CAROLINE HONAS

Kansas City, KS

April 15 – 29 | Caroline Honas is an oil painter interested in natural science. Her practice explores the concept of interdependence by drawing parallels between ecological– specifically, botanical– phenomena and the human experience. During this residency, Caroline will be interleaving studies of Kansas prairie ecology and the science fiction literary genre to develop a series of narrative, eco-fictive paintings.

TREY MOODY

Omaha, NE

April 15 – 29 | Trey Moody is from San Antonio, Texas. The author of two poetry collections, Autoblivion (Conduit Books, 2023) and Thought That Nature (Sarabande Books, 2014), he teaches at Creighton University and lives in Omaha, Nebraska. At Volland, Trey plans to write about water and art.

BETH WATTS NELSON

Olathe, KS

April 15 – 29 | Although wholly based in contemporary expression, Beth Watts Nelson’s artistic output evokes a simpler time and invites others to slow down, look around and experience the beauty of being alive together on earth. Her time at Volland will be spent doing exactly that.

KENDALL GRADY

Crownpoint, NM

May 6 – 20 | Kendall Grady emboldens the couplet as a social relation of difference, or how love and poetry imagine worlds otherwise. Tracing Bruce Springsteen’s queer appeal, Grady will write unfaithful, ekphrastic translations of Born in the U.S.A to activate love as a generative apparatus and necessary reckoning with the “American Dream.” Grady holds a PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz and teaches at Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint – Tʼiistsʼóóz Ńdeeshgizh, New Mexico.

ALI KELLER

Astoria, NY

May 6 – 20 | Ali Keller writes dark comedies for theater and film to help people (and herself) better understand and radically empathize with the world around them. The question her work pursues is: how can our opposition be an access point to grow together rather than something that drives us apart? She asks audiences to confront this idea through challenging subjects and often partners with charities and organizations related to the shows’ subjects so anyone inspired to help or who’s in need can find assistance. At Volland, Ali plans to work on new works focused on professional wrestling and the Irish potato famine as well as finishing her script for her Off-Broadway play (un)conditional premiering at Soho Playhouse in the fall of 2025.

ROB SCHEPS

Portland, OR

EDIE WINOGRADE

Denver, CO

May 6 – 20 | Edie Winograde makes photographs that explore the intersections of history, myth, and landscape, often focusing on how the past is remembered and represented. With dedicated time for creative focus and immersion in a new landscape, the residency will provide an opportunity to further develop new work exploring icons and remnants of the Great Plains.

SUMMER 2025

AURORA PAVLISH-CARPENTER

Gainesville, FL

June 10 – July 8 | Aurora Pavlish-Carpenter is a ceramic artist creating sculptures, installations, and performances at the intersections of ecology, feminism, and speculative futures. Her work explores how visual and performance art can be used to develop empathy for non-human organisms on Earth. While at Volland, Aurora plans to study and respond to the unique ecology of the Flint Hills region to create works that further explore ceramic and performance art as it relates to the natural environment.

KATRINA BELLO

Montclair, NJ

June 10 – June 24 | Katrina Bello is a visual artist whose work in drawing is informed by memory, reflections, observations and narratives of land and natural surroundings during her experience of immigrating to the United States. During the residency at Volland, Katrina will be making sketches, taking photos, videos and sound recordings in response to the unique and fragile environment of the Flint Hills.

ALEXANDRA LIGHT

Fort Worth, TX

Jun 26 – July 10 | Alexandra Light’s choreographic work is deeply connected to place, history, and the unseen forces that shape movement—both human and ecological. At Volland, she will develop Prairie Run, a dance work that draws from the prairie’s shifting rhythms and the site’s layered histories, using immersive research and sustainable materials to create a piece that moves between past and present, stillness and motion.

FALL 2025

JANET EO

Lubbock, TX

September 16 – October 15 | Janet Eo is an artist who formulates a visual language that encodes blurred identity, historical displacement, and the sense of belonging through mapping and layering. In her paintings, Janet reassembles family photos, wallpapers, and Google Maps to document memories of transformed places. As a Korean immigrant now settled in Lubbock, Northern Texas, she interweaves her experiences of migration with her grandfather’s refugee story from the Korean War.

YOONMI NAM

Lawrence, KS

September 16 – 30 | Yoonmi Nam is interested in the observation and depiction of everyday objects and events, especially when they subtly imply contradictions—a perception of time that feels both fleeting and enduring and a sense of place that feels both familiar and foreign. Yoonmi intends to do research and create drawings to envision and plan for new bodies of work for her upcoming solo exhibitions.

SEAN WHALEN

Lawrence, KS

October 1 – 15 | Sean Whalen’s work investigates building natural and sustainable architecture using excavated clay, wood, and other onsite and reclaimed materials. His investigations frequently rely on community practices, pulling from long-standing traditions of community-led building, repair, and caretaking. During his time at Volland, Sean will immerse himself in the Flint Hills ecosystem and geology, studying the working qualities of local materials and researching their potential community impacts.