Celebrating Spring 2027 Artists-in-Residence
The Peter Bullough Foundation is pleased to welcome 9 new artists - and three returning artists! - for its Spring 2027 residency program. Three artists at a time will spend a month in the PBF’s studios in downtown Winchester, working on their various crafts and sharing their knowledge through free and low cost events with the surrounding community and other local nonprofits.
The first set of artists-in-residence includes Yooyeon Nam, Willy Lyman, and Christopher Hammond. While their crafts vary wildly, their energy and intentions for their time at the PBF link them together. Yooyeon Nam is a Korean-born, New York-based oil painter, exploring the “outsider” as a human condition and developing original characters that explore absurdity and cultural estrangement. Hailing originally from Minneapolis, Willy Lyman is a New York-based writer working in the world of publishing. Finally, Christopher Hammond returns home to Virginia; he is a poet and photographer, telling stories that share themes of masculinity, joy, yearning, and belief.
From top, left to right: Yooyeon Nam (photo by Jeremy Dennis, director at Ma's House residency), Willy Lyman, Christopher Hammond, Natalie Oliver, Daniel Simone, Nicole Viloria, Pangea Kali Virga (photo at the PBF by Jeffrey Albright), Ilyn Wong (photo at the PBF by Jeffrey Albright), Mary Welcome, Jake Lahah, Ernest Ohia, Hale Linnet
Our second cohort includes Natalie Oliver, Daniel Simone, and Nicole Viloria, who are all early in their careers and share a similar level of enthusiasm about the possibilities for their time at the PBF as they look to embark on this residency. Albany-based Natalie Oliver is a painter exploring surreal imagery, in a similar yet very different way from Yooyeon Nam. Western North Carolina-based Daniel Simone, a papermaker, printmaker, and painter, has built a practice around refuse re-use, creating imagery that explores disability, transgender identity, and working-class life. A recent Yale graduate, writer-director Nicole Viloria explores love, queerness, tragedies, and her Venzuelan roots in her work, in addition to running a nonprofit that supports underrepresented student filmmakers and works to partner them with large production studios.
For the first time at the PBF, we are celebrating the return of an entire cohort! When Pangea Kali Virga, Ilyn Wong, and Mary Welcome met in 2023, they were all going through periods of major transition and found solace in their shared proximity and the dialogue that sprang up between the three of them. The PBF is delighted to welcome them back for a new season, as they look to explore Winchester anew, finding inspiration from the “material landscape (flea markets, thrift stores), historical hinge points (battle reenactments, battlefields, hauntings), the commons (libraries, post offices, graveyards, parks), hyperlocal recreation (quilting circles, horse racing, dachshund racing, artillery clubs, confederacy cosplays), and neighborhood social clubs (Milanos).” Welcome back!
Our final cohort of spring residents include Richmond, VA-based printmaker, textile, and installation artist Jake Lahah, Nigerian poet, painter, and editor Ernest Ohia, and interdisciplinary artist and community organizer Hail Linnet. Jake Lahah’s work focuses on queer histories and poetics, layering storytelling and technology in the constellations he creates. University of Tennessee-Knoxville PhD-candidate Ernest Ohia’s work explores queerness, migration, masculinity, memory, and more, with a focus on the emotional and psychological lives of Black queer people across Nigeria and its diaspora. Last, Hail Linnet is a cofounder of the trans artist collective Brazen bandits and a 2026 Maine Craft Association apprentice in fiber arts.
The PBF looks forward to creating a safe, supportive space for these artists to thrive and to share their work with the Winchester community. Events for the spring 2027 season will be available to view online beginning in late January. For further information about the PBF and its residency program, please contact PBF Executive Director Katie Mooney Buzby at info@peterbulloughfoundation.org.
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