Meet the 2024 Residency Class
The Volland Foundation looks forward to hosting fifteen residents in 2024.
From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Spring Residents: Cathleen Faubert, Joanna Hoge, Tori Lawrence, Kate McIntyre, Lisa Moffitt, and Sally Vee. Summer Residents: Claire Crews, Jasmine Huang, Jane Marchant, and Elliott Stokes. Fall Residents: Isabelle Hayeur, Kate Pyontek, Sam Taylor, and Mary Welcome.
Volland will host fourteen residents across three seasons in 2024.
The residents represent several disciplines: sculpture, songwriting, photography, mixed-media, research, installation, visual art, choreography, film-making, poetry, and prose. From 2023, the number of applicants to the program doubled.
During their time in Volland, residents will experience the local culture and ecology, with opportunities to meet countians. The residents express a genuine interest in rural culture, and they will surely find inspiration from this place and its life ways as they reflect on their work and create. Volland is thrilled to host these exceptional writers, choreographers, musicians, and more.
Volland does not require residents to host open studios, but the artists often enjoy sharing their work, so keep an eye out for programming. They will likely be around at our events throughout the year as they also spend time exploring the Flint Hills. Be on the lookout out for these temporary residents and help us welcome them to this extraordinary place in Kansas.
S P R I N G
May 7 – May 21; May 23 – June 6; May 7 – June 6
TORI LAWRENCE
Chesterfield, MA May 7 – May 21
Tori Lawrence, choreographer/filmmaker/educator, creates site-specific dance performances and films. She has been in Norway this past year with her collaborators researching how to make sound/film/movement installations to help the body adjust, orient, and tune into a place. The work led to creating a radio station for the sea in order to expand our attention to the changing climate.
Tori aims to choreograph and film a new dance project, using a vintage Super 8 camera.
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. Lately, Lisa has focused on building models to explore possibilities with rammed earth building techniques, plus modeling sites in Canada underpinning climate change.
Lisa will continue this work at Volland.
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 plans to make new large-scale work while in-residence that delves into reproductive healthcare.
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, plans to work on her fifth studio album during her two-week residency, incorporating new material about the Flint Hills.
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 hopes to collect olfactory, audio, and visual materials that share her insights on the Flint Hills.
KATE MCINTYRE
Worchester, 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.”
In her four-week residency, Kate plans to complete a draft of her new novel.
S U M M E R
July 9 – August 6
ELLIOTT STOKES
New Orleans, LA
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 will create sculptures that address emptiness, nostalgia and landscape.
JASMINE HUANG
Brooklyn, NY
“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 plans to finish an on-going series and begin preparing its written component.
JANE MARCHANT
(was unable to attend)
Oakland, CA
Using 40+ plants from her childhood garden as a framing device, Jane is writing Jane Marchant’s Encyclopedia of Botany. “Metaphors of disease, colonialism, fertility, and roots entwine” as Jane uncovers her identity and family history in the work.
Jane will continue to revise the project while in-residence.
CLAIRE CREWS
Dyer, NV
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 plans to write several short stories inspired by photographs she took of taxidermized animals in museums, pawn shops, and curio stores across the midwest during her residency.
F A L L
September 11 – October 17
ISABELLE HAYEUR
Quebec, Canada
Isabelle works across photography and video art to examine, through a critical approach, the environment, urban development and social conditions.
While at Volland, Isabelle plans to continue an ongoing aquatic photography project and make a new experimental video, focusing on the Flint Hill’s landscape and unique plant life.
KATE PYONTEK
Somerville, MA
Kate’s poetry centers around questions of belonging, identity, nature, and human cruelty. Their recent poetry explores the relationship between individual and societal harms. Working with themes of ecological communities, Kate’s current project explores 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
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, most recently, in themes of ecology, history, and our contemporary moment, Sam hopes to find new avenues to explore during his residency
MARY WELCOME
Palouse, WA
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 will continue this project while in-residence.
