Residencies
July 8, 2025

Introducing our upcoming summer-fall Resident Artists!

Reflection, Place and Memory

As the height of summer unfolds, we are delighted to welcome a new group of Artists-in-Residence for the Summer–Fall 2025 season. Spanning the months of July, August, and September, our upcoming Residents are characterized by diverse practices and perspectives that traverse borders geographically, culturally, and imaginatively. Each artist engages with deep identity-defining themes: from environmental justice and material reclamation to diasporic memory and poetic ritual, offering insight into complex and layered narratives.

July

Lynn Cazabon – Visual Artist

Lynn Cazabon is an artist whose multifaceted projects employ participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement with topics at the interface between environmental and social issues. She uses lens-based media, text, and audio to create works which are displayed in exhibitions, public displays, and virtually. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including with 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH; Witte Rook, Breda, the Netherlands; Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan; WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY.

August

Todd Jones – Visual Artist

Todd Jones is a contemporary artist and educator based in North Carolina, USA, whose work explores themes of memory, reclamation, and identity through innovative approaches to painting and sculpture. He holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts Management from Ohio University. Additionally, he has a BFA in Studio Art and Psychology from Florida State University. His practice often involves transforming discarded materials, particularly house paint, into stratified sculptures and installations investigating residual histories and the concept of place.

September

Chisara Okwu – Poet, Artist

Chisara Okwu is an Igbo American transdisciplinary poet artist weaving archives, collage, and film to explore memory in the African diaspora. Her recent work is featured in Michigan Quarterly Review, midnight & indigo, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Obsidian, and others, and has been a finalist for multiple poetry prizes. Her chapbook “This Wake Holding, Mmiri” received the 2023 Evaristo Poetry Prize’s Honorable Mention from the Africa Poetry Book Fund. She has received artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, Cave Canem and others. A pediatrician and trauma specialist, she earned her MD from Duke University School of Medicine and BA from Stanford University.