Welcome December Artists-in-Residence!
Meet this month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: December 4th - December 16th, 2024
Mariah Rigg
denver, colorado
Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Common, Oxford American, Joyland, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere, along with receiving support from organizations like the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lambda Literary, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she teaches writing. Mariah’s prose chapbook, All Hat, No Cattle was published by Bull City Press in 2023. Her short story collection, EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in 2025.
Maddie May
chicago, illinois
Maddie May is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Growing up in a turbulent environment, May has lived in 26 houses, which instilled in them an investigative lens into relationships, everyday objects, and the spaces they inhabit. Their multi-sensory works magnify the emotional residue of Midwest lower-class households through textiles, sculpture, print, scent, and sound. Objects express intimacy, domesticity, turmoil, and discomfort, existing as characters that exemplify the physiological aftermath of abrasive events within the home. Influenced by childhood and personal memories, May's work addresses cycles of trauma, addiction, grief, fear, and violence.
May holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. They have exhibited at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI), and Ruschwoman (Chicago, IL) to name a few. Recently, they held solo exhibitions at Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, IL) and Wittenberg University (Springfield, OH), and Comfort Station (Chicago, IL) in 2024. May received a City of Chicago DCASE Grant in 2023 and has been an artist in residence at The Residency Project (Pasadena, CA) in 2024.
Headshot by Thương Hoài Trần
Jazlyne Sabree
willingboro, new jersey
Jazlyne Sabree (b. 1990, New Jersey) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Greater Philadelphia area. She received her Bachelors in Art from Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU in Atlanta, GA where she studied art and journalism. She then went on to become an art educator, returning to college to receive her Masters in Art Education at Boston University. She is now pursuing her Masters in Fine Art at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She is a recipient of the Clark Atlanta University Art Guild Award, the Linda Lora Pugliese Award for Excellence in Art Education, and the PAFA Venture Fund Grant. Additionally, she has been featured on platforms such as News 12, WHYY, several podcasts such as The Truth in this Art, and publications such as Create! Magazine. She has exhibited with many esteemed artists such as Lavett Ballard and internationally with Justin Randolph Thompson and is currently exhibiting across the US east coast. Most recently in 2023, she was awarded a teaching artist residency in Monrovia, Liberia in West Africa at the Cachelle International Creative Arts Center, as well as the Casa Na Ilha Artist Residency in Ilhabela, São Paolo, Brazil.
Antonius-Tin Bui
new haven, connecticut
Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them) is a poly-disciplinary artist whose work traverses the realms of hand-cut paper, community engagement, performance, and soft sculpture to visualize hybrid identities or histories that confront the unsettling present.
Portrait by Caroline Xia
Anna Rotty
albuquerque, new mexico
Anna Rotty lives on Tiwa land in Albuquerque. She earned her MFA in 2024, and currently teaches at the University of New Mexico. Anna received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. Her work investigates water, light and infrastructure, informing her understanding of orientation and place. Her work has been published by Southwest Contemporary, Humble Arts Foundation, and Lenscratch, where she earned 3rd place in the Student Portfolio Prize in 2023. Anna is a recipient of the Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship 24 and has recently exhibited at Princeton University, Chung 24 Gallery in San Francisco and Strata Gallery in Santa Fe. Her work is in collections such as The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Library of Congress and SFMOMA Special Collection.
Portrait by Nicholas Valdes
Njari Anderson
west palm beach, florida
Njari Anderson (b. 2001, Clarendon, Jamaica) investigates sites of cultural exploitation intrinsic to Black daily life. Blurring the lines between critique and provocation, his work narrativizes subjects concerning loss, visibility, peril, and the pleasures of ambiguity.
In his practice, Anderson engages the Black quotidian, its relationship to digitally-aided methods of making, and the various lenses through which Black daily life is warped, stretched, chopped, and screwed. The Internet and his Caribbean identity are central to his practice: Black Twitter, WorldStarHiphop, WhatsApp, and #BlackLivesMatter–he navigates these spaces to resist the sense of placelessness granted to him by his Caribbean-immigrant identity. Part referential and part critical, he revisits these spaces in search of moments of pleasure, masculinity, queerness, voyeurism, exploitation, violence, grief, and resolution intrinsic to Blackness.
Aimed at embodying Black culture's malleability, Anderson's trans-disciplinary practice resists easy viewing. He chooses to mask labor and material to prioritize conceptual intent. Viewing computer-aided design tools as collaborators in his practice, he creates inversions of existing materials using additive and subtractive processes. For Anderson, these CAD tools function like chisels, while the files and subsequent sculptures he creates are like infinitely malleable stones. Calling on cultural references, he allows these CAD tools to invade his extended metaphors to render richer narratives. Anderson's interest in the fault lines, slippages, and second viewings stemming from opaque understandings of his practice allows him to exist within, across, and beyond limits levied onto him by his Blackness.
Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
the plains, ohio
Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal (they/them) is a queer, previously unhoused veteran who holds an MFA in Fiction from Texas State University and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. They are an alum of the Vermont Studio Center and of the Tin House Winter Workshop. Their fiction can be found in Story, Fairy Tale Review, F(r)iction, South Carolina Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Other work appears in The Rumpus, Barrelhouse, Consequence, and additional journals. Their writing has won the Plaza Short Story Prize; been a finalist for the Iron Horse First Book Prize, the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, the Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction, and the Saints + Sinners LGBTQ Short Fiction Prize; and has been longlisted for the W.S. Porter Prize. They teach creative writing at Gannon University and are the Managing Editor of New Ohio Review.
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Athens, georgia
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is the author of The Sign of the Ram (Akashic, 2023), selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets Chapbook Box set. His poems are featured/forthcoming in Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, EPOCH, Guernica, Kenyon Review, POETRY, Poetry Society of America, TRANSITION, & elsewhere. He’s received scholarship and fellowship from MASS MoCA, Bread Loaf, Tin House, Key West Literary Seminar; placed second for Grist Journal Contest, finalist of Black Warrior Review contest and Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. He’s a doctoral student of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
Photo by Saurabh Anand
Mika Taylor
Mansfield, connecticut
Mika Taylor was a Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona.
Her work has been supported by scholarships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Wesleyan Writers Conference as well as residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, I Park, The Studios at MASS MoCA and the Vermont Studio Center. She’s received an Artistic Excellence Grant from the State of Connecticut Commission for the Arts, as well as grants from the University of Arizona, University of Wisconsin, and Eastern Connecticut State University.
Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Guernica, Ninth Letter, Diagram, and others.
She lives in Mansfield, Connecticut and is currently working on her first novel and a collection of short stories.
