RESIDENCY
CURRENT RESIDENTS
FALL 2025
cyn (cynthia phươnganh lê) explores the confluence of cultural history, art + design, recontextualizing and shaping meaning from our collective memory. Their practice moves between research and ritual—using food, music, and the textures of natural landscapes to explore how people live, remember, and imagine possibility.
Quinn Edlin is a writer and writing workshop facilitator who constructs auto/biographical worlds heavily influenced by queerness, Blackness, and identity confusion. During her residency, she will be working on Project Unburdened, a compilation of multi-installment written, recorded, and photographed discussions about the function of shame. Quinn can be seen most recently on Substack, OFFICE, ADIDAS’ 2020 Pride Story, Mala Forever, YouTube, and The UC Berkeley Platform Artspace Team. Her novella, Bent, is set to be released in 2025.
Lisa Samudio is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland, CA. She is inspired by her work as a garden teacher, hand painted signs, layered iconography, and forms of disruption. Lisa’s recent work includes themes of spiritual and cultural influence, healing, and grieving through text and visual memory.
Luka Vergoz is an Oakland-based artist who finds, alters, and arranges scraps of material to create sculptures and installations that address themes in physics, language, scale, environmental concerns, and the transexual experience. They have a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from UC Davis. Luka was a 2023-4 Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and has shown work at ICASF, Root Division, Pelota Gallery, and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
WINTER 2025/26
Jamayka is an illustrator, culture worker, writer, and researcher interested in folklore, community archival, & African American cultures past, present, and futures.They have been a fellow at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, the Committee on Black Performing Arts, A4Arts, and Cave Canem. Their writing has appeared in Reed Magazine and Fruitslice.
Asari Aibangbee is a multidisciplinary artist working in filmmaking, fiber/textile art, and curation. A queer Nigerian femme from Los Angeles, their work explores Black Queer identity, community, and intersectionality across the African diaspora. They founded the collective To Be Black and Queer and have participated in programs with A24, the Academy Museum, and the Queer Women of Color Film Festival. In 2021, Asari began tufting, later expanding their practice during a 2023 residency. Their fiber art merges traditional techniques with sustainable materials, using cultural symbols to reflect Black Queer experiences. Through softness and vulnerability, their work reimagines narratives of tenderness and resilience.
mayx is a guitarist, producer, film scorer, educator, and writer born and raised in silicon valley and currently based in Berkeley. Their work has been featured by the Oakland Museum of California, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Kearny Street Workshop, Take Care Tapes, and more. They have also taught music-making classes for youth at San Jose’s MLK Library.
Mara Ramirez is an Ignatz nominated interdisciplinary artist and educator from San Francisco, California. They play with time, abstraction, and the action of mark making as a means of distorting & clarifying their own experiences through the filter of emotion and memory. Employing both comics and animation, they ruminate on the body and its place in the natural world through metaphor, fantasy, and realism alike.
PREVIOUS RESIDENTS
Cara Nguyen
Adriana Raquel
Robin Milliken
Leena Joshi
Sharada Tolton