Jordan Delzell is a visual artist, researcher and recycler. Through foraging, collecting and scavenging material she reroutes items from the waste stream to sites of deep study and care. She creates objects, installations, images and interactions. While in residence at PlySpace Jordan will collaborate with the Muncie community through recycling workshops. Discarded paper that has been sourced around Muncie will be provided and participants will also be encouraged to bring their own paper materials to explore recycling together.

Camila Ortiz is a songwriter, sound designer, and performer based in New York. She writes about water, driving, and dreams, and performs both as a solo artist and as a member of experimental pop duo Myrtle. Her practice also encompasses visual art and teaching.

At PlySpace, she hopes to write and record a series of songs about separation, migration, and family. She will also teach a youth workshop series on storytelling across disciplines.

Adam Stacey and Makenzie Goodman, based between Los Angeles and Marfa, TX, have been collaborating together since 2016. Their research-based work incorporates a range of media, including photography, ceramics, video and found objects to create installations that explore values and belief systems associated with place.

As resident fellows Makenzie and Adam will be working with Ball State University School of Art students to create a collaborative “River Guide”. The guidebook will include an array of processes and media to create exciting and varied content for the book, including cyanotype making, which will be done in a week-long workshop.

Lyzette Wanzer is a San Francisco writer, editor, and writing workshop instructor. Lyzette has been invited to present her work and/or panels at conferences across the country, including the American and Popular Culture Association, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), College English Association (CEA), Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900, Litquake Festival, San Francisco Writers Conference, and others. While at PlySpace, Lyzette will lead a workshop called “Building A Career As A Literary Artist”.

Described as “beautiful, ethereal and heartfelt” (Kapravola Society Journal), Jung Sun Kang’s music seeks a balance between wild imaginations from many different cultures and a firm belief in classical music’s structural tradition. During her residency at Plyspace, Jung Sun Kang will give an artist talk and piano recital named “First Sonatas,” in which she will perform the First Movement of Piano Sonata No.1 of Carl Vine, Nikolai Kapustin, and her own work.

Carrie Dickason is a mixed-media artist whose experimental work is informed by observations of nature, combined with interests in the constructed environment and consumer culture. Dickason will lead Open Curiosity: An Exploration of Material as Metaphor, a four part online workshop, inviting participants to release their expectations about “Art-making” and embrace process-driven, open-ended inquiries. Participants will use simple basketry techniques to consider relationships- both physically/structurally and metaphorically/philosophically.

Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. She collaborated with community members to listen to and observe insect noises in the area and develop a performance as a choral insect cacophony.