RESIDENCY

RESIDENT ARTISTS

2026-2027

SEASON

COOPER MILLER WRIGHT

Cooper Miller Wright is a Philadelphia-based artist, designer, and educator whose work explores object agency, material transformation, and the intersection of craft and digital fabrication. Working across ceramics, sculpture, sound, and installation, he utilizes the imagery and techniques of alchemy, technology, and speculative workflows and systems to examine how objects may carry meaning and experience.

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Wright earned a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015 and an MS in Design Research from Drexel University. His work has been exhibited at the Pearlstein Gallery, Area 405, Gallery CA, and Dudd Haus, where he is also a member. He currently teaches and manages fabrication facilities within Drexel University’s Product Design program.

JORDAN SEABERRY & ALEX JACKSON

Jordan Seaberry is a painter, organizer, legislative advocate, and educator. As a painter, he has received grants and residencies from institutions including Art Matters, Skowhegan, Yaddo, and the Verge Center for the Arts, among others. His work is held in collections such as the RISD Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

As an organizer, Seaberry has helped advance multiple criminal justice reform milestones, including federal sentencing reform, statewide probation reform, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill, and the Rhode Island Community–Police Relationship Act. He previously served as Director of Public Policy at the Nonviolence Institute, as Community Leader Fellow at Roger Williams University School of Law, and as Chairman of the Providence Board of Canvassers, overseeing the city’s elections.

Bridging his artistic and civic practices, Seaberry currently serves as Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture and as an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. He maintains a studio in Providence, Rhode Island.

Alex Jackson is an artist and writer in the Philadelphia area. He holds an MFA from Yale University, a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions. and has held several solo exhibitions at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, and Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York. His work can be found in public collections at the DeYoung Museum, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Alex Jackson’s practice converges at the disciplines of both painting and writing, using narrative and worldbuilding as conceptual frameworks for image-making. His practice is centered around an ongoing experimental novel, Color Theory for Ghosts, a book of records written by a character known as Mu, a maroon self-exiled to a volcanic island constructing a chromatic communication device for ghosts known as The Spectral Organ. Each chapter of the novel materializes in the form of an exhibition, with its first chapter, "Prologue," forthcoming in the Fall of 2027.

EMMA RESSEL

Emma Ressel received her BA in Photography at Bard College and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited solo shows at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and at the Houston Center for Photography, and was shortlisted for the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize. Emma is a cofounder of Printer Jam, a book arts collective and production studio in Albuquerque. At the University of New Mexico, she is finishing up a postdoctoral fellowship and teaching photography as adjunct faculty. 

MAYA TIHTAYAS ATTEAN

Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki (Penobscot & Passamaquoddy) artist based between Connecticut and Maine, raised on the Penobscot Reservation. Her work reflects her ancestry, resilience, and connection the natural world. Through exploring the duality she embodies within the colonized world she exists within, she marries mediums and techniques of multiple cultures to create new realities and possibilities within her work. Maya earned her BFA in Photography from Maine College of Art & Design in 2023 and is currently an MFA Photography candidate at Yale University. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art, the Abbe Museum, and the Bates College Museum of Art.

2025-2026

NILE HARRIS & DYER RHOADS

Nile Harris is a performer and director of live works of art. He has done a few things and hopes to do a few more, God willing. He is the director of Social Security, a NYC project based performance company. 

Dyer Rhoads is an artist, director, and designer. Dyer has designed stages for Kayla Farrish (Put Away The Fire Dear) and Cleo Reed (Cuntry) and conspires with celebrated inclusive puppet company Pussypaws Puppetry. He runs a gallery and project space in Walpole, Maine currently known as the Walpole Ontological Lab and Farm (W.O.L.F) and is a guest artist with Spindleworks. Dyer is a founding member of Social Security and frequent collaborator with Nile Harris. Their work together has been featured at The Public Theater, Abrons Arts Center, The Shed, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Performance Space New York, and The Serpentine Gallery.  

JAMES COLEMAN

James Coleman is an artist and designer based in New York City. His practice explores ways in which ground can be transformed through measurement and notation to challenge conventional structures of delineation and movement.

2024

JAMIE GRAY WILLIAMS

Jamie Gray Williams lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University (2017) and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2025). Exhibitions include JDJ Gallery, NY, Interloc, ME, Selenas Mountain, NY, Venus over Manhattan, NY, Marvin Gardens, NY, PM/AM, London, The Pit, LA, among others.