Announcing the Spring 2026 Artists-in-Residence at the Peter Bullough Foundation
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- Aug 21
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Winchester, Virginia – August 1st, 2025
This spring, the Peter Bullough Foundation (PBF) is honored to welcome twelve artists to Winchester, Virginia, for a season of immersive residencies. From January through June, these interdisciplinary creators will live and work at the PBF, engaging deeply with their practices and the local community through open studios, readings, screenings, and public events.
Spanning poetry, performance, filmmaking, astrophysics, textiles, sculpture, and painting, the Spring 2026 cohort brings together artists whose work examines queerness, cultural inheritance, science, embodiment, memory, and care. Each brings a distinct voice and a shared commitment to experimentation, social inquiry, and imaginative transformation.
January 27 – February 24
Writing Memory, Making Mischief, and Mapping the Past
Gabrielle Grace Hogan is a poet and essayist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her writing explores lesbian identity as it intersects with gender, sex, religion, and cultural history. A graduate of the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, she has served as Poetry Editor of Bat City Review and currently writes for Autostraddle and edits poetry for Foglifter. Her chapbooks include Soft Obliteration and Love Me With the Fierce Horse Of Your Heart, and her poetry has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Journal, Georgia Review, and others. At PBF, she continues developing her debut poetry collection.
Markus Denil is a queer trans Jewish artist originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. With a background in studio art and sexuality studies from Concordia University and an MFA from Syracuse University, Markus works across disciplines to channel existential unease into creative action. His process embraces mischief, material experimentation, and bold conceptual thinking. He currently works with the Mudhouse Artist Residency in Greece, and his work reflects the layered intersections of identity, disruption, and urgency.
Andy Marlowe is an artist, writer, and researcher from Florida’s Forgotten Coast. Blending text, embroidery, and photographic imagery, their work reflects on the past with tenderness and inquiry. Based in New York City, Andy uses slow craft and language to create work that bridges visual and literary forms, often exploring memory, place, and personal history through subtle shifts in texture and tone.
March 3 – 31
Futures in Color, Code, and Verse
Carlos Sánchez-Tatá is a Venezuelan painter based in Miami, Florida. His vibrant, surrealist portraits explore themes of queerness, devotion, and transformation, drawing from Catholic iconography and the natural world. A recent graduate of Columbia University, he was awarded the 2024 Louis Sudler Prize in the Visual Arts. His paintings immerse viewers in emotionally charged scenes where symbolic detail and vivid color converge.
Ranger Liu is an artist and astrophysicist whose interdisciplinary work merges science and art to explore the boundaries between subjective and objective truth. Born in Manhattan and raised in Cleveland, they hold degrees in astrophysics and computer science from Columbia University, and an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons. Ranger’s research into technosignatures with the SETI Institute informs their visual, sonic, and sculptural compositions. Their work has been shown at CURRENTS New Media Festival, Parsons, Wonderville NYC, and has been featured in numerous scientific and art publications.
Theresa-Xuan Bui is an interdisciplinary poet and child of Vietnamese refugees. Raised in the Bronx and based in Houston, they are a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Their work resists singular narratives, embracing the complexity of queerness, migration, and American identity. Through writing, performance, and installation, Bui creates speculative and reflective works that challenge systems of inclusion and speak to collective and personal futures.
April 7 – May 5
Poetry, Performance, and Radical Celebration
Dare Williams is a queer HIV-positive poet based in Southern California. His writing is rooted in vulnerability, resilience, and survival, and has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Kenyon Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Tin House, Bread Loaf, Brooklyn Poets, and the Vermont Studio Center, and is a Peter Taylor Teaching Fellow with the Kenyon Writers Workshop. At PBF, he continues his work that blends literary excellence with community engagement and healing.
Emery Kate Tillman is a multimedia object maker and writer from New Orleans. Their work navigates identity, celebration, and care through the lens of queer nightlife, carnival excess, and Southern gothic aesthetics. Tillman’s sculptural and text-based works draw on their experience as a trans, queer, and disabled artist. They have exhibited at the Ogden Museum and Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and have attended residencies including Stove Works and Penland School of Craft.
Teresa Nicolella is a painter and experimental animator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Originally from Seattle, she creates dreamlike, surreal worlds that explore queer domesticity and cartoon performance. Her work merges hand-drawn animation with vivid painting to investigate how identity is performed and perceived. A summa cum laude graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, she currently teaches at MICA and has exhibited work at the New York Academy of Art and Parkway Theater.
May 12 – June 9
Diaspora, Visibility, and Storytelling in Motion
Paula Mans is a mixed media artist and educator based in Washington, DC. Her upbringing in Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, and Brazil continues to shape her richly layered work, which engages with African and diasporic visual languages. Mans is a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Fulbright Research Fellowship, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship. Her work has recently been acquired by the DC Art Bank Collection, and she continues to develop projects that center cross-cultural dialogue and memory.
Tamara J. Madison is a poet, performer, and educator whose work explores ancestry, resistance, and ritual. Her poetry collection Threed, This Road Not Damascus was shortlisted for the Willow Books Literature Award and has received wide critical acclaim. She is the creator of BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems, a YouTube series that promotes poetry as a source of everyday inspiration. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Madison has performed on TEDx stages and holds fellowships from Hedgebrook, Anaphora Arts, and Ucross. She teaches English and Creative Writing and is currently completing a new poetry collection rooted in her family history.
Edson Jean is a Haitian-American filmmaker whose work centers on immigration, displacement, and first-generation identity. His debut feature Ludi premiered at SXSW, and his second feature Know Me premiered at Slamdance in 2025. Jean has directed work for Complex Networks and HBO, including Rap Sh!t and The Adventures of Edson Jean. A 2024 Third Horizon Forward Fellow, he has received support from Gotham Labs and Film Independent. At PBF, Jean continues to explore new cinematic approaches to storytelling grounded in cultural specificity and imaginative realism.
From top to bottom, left to right: Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Markus Denil, Andy Marlowe, Carlos Sánchez-Tatá, Ranger Liu, Theresa-Xuan Bui, Dare Williams, Emery Kate Tillman, Teresa Nicolella, Paula Mans, Tamara J. Madison, Edson Jean.
Throughout the season, these artists will engage with the time and space of the residency to develop new work, while connecting with local audiences and fellow creatives. The Peter Bullough Foundation looks forward to supporting their practices and sharing their progress through events that reflect our commitment to socially engaged, experimental, and interdisciplinary art.
For more information, visit www.peterbulloughfoundation.org or follow @peterbulloughfoundation on social media.
Contact:
Katie Mooney Buzby
Executive Director
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