Volland will host fifteen residents in 2026.
Since 2022, the Volland Foundation has offered its spaces and accommodations to creative practitioners for residencies of two or four weeks in length. Volland Residents come to Wabaunsee County from all over the United States and beyond our borders, working on projects of various mediums.
Most residents express a genuine interest in rural culture and venture out to meet locals, finding inspiration from this place’s life ways as they reflect on their work and create. They are drawn to the idea of an endangered ecosystem and wish to experience and engage with it.
While Volland does not require residents to host open studios, the artists often enjoy sharing their work. Be on the lookout for open studios or other residency-related programs. Meet the artists and tap into the energy and creativity they will bring to Wabaunsee County and the Flint Hills.
Join us in welcoming Volland’s 2026 residents to this extraordinary place in Kansas.
SPRING 2026
JAEDYN ROBERTS
Basehor, KS
April 7 – 21 | Jaedyn Roberts is a painter and textile artist whose practice centers the ever-present nature of love and the many meanings of home. At Volland, she will investigate the ways that place is tied to memory and identity while deepening her relationship with her home state of Kansas.
LAURA KILLINGBECK
Charlestown, RI
April 7 – 21 | Laura Killingbeck is an adventurer and award-winning storyteller. Her journeys are a part of a lifelong quest to engage deeply with a beautiful, absurd, and complex world. As a writer and speaker, her stories explore themes of connection, growth, and transformation. Over the last two decades Laura has biked over 20,000 miles on global routes, backpacked through swamps, forests, and deserts, and spent two years hitchhiking across Latin America by car, truck, train, and boat. In between expeditions, she worked for thirteen years in experimental communities dedicated to ending climate change. Connect with her on Instagram and Facebook @laurakillingbeck. Laura also writes a popular, free adventure newsletter at LauraKillingbeck.com/newsletter.
MAURIAH DONEGAN KRAKER
Appleton, WI
April 28 – May 12 | Mauriah is a movement artist. Originally from the American Midwest, she is a dancer, long distance walker, facilitator of movement practice, and an internationally collaborative performance maker.
Walking for Mauriah is a form of creative and choreographic expression. The practice of “slow travel” is a driver in the creation of dance works that live somewhere in the realms of heightened states of physicality, dreaming and walking.
During her time at Volland, Mauriah will continue to work on a solo choreographic practice attentive to and made in dialogue with the sky of place.
DANIELLE FAUTH & RK FAUTH
New Orleans, LA
April 28 – May 12 |
RK (left) | RK Fauth writes about ecological grief, awe, and the un/natural world. Her debut poetry collection, A Dream in Which I am Playing with Bees (2024), explores the relationship between species extinction and language. Playing with Bees won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press, and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Queer Poetry. Find her work in POETRY Magazine, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, West Trade Review, and elsewhere.
Danielle (right) | Danielle Fauth is an interdisciplinary sculptor born and raised in Long Island, New York. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Tulane University in 2022. Fauth was a 2022 RedLine CAC Satellite Studio Artist in Denver, Colorado and a 2023 Volland Foundation Resident. Using personal effects, found objects & patterns in the landscape as points of departure, Fauth aims to open a dialogue around the poetics of material by reinterpreting the ordinary & inanimate as resonant beings that constellate a map of human experience. She currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
STEVE GURYSH
Lawrence, KS
May 19 – June 17 | Steve Gurysh combines field research, sculptural processes, and computational craft to recalibrate our relationship to place and planetary phenomena. While in residence, he plans to explore the tallgrass prairie using 3D scanning techniques to create collage-based compositions and assemblages.
JUSTIN KORVER
Kansas City, MO
May 19 – June 2 | Justin Korver is an artist and educator who lives and works in Kansas City. He is originally from a small town in the northwest corner of Iowa, and the plains of home taught him to understand minimalism. He moved to Holland, Michigan, to complete his undergraduate work at Hope College. While in Michigan, he was influenced by mid-century design and discovered a passion for hardware stores. After Michigan, he moved to Texas to pursue his MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where his thesis focused on the critique of the social construction of masculinity. After grad school, he began working as a Senior Lecturer of Art at Texas A&M San Antonio, where he facilitated various courses in the theory and practice of art.
He then moved to Kansas City in 2024 to accept an Assistant Professor of Foundation position at the Kansas City Art Institute. At KCAI, he mentors students as they navigate the first year of their college experience. He also maintains an active research practice. He exhibits his artwork extensively with recent exhibitions at the Contemporary at Blue Star, grayDUCK Gallery, Artpace, and McNay Museum Art Museum. He has participated in artist residencies at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Casa LÜ in Mexico City, Rockland Woods outside Seattle.
DORA AGBAS
Prairie Village, KS
June 3 – 17 | Dora Agbas is a Hungarian-American artist with decades of scientific research in her former career. Her process oriented art practice is a creative play fueled by curiosity and guided by life experience and the reverence for nature.
Her practice explores place through investigating its materials. Inspired by our natural surroundings she is collecting diverse materials to be transformed primarily by her hand and simple tools using elemental fiber techniques.
Her work is an invitation to a closer look at the otherwise unnoticed and to consider the ever-changing nature of material and our unseparable place in nature.
SUMMER 2026
URSULA EMERY McCLURE
Manhattan, KS
July 14 – August 11 | Ursula Emery McClure’s architectural work as a partner in emerymcclure architecture investigates the intersection of materiality, history, and environmental context. She is particularly interested in how these elements shape spatial experience, the built environment, and cultural identity. Ursula will use her residency to investigate the Flint Hills ecosystem and traditional building techniques to address contemporary challenges of prairie sustainability and resilience.
KEVIN PYLE
Montclair, NJ
July 14 – August 11 | Kevin C. Pyle is an artist and author/illustrator of numerous graphic novels and non-fiction comics. He also makes installations, videos and performances that grow out of the practice of drawing and visual story-telling. His current series of graphic essays use walking, observation, research and drawing as a generative component for creating work that explores the bioregional nature of a place and its shifting meanings across time.
FALL 2026
JOANNA STRATTON ROZE
Mercer Island, WA
September 15 – October 13 | Joanna Stratton Roze is a fine art landscape photographer and the author Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1981, this groundbreaking book was based on the personal memoirs of 800 women who settled Kansas in the last half of the 19th century. Forty-five years later, Joanna is returning to the Flint Hills to photograph this landscape in depth as it might have been 175 years ago—serene, lonesome, beautiful and perhaps desolate. As early women settlers wrote so eloquently in her original book, life on the Kansas frontier necessitated courage, resilience, and pertinacity for survival. Current-day images blended together with these original voices will illuminate a solitary existence, the transience of life, the arc of history, and those whispers from our past that never leave us.
G.C. WALDREP
Mercersburg, PA
September 15 – October 13 | G.C. Waldrep is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Opening Ritual (Tupelo, 2024). At Volland he will be returning to an abandoned project from the 1990s on ecological settlement and unsettlement.
TANNER BINGAMAN
Fairfield, PA
October 20 – November 18 | Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (banjo, guitar, harmonica), producer, poet, and visual artist Tanner Bingaman spends his days foraging writhing folk art from the hills of Appalachia. He has performed extensively through the U.S. and Canada, and (once) in New Zealand. Tanner has been featured on NPR stations, was a two-time artist-in-residence at the prestigious Avaloch Farm Music Institute (Boscawen, NH), is an upcoming artist-in-residence at The Volland Foundation (Flint Hills of KS), and was recently awarded awarded Best Americana Artist by the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame. Tanner is currently touring with Tanner Bingaman's Pretty Big Garden, Tanjo & Crow, and bilingual Cajun songsmith Dustin Dale Gaspard. Tanner's sophomore album, "Jubilee!" is due out this 2026.
PHILLIPS SAYLOR WISOR
Brunswick, MD
October 20 – November 3 | Stripmall Ballads is the haunted, dust-blown project of Phillips Saylor Wisor, a songwriter wandering the backroads between myth and memory. Drawing comparisons to Neil Young, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Maybelle Carter, his work lives in the tension between Appalachian tradition and modern disillusionment—aching with spectral beauty, dry wit, and a bone-deep sense of longing. From early lo-fi masterworks like Since Jimmy Died to the sparse, cinematic ache of Distant, his songs are slow-burning dispatches from the heart of a fractured America—where ghosts speak in minor chords and resistance sounds like a hymn. Stripmall Ballads doesn’t just sing about forgotten places—Phillips sings from them.
TODD ROBINSON
Omaha, NE
November 4 – 18 |
Todd Robinson is the author of two poetry collections,
Mass for Shut-Ins (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) and
Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Press, 2012). He teaches in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and serves as caregiver to his partner, a disabled physician. A lifelong resident of the Great Plains, Todd will explore local folkways and ecologies at Volland.
