"Featuring new artworks created by current South Elm Projects artists Chat Travieso and Samara Smith.
Kit-O-Cart by Chat Travieso is a mobile seating platform and stage that fits in a parking space to travel around Greensboro for pop-up performances and staged events. It challenges notions about our pedestrian priority on the street and rethinks how we use parking space for public space.
On Hamburger Square by Samara Smith is a site-specific mobile media project exploring the history and personality of Hamburger Square, while creating a contemporary digital monument. Utilizing smart phones and augmented reality technology, this project will layer community stories – audio interview montages and soundscapes – over real-objects in Hamburger square.
First Friday will kick off at Elsewhere at 6pm with special performances by local Greensboro artists and organizations with opportunities to tour the museum until 10pm. Additional pop-up performances will take place during the evening throughout the South Elm neighborhood and at Hamburger Square.
The event will also feature the opening of new works by Southern Constellations Fellows Regina Agu and Iman Person.
For more about South Elm Projects please visit, goelsewhere.org/southelmprojects."
- A Press Release
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First Friday : South Elm Projects Public Opening Friday, August 7 from 6-10pm at Elsewhere & Hamburger Square
Chicago-Based Sound Artists To Transform Elsewhere’s Museum Into An Architectural Music Box This Summer
"(Greensboro, NC) - Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set within a former thrift store, is pleased to announce Museum : : Instrument, a curated sound art residency produced by Elsewhere and ThreeWalls of Chicago, IL. During a month-long special residency, artists will create new installation and performance based sound works that transform the museum’s 100-year old building into an architectural music box.
The works will premiere on July 3, during a First Friday opening event where performers and the public "play the museum," by using the building as amphitheater, music box, instrument, and speaker. A limited edition vinyl LP will collect and document the work made throughout the residency. This special residency offers museum audiences a unique opportunity to engage in sound art production, which is gaining public attention and recognition.
Artists Jon Brumit, Michael Milano, David More, Troy Briggs, and Jeff Kolar and Meredith Kooi of Radius will be in residency at the museum from June 10 - July 5. This group has been curated by Shannon Stratton--an Independent Curator and Executive Director Emeritus of ThreeWalls-- and Joe Jeffers--musician, producer and Director of 8550 Ohio. While in residence they will produce new sound works that feature electronics, found-objects, interactive instruments, field recordings, and experimental radio broadcasting that alter, enhance, and draw attention to the sounds of the museum as a resonant architectural chamber. Their building-wide sound art interventions will invite audiences to consider the museum as a comprehensive and interconnected artwork, using electronic and auditory media to connect architectures seen and unseen.
Elsewhere will also host free, artist-designed public workshops on June 27-28. These 'hacker-workshops' will bring to life the tangible and creative aspects of sound art production, introducing workshop attendees to new skills and ideas for working with electronic materials, found objects, and toys to explore and create sonic environments.
Now in its 11th year, the residency program at Elsewhere offers creatives and researchers from around the globe opportunities to create projects on site that further their personal practices and engage Elsewhere’s core concepts of creative collaboration and working from at hand resources. Residents evolve their projects to meet the spaces and social ecologies of the museum and its communities, working with our enormous collections of textiles, toys, books, consumer technologies, thrift store shrift, and rooms full of vintage clothes and our ever-changing inhabitants. Museum : : Instrument is the first in a new series of intra-city curated residencies dedicated to providing in depth exploration of the methods and media of contemporary art production at Elsewhere for artists and the public.
About Elsewhere
Elsewhere is an artist-run, non-profit living museum and artist residency, set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC. Utilizing the massive 58-year inventory, Elsewhere’s environment of art and everyday objects invokes new modes for creative response, living, doing, and exchanging in our downtown neighborhood and across the world.
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, the Fund for Democratic Communities, the Future Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, The Phillips Foundation, The Carol & Seymour Levin Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you."
The works will premiere on July 3, during a First Friday opening event where performers and the public "play the museum," by using the building as amphitheater, music box, instrument, and speaker. A limited edition vinyl LP will collect and document the work made throughout the residency. This special residency offers museum audiences a unique opportunity to engage in sound art production, which is gaining public attention and recognition.
Artists Jon Brumit, Michael Milano, David More, Troy Briggs, and Jeff Kolar and Meredith Kooi of Radius will be in residency at the museum from June 10 - July 5. This group has been curated by Shannon Stratton--an Independent Curator and Executive Director Emeritus of ThreeWalls-- and Joe Jeffers--musician, producer and Director of 8550 Ohio. While in residence they will produce new sound works that feature electronics, found-objects, interactive instruments, field recordings, and experimental radio broadcasting that alter, enhance, and draw attention to the sounds of the museum as a resonant architectural chamber. Their building-wide sound art interventions will invite audiences to consider the museum as a comprehensive and interconnected artwork, using electronic and auditory media to connect architectures seen and unseen.
Elsewhere will also host free, artist-designed public workshops on June 27-28. These 'hacker-workshops' will bring to life the tangible and creative aspects of sound art production, introducing workshop attendees to new skills and ideas for working with electronic materials, found objects, and toys to explore and create sonic environments.
Now in its 11th year, the residency program at Elsewhere offers creatives and researchers from around the globe opportunities to create projects on site that further their personal practices and engage Elsewhere’s core concepts of creative collaboration and working from at hand resources. Residents evolve their projects to meet the spaces and social ecologies of the museum and its communities, working with our enormous collections of textiles, toys, books, consumer technologies, thrift store shrift, and rooms full of vintage clothes and our ever-changing inhabitants. Museum : : Instrument is the first in a new series of intra-city curated residencies dedicated to providing in depth exploration of the methods and media of contemporary art production at Elsewhere for artists and the public.
About Elsewhere
Elsewhere is an artist-run, non-profit living museum and artist residency, set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC. Utilizing the massive 58-year inventory, Elsewhere’s environment of art and everyday objects invokes new modes for creative response, living, doing, and exchanging in our downtown neighborhood and across the world.
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, the Fund for Democratic Communities, the Future Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, The Phillips Foundation, The Carol & Seymour Levin Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you."
- A Press Release
Visiting artists begin new public art works next week as part of South Elm Projects artscaping series
"(Greensboro, NC) - Elsewhere--a living museum set within a former thrift store--is pleased to welcome the next visiting artists commissioned for South Elm Projects, Carmen Papalia and the MILAGROS collective. As part of South Elm Projects, both Carmen and MILAGROS will be in-residence from May 13 through June 10 at Elsewhere to work with members of the community and Elsewhere curators to create their projects. Once onsite, the artists will research the sites and propose public art projects to be realized throughout the South Elm neighborhood. Elsewhere will host a series of events, tours, and dinners with the artists, neighborhood partners, and the public throughout the duration of the residencies.
Based out of New Orleans and Miami, the MILAGROS collective is led by Felici Asteinza and Joey Fillastre. They create vibrant abstract murals in collaboration with communities to transform architectural facades and infuse urban environments with new energy and vitality. MILAGROS’s playful style is based in a love for the transformative potential of decorative patterns and color. Their previous mural commissions can be found throughout Florida, New York, and Arizona. The public is invited to an Artist Talk with MILAGROS on Thursday, May 21 at 8:30pm. The event is free and open to all. Images from their past work can be found at, www.milagroscollective.com.
Carmen Papalia designs tours and experiences that invite participants to expand their sense of perceptual mobility and claim access to public and institutional spaces. Papalia’s work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that come available through the nonvisual senses. This work is rooted in his own experiences with visual impairment and access to public space. On Thursday, May 28 at 7pm, the public is invited to "Taste and Texture", a special meal designed by Papalia and Elsewhere’s Housepitality Curator, Emily Ensminger, that emphasizes the relationship between taste and texture. An Artist Talk with Carmen will follow at 8:30pm. Dinner is $10-$20 sliding scale and $5 for Elsewhere Members. Seating for dinner is limited, please RSVP to kitchen@goelsewhere.org by Monday, May 25.
Funded by ArtPlace America, South Elm Projects brings 15 national artists and collectives together with neighbors to create public artworks that further civic engagement, public commons and urban wilds in advance of and with development. Artists will be onsite and working in the community from April through November to realize their projects. For more about South Elm Projects please visit, goelsewhere.org/southelmprojects.
About Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a non-profit living museum and artist residency program set with a three-story former thrift store. Since 2003, Elsewhere has been transforming its former store and its vast material collection into a living museum that serves as a hub for local and global collaborations. goelsewhere.org
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The Kresge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, The Fund for Democratic Communities, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, The Harpo Foundation, The Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you."
Based out of New Orleans and Miami, the MILAGROS collective is led by Felici Asteinza and Joey Fillastre. They create vibrant abstract murals in collaboration with communities to transform architectural facades and infuse urban environments with new energy and vitality. MILAGROS’s playful style is based in a love for the transformative potential of decorative patterns and color. Their previous mural commissions can be found throughout Florida, New York, and Arizona. The public is invited to an Artist Talk with MILAGROS on Thursday, May 21 at 8:30pm. The event is free and open to all. Images from their past work can be found at, www.milagroscollective.com.
Carmen Papalia designs tours and experiences that invite participants to expand their sense of perceptual mobility and claim access to public and institutional spaces. Papalia’s work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that come available through the nonvisual senses. This work is rooted in his own experiences with visual impairment and access to public space. On Thursday, May 28 at 7pm, the public is invited to "Taste and Texture", a special meal designed by Papalia and Elsewhere’s Housepitality Curator, Emily Ensminger, that emphasizes the relationship between taste and texture. An Artist Talk with Carmen will follow at 8:30pm. Dinner is $10-$20 sliding scale and $5 for Elsewhere Members. Seating for dinner is limited, please RSVP to kitchen@goelsewhere.org by Monday, May 25.
Funded by ArtPlace America, South Elm Projects brings 15 national artists and collectives together with neighbors to create public artworks that further civic engagement, public commons and urban wilds in advance of and with development. Artists will be onsite and working in the community from April through November to realize their projects. For more about South Elm Projects please visit, goelsewhere.org/southelmprojects.
About Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a non-profit living museum and artist residency program set with a three-story former thrift store. Since 2003, Elsewhere has been transforming its former store and its vast material collection into a living museum that serves as a hub for local and global collaborations. goelsewhere.org
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The Kresge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, The Fund for Democratic Communities, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, The Harpo Foundation, The Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you."
- A Press Release
South Elm Projects Artist to Number the Downtown Neighborhood Sidewalks for Hopscotch
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Agustina Woodgate, Klasy (Hopscotch), 1100 Numbers,
Site Specific Street Intervention, Playpublik Festival,
Krakow, Poland, 2014 Photo: Martin C. Welker
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"(Greensboro, NC) - Elsewhere--a living museum set within a former thrift store--is pleased to host Hopscotch, an ongoing site-specific street intervention by Miami-based artist Agustina Woodgate, as part of Elsewhere’s curatorial initiative South Elm Projects. Hopscotch, inspired by the popular street game, but hundreds of numbers long, will appear down the sidewalks of the South Elm Neighborhood in downtown Greensboro next week. The project will premiere as part of First Friday on May 1st from 6-10pm at Elsewhere, with opportunities for the public to play the new course and explore the neighborhood.
As one of the 14 national artists commissioned for Elsewhere’s South Elm Projects this year, Woodgate will be in-residence for a week at Elsewhere to create her project. From Monday, April 27 through Friday, May 1, she will lead a team of community volunteers in painting the Hopscotch course to visually connect the neighborhood. The public is invited to an Artist Talk with Woodgate in Elsewhere’s Storefront Theater on Thursday, April 30 at 8pm.
Woodgate began Hopscotch in 2008 with Miami artists Primary Flight at Wynwood with 786 Numbers. Subsequent appearances included 1302 Numbers at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami (2013), 1692 Numbers in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014), and 1100 Numbers at Playpublik Festival in Krakow, Poland (2014). In an artist statement, Woodgate describes the project, “The expanded game reminds us of our innocence...Hopscotch exists for the streets, transforming monotonous sidewalks into daily playgrounds.”
Funded by ArtPlace America, South Elm Projects brings together artists and neighbors to create public artworks that further civic engagement, public commons and urban wilds in advance of and with development. For more about South Elm Projects please visit, goelsewhere.org/southelmprojects.
About Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a non-profit living museum and artist residency program set with a three-story former thrift store. Since 2003, Elsewhere has been transforming its former store and its vast material collection into a living museum that serves as a hub for local and global collaborations. goelsewhere.org
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The Kresge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, The Fund for Democratic Communities, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, The Harpo Foundation, The Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you."
As one of the 14 national artists commissioned for Elsewhere’s South Elm Projects this year, Woodgate will be in-residence for a week at Elsewhere to create her project. From Monday, April 27 through Friday, May 1, she will lead a team of community volunteers in painting the Hopscotch course to visually connect the neighborhood. The public is invited to an Artist Talk with Woodgate in Elsewhere’s Storefront Theater on Thursday, April 30 at 8pm.
Woodgate began Hopscotch in 2008 with Miami artists Primary Flight at Wynwood with 786 Numbers. Subsequent appearances included 1302 Numbers at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami (2013), 1692 Numbers in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014), and 1100 Numbers at Playpublik Festival in Krakow, Poland (2014). In an artist statement, Woodgate describes the project, “The expanded game reminds us of our innocence...Hopscotch exists for the streets, transforming monotonous sidewalks into daily playgrounds.”
Funded by ArtPlace America, South Elm Projects brings together artists and neighbors to create public artworks that further civic engagement, public commons and urban wilds in advance of and with development. For more about South Elm Projects please visit, goelsewhere.org/southelmprojects.
About Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a non-profit living museum and artist residency program set with a three-story former thrift store. Since 2003, Elsewhere has been transforming its former store and its vast material collection into a living museum that serves as a hub for local and global collaborations. goelsewhere.org
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The Kresge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, The Fund for Democratic Communities, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, The Harpo Foundation, The Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you."
- A Press Release
Dine Together and Give Together at PICNIC on August 1
"Elsewhere will be hosting it’s third annual Greensboro P.I.C.N.I.C., Partners In City, Neighbors In Community, in conjunction with Greensboro’s First Friday events in August.
PICNIC is a public supper in downtown Greensboro where neighbors dine together and give together. Participants are asked to donate $5-$20 (sliding scale) and enjoy a locally-sourced meal, beverages, and an opportunity to vote on and fund a worthy project. At the end of the event a winner is declared and the donated cash goes to that person or organization.
Elsewhere is hosting an open call for PICNIC proposals for 'creative placemaking' projects. Individuals, groups, and organizations working in Guilford county are welcome to apply. Placemaking can take many forms--events and performances, programs, installations, gatherings, artworks, and creative human services. Projects are encouraged that reclaim our city for public creativity and transform sidewalks, alleys and storefronts, yards, overgrown fields, little-used parks, pathways, derelict buildings and surface lots, lawns, and gardens into meaningful and productive spaces.
More information about submitting proposals can be found at http://www.goelsewhere.org/picnic/. Proposals are due by Monday, July 28th at 11:59pm.
The PICNIC dinner will take place from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, August 1 in the green space directly behind Elsewhere and inside the museum at 606 S Elm St in downtown Greensboro. The public are invited to attend; no reservations are required, and donations will be collected at the event. Questions about the event or application process can be sent to Courtney McCracken at productioncrew@goelsewhere.org.
About Elsewhere:
Elsewhere is an artist-run, non-profit living museum, artist residency and collaborative laboratory, set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC. Utilizing the massive 58-year inventory, Elsewhere’s environment of art and everyday objects invokes new modes for creative response, living, doing, and exchanging in our downtown neighborhood and across the world."
A Press Release
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Elsewhere To Host Process Talk With Southern Constellations Fellow Izel Vargas
"Elsewhere — a living museum, studio and school set within a former thrift store on South Elm in downtown Greensboro — will hold a process talk entitled “Constellations & Conversations” with current Southern Constellation fellow and artist-in-residence, Izel Vargas, on Friday, June 27 from 5:30-7 p.m. Vargas will be presenting on the process of his current project while in residency at Elsewhere. The event is open to the public and free with admission to the museum. Attendees are invited to stay for dinner immediately following the event; the cost of dinner is $5 for museum members and $10 for members.
Vargas was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. A native of Alamo, TX, his upbringing along the US – Mexico border plays an important role in his art making process. Vargas received his BFA in 2004 from the University of Texas – Pan American and his MFA from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 2007. Now entering its second year, Southern Constellations seeks to bring in artists from the South to create experimental site-specific artwork using Elsewhere’s extensive “Collection” of materials. There are six 2014 Southern Constellation fellows who will participate in process talks, exhibitions, member events, public studios and First Friday events at Elsewhere throughout the year. The program will culminate with a gathering of regional curators, artists and returning fellows to discuss connections between art and experimentation in the South. This year’s program was collaboratively designed and curated by Jina Valentine — an artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill — and Elsewhere’s Production Curator, Jennie Carlisle.
Southern Constellations is funded in-part by the National Endowment for the Arts. For more about the program please visit http://goelsewhere.org/south.
About Elsewhere:
Elsewhere is an artist-run, non-profit organization and residency program, set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC. Utilizing the massive 58-year inventory, Elsewhere’s environment of art and everyday objects invokes new modes for creative response, living, doing, and exchanging in our downtown neighborhood and across the world. For more information visit http://goelsewhere.org."
A Press Release
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