2023 Artists-in-Residence
We are thrilled to welcome the 2023 Artists-in-Residence to Alchemy. Working in printmaking, ceramics, photography, and mixed media, these artists will spend 1-2 months with us during our residency season, which runs from spring to fall. Scroll on to learn more about each of them.
For past AIR participants, go here.
Selden Paterson
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics
Selden Paterson is an artist based in Chicago. She received a BFA in sculpture and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown locally and internationally. Her work deals with a wide range of ways that people build purpose and relate to the world around us, probing niche religious and wellness movements online and off as well as communal experiments old and new.
Learn more about Selden here.
Julia Vidrio Nadbornik
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Photography
Julia is a young artist pursuing her BFA in photography from Arizona State University, who will be joining us in June as a photography artist-in-residence. Julia works in a wide variety of photo darkroom techniques, including techniques that involve natural plant-based dyes.
Emerald Vernon-Lapow
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia
Emerald Vernon-Lapow is a graphic designer, illustrator, musician, and artist. She lives in Berkeley, California and graduated from UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies. Emerald joins us for a second AIR season after joining us in 2022.
Learn more about Emerald here.
Robert Summerlin
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Mixed Media
Rob is a multifaceted Bay Area-based artist working in illustration, filmmaking, writing, music, and more. He joins us this July as part of our outreach team.
Learn more about Rob here.
Joel Diepenbrock
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Special Projects
Joel is a Port Townsend-based potter and ceramicist who learned the ways of clay while living amongst the redwoods of coastal, northern California. Joel’s focus is on functional pottery. His work explores relationship between earth materials and humans, in hopes that his creations can be integrated into daily life, enriching the user’s experience through their presence and intentional use.
Learn more about Joel here.
Charlie Bloede
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia
Charlie Bloede holds a BFA in Printmaking from Kansas State University. Her work explores the historical context of beautification through the medium of printmaking. She is inspired by fashion, trends, and societal expectations. Her prints utilize a combination of techniques such as watercolor screen monoprint, woodblock, and etching. She cuts and folds the prints to create 3D elements, bringing the narratives to life.
Learn more about Charlie here.
Sarah Gonzales Busse
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia
Sarah is a textile and print media artist based in San Antonio, TX. She is a Generation X artist, activist, Tejana futurist, advocate, and mother of three, whose work focuses on individuals as signifiers and paradoxes within the human condition. Her materials and approaches have ranged from painting, drawing, and sculpture, to more recently working with natural dyes and traditional methods on paper, print, and textile works, as she reacts to being an artist and mother in these times of evolving cultural narratives, performative digital living, and really dire global climate and economic uncertainties.
Learn more about Sarah here.
Camila Giraldo
20223 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics
Camila is a ceramics artist from Chicago, recently graduated from the University of Illinois in Chicago with a BA in Urban Studies. Camila’s family is Columbian, and she is fluent in Spanish and considers herself bi-cultural. During her residency at Alchemy, Camila will be helping us provide Spanish language programming.
Learn more about Camila here.
Jenna Tessler
20223 Artist-in-Residence, Photography
is an artist working through her ideas in the mediums of photography, mixed media, and writing. Her art practice is influenced by her minor in expressive art therapy that emphasizes process over attaining a final product. Through artmaking, she aims to bearwitness to and further process her own experiences, especially ones that feel untouchable, difficult, or traumatic. Jenna earned her BFA in Photography in 2021 from Lesley’s School of Art & Design (formerly Art Institute of Boston, MA). She has assisted at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Photo Center Northwest.
Learn more about Jenna here.