Past Residents

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.

Kacie Lyn Martinez is a participatory fiber artist who designs programs, installations, and experiences that reimagine inclusive, safe, and engaged communities. Kacie Lyn is interested in the ways shared visual and literary languages enable community healing and collective self-actualization, particularly through traditional and new fiber making. While in residency at PlySpace, she will work with several Muncie community organizations to collaboratively weave tapestries that make tangible a process of cathartic healing, community cohesion, and home-making.

Anthony Bowers is an artist and educator working across media in painting, sculpture, and installation. Originally from the midwest, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and has worked in Philadelphia teaching at Drexel University, University of the Arts, and Center for the Arts, while also working as a studio assistant on many large scale installation projects at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Anthony holds a BFA in Painting from Indiana University. He has been a resident at the Wassaic Projects and the Golden Foundation Painting Residency and he is a curator/member of an artist-run project space, FJORD Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Dave Rowe is a sculptor, educator, and fabricator. His work exists within the intersections of landscape, history, and the transitory spaces within the American psyche. It is informed by an aesthetic developed during a youth spent in the Midwestern United States, and a visual language developed building miniatures and models as a child. He is a 2011 recipient of an Efroymson Family Fund Fellowship, and a 2015 recipient of a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship. He has participated in numerous solo and group shows nationally, as well as participating in several residency programs. His work was included in the traveling show “Crafting a Continuum”, originating at Arizona State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Sculptural Practices at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and holds a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and an MFA from Indiana University Bloomington.

Nick Witten holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Sculpture from Herron School of Art and Design. He is an Adjunct Instructor at Herron and works with Big Car Collaborative. Danielle Joy Graves holds a BFA in Illustration from Herron School of Art and Design. She recently completed a permanent installation piece for Big Car Collaborative and performs with Know No Stranger. Nick and Danielle work collaboratively with themes of character appropriation, branding, and other elements from pop culture and entertainment—arranging, distorting, and perversing these elements to create absurd alternate versions of reality. Together, they also run Sugar Space, a contemporary art gallery in Indianapolis. Their time spent with PlySpace resulted in the exhibition of new work at Kime Contemporary located on Indianapolis' east side.

Melissa Joy Livermore holds a BFA in Photography from The School of Art at Ball State University and has just returned to Indiana from a year-long residency with Transform Creative in Paris, France. While in residence at PlySpace, she explored her personal work that centers around language and communication. She also worked in collaboration with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra to continue of her project 'Deconstruction' where groups of people are be invited to engage in the process of taking apart a piece of untreated canvas, thread by thread, alongside a string quartet as part of the MSO's 4 by 4 at 4: Chamber Concert.