CURRENT - SPRING TERM - 2024

MARÍA VALENZUELA - Santiago, Chile – 3rd Floor Studio

María Valenzuela’s practice consists of a study of drawing and tracing in space that dialogues with the languages of dance, performance, experimental video, photography, and embroidery. With a BA (sculpture focus) from the University of Chile, she studied photography at the Pontifical Catholic University and the ICP New York. She also studied Visual Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and received her Masters in Documentary Creation at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Throughout her career, she has participated in video art exhibitions, performances, and projects that combined the audiovisual world with intangible oral heritage in Chile and Spain. After seven years in Spain, María proposed a new technique of hand embroidery on different supports in Chile, participating in national and international competitions and exhibitions. 

In Corsicana, María will continue a series of large-format hand embroideries on canvas that she has been developing in recent years. These textile pieces will be produced from an artistic research process inspired by nature and local territory from a critical and ecological perspective. www.instagram.com/majevalenz

WALKER WALLS TARVER - Montclair, New Jersey – 2nd Floor Studio

Painter Walker Walls Tarver traces her lineage through a matrilinear legacy. She is inspired by her paternal grandmother, Tinka Tarver, a painter, fiber artist, dancer, sculptor, and metalsmith as well as a disciple of Jungian theory, a remarkable cook, a housewife turned rebel, and a lifelong Texan. As such, the figure of her grandmother has always guided Walker’s studio practice.

While in Corsicana, Walker plans to use the opportunity to get closer to her grandmother’s legacy, taking day trips to San Antonio to retrieve boxes of Tinka Tarver’s dream journals. She will utilize the space to make large-scale paintings informed by her engagement with her grandmother’s stories and the Jungian imagery within. www.walkerwallstarver.com

JENNIFER HAIGH - Boston, Massachusetts – Writing Studio

Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her successive books—four novels and the short story collection News From Heaven—have won numerous awards and been published in eighteen languages. Her most recent novel, Mercy Street, is the winner of the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she teaches in the graduate program in creative writing at Boston University.

While at 100W, Jennifer will be working on the first draft of a new novel. www.jennifer-haigh.com

CURRENT - RETURNING ALUMNI

MATHILDE LAVENNE - Lille, France (spring, summer 2023, 2nd floor studio) residency detail | mathildelavenne.com

CÉLINE LEROY - Paris, France (winter 2022, writing studio) residency detail | video

RECENT - WINTER/SPRING TERM - 2024

KELLI RAE ADAMS - North Adams, Massachusetts – 2nd Floor Studio

Kelli Rae Adams creates installation-based works that examine prevailing economic systems and probe our existing relationships to labor, currency, and value. With an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Visual Arts and Spanish from Duke University, Kelli studied ceramics intensively in Japan, where she apprenticed over a period of five years with Tetsuro Hatabe, a master potter in the Karatsu tradition. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including MASS MoCA, the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University and the Museum of International Ceramic Art (Denmark).

During her time at 100W, Kelli intends to develop a new project addressing wage disparities and wealth inequality following an intensive period of research during 2023. She will also continue work on a long-term project, Forever in Your Debt, a multiyear endeavor visualizing the student debt crisis. The time will be one of open-ended experimentation and exploration in the studio as well. www.kelliraeadams.com

DANIEL MELO MORALES - San Francisco, California – 3rd Floor Studio

Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist whose works reveal phantasmatic and material relationships embedded among architectural signifiers, acoustic systems, and microhistories. Exploring the complexities of site, including its stored, spectral, and community-based elements, he uncovers relationships through their numerous reverberations. Daniel received an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. An experimental and self-taught multi-instrumentalist as well as a photographer, his practice has involved myriad performances and interventions. In 2023, he was a Community Action Fellow at Blue Sky Center, where he created an interactive sound-map using open-source software with sounds recorded by community members.

While in Corsicana, Daniel will engage in site-specific research of sound, acoustics, light, and micro-histories to make new works in the domains of constructed photographs, photo-sculptures, and sound. www.danielmelo.com

JANNINE HORSFORD - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – Writing Studio

Jannine Horsford is a poet whose poetry has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Caribbean Quarterly, The Manchester Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Moko Magazine, Magma, and others. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Small Axe Poetry Prize. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers’ Prize. Most recently (April 2022), she won the Bocas Emerging Writers’ Fellowship for Poetry.

During her residency, Jannine intends to finalize her first poetry collection, examining two years spent in rural England; she will also begin to plan her second collection, which focuses on home: on Trinidad and Tobago and its intriguing landscapes (geographical, historical, cultural) and complex personalities.

SAIBA VARMA, PhD - San Diego, California – Writing Studio

Saiba Varma is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. Her first book, The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir won the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the American Anthropological Association. She is also the co-editor of Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation, under contract with Bloomsbury Press. Saiba received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University and has conducted ethnographic research in Kashmir for more than fifteen years and published dozens of academic articles in major peer-reviewed journals in anthropology and related disciplines. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Nation, Al Jazeera, Salon, Truthout, The Millions, Scroll.in, and The Wire.

In Corsicana, Saiba will be completing work on a nonfiction book titled This Information May Kill You, which describes the ambient yet terrorizing effects of psychological warfare (psyops) on populations that are its putative targets. anthropology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/saiba-varma

JOSEPHINE BIRDSELL - Columbus, Ohio – Writing Studio

Josephine Birdsall is a queer, nonbinary artist and essayist in recovery. Their mixed media artwork and personal essays deal with issues of queer and feminine liberation, life and sobriety in subculture, and rest and recovery in the face of trauma. They aim to dismantle recovery stigma, de-glorify addiction, and speak truth to power.

During their residency, Josephine will continue work on a collection of personal essays that examines punk subculture and substance-use recovery, using a lyrical blend of research and personal narrative. The essay collection will ultimately culminate in currently untitled novel-length memoir.