Past Volland Residents
SPRING 2024
CATHLEEN FAUBERT
Norman, OK
May 7 – June 6 | Cathleen engages an often forgotten sense in the arts: smell. In 2013, Cathleen began “scent-mapping” various locations, gathering organic material and extracting their aromatic qualities. The resulting work offers new perceptions of the landscapes Cathleen enters. While at Volland, Cathleen collected olfactory, audio, and visual materials that share her insights on the Flint Hills.
JOANNA HOGE
Arvada, CO
May 23 – June 6 | As a visual artist, Joanna finds interest in the “division of somatic and psychological experience in western culture.” In their drawings, Joanna melds a scientific perspective with a sense of personal embodiment to explore the “gaps between biology and identity.” Joanna made several large-scale works while in-residence that delve into reproductive healthcare.
TORI LAWRENCE
Chesterfield, MA
May 7 – May 21 | Tori Lawrence, choreographer/filmmaker/educator, creates site-specific dance performances and films. Tori researches how to make sound/film/movement installations to help the body adjust, orient, and tune into a place. Tori choreographed and filmed a new dance project, using a vintage Super 8 camera while at Volland with her collaborator Ellie Goudie-Averill.
KATE MCINTYRE
Worcester, MA
May 7 – June 6 | Although she lives in Massachusetts now, Kate is from Central Kansas and sets most of her work in the tallgrass prairie. Kate’s writing “deals with the themes of the repressed, the underground, and the interior, both bodily and geographic.” During her four-week residency, Kate completed a draft of a new novel.
LISA MOFFITT
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
May 7 – May 21 | Lisa’s models, installations, drawings and designs investigate how architecture alters, impacts and constructs new environments in relation to climate change. At Volland, Lisa focused on building models to explore possibilities with rammed earth building techniques.
SALLY VEE
Alta Vista, KS
May 23 – June 6 | Sally’s purpose as a songwriter and performer is to share stories – about nature, people, places and contemporary life – that bring people together. Sally, who comes from the shortest distance to Volland yet, worked on her fifth studio album during her two-week residency, incorporating new material about the Flint Hills.
SUMMER 2024
CLAIRE CREWS
Berkeley, CA
July 9 – August 6 | The common thread in Claire’s work, which spans literature, photography and textiles, can be found in her questions of technology, the animal realm, and rural energy use – considering how these factors shape communities over time. Claire wrote several short stories inspired by photographs she took of taxidermized animals in museums, pawn shops, and curio stores across the midwest during her residency.
JASMINE HUANG
Brooklyn, NY
July 9 – August 6 | “How do we remember our collective narratives?” is a question Jasmine returns to in her photography. Reflecting on her own life experiences, Jasmine contributes to the conversation “around the inevitable change occurring in familial relationships and diasporic identities.” With her time at Volland, Jasmine finished an on-going series and began preparing its written component.
ELLIOTT STOKES
New Orleans, LA
July 9 – August 6 | Through his multi-disciplinary work, Elliott shares the “relationship one has with landscape, in which unity between body and place exists through one’s labor, and what we [ask] of the landscape.” Drawing on history and industry, Elliott negotiates themes of action and consequences. While in-residence, Elliot created new charcoal drawings that address emptiness, nostalgia and landscape, and made photographs.
FALL 2024
ISABELLE HAYEUR
Rawdon, Quebec, CA
September 11 – October 17 | Isabelle works across photography and video art to examine, through a critical approach, the environment, urban development and social conditions. While at Volland, Isabelle continued an ongoing aquatic photography project and made new experimental videos focusing on the Flint Hill’s landscape and unique plant life.
KATE PYONTEK
Boston, MA
September 11 – October 17 | Kate’s poetry centers around questions of belonging, identity, nature, and human cruelty. Their poetry explores the relationship between individual and societal harms. Working with themes of ecological communities, Kate’s Volland project explored our individual and societal interactions. As a result, Kate hopes to elucidate what that link means personally and societally and find ways of breaking down that connection.
SAM TAYLOR
Wichita, KS
September 11 – October 17 | Sam Taylor, poet and professor in Wichita State University’s MFA program, “embraces a diverse aesthetic palette that spans from the classical lyric to the cusp of experimental, conceptual, and hybrid poetics.” Dealing in themes of ecology, history, and our contemporary moment, Sam looked for new avenues to explore during his residency.
MARY WELCOME
Palouse, WA
September 11 – October 17 | God Bless the USPS is an ongoing photo-documentary project Mary began in 2012. Focusing primarily on small, rural post offices, Mary hopes to imbue viewers with the importance of the Post Office as “social fulcrums,” portraits of bioregions, and a place where news is shared. Mary continued this project while in-residence, logging 122 "Post Office Portraits."
