**THE FUTURE RESIDENCY HAS ENDED***
We had such a great run, and have closed our residency--the pandemic and uprising really did a number on the amount of energy, inspiration, attention that can be directed to the residency. The residency program has ended in its current form at its previous location. The community around The Future was so lucky to meet so many amazing, inspiring visionary artists and makers and doers during this residency. THANK YOU to everyone who supported, who attended residents' events + classes, who participated. <3 <3
]]>You can read more about them in their bios, and get on our mailing list/follow us + them on Insta to hear about their events!
It's such an honor to host all these brilliant geniuses, act as a lab/healing/hibernating/experimenting space and share community! Excited for an inspiring 2020!
Riso Residents
Adrienne Doyle
Josh T Franco
Angel Lauren Garcia & Samantha Rehark
Marlee Grace
E Henderson
Minna Jain
Chris Larson
Alex Stillman
Kate Strathmann
Working Witches of the World
Witches' Residents
Erin Alise
Ashley Hartman Annis
Elvis Bakaitis
Dana Balicki
Blair Bogin
Dani Burlison
Marisa de la Peña
Catherine Feliz
Gabriel Friedman
Lauren Giambrone
Sarah Faith Gottesdiener
Chelsea Iris Granger
Allison Halter
Jeff Hinshaw
Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
Courtney Kalinowski
Anna Lee
Sam Lofgren
Jade Marks
Rubina Martini
Kristin McGraw
Milo Miller
Gabrielle Moritz
Celeste Neuhaus
Nelly Reznik
Moriah Simmons
Maria Vashakidze
Hannah Wnorowski
Jaime Allyce Wright
Weavers Guild of Minnesota Residents
Stephanie Aguayo
Lena Kolb
Haley Prochnow
To learn more about the artists in residence, click here.
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Nelly Reznik is an evidential psychic medium. Although she is a natural-born medium and has been able to communicate with Spirit since childhood, it wasn’t until her own experience with loss and grief in her twenties that she began to understand and develop her ability. Her objective as a medium is to provide a voice for the Spirit world, communicating their thoughts with accuracy and specificity. She also teaches courses for empaths and psychics in order to help people understand and hone their own spiritual gifts.
]]>ashley (she / her) is a fertility awareness educator, a full-spectrum pregnancy companion (ie: birth & abortion & miscarriage), and a zine-maker. she has been teaching classes on cycle charting since 2013 and doing full-spectrum pregnancy work since 2018. she is also one of the co-founders of P.O.W.E.R.S. (Pregnancy Options Wisconsin: Education, Resources, & Support), an all-options pregnancy network in wisconsin.
]]>E Henderson's hand drawn storytelling finds its way into the world as prints, cards, bandanas, clothing, and other familiar objects - offerings of curiosity, comfort, playfulness and nostalgia. E's work is shaped by their identity as a nonbinary queer southerner who lives in North Carolina now, but grew up rurally among the sandy pines of South Carolina with a love for tree climbing and dirt, rust and front porch thunderstorms.
Blair makes video art, performs comedy theater and empowers creatives with astrology and yoga. She offers intuitive guidance that is raw, real and informed by her love for storytelling and play. Aside from a special expertise in traditional astrology, she is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, Integrative Hypnotherapist and Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator. She works best with fellow artists, activists, LGBTQ, those on the fringe or anyone interested in healing and self-realization.
Outside of formal consultations, She runs the workshop Ha Ha, Astrology, where folks embody their birth charts through clowning and physical theater. She also crafts a monthly video art newsletter Dead Diary, which reports star vibes through abstract moving images. She is in an all-female improv troop and makes solo performance, installation and films often inspired by stellar alignments.
For readings, art & upcoming events visit: www.sisterbride.com / @sisterbride
]]>Kate Strathmann is an artist and multi-disciplinary business owner living in Philadelphia.
Through her company, Wanderwell, she investigates new models of being in business and consults with visionary business owners to imagine new futures through business and local economies. She is currently working on a book about alternative business models and anti-capitalist business practices.
@_wanderwell_ | wanderwellconsulting.com]]>
Working Witches of the World is an emergent collaboration of anti-capitalist magic, joy, and liberation. Our collective is made up of Tess Giberson, Sophie Macklin, and Casey Wait. We work in alliance with radical ancestors, plants, deities, angels, and networks of solidarity and mutual aid across time and space. We practice manifesto writing, ancestor work, ritual, magic, and art-making. In the future we also plan to launch a podcast, hold events and create magical objects and medicines.
Instagram: @workingwitches
Born in Los Angeles, CA, Stephanie Aguayo lives and works in her native city. She studied illustration and design at Art Center College of Design and is presently finishing a Costume Design program at Los Angeles City College.
A self taught textile and fiber artist, Stephanie fell in love with textiles and the rich history of the craft and it’s cultural context while living in Oaxaca and traveling throughout Mexico and Guatemala.
Her practice revolves around various forms of storytelling that include oral traditions, myths, legends and text. Her multidisciplinary practice focuses on illustration, costume design, embroidery & tambour embroidery, ageing & distressing of garments and dyeing fabric and thread with natural materials and plant matter.
Her current curiosity has her exploring natural materials around Los Angeles to produce natural dyes and colorants. Through the exploration of this practice she seeks to create a compendium of color that’s naturally sourced, and draws from a tradition that has been used throughout much of human history.
Instagram:
@avva.adore
@lacc_costume_and_tech_program
Minna Jain (They/Them) is an artist, activist and healer interested in collective sense making, performativity, systems of power and liberation. They work with alternative photographic process printmaking and wearable sculpture. Through autoethnographic and participatory offerings, they engage story and the decolonization of story in conversation with erasure, embodied experience and the liminal spaces of the other. Raised in Minneapolis, MN, they were accepted into the Perpich Arts High School with a focus on Visual Arts before attending Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where they studied Community Based Organizing and Youth Leadership Through the Arts. Minna is the child of Sámi and Indian immigrants and they hold the burning lands, the frozen stars and the swollen Mississippi in their blood and belly. They are an underworlds worker, a lineage healer, non-binary, queer and incorrigibly plural.
Their work has been presented at such sites as the Open Shutter Gallery - Durango, Colorado, The American Swedish Institute - Minneapolis, MN, The Umbrella Gallery - Dallas, Texas, Käsityö Museo of Finland - Jyväskylä, Finland, The Oriental Theater –Denver, Colorado, Studio & Gallery -Durango, Colorado, Eggman & Walrus Gallery –Santa Fe, New Mexico and The Minneapolis College of Art and Design –Minneapolis, Minnesota.
IG: @minna_jain
Marlee Grace is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, distraction, creativity, and art making. Her practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, and hosting artists. You can find her zines, things she makes, artists she hosts, and more at marleegrace.space/home
photo taken by Jacki Warren
Marisa de la Peña (she/her) is a Xicanx/Indigenous artist and researcher of appropriation in occupied Tongva Territory (Los Angeles). She is currently working on a living body of work that discusses the appropriation of Latinx/Indigenous practices and identity in New Age, entitled Not Your Ancestors (NYA). This research and hours of labor also follow into her art practice where she discusses the affects of settler colonialism and also the struggles of being from multiple colonized and settled identities. She is the creator of the Circo Tarot (How to Deal, Harper Collins) and has been featured on Rise up Goodwitch the Podcast, where she discusses appropriation in contemporary divination.
Maria Vashakidze is the owner and formulator of Seagrape bath + body, a company started in 2009 out of love for scent. She runs a community oriented brick and mortar shop in Portland, OR with a full line of in-house made bath products and well as hand crafted ritual and home adornment goods. With a weakness for baths, tea, and dismantling the patriarchy, there is nothing she'd rather do then run a shop that supports these habits.
With a BFA in painting and minor in book arts, Maria has a mind that seems to always want to start a new small business. You can find her working across many mediums to scratch her creative itch, all seeming to revolve around pleasure and embodiment.
Maria is a white, Jewish Russian/ Georgian immigrant working on connecting to her ancestry while tending the unceded territory of the Chinook, and Multnomah peoples temporarily.
Lena Kolb (b.1984) is a fiber artist based in New Orleans Louisiana. Lena uses weaving techniques to create spatially complex artwork, using minimal details and bold color choices. Employing perspectives inspired by reality and the world we see and interact with, she creates tapestry weavings that represent an imaginative and surreal dimension.
Lena learned to weave by working as an apprentice in a rag rug weaving shop in the French Quarter, in New Orleans. She is the Vice president of the New Orleans Weavers Guild and works sharing her love of textiles, teaching small workshops and individual weaving lessons.
IG: _Arachne__
website: www.LenaKolb.com ]]>Josh T Franco is an artist with a PhD in art history. Projects are guided by a methodology of making-as-research and writing-as-experiment. His primary medium is the discipline of art history itself. Beeswax, 35mm slides, tables-and-chairs and handwriting are also recurring material supports. Franco creates environments for contemplation, in the tradition of scriptoria. These provide audiences with a provocative space for considering a given subject. Often these subjects are the legacies of ancestors and elders. His practice explores the mechanisms by which knowledge moves inter-generationally. Franco conjures spirits of intellectual and artistic predecessors, inviting audiences to join him in conversation with their presence.
The core principle of Franco's studio practice: Art history is made by hand.
SOCIAL:
IG: @joshtfranco
Jaime Allyce Wright is a poet, astrologer and (retired) performance artist originally from and currently residing in New York. She believes that anything and everything is ritual and there is magic in the most mundane moments if we pay attention to it. Through her work, she gently (but bluntly) calls attention to power structures in order to advocate for the most vulnerable members in any situation, process or community. Everything is a portrait. Horoscopes are songs.
jaimewright.net / @jaimeallycewright on Instagram
Jade Marks is an herbalist, farmer and visual artist based in New York City. They run an apothecary called 69herbs, which centers trans and queer communities, accessibility, and design.
]]>Hannah Wnorowski (she/her) is a healer, designer, writer, and entrepreneur. She is most known for creating The Deck of Character, a modern oracle card game unlike anything else. Filled with its own unique, elemental system of fun cartoon symbols, The DOC will make you laugh while inspiring you to connect authentically with yourself and those around you. Hannah has spent the last couple years traveling and playing The DOC with thousands of people around the world. She loves inspiring people to speak their truth... it sets us all free!
Hannah is excited to teach a community workshop on intuition at The Future as well as conduct private readings at a special, discounted rate for Minneapolis locals.
You may find out more at: thedeckofcharacter.com
IG: @thedeckofcharacter
Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi is a poet who documents ways current political realities built on patriarchy and capitalism affect the environment and marginalized bodies. She tells stories of people impacted by graceless policies and gives voice to lands in crisis. Largely influenced by Audre Lorde’s idea that all oppression is linked, her work considers the Anthropocene as a product of outdated economic models that began with the ownership of black bodies. She finds God in the smell of rich soil and offers both prayer and protest in each poem.
Instagram: @fatimaayanmalika
Website: fatimaayanmalikahirsi.com/ ]]>Dani Burlison is the editor and creator of the anthology “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body,” (PM Press, 2019), and the author of a short story collection, “Some Places Worth Leaving” (Tolsun Books, 2020), and “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney's Internet Tendency column of the same name. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Yes! Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED Arts, The Rumpus and Made Local Magazine. Her writing can also be found at Ms. Magazine, Earth Island Journal, WIRED, Utne, The Writer, Portland Review, Vestal Review, Hip Mama Magazine, Rad Dad, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Shareable, and more. She teaches, writes, and lives in Santa Rosa, CA
You can find her at: daniburlison.com
Twitter: @DaniBurlison
IG: @danisavestheworld
Chelsea Granger is an artist/illustrator living and working outside of New Haven, CT. She is a long time member of the artists collective The Royal Frog Ballet as well as a collaborative project with Thyme Herbal, making medicine posters and Zines. Most recently she uses her art practice as a place to connect with people around death, grief and mental health. Chelsea thrives in collaboration, her art projects are of the everyday, inspired by collective mourning + celebration, multiple dimensions, earth/spirit realm, futures bent and spectacular, and earth as church. She is most interested in art as a spell/prayer/talisman.
@chelseairisgranger
]]>Celeste Neuhaus is a witch who fuses art and magic. Her work insists upon ecosocial justice by revealing the widely overlooked interdependencies between the corporeal, psychological, cultural, political, ecological, and cosmological. Currently based in Pittsburgh, Celeste has performed and exhibited objects and images throughout the United States in galleries, magic temples, DIY spaces, salt flats, fields of wildflowers, vacant lots, rooftops, and art museums. Celeste earned her BFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her MFA at the University of New Mexico in “The Land of Enchantment,” where she attended the Land Arts program in Art and Ecology. As a professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Celeste realized her passion for mentoring students. She now professionally guides individuals through the process of cultivating their unique creativity. Examples of her artwork can be seen at celesteneuhaus.com.
]]>Adrienne Doyle is a media artist who engages DIY tools and strategies to center the collective, connective, and vulnerable qualities of black experiences. Her creative work is where she heals and invites her community to do the same. Writing and zine-making are often vehicles for this work. Adrienne is the founder of Burn Something Zine, a submission-based, queer- and trans-inclusive zine for women of color and gender non-conforming folks of color. She is a current fellow with the Emerging Curators Institute and with the AFP-MN IDEA Fellowship program.
Instagram: @auntie_miscellaneous @burnsomethingzine
Facebook: Burn Something Zine
]]>Blending the old and the new from multiple traditions through an intersectional feminist framework, their practice is focused around the practical and the ritual of the places that scare us. They specialize in transitions, with an emphasis on endings and affirming new beginnings.
They are the author of Tarot of Little Secrets, write a column about the paperwork of death, host Seekers & Skeptics, a Twin Cities tarot Meetup, and teach classes for beginners and on special topics in tarot.
Find out more: companioninshadow.com
IG/FB: @companioninshadow
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December 1: "Working the Corner of Divination and Death": A Reading Salon
Join Future resident Sam Lofgren for readings and discussion of their newly self-published chapbook “Working the Corner of Divination & Death,” on their experiences as a diviner, deathworker, and kink educator. One part memoir and one part exploration of the intersections of divinity, death, and domination, Sam's work is a thoughtful and critical lens at what living, loving, and dying on the social fringes is like.
Discussion/Q&A after reading. Copies available for purchase at event, $10 each.
Sliding scale $10-20. 4-5:30pm
Allison Halter is a conceptual artist interested in systems of power, in the acquisition and abdication of control. Halter’s work seeks opportunities to confront and confound audience expectations. By highlighting the daily performativity we all assume, she exposes our dependency upon social matrices in our shifting personal identities. Repetitive actions hint at mysterious prior events. The viewer must extrapolate the significance of these accumulating gestures, which take on a deeper emotional charge as they slowly and inexorably pile up.
Her practice exists on cusps, based upon the belief that only in these inbetweens can we truly stop being polite and start getting real. Halter’s projects have been exhibited and performed at dOCUMENTA(13) (DE), Titanik Galleria (FI), MUU Performance Voyage (FI), Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (US), Artist’s Television Access (US), Experimental Film Festival Portland (US), Ditch Projects (US), d’CLINIC Studios (SI), Feminist Form (US), and the Citizen Jane Film Festival (US). Her work spans performance, video/film, sound, writing, and photography. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
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“No Matter What Sign You Are” is a participatory exploration of astrology through experimental vocalization lead by Future resident Allison Halter. The group will be lead in vocal warm-ups, abstract singing, and elements from Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice. We will seal our time together in singing through the signs of the zodiac, and as a group will practice singing our own charts as well as the chart of the day.
All singers who desire to sing: please come! No prior choral or vocal practice is required.
This event is free, and donations are welcome. 7-9pm
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