Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in interactive, socially engaged, and performance arts. While in residency, Sydney will be offering a rendition of her ongoing project, the Feast, a meal comprised of past and present traditional Indigenous food off of hand-designed plates and corresponding placemats featuring a single tribe.

Sarah Trad is a video artist and curator from Philadelphia, PA. While in Residence she will be continuing a series of personal work that focuses on the intersection of mixed race heritage and personal family trauma.

Dana Harper is a mixed-media artist residing in Columbus, Ohio. While in residence, she will work with the Ball State Students and in the community to create opportunities for playful, creative exploration.

Masha Vlasova is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from the Cooper Union.  She’s a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship in Filmmaking, Alice Kimball Fellowship, and the JUNCTURE Art and Human Rights Fellowship at Yale Law School.

Nancy Cook is a writer, teaching artist, and community builder. She coordinates the “Witness Project,” a series of free community writing workshops in Minneapolis designed to enable creative work by underrepresented voices, and, as an artist affiliate for the Southwest Minnesota Housing Authority, she helps design arts programs for adults in transitional housing.

Meredith Kooi is an artist, curator, critic, researcher, and educator working across mediums who is driven by curiosity and an eagerness to understand the places where she is at any point in time. Using performance, radio, audio, installation, drawing, writing, the web, and social practice, Meredith digs into the materials of history to uncover narratives of place.

Karl Erickson makes videos, performances and collages centering on abstract narrative themes of transformative experiences, non-human intelligences, and environmentalism. While in residence, Erickson will research, document and collaborate with non-native species in the Delaware County area, including humans. Erickson will work with biologists, conservationists and historians to research the plants and animals residing around city, including when they appeared, how they interact with one another, and the role human activity has had on them.

Adrienne Dawes is an award-winning playwright and producer originally from Austin, TX. She is a company member of Salvage Vanguard Theater. While in Muncie, Adrienne will work with the Muncie Civic Theatre and with local local actors from the Muncie community to share a reading of the first pages of a new play.

Matt Litwin (USA) and Victoria Eidelsztein (Argentina) bring their FaceMePorFavor wheat paste mural project to Muncie. FaceMePorFavor’s goal is to create a visual voice for common people to share their hopes and dreams, fear and despair.

Siena Hancock is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculpture, interactive installation and artist books/zines. A Boston native, Siena graduated Massachusetts College of Art with her BFA in 2016. She has recently completed an installation at the Dirt Palace in Providence, RI and a residency at Main St Arts in Upstate, New York.

Kevin Titzer was born and raised in Evansville, Indiana in the United States, although he has been based in the Saguenay region of Quebec for the last nine years. His sculptures are predominantly created from found and scavenged materials. His site-specific installation work is often crafted from materials gathered at the location of construction and formed into improvised house structures.