2023 Changing Climate Residency

Currently she is working on a book titled Becoming Beast: The Humanimal in Climate Justice Literatures, which explores the morphing ideology of what it means to be (considered) animal in a world of decreasing resources, and she publishes on environmental and social justice, as well as on the pedagogy of both. Her most recent publication, on conjoined extinction, is called “Resonant Silences in ‘The Great Silence’ by Ted Chiang and Sila by Chantal Bilodeau” and is forthcoming in Nonhuman Animals, Climate Crisis and the Role of Literature. Brianna was a 2019 SFAI Truth and Reconciliation resident.

With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. Her work takes many forms, including drawings, performative lectures, pedagogy and critical writing, long term community-based projects, and public art.

Recent solo exhibitions of Nina’s work have been organized by SITE Santa Fe, Indianapolis Contemporary, and university museums across the US. Her work has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, and on PBS; her writing has been published in American Scientist and Edge Effects Journal. Nina’s research has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the National Performance Network, and the Mellon Foundation. She has recently held research positions at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, Polar Lab at the Anchorage Museum, and the Art and Ecology Program at the University of New Mexico. Nina migrates between rural places in New Mexico and Alaska.

Kasper’s research and creative activity focuses on public art and design as social practice. His artistic and pedagogical work explores social support, in other words, how human connections are forged, maintained, and reinforced, especially in times of stress. In 2017/18, he organized the series Access/Points: Approaches to Disability Arts at CUE Art Foundation, and ever since has participated in public programs and exhibitions investigating disability justice and the arts at the Brooklyn Museum, BRIC, EFA Project Space, OCADU, Dedalus Foundation, Cleveland Institute of Art, and The 8th Floor. He co-founded Civic Art Lab, a community education platform that brings together hundreds each year, in New York City and online, for free, hands-on sustainability initiatives. In addition, Kasper serves as strategic advisor to More Art where he was previously the Director of Engagement and organizer/facilitator of the Engaging Artists Fellowship and Residency Program. He is the co-editor of More Art in the Public Eye published with Duke University Press in 2020.

Caitlin has been an Associate Negotiator and Negotiator for over 10 years with the Ontario Ministry of Indigenous Affairs representing the province in various land claim negotiations with First Nations across Ontario. She has also been an Indigenous Advisor for the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks, providing consultation advice and coordination support to Ontario Parks staff. Prior to her time working with the Ontario Public Service, she was a Project Coordinator for the Temagami Artistic Collective (2008-2010) and co-founded the Temagami Community Market in 2008 which continues to thrive to this day thanks to dedicated local volunteers.
Her artistic practice is in beadwork and textile arts. She is primarily a self-taught artist but has received formal training in various fine arts and traditional Indigenous art forms. Caitlin dreams of being a full-time artist when she grows up, living out the rest of her days on a farm surrounded by Shetland ponies. Until then, she continues to work diligently to uphold and remind the Crown of their Treaty responsibilities. Caitlin was an SFAI Truth and Reconciliation resident in 2018.

A recent multi-platform project around colonialism, botany and the politics of the planting includes ‘The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions’, a special issue of Third Text co-edited with Ros Gray (vol. 32, issue 2–3, 2018). Her current research, which takes a decolonial perspective, interrogates various forms of witnessing between the human, technological and environmental, as well as experimental forums for environmental justice claims such as tribunals and staged hearings. Together with Wood Roberdeau, she co-chairs the Goldsmiths Critical Ecologies Research Stream.