Artists-in-residence respond to a collection of artworks and materials to make visible their conceptual, material, and social visions. Everything is interpreted contextually and in situ. Composed by layers of artworks and objects, there are no white walls, blank spaces, or separate studios. The Museum hosts an incredible density of materials and continuous public activity. Residents receive room & board, material, tool, and equipment access, as well as, public engagement and programming opportunities, documentation, promotion, online and in-museum representation of work.Įlsewhere’s environment is highly stimulating, conceptual, and social. All objects and artworks remain part of the museum, available for continued transformation by future creatives. Work produced is site-specific and responsive, exploring Elsewhere’s environment, material inventories, cultural histories, social systems, neighborhood communities, and past projects. “One of the most unique residency experiences in the country.” - Andy Warhol FoundationĪnnually, 30-35 residents are selected to collectively live and work within Elsewhere to create projects that activate the Living Museum. Our proprietress, Sylvia Gray, was a founding member of the local synagogue and regularly fed groups of Guilford College students when she came home from the shop. We have partnered with nearby downtown arts magnet high school Weaver Academy and Experiential School, who uses downtown as their campus. The city was founded by Quakers and boasts 5 universities and colleges, including A&T, the largest HBCU in the country, and Bennett College, a small Black liberal arts college for women. Greensboro was at one time an international hub for the textile industry and is in recent decades hosting growing immigrant communities. Right up the street is the International Civil Rights Museum that commemorates the Greensboro Four who started the sit-ins in the 1960’s and have ourselves been a critical site for supporting contemporary movement work of Black Lives Matter, Queer People of Color Collective, and other groups. We are situated in the center of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, surrounded by restaurants, shops, venues, and other organizations, and in close proximity to historically under-resourced and redlined neighborhoods. Our vision, “ with people and things, we build collaborative futures,” is both practical and utopian, believing that everything we do through Elsewhere is creating the futures we need. Elsewhere is a living museum, international artist residency, and collaborative learning laboratory built from Sylvia Gray’s three-story thrift store and her 58-year collection of material culture and surplus.Įlsewhere’s mission is to support site-specific experimentation, social action, and interdisciplinary collaboration in order to foster new ways of thinking and doing, the exploration of context and place in artistic creation, and the integration of creativity and life.
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