Welcome May’s Artists-in-Residence!
Meet this Month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: May 7 — June 2, 2026
Regina Durante Jestrow
MIami, Florida
My work is a personal and playful exploration, stretching and challenging quilt forms and structures while considering the activist values that shaped historic quilt-making traditions. I build my textile-based works by stitching together long strips of fabric and hundreds of triangles, using repetition, precision, and improvisation as guiding forces. Through this process, I transform traditional craft techniques into layered, abstract compositions that merge geometry with personal symbolism. Alongside my quilts, I create intimate works on paper - watercolors and pastels that echo my textile works' pattern and color sensibilities.
I incorporate hand-dyed fabrics, repurposed clothing, and textiles collected from friends and thrift shops to create rich surfaces full of personal and cultural resonance. These materials speak to the urgency of textile waste and connect my work to the material culture of my Miami surroundings. Drawing from the city’s vibrant landscape, I blend organic geometry with bold, tropical color palettes to create visual rhythm and a sense of transformation. Unconventional materials like repurposed neoprene, sequins, and faux leather inject an unexpected twist—part homage to Miami’s pop culture pulse, part playful experimentation with texture and shine.
My artistic journey is deeply rooted in a reverence for American folk art quilts and an admiration for geometric abstraction in the mid-to-late twentieth century. I draw inspiration from visionaries such as the Gee's Bend quilters, Anni Albers, Rosie Lee Tompkins, and Gego, whose work bridges the gap between craft and abstraction. Their influence is a rich tapestry that informs my approach to pattern, color, and structure, guiding me to create quilts infused with personal symbolism and narratives, inviting connection and contemplation.
Amanda Season Keeley
Miami, Florida
Amanda Season Keeley is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between language, typography, and the built environment. Working across sculpture, installation, print, and site-responsive projects, she creates participatory works that activate architecture through text—ranging from artist’s books and typographic interventions to large-scale public artworks. Her practice investigates how visual language functions as both structure and material, shaping perception and meaning in public space.
Keeley received an MFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design and a BFA from the University of Vermont. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including Fredric Snitzer Gallery, LISTE Art Fair Basel with Spencer Brownstone Gallery, UNTITLED Art Fair, the Wolfsonian–FIU Museum, the de la Cruz Collection, and Transformer Gallery. She has completed permanent public commissions for Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Hialeah Gardens Library, the Arts & Culture Center of Hollywood, and The Bass Museum of Art.
Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the Astrup Fearnley Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. Keeley is the founder of EXILE Projects, a nonprofit publishing platform dedicated to artist publications and collaborative programming.
Maikel Dominguez
MIAMI, Florida
My work begins with a personal search: a way of understanding what I carry within and giving it form. Through painting, drawing, small-scale sculpture, and jewelry, I create images and objects shaped by tension—between beauty and pain, desire and loss, fragility and endurance. I see art as an intimate and transformative practice, one that can speak to both the body and the spirit.
I grew up surrounded by spirituality, and that has deeply shaped the way I understand making. From an early age, I came to feel that objects can hold energy, memory, and emotional weight. Because of that, I do not think of an artwork as a simple object, but as a presence: a place where inner life becomes visible and where material can carry what cannot be fully explained in words.
My practice is also informed by my experience as a Cuban immigrant, a gay man, and a professional art restorer. Restoration has taught me to look closely at vulnerability, damage, and repair. It has shown me that fragility is not a weakness, but part of what makes something human—marked by time, survival, and resilience. That understanding moves through all of my work, including jewelry, which I approach as a form of small-scale sculpture charged by intimacy, touch, and the body.
I often return to emotional states that resist easy separation: pleasure and sorrow, tenderness and fear, surrender and strength. Even when the work moves through darkness, it is never only about despair. I am always searching for balance, relief, and the possibility that something broken can still become beautiful, present, and whole in a new way.
Ultimately, my work is about transformation. It is a way of turning emotion into form, fragility into presence, and lived experience into something that can be shared.
Jen Clay
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida
Born in 1985 in Mountain View, NC, Jen Clay earned a BFA from UNCC Charlotte and an MFA from UFL in 2014. Based in South Florida, they create interactive, fiber-focused installations, performances, and artist books, often incorporating sewn messages, tactile textures, and immersive environments.
Notable works include Soft Sanity (2019) and Welcome to You&Me (2019), designed for neurodiverse audiences, and a quilt-composed video game and installation at Locust Projects (2023), supported by a Knight Arts New Work Award. Clay has been an artist-in-residence at Oolite Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and McColl Center. Their practice has been documented in The Texture of Anxiety, which won a regional Emmy. Clay’s sewn textiles depict non-human figures inspired by cosmic horror and hallucinatory experiences, exploring mental health through approachable, tactile works. They are represented by Baker-Hall Gallery.
Daniel Enrique Torres Marrero
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Hi! My name is Daniel Enrique Torres Marrero. I am a Puerto Rican multi-disciplinary artist that specializes in sculpture, animation, drawing, painting, furniture and the creation of kinetic contraptions of varying degrees of precariousness. To me play is everything, it is inseparable from my art practice. I owe much of that sensibility to the love and dedication of my grandfather, who would make me a wooden toy each time I visited my grandparents home as a child. I am also heavily influenced by the rich political and visual heritage of the Latin American left and the work of vernacular Caribbean craftsmen and folk artists. I am driven by an insatiable desire to create rich meaningful art objects imbued with a certain degree of sincerity and honesty, that each work contributes not only to forging a style unique to myself, but a reflection of my culture at large.
I have a BFA in Illustration and Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. I have also been awarded with the 2024 Jacob Reily-Wasserman memorial award, given to a student who embodies play and spirit in their work.
Kerry Phillips
Miami, FLORIDA
Kerry Phillips is an installation artist whose artwork borders on performance and social practice. Phillips’ work with found objects is intuitive, often site-specific, and steeped in remembrance and storytelling. She uses common objects in unexpected ways, working collaboratively with viewer-participants to reveal an exchange of value, the importance and limitations of memory, and the vitality of play.
Phillips has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Orlando Museum of Art, Locust Projects, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Boca Raton Museum of Art, and Bridge Red Projects. Recent solo projects include: Coincidence of Sound (2025), LnS Gallery; The patience of ordinary things (2024), Locust Projects; Between the mundane & the miraculous (2023), Bass Museum; and the opening of The Things Lab a socially-engaged art installation and creative reuse center co-created with artist Susan Caraballo.
She has exhibited and completed residencies in Ohio, Vermont, New York, North Carolina, and internationally in Berlin, Krakow, Mexico, and France. Her work is held in the collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, The Girls’ Club, and Mosquera Collections. Originally from Texas, Phillips works in Miami and, contrary to her family’s wishes, doesn’t paint pretty pictures. Represented by LnS Gallery in Miami.
Silvia Ros
MIAMI, SHORES
Silvia Ros is a Cuban American, Miami-based photographer with a master’s degree in architecture. After over a decade as a museum photographer, she launched a busy freelance career, concentrating not only on her own creative projects such as Post 67, Connecting Concrete: Modernist Architecture from Havana to Miami, and Cloverleaf but serving as the official Art Basel Miami Beach photographer for five years, and with clients including Ford, MoMA, and Artsy. In 2014 the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s permanent collection acquired 86 of her photographs documenting the LGBTQA+ movement in the United States. Published in 2021 by Birkhäuser, the book Cuban Modernism, Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970, contains nearly 100 original photographs taken by Silvia in Havana, Cuba between 2015-2019. Through her photography, Silvia seeks to document individual lives and environments while revealing the universal threads of connection that bind us.
Selina Wagner
Austin, Texas
Selina Wagner is an artist from Florida based in Austin, Texas. She works primarily in large-scale graphite drawing. Wagner has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, The Pack in New York City, and the Visual Arts Center in Austin. Her work has been supported by the Austrian American Foundation’s Seebacher Prize, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the University of Texas Continuing Fellowship. She is currently a resident artist with Future Front Texas. Wagner holds a BFA in Drawing from the University of Florida and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Texas at Austin.
I primarily make labor-intensive graphite drawings on paper that are larger than my body, paying particular attention to scale, surface, and distortion. My imagery filters everyday encounters through a strange, corporeal colander—a mackerel fish sprouts human legs, teeny coquina clams burrow into my thighs, my hairy arms stretch beyond their anatomical logic. My drawings function as visual diary entries that unsettle what ought to be familiar.
My process typically begins with digital interventions, using photographs, filters, distortions, scans, and found textures to build a figurative image that is then translated through varied mark-making and pencil-y smoothness. My practice further extends the language of drawing through material processes like printmaking, analog animation, and site-responsive wall drawing.
Jeff Cán Xicay
Patzicía, Guatemala
Jeff Cán Xicay (b. 2004) was born in Patzicía, Chimaltenango, Guatemala. A Maya Kaqchikel visual artist, his work centers on the traditional Maya textile craft. Through symbolic, material, and sacred explorations, he weaves pieces utilizing the very codes and symbols he draws from his community. In doing so, he proposes a way to bridge his contemporary practice with the enduring, deep-rooted artistic heritage of the Maya peoples of Guatemala.
He has participated in various group exhibitions throughout Guatemala and has held two solo exhibitions.
In 2023, he participated in the Bienal en Resistencia, a biennial focused on utilizing public spaces to stage artistic interventions. In 2025, he was featured in the Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala.
Jeff lives and works in Patzicía, engaging with both traditional textile craft and contemporary art, fusing these two practices to present his artistic explorations to communities worldwide.
Jeff Cán Xicay (2004). Es originario de Patzicía, Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Artista Maya Kaqchikel visual cuyo trabajo se centra en el oficio textil tradicional maya. Bajo las exploraciones simbólicas, materiales y sacralizadas, teje piezas utilizando los mismos codigos y simbolos que adquiere de su comunidad. Bajo eso, propone una manera de relacionar su trabajo contemporaneo con el trabajo del tiempo largo de los pueblos mayas de guatemala.
Ha participado en varias exposiciones colectivas en Guatemala, y expuesto de manera individual en dos ocasiones.
En el 2023 participa en la Bienal en Resistencia, una bienal basada en el uso del espacio publico para realizar acciones artisticas. En el 2025 es parte de la Bienal de Arte Paiz en Guatemala.
Jeff Vive y trabaja en Patzicia desde el oficio tradicional textil y lo contemporanea fusionandolas para sus propuestas a las comunidades del mundo.
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