July (Early) 2026 Cohort Recap
2026.07.02 Cohort
Back Row (left to right): Lucia Monge, Beth Johnston, Joanna Fuhrman, Allyson Morgan, Kellie Lehr, and Sopheak Sam
Front Row (left to right): Victor Olaoye, Jungeun Park, Jodie Mim, and olivier.
Photo by Thomas J. Logan.
Residency Session: July 2 — 14, 2026
Artists-in-residence
Studio 1
JUNGEUN PARK
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Joanna fUHRMAN
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Studio 3
Allyson Morgan
Allyson Morgan is an award-winning writer, producer, and performer. Allyson’s first short film "Need For Speed (Dating)" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, while her next short, "Sitting," won "Outstanding Narrative Short" at Tallgrass Film Festival. "First Date," her short film produced by 20th Digital Studio, is currently airing on Hulu in their "Bite Size Halloween" series. Allyson adapted "First Date" into a feature film for Hulu, titled "Jagged Mind," which the LA Times called “edgy” and “powerful.” Her newest short, "The Ghost", which also serves as her directorial debut, made its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying RiverRun International Film Festival. She has also been selected for the New York Stage and Film Filmmakers’ Workshop, twice been awarded “Best Teleplay” at Omaha Film Festival, twice been a top ten Finalist for Cinequest, a Finalist at Stowe Story Labs, and a Semi-Finalist at Austin Film Festival. Additionally, she has been awarded an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Commission, a Bundanon Artist Residency (Australia), a Djerassi Artist Residency (California), an NG Art Creative Residency (France), a Monson Arts Residency (Maine), a Vashon Artist Residency (Washington), a Wassaic Project “Haunted Mill” residency (NY), and multiple Juno Leadership Residencies through the Omega Institute (NY). Allyson has two novels, "Don’t Want To Remember You" and "The Perfect Place," currently available through Tapas Media and as audiobooks. She is represented for literary by Writ Large.
More: allysonm.com
“At Mass MoCA, I spent a whirlwind two weeks immersed in a rewrite of my feature film FOLLOWERS, which explores the intersection of public and private identity, and who give our trust to. The film is about a woman who is betrayed by the man she loves when he broadcasts her online secretly. She becomes an unwitting social media star and has to take back her life at any cost.
I felt supported by both the Mass MoCA staff and my fellow resident artists, as well as inspired by the surroundings of North Adams and the galleries and installations at the museum. In such a short time, I finished my draft and am forever grateful to the studios for the time and space!”
Studio 4
Lucia Monge
Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist whose work explores the different ways humans position ourselves within the natural world and relate to other living beings, especially plants. Some of her recent projects include an exploration of interspecies vulnerability through plant respiration, a "fungi broadcast" about deforestation in the Amazon, sending potato seeds to space to sprout anti-colonial alternatives to space travel, and organizing "walking forest" performances that have led to the creation of green spaces in Lima, London, New York, and Paris.
Monge has shown her work internationally, including at the Museum of Latin American Art, Queens Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, the Havana Biennial, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Her work is included in publications such as MoMA's Uneven Growth, Global Performance Studies, Let's Become Fungal, The Work of Art in the Age of Planetary Destruction, and Lejos de la Tierra, among others.
She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, a BFA from Universidad Católica del Perú, and is a founding member of the art collective FIBRA.
Studio 5
Jodie Mim
Jodie Mim Goodnough is an artist who manipulates and recombines historical imagery in textiles and other media as a way to make sense of their personal experiences as a cis woman with chronic illness. The works address issues such as medical patriarchy, physical isolation, and bodily anxiety by reworking cold, instructional illustrations originally created by figures and institutions of authority into new images. These pieces are given softness and color through the use of yarn and fabric, and assert the importance of seeing alternate versions of the narratives provided by those in power.
Goodnough attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine and received her MFA in Visual Art from Tufts University in 2013. She is the recipient of a 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, a 2017 Alumni Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and a 2017 Fellowship in Photography from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. She has attended residencies that include the UCross Foundation, Wassaic Project, and Mass MoCA, and her work has been shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including at Spring/Break Art Show in New York. Goodnough is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.
Studio 6
Kellie Lehr
Kellie Lehr is a visual artist working at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Using raw canvas as both surface and structure, she folds, stains, inks, and reframes the material to explore memory, transformation, and material presence. Her practice expands the language of abstract painting through dimensional wall-based works that hold traces of time, gesture, and touch while engaging the body at human scale.
Rooted in process, Lehr approaches canvas as a responsive material — one that can be altered, collapsed, opened, and reconfigured. Folding functions as both a physical action and conceptual framework, allowing interior and exterior surfaces to converge while carrying histories of light, movement, and accumulated gesture. Drawing from legacies of Supports/Surfaces, Color Field painting, textile traditions, and feminist performance, her work investigates the tension between structure and softness, containment and release.
Lehr has exhibited nationally at museums, universities, and galleries including The Painting Center, Manifest Gallery, and Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. She has been recognized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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