Welcome July’s Artists-in-Residence! (Early Session)
Meet this Month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: July 2 — 14, 2026
Jodie Mim
Pawtucket, Rhode ISLAND
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 in at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.
Joanna Fuhrman
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Joanna Fuhrman, an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University, is the author of seven books of poetry, Data Mind, (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press) To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015), Pageant (Alice James Books 2009), Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006), Ugh Ugh Ocean (Hanging Loose Press 2006) and Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press 2000). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Believer, The Baffler, Conduit, Fence, The Georgia Review, and Plume, as well as on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets (poem-a-day) websites, and in anthologies published by Soft Skull Press, HarperCollins, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Poems have also appeared in Best American Poetry (2023 and 2025), The Pushcart Prize anthology and The Slowdown podcast. She also creates poetry videos that are on her own Vimeo site and in literary journals including Posit, Triquarterly, Moving Poems Journal, Fence Digital and Requited. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Yetzirah, Willapa Bay, and YoungArts. In 2022, after first publishing with them as a teenager, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press. She lives with her husband and large cat in Newark, NJ.
Her work tends to be comic and mixes surrealism with narrative to explore personal and political themes.
Victor Olaoye
Chicago, Illinois
My work investigates transformation as an ongoing, cyclical process where human, botanical, and organic forms merge. Figures fold into vegetal structures, organs dissolve into roots, and growth and decay coexist. Rather than presenting metamorphosis as linear, my work frames it as perpetually in motion, revealing collapse as generative and fragility as a site of possibility.
Growing up tending banana plants and animals in Abeokuta, Nigeria, I became fascinated by cycles of life, decay, and regeneration patterns that now underpin both my material and conceptual practice. I transform banana fiber and jute into layered grounds for paintings, creating tactile surfaces that embody the interplay of resilience and vulnerability. Sweeping gestures, sinewy mark-making, and dense layering echo natural processes blooming, erosion, decomposition while inviting viewers to inhabit a space where abstraction and figuration, beauty and discomfort, intersect.
Bodies and environments in my work are porous, entangled, and hybrid, reflecting ecological and psychological states simultaneously. Limbs, faces, and root-like forms surface and dissolve, destabilizing perception and opening a space for reflection. Organic structures fold, rupture, and regenerate; the chrysalis becomes both wound and promise, a site where collapse and emergence coexist. Decay is not an end state but an active force that seeds new possibilities.
Through layered surfaces and material density, my paintings hold tension between vulnerability and resilience, inviting viewers to reconsider transformation not as a singular event, but as a continuous condition one that binds human experience to broader cycles of life, death, and regeneration.
Kellie Lehr
Madison, Connecticut
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.
olivier x
Chicago, Illinois
olivier is an artist, cataloguer, and pessimist. They have 1 cat and 2 bikes.
They find pleasure through copy-and-editing with installations, indexes, lectures, drawings, videos, artists’ publications, surveys, writings, etc., and have a secret mail-art practice. As an exiled person toying with “languaging”, their practice is rooted in ephemerality and the anarchival. They consider their medium as “re-reading”, unfolding in the creases of “para-” and “trans-” ness.
olivier has lectured, performed, exhibited, and published internationally in institutions such as the Poetry Foundation, Hammer Museum and Hong Kong Arts Centre, and artist-run spaces including in Chicago, Iowa City, New York City, Los Angeles, Maine, and London…and perhaps your dream state. Their ideal exhibiting space is a playground where they can lie on the floor and rearrange and reorganise every object and text.
Working as an archivist, olivier is also an adjunct assistant professor and artists’ assistant. They are the founder of an experimental UFO archive The UFO Lobby (2021–). olivier holds an MFA in Studio Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies.
Born and raised in British Hong Kong, olivier and their time machine are temporarily stuck in this dimension. So it goes…
Jungeun Park
Long Island City, New York
Jungeun Park (b. 1999) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Seoul. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts from the KNUA, studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and completed her MFA in Glass at the RISD. Her work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum, Gallery 175, and ONX Onassis. In 2026, she was selected as a resident artist in Starworks Glass. In 2025, she was selected as a fellow of Haystack School of Art.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We skim a dot of flesh out of a fried egg, walk past a dead mouse, notice a limping pigeon without a foot, or realize that mites are living in our pores. Most days, we move on without a second thought, but sometimes the unease remains. “I wish I hadn’t seen that,” we think.
Through my act of making, I stay where discomfort emerges. Bodily fluids, discarded bodies, pain, and decay are translated into glass and ceramic. With high heat, they gain permanence, and a sense of safety forms after the vitrification. Despite the remaining unrest, they can now be held and examined up close.
Glass in particular confers fragility on what is otherwise disregarded, reassigning a sense of agency to those subjects. Glass's aura draws the eye, and its transparency allows viewers to see through what's hidden beneath a crust.
My practice draws from Bataille’s notion of the abject, exposing how order depends on exclusion, and from Everyday Aesthetics, which reclaims the aesthetic potential of the ordinary beyond the confines of fine art. I put the spotlight on what is lowest, and look closely to interrupt the impulse to look away.
To remain with what is difficult is to confront the unrest that reveals our vulnerability, and realize there is no real distance between other bodies and ours.
Beth Johnston
Exeter, New Hampshire
Beth Johnston is a photographer and woodworker originally from the Pacific Northwest and now living in New Hampshire. Her practice is often experimental in form, combining hand-crafted frames with expired Polaroids and other non-traditional photo processes to explore questions of ecological and social change. Beth holds an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design and was named the Denis Roussel Fellow at the Center for Fine Art Photography in 2023. With a background in science and psychology, she regularly participates in art and science collaborations, including as a recent Colorado Art Science Environment (CASE) Fellow at the University of Colorado and through an upcoming residency at the Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center in Centennial Valley, Montana.
Lucia Monge
Amherst, Massachusetts
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.
Allyson Morgan
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
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
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