FUTURE RESIDENTS
Clara Arnaud
In residence: October 2025
Clara Arnaud is a French writer and winner of the Ecology Novel Prize in France. Her literary work—both fiction and non-fiction—explores political and ecological themes, questioning our way of inhabiting the world. She has travelled extensively off the beaten track, mostly on foot or horseback, and has also worked as a consultant in international cooperation, leading missions across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
Ragnhild Bjørnsen
In residence: October 2025
Ragnhild Bjørnsen is a researcher in childhood studies at Inland Norway University. Her work centres around children living in hypermobility, whether it is themselves or significant others who move. Through a lens of Psychological Anthropology, she unravels interrelationships of childhood, life-course, and the powerful institutions that influence children and youth's everyday lives. Her case studies include the Norwegian Foreign Service and Longyearbyen, a socially transient Arctic settlement under Norwegian authority.
David Samuel Stern
In residence: October - November 2025
David Samuel Stern is a visual artist whose practice examines photography as a physical, craft-based process and its deep relationship with portraiture and time. His work has been commissioned by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, and exhibited at venues including Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica) and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Amy Hoagland
In residence: November - December 2025
Amy Hoagland creates sculptural installations that explore the human relationship with nature. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky, USA, in 2016 and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2022. A recipient of a 2022 Windgate Fellowship for sustainable art presented by Honouring the Future.
Emilia Phillips
In residence: November - December 2025
Emilia Phillips is an American poet and author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (2024) and Embouchure (2021), as well as four chapbooks. Their poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. Phillips is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English, MFA in Writing Program, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Kathy Sirico
In residence: November - December 2025
Kathy Sirico is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her practice is deeply rooted in climate-conscious making, with climate change and ecological grief forming the conceptual backbone of her work. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BS from Skidmore College, and her work has been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally.
Laura J. Lawson
In residence: May - June 2026
Laura J. Lawson (b. 1988, USA) is a transdisciplinary artist whose work connects the humanities to interstellar exploration. She holds a BA from Austin College in Texas and an MFA from the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, sound, and writing, with a focus on creative inquiry into planetary science and outer space.