ideas in the mediums of photography, mixed media, and writing. Her art practice is influenced by her minor in expressive art therapy that emphasizes process over attaining a final product. Through artmaking, she aims to bearwitness to and further process her own experiences, especially ones that feel untouchable, difficult, or traumatic. Jenna earned her BFA in Photography in 2021 from Lesley’s School of Art & Design (formerly Art Institute of Boston, MA). She has assisted at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Photo Center Northwest.
Learn more about Jenna here.
In addition to the artists listed above, Alchemy welcomed back Emerald Vernon-Lapoe (2022 AIR). Scroll down to read their bios and learn more about her work.
2022 artists-in-residence
Sarah Aineb
Printmedia
Sarah Aineb is a visual artist, mostly working in printmaking, comics and film, based in San Francisco, CA. With most of their work being autobiographical or semi-autobiographical, their work explores the invisible connections between feeling and space and time.
Learn more about Sarah here.
Ananya Chiara Bernardo
Printmedia
Ananya Chiara Bernardo is a visual artist from Silver Spring, Maryland, who studied printmaking at Guilford College in North Carolina. She is currently exploring a range of mediums, including printmaking, textiles, and ceramics. Her work uses bright colors to delve into personal growing pains as a means of expression.
Learn more about Ananya here.
Lenore Wan
Ceramics
Lenore Wan is a multidisciplinary artist from Seattle working in the realms of ceramics and illustration. She loves to capture playful forms and colorful patterns in her work. She works spontaneously and loosely to capture the explorative process of art making.
Learn more about Lenore here.
Vince Cuadra
Printmedia and Ceramics
Vince Cuadra is a queer-trans Costa Rican -Argentinian multimedia artist born and raised in the magical city of Miami. He creates playful and colorful work mostly focusing on identity, queer joy, nostalgia, social issues, and documentation. He makes art using a variety of media including clay, collage, painting, photography, video, and soft sculpture.
Learn more about Vince here.
Emerald Vernon-Lapow
Printmedia
Emerald Vernon-Lapow is a graphic designer, illustrator, musician, and artist. She lives in Berkeley, California and graduated from UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies.
Learn more about Emerald here.
Nicolai Otte
Mixed Media
Nicolai Otte is a multi-disciplinary artist who working in collage, fiber arts, ceramics, building, and more. Nico loves to work with discarded materials and enjoys art that re-imagines waste.
After completing his residency, Nico joined the Alchemy team as Facilities Support as we build out our infrastructure!
Stephanie Roe
Ceramics
Stephanie is a ceramics, jewelry, and metal artist. During her time at Alchemy, Stephanie participated in our Young Environmentalists Program, our Youth Mentorship Program, and created much of the bisque ware used during Paint Your Own Pottery activities throughout the next year.
Cozette Ellis
Printmedia
Cozette is a painter, drawer, and printmaker from Northern California with a BFA in Design + Native American studies from the University of California, Davis. During her residency, she spent her time learning ceramics and experimenting with new printmaking techniques. She is inspired by the human body in all its forms, especially incorporated with color and pattern.
After completing her residency, Cozette joined the Alchemy team as our Outreach Coordinator!
Learn more about Cozette here.
In addition to the artists listed above, Alchemy welcomed back Sulli Yost (2020 and 2021 AIR), Katey Rissi (2021 AIR), and Maya Noga Djiji (2021 AIR) who had participated in our AIR program in previous years! Scroll down to read their bios and learn more about their work.
2021 artists-in-residence
Casey Reagan
Special Projects
Casey is an artist, traveler, and adventurer, originally from California. Casey works in various mediums, including ceramics, printmaking, and illustration. During her residency, Casey built a cement geodesic dome, part of Alchemy’s infrastructural development.
After completing her residency, Casey joined the Alchemy team as the Ceramics Studio Manager!
Learn more about Casey here.
Tamara Matheson
Ceramics
Tamara Matheson is a Seattle based ceramics artist. During her time at Alchemy, Tamara participated in our artist in community program.
Learn more about Tamara here.
James DeRosso
Ceramics
James has been teaching monster making for years in classrooms and private venues. He loves seeing all ages having fun creating a clay creature from their imagination. His studio is in the heart of SE Portland and he sells his work at art shows and galleries in the northwest.
Learn more about James here.
Kendall Jones
Ceramics
Kendall is a figurative ceramic sculptor interested in surreal human and animal forms. Based in Vancouver Washington, she recently completed a residency in Puebla, Mexico where she developed a continuing series exploring the cycles of life, aging, death and rebirth through masks.
Learn more about Kendall here.
Katey Rissi
Printmedia
Katey Rissi is a Pacific Northwest-based printmaker and textile artist. Her work explores themes related to enchantment, rewilding, and time. She teaches classes in printmaking, natural dyeing, and other topics at the intersection of art and ecology.
Katey participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2021 and 2022.
After completing her residency, Katey joined the Alchemy team as the Class Coordinator and Print Studio Manager!
Learn more about Katey here.
Amy Simons
Printmedia
Amy Simons is an American artist who has lived in the Midwest, Northwest, and now the Southwest. Her current research explores monotypes on handmade paper, often incorporating textiles as physical components, inky ghosts or deep embossments. Amy holds a BFA in ceramics from the University of Washington and an MFA in printmaking at Arizona State University.
Learn more about Amy here.
Patty Abel
Ceramics
Patricia Abel is a ceramic artist and teacher originally from San Jose, California, now based in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a BA in Humanities, Society and Culture and has been teaching wheel-throwing and hand-building for two years at Terra Ceramics, an international studio in Prague.
Learn more about Patty here.
Maya Noga Djiji
Ceramics and printmaking
Maya Djiji is a visual artist from California who loves exploring different mediums, and makes work with ceramics, textiles, glass, printmaking, and more. Her work touches on the playful nature of magic, the delicate beauty of life, and the intricacies of death.
Maya participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2021 and 2022.
Learn more about Maya here.
In addition to the artists listed above, Alchemy welcomed back Sulli Yost (2020 AIR), and Katy Collier (2019 AIR) who had participated in our AIR program in previous years! Scroll down to read their bios and learn more about their work.
2020 artists-in-residence
Jade Ueji
Printmedia
Jade is an illustrator with a BFA in Studio Arts at University of Colorado Boulder. Jade works with both traditional materials and digitally. His creative dream is to explore the potential of stories and narrative through writing and illustrating graphic novels.
Learn more about Jade here.
Andrea Becker
Photography
Andrea is a Boulder, CO-based writer and a photographer, with foci on documentary style photography and narrative/storytelling in poetry and prose.
Learn more about Andrea here.
Leah Sullivan Yost
Ceramics
Leah Sullivan Yost, aka Sulli, is a recent graduate of MIT who has been working in clay for over half a decade in various art studios around the world, including in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Washington, and Copenhagen.
Sulli participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Learn more about Sulli here.
2019 artists-in-residence
Katy Collier
Printmedia
Katy Collier is an artist and instructor based in Greensboro, North Carolina. She has expertise in a number of printmaking techniques, including relief, etching, monoprints, and screenprinting. She has taught at numerous universities and institutions nationally.
Katy participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2019 and 2022.
Learn more about Katy here.
Tess Malijenovsky
Photography
Tess Malijenovsky is a photographer and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She is drawn to using alternative darkroom photography techniques to create images inspired by the liminal space between the environment, the feminine, and consciousness. Tess is a freelance creative with a background in environmental journalism and nonprofit communication.
Learn more about Tess here.
Anjanette Rosas Garcia
Printmedia
Anjanette Rosas Garcia is a Colorado-based arts educator and wilderness guide. She teaches to help students build a deeper connection to themselves, their community, and nature. During Anjanette’s residency, she supported our community outreach programming.
Learn more about Anjanette here.
Kendra Efker
Ceramics
Kendra Efker is a Missouri-based arts educator. During Kendra’s residency, she worked in the ceramics studio, creating pottery and other functional ceramics.
2018 artists-in-residence
Andy Fuller
Sculpture
Born in Quito, Ecuador, Andrew Miguel Fuller lives and works in Oakland, California. Raised over both North and South America, his work reflects the dreamlike experience of the outsider in his own country. Holding a degree in the study of Society and Environment, his artwork often poses questions of the psychological distance between the human animal and the larger planet on which we live.
Nikki Barber
Printmedia
Nikki Barber is a printmaker, teaching artist, and instructor. She loves traveling and translating little moments of journeying into a 2-D print. Nikki has taught drypoint etching, watercolor monotypes, and more during her short seasonal residencies at Alchemy.
Learn more about Nikki here.
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