Announcing the Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence at the Peter Bullough Foundation
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- May 29
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Winchester, Virginia – May 29th, 2025
Nine Creators Embark on a Season of Exploration in Winchester, VA
This fall, the Peter Bullough Foundation (PBF) is excited to welcome nine new artists to Winchester, Virginia, for a season of immersive residencies. These interdisciplinary creators will live and work in the PBF's studios, engaging deeply with their practices and the local community through workshops, studio visits, and public events.
The fall 2025 cohort brings together a wide range of mediums and approaches—from painting and fashion design to performance, textiles, poetry, and speculative fiction. United by themes of identity, care, memory, and collective transformation, these artists share a commitment to challenging dominant narratives and imagining new futures for themselves and their communities.
Joining us in August will be Holland Fox, a Los Angeles-based painter whose vibrant, self-reflective canvases explore gender identity and personal transformation, using color and form as tools for resistance. From Philadelphia, Rah Gerg is a mixed-media artist and curator creating immersive installations that explore queer kinship and ancestral memory through papermaking and sculpture. Miami’s Bex McCharen, a visionary fashion designer, brings a bold, sustainability-driven practice that celebrates queer joy and radical inclusion.
In September, we welcome Lin Qiqing 林绮晴, a New York-based textile artist and former journalist whose woven works translate narratives of immigration, gender, and cultural inheritance. Julia Roland, a painter from Savannah, GA, will contribute expressive, large-scale works that reflect on Black queer identity and history. East Coast writer and interdisciplinary artist Naomi Day explores speculative fiction, trauma, and the politics of the Black body, blending narrative, research, and critical theory into a dynamic creative practice.
In October, the Foundation welcomes three artists whose work investigates cultural legacy, healing, and visibility through deeply personal and socially engaged practices. Isabel Lu, a North Carolina-based painter, creates large-scale portraits that intertwine ancestry, care, and community knowledge. Isai Soto, a Brooklyn-based visual artist and performer, uses drag, printmaking, and ritual to explore identity, embodiment, and tradition. Rob Macaisa Colgate, a disabled bakla poet and playwright, explores the intersections of disability, queerness, and Filipino identity through poetry and performance. Colgate is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and will develop new work during their residency that addresses visibility and advocacy for disabled artists.
Throughout the season, these artists will create new work in the time and space provided by their residency, while engaging with local audiences and fellow creatives. The PBF looks forward to sharing their progress through public programs, open studios, and events that reflect our commitment to supporting socially engaged, experimental, and interdisciplinary artistic practices.
From top to bottom, left to right: Holland Fox, Bex McCharen, Rah Greg, Lin Qiqing 林绮晴 (Photo credit: Kevin Schoenmakers), Julia Roland, Naomi Day, Isai Soto (photo credit MTHR THRSA), Rob Macaisa Colgate, and Isabel Lu
For more information about the Peter Bullough Foundation and its residency programs, please visit www.peterbulloughfoundation.org.
Contact:
Katie Mooney Buzby
Executive Director
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