May Cohort | May 12 - 25, 2025

August Cohort | August 4 - 17, 2025 

Greensboro Project Space is pleased to present its 3rd Annual Summer Studios: Arts on Site! student residency program. This residency program will assist in educating students that GPS can also act as makerspace, where they can play, experiment, take creative risks, and develop their artistic voice.

Designed to support UNCG undergraduate student artists (BA + BFA) striving to develop, adapt, and/or reinvent their creative process and to promote artistic growth and development, artists are afforded two-weeks of uninterrupted research and development, coupled with financial support and public presentational platforms to share their creative work. The residency’s mission is to be an adaptive space to build a sustaining art community for our UNCG students so their creativity and connection to the Greensboro community thrives. 

May Cohort  

Linda Boike (BA Printmaking and Drawing) intends to investigate her repeatable processes by setting up stations for herself that will serve to keep her busy. She wants to reap and sow. She has more recently been marrying her artistic process with her writing process, which she would like to incorporate into the residency with hopes of involving other participating artists in doing pass around poems for basic idea generation. She also has a desire to expand on previous work themes and make more worms, creatures, and color/darkness poems. Spending time in one place will always cause accumulation.

Melanie McAllister’s (BFA Painting) artistic practice is rooted in the sensual and tactile nature of oil painting, which she uses as a means of catharsis and personal reflection. Primarily focused on figurative oil paintings, she explores themes of vulnerability, spirituality, and the formative experiences that have shaped her identity. She aims to create a visual language that reaches beyond her individual experience and resonates with those who view it. She intends to experiment with different paint application methods and processes to help push her approach to these thematic elements and push her work to larger scales.

Jalen Williams (BFA Printmaking and Drawing) plans to explore alternative forms of printmaking and drawing practices. This includes methods such as monoprinting, gelli plate printing, and kitchen lithography. He wants to investigate what are the most portable and easily accessible ways of doing printmaking practices on the go. When viewing most printmaking techniques, most require a sum of items and accessible studio space, such as press machines, various chemicals, and tools. With the residency, he will propose ways both himself and others can explore the world of printmaking on a smaller scale with more accessibility.

Morgan Hesse (BFA Photography) plans to deepen her exploration into experimental alternative photographic processes, building upon previous work with cyanotypes. Her goal is to venture into new territories by experimenting with lumens, anthotypes, and other unconventional techniques. The intended project will culminate in a series of unique images, each capturing the dynamic interplay between light, chemicals, and natural materials. A central component of her plan involves constructing a custom UV light box. This tool will allow her to control exposure precisely while experimenting with various materials such as water, dirt, salt, and other substances directly on the surfaces.

August Cohort

McKenna Jones (BFA Art History, minor Art Administration) plans to investigate the relationship between gender, body image issues, and chronic illness. Drawing from personal, first-hand experience, they want to illustrate these frustrations associated with these issues and analyze the reasons why these issues are connected to each other through their artwork.

Melanie St Clair (BFA Printmaking and Drawing) is heavily inspired by paintings of Kusozu, the nine stages of death, created in the Edo period of Japan by Buddhist artists. She wants to create imagery reminding us of decay through the use of bones, old photos, graves, rot, flowers and love. This will include incorporating photography and digital collage to depict the cycle of decay. These images will be created via cyanotypes and photosensitive emulsions in order to utilize sunlight to shed warmth on such a complicated topic. They will be printed onto recycled paper that will be made in the studio.

Remus Steward (BFA Sculpture and Ceramics) intends to develop an installation with optional participation based on sense and memory. They plan to experiment with soft sculpture, sound and video, tactile and wearable elements. During the Open Artist Studio Hours and Informal Closing Celebration, they plan to give the audience the choice of participating in open and short performance-led engagements with the physical and auditory materials they produce. A main objective is to craft and engage with physical objects that will aid in the explorative process, also acting as manifestations of memory in the real world. Memories can be triggered in a variety of ways, and frequently have ties to specific scents, places, or media. By using physical sensory objects, audio, and projected video they will be creating an environment in which to explore these associations.

Knia Williamson (BFA Sculpture and Ceramics) intends on creating flower vessels inspired by her previous work, Entomophily, a simple form accentuated with floral designs. She specifically wants insight into how material impacts the aesthetic and perception of her work. This will be done with the objective of investigating how the form evolves in size, shape, and style. She proposes using a variety of materials that extend beyond her current use of earthenware clay, experimenting with plaster, fabric, and air-dry clay to allow for discovery of how the materials impact the perception of the vessels. This exploration will allow her to assess if the new materials elevate or challenge the success of her original design.