CURRENT RESIDENTS

Bella Toso is a Danish-American artist raised in St. Paul, Minnesota who spent much of her adult life in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her artistic practice is deeply informed by a curiosity about life, nature, and the hidden patterns underlying living systems. Working intuitively, she creates spontaneous visual expressions that explore the relationship between inner experience and the outer world. She sees art as an alchemical process, where the finished artwork is “just an artifact” (fellow artist, Emily Fecsko) left behind by the deeper transformation taking place through the act of creation.

Natalia was born in New York City and raised across multiple cities in the United States. She received her BA in Photography from Bard College and is currently based in the Hudson Valley. Working across photography, sculpture, and video, Natalia explores the visceral and ineffable experience of inhabiting a body. Her practice seeks to destabilize the perceived boundary between earth and body, drawing on natural phenomena to consider growth and renewal as cyclical processes. She is currently experimenting with unexpected intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the image shifts as it takes on physical form.

Hi I am Raena, I am a songwriter, folksinger (though not bound by genre), and ‘naturo-musicologist’ who likes to write tunes and record them in nature.

Hi, I’m Hannah! I grew up hunting for fairies in the woods, and I’m still chasing that same sense of wonder in my work. I make sculptural figures and wood-fired pots that feel playful, curious, and a little bit magical.

Asking the questions is my art, the stuff that you end up “seeing” is maybe just the artifact of the inquiry, scrap material. Like trees are whispers of the divine, my art aspires to be a whisper of the answer.

Juliette is a scavenger of colorful materials, weathered textiles, and shiny trash. She deals in whimsy, theatrics, and big earnest mess. Concerned with disposability culture and our nested crises of disconnection, she is interested in deconstructing notions of efficiency & value in order to return reverence to material, dream new afterlives for creation, and contribute to the project of visioning a more regenerative future for all.

Juliette has lived many places and worn many hats, working in realms spanning theatre, education, visual arts, ecological design, disaster relief, and farming. In recent years she has come to call Harlemville home, and cares deeply about building right relationship to place and the local. She believes in art making as personal practice, social technology, and magic!