Current Residents
2025
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Allie Hankins is a dancer, choreographer, and sound artist who has been producing and performing experimental works in Portland since 2013. Her work centers on deconstruction and the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, labyrinthine logic, and a razor-sharp wit. She has toured her productions to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Berlin, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, and Cork. In the Pacific Northwest, her works have been commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and On the Boards in Seattle. In 2013, Allie co-initiated the ongoing Queer performance cooperative Physical Education (PE) with keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. PE produces festivals, hosts reading groups, and teaches workshops nationally. Most recently, Allie has danced for Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), and Linda Austin (PDX). Her five-part performance series By My Own Hand, will conclude with Part 4: MELODY in the fall of 2025, and Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH in the fall of 2026. She is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Performing Artists from the Miller Foundation.
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SHED Projects is a non-profit organization and curatorial vessel founded by Gabrielle Banzhaf and Jon Gott in 2021, in the backyard of their family home in New Orleans. SHED nurtures investigative activity at the intersection of art, family life, and contemporary urban habitation—generating exhibitions, printed matter, residencies, and opportunities for experimentation and knowledge-building centered around visual culture and the dimensions of human feeling and lived experience. Now based in a historic 1856 landmark in Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, SHED once again serves as a family home, project space, gallery, and living sculpture. The space is inhabited with the intention of fostering radical engagement with the heritage and emotional resonance of place through contemporary art and thought.
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Maceo is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer who explores themes in society and identity through movement, language, and imagery.
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Laura Camila Medina (b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. Her practice is deeply inspired by the kisses between mountains and sky of her birthplace intertwined with the thematic fantasy-scape and migrant microcosms of Central Florida. Her work has been exhibited at Yossi Milo, David Castillo Gallery, SPURS, Arts Fort Worth, Fuller Rosen Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, and Nationale. She was awarded the H. Lee Hirsche Memorial Prize, Dean’s Travel Grant, and CCAM Fellowship at Yale University, Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, New Media Fellowship at Open Signal, and various artist residencies including: the Living School of Art, ACRE, Signal Fire, and Centrum. She is represented by Nationale in Portland, OR. Medina earned her BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University. She is currently based in Cleveland, OH, where she is the AICAD Post-Graduate Fellow at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
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Cecilia Vargas Muñoz (b. 1951) is a master clay artist from Pitalito, Huila, known for her work that celebrates Colombian heritage and culture. Her contributions include a notable project for the Gold Museum of the Banco de la República, where she highlighted the life and culture of indigenous Colombian peoples. Her most iconic work, La Chiva, is a colorful sculpture of a traditional carriage filled with figures and objects, evoking the history of hardworking and joyful Colombian people. While Chivas are now mass-produced across Latin America and beyond, the original Chivas that inspired this widespread symbol were crafted by Vargas herself. Influenced by her early experiences with her mother, Doña Aura, Vargas’ work is imbued with the values of dedication, love, and the slow, steady transmission of knowledge that has shaped her legacy.