Special Collaboration Residents

• Deborah Jack Multidisciplinary Artist, 2024, New Jersey Deborah Jack, is a St. Maarten and Jersey City-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is based on video/sound installation, photography, painting, and text. Her work engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate…
• Wowo Souakoli Performing Artist, 2023, Guinea Wowo Souakoli is a master of the Guinean guitar. His music is firmly based on the balafon, (Malinke xylophone) traditions that have been around since the thirteenth-century founding of the Mali empire. Souakoli’s use of a plectrum (pick) together with…
• Robert Maupin, MD Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Dr. Robert Maupin is the Division Head for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Associate Dean of Diversity & Community Engagement, at the LSU Health Sciences Center. He is originally a native of Washington DC and an alumnus of the University Maryland Medical…
• Gabriel Prewitt Performing Artist, 2023, Louisiana Gabriel Prewitt is a Junior majoring in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Performance at Dillard University. They are originally from Columbus, Ohio. Gabriel began performing at a young age and has always loved the performing arts. Their goal has…
• Olivia Johnson Performing Artist, 2023, Louisiana “I am a graduating senior at Dillard University. For the duration of my college career, I have majored in theatre performance. This includes acting as well as playwriting. In the Woods, I am interested in possibly writing and performing a…
• Tia Green Visual Artist, 2023, Louisiana “I am a traditional artist more talented with sketching, shading, and watercolor. I am a huge nerd so I like a lot of things from books, movies, anime, video games, etc.” – Tia Green Tia was a student artist participant…
• Breah Broussard Visual Artist, 2023, Louisiana “My work is typically abstract and for the most part whatever comes to mind or whatever I feel. School has taught me how to get out of my comfort zone a little. I always drew things but more recently have…
• Brandon Ballengée Artist, biologist and educator, 2021-23, Louisiana A Studio in the Woods and Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish Government will bring internationally recognized artist, biologist and educator Brandon Ballengée for a community-based residency with at risk Plaquemines Parish coastal communities. Through participatory art and science, Searching for Ghosts of…
• Desiree S. Evans Writer, 2021-22, Louisiana As the third Gulf South Writer in the Woods, Desiree S. Evans worked to complete a dystopian literary fantasy novel set hundreds of years into the future along what remains of the Gulf Coast. The novel tells the story of…
• Kristi L. Anderson, Ph.D. Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Kristi L. Anderson, Ph.D., currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Research for the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center, Lafayette LA Campus. In her role, she provides oversight of the accreditation of graduate medical education…
• Karen Grant-Anderson Performing Artist, 2022, Louisiana Karen Grant-Anderson has been singing “Since the womb!” She has also been writing her own lyrics for many years. A New Orleans native, the youngest of six children, Karen was raised by her aunt after her mother died when she…
• Zaria Ivory Performing Artist, 2022, Louisiana Zaria Ivory is a Vocal performance major at Dillard University originally from Oakland, California. Music has played a vital role in her life from the moment it started. Like her mother likes to tell it, she was singing before she…
• William Shelton Literary Artist, 2022, Louisiana William Shelton joins A Studio in the Woods in the final year of his undergraduate studies at Dillard University. William is an English major, hailing from Nashville, TN, and has a passion for creative writing—specifically playwriting, short stories, and poetry.…
• Nailah Starks Literary Artist, 2022, Louisiana Nailah Starks is a junior English major from Amite, Louisiana. She chose Dillard University for its appreciation and culture of the humanities. Nailah decided to pursue English because she has always had a passion for teaching, reading, and writing. When…
• Abbee Warmboe Theater Artist, 2022, Minnesota Abbee Warmboe is a props designer based in Minneapolis. She has been freelancing throughout the Twin Cities for the past 10 years, working on over 200 productions with 36 different companies. Most recently her work could be seen at Theater…
• Karen E Goulet Visual Artist, 2021, Minnesota Karen E Goulet, White Earth Ojibwe Nation/Métis – Artist, writer, community organizer, educator, daughter, mother, sister Karen E Goulet is an enrolled member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation. She is also from Métis, Saami, and Finnish people.  She was…
• Sidiki Conde Performing Artist, 2021 and 2023, New York Sidiki Conde used his residency to immerse himself in the culture, nature and music of the region and compose a series of songs about climate change. Sidiki collaborated with Dr. Michael White for a performance and panel on music of…
• Sacoby Wilson Scholar, 2021, Maryland Dr. Sacoby Wilson is an environmental health scientist with over 15 years of experience in the areas of exposure science, environmental justice, environmental health disparities, community-engaged research including crowd science and community-based participatory research (CBPR), water quality analysis, air pollution…
• Hildevert Promesse Lafeuille Filmmaker, 2021, Louisiana Hildevert Promesse Lafeuille was born in Africa and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He is a young passionate filmmaker with a vision. In his junior year of high school he started taking film seriously and decided to follow it as…
• Aaliyah Arnold Visual Artist, 2021, Louisiana “My name is Aaliyah Arnold, I am a 20 year old photographer and printmaker from Jeanerette, Louisiana. My inspiration for my art has always been the raw and unfiltered world, and life experiences. My love for art started like many…
• Jermaine Robinson Visual Artist, 2021, Louisiana “My name is Jermaine Robinson, I go by the name of the ART HSTLR, I am a 22 year old acrylic painter from New Orleans, LA. Growing up in New Orleans, a city full of creatives, culture, art in all…
• Juwan Saint Charles Filmmaker, 2021, Louisiana Juwan Saint Charles is a filmmaker and student artist participant in Inspiring Health Justice: A Collaborative Art-Science Scholar-in-Residence Program.
• TINYisPOWERFUL: Victoria Moore, Gwylene Gallimard, and Rayn Rainey Social Practice, 2021, South Carolina TINYisPOWERFUL is a creative place online, a community hub and an interracial, intergenerational collective effort linking artists, cultural workers, youth and tiny business partners to support and promote TINY BUSINESS as a vital part of neighborhood and commerce. In the fall of…
• Pippin Frisbie-Calder Visual Artist, 2015 and 2020, Louisiana During her 2016 Filnt and Steel Residency with Tim McLean, Pippin Frisbie-Calder rendered microscopic phytoplankton in large-scale prints and real-time projections to demonstrate their importance and build awareness of wetland microorganisms in our ecology. Spending hours canoeing and collecting phytoplankton…
• Tiona Nekkia McClodden Visual Artist, 2020, Pennsylvania Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work often employs a citational practice exploring and critiquing issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. Her interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video,…
• Ladee Hubbard Writer, 2019-20, Louisiana Ladee Hubbard was the second Gulf South Writer in the Woods, in residence for a total of six weeks spread out over 2019 and 2020. During the residency, Hubbard revised her novel, The Rib King. Spanning a ten-year period between…
• Regina Agu Visual Artist, 2019, Texas In residence through a collaboration with New Orleans Museum of Art, Regina Agu created Passage, an installation for NOMA’s Great Hall, displayed in conjunction with their exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. Agu worked closely with Studio botanist David…
• Monique Michelle Verdin Visual Artist, 2007, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Louisiana Monique Michelle Verdin uses imagery to expose the reality of a Louisiana lost and the Louisiana left behind. More folk artist than photographer, more storyteller than visual artist, Verdin has captured, collected and exposed an intimate perspective into the survival…
• Julio Blancas Visual Artist, 2018, Canary Islands Julio Blancas was born in 1967 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. He studied art at Las Escuelas de Artes Plásticas in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria and sculpture in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. He works mainly with pencil or graphite on paper,…
• Edward Ball Writer, 2017-18, Connecticut As the inaugural Gulf South Writer in the Woods resident, Edward Ball was hosted in the woods in partnership with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. During his residency, Ball worked on a new manuscript, gave lectures, and…
• Fallen Fruit Social Practice, 2017-18, California Internationally acclaimed artist collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) was hosted through partnerships with Pelican Bomb and Newcomb Art Museum to create Fallen Fruit of New Orleans. Throughout 2017 and into early 2018, Fallen Fruit made a series…
• Jeff Whetstone Visual Artist, 2016-17, New Jersey Jeff Whetstone was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and has been photographing and writing about the relationship between humans and their environment since he received a Zoology degree from Duke University in 1990. Jeff came to the woods for a collaborative…
• Dawn DeDeaux Visual Artist, 2014-15, Louisiana A Studio In The Woods collaborated with artist Dawn DeDeaux to present Selections from the MotherShip Series as a P3+ Host Site at two locations from October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015 DeDeaux is a professional New Orleans-based artist…
• Alex Harris Photographer, 2011, North Carolina Alex Harris (b. 1949) was raised in the South and lives in Durham, NC with his wife, Margaret Sartor, and their two children. Harris has photographed extensively in the American South, New Mexico, Alaska, and Cuba. His work is represented…
• Mollie Day Poet and Environmental Journalist, 2008, Louisiana Mollie Day is a New Orleans-based poet. She holds a masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans and is a fellow of the Institute for Environmental Communications, Loyola University, New Orleans. Through her work, Mollie illustrates…
• Damien Aquiles Painter, Rescheduled from 2005 to 2007 due to Hurricane Katrina, Cuba Damian Aquiles is a graduate of the graphic design institute and the Art Academy of San Alejandro in Havana. His work has been exhibited in Cuba, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, Italy, South Africa, Nicaragua, and the United States and is…
• Peter Coles Writer and Photographer, 2006, England Peter Coles is a writer and photographer based in London. For 20 years he lived and worked in Paris, contributing articles and photographs to a number of international magazines. He is currently Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Urban and…