Category: Artist Residencies

Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He graduated from the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His chapbook, Koola Lobitos, was published as a part of the New Generation African Poets Series, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris...

As an autistic adult, my paintings and drawings illustrate my social range. On one end, there are the most abstract works where the brush strokes are aggressive, bold, and seemingly without reason. In these works, there is a dichotomy between my analytical...

Millee Tibbs’ work derives from her interest in photography’s ubiquity and the tension between its truth-value and inherent manipulation of reality.  Tibbs is Professor of Photography at Wayne State University, Detroit. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode...

Kieron Walquist [he/they] is a queer neurospicy poet + visual artist from mid-Missouri. Their work appears in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, IHLR, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Third Coast, Waxwing, + elsewhere. Their chapbook, LOVE LOCKS, was selected by...

Franchell Mack Brown is an artist employing an amalgam of materials in her practice. From the pliancy of crocheted ribbon to industrial cordiing and the solidity of welding, she juxtaposes soft and hard, exploring the dualities of being. Undulating forms and dripping...

Mitchell Villa is a self-taught artist residing on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Drawn by the endless offerings of painting as a medium, Villa’s work inhabits an area of hybridity invoking the contemporary by employing and reinterpreting the historical. His...

Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway, Ireland. She is a painter with a multidisciplinary practice that also involves textiles and installation. Her work is in the collections of the Irish State, Trinity College, Dublin and the Irish Arts Council and she...

Naomi Cohn is a writer and artist whose work explores reclamation. Her forthcoming book, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight (Rose Metal Press, October 2024), explores midlife vision loss, learning braille, and re-learning to read and write as an...

Dayron Lopez, a Monson Arts Resident in the fall of 2023, co-founded the art collective Chachacha! in the Azcapotzalco neighborhood in Mexico City in 2010. Dayron started Chachacha! with his best friend, Raymundo Rocha, in an effort to bring art into their community...