Ali Ellis is a painter based in Brooklyn. Their work is a representation of the relationship between nature and gender expression. This is done through abstraction and patterns, playing with fluid shapes and a sensitivity to color. Back home Ali works as a preschool teacher and will be starting school this fall for a Masters in art therapy.

Laurén Brady is a visual artist and educator residing in Lansing, Michigan, where she recently completed her MFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University. Though primarily based in painting, Laurén’s work incorporates original poetry, found-object sculpture, and paper-making to investigate themes of place, memory, and transience.  

While at Sable, Laurén was captivated by the many textures in her surroundings—the softness of the ferns, the smooth rocks by the river, the stacks of lumber on the property—and the paradoxical feeling of connectedness with the land though she was a visitor to this place. Her installation of oil paintings and tiny assemblages explore intimacy, tendency, tenderness, reverence, and reverie in relationship to the landscape. 

While at Sable, Laurén landed two jobs: as a Development Manager for a nonprofit art center in Lansing and an Assistant Professor of Art. Sometimes you have to leave for opportunities to arise. 

To view more of Laurén Brady’s work visit laurenbradyart.com or Instagram @laurenbradyart.

Diana Clarke grew up in Worcester, MA and now lives, writes, and organizes in Pittsburgh, PA. Their writing explores the borderlands of fiction and nonfiction, translation and criticism, and interrogates intimacy, embodiment, and landscape through an erotic lens trained on Jewish history and the violence of white supremacy. At Sable they did research on embodiment, landscape, geography, and the porous borders of the self. They also walked the mountains, made maps, and fried a lot of eggs. Also a translator, Diana is spending a month in Warsaw this summer studying Yiddish language before heading back to Pittsburgh.

Hanna Mahon, a writer originally from Washington, DC, is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from CalArts. She comes out of social justice work and likes to write autotheory and fiction that asks questions about power. Hanna wrote short stories during her time at Sable this June.

Magdalyn Segale. Artist in Residence, 2019.

Ava Louise Untermyer is a dance artist who uses movement to more authentically connect to herself and others. Ava hails from Boston, Massachusetts, where she performs with Evolve Dynamicz Dance Co and The Flower Pistils. At Sable she is creating a dance piece that explores the question, “Do we let go?” In addition to performing, Ava teaches dance at the Curley K-8 Boston Public School.

Ava lives with a fantastic cat named Lotus.

Claire Gieringer is from New York City. Her mediums are dance, performance art, singing, writing, tarot reading and psychic spiritual channeling.

While at Sable, Claire is working on a collection of writings entitled “SWALLOW YOUR ANGER FOR BREAKFAST & other meditations on shame” as well as a performance piece entitled “solo mourning ritual for a 17-year-old self.” Both projects deal with themes of abuse, boundaries, grief, ownership over the female moving body, dissolution of karmic contracts and the healing of generational wounds.

Claire is a solitary hedge witch, and if she were a vegetable she would be a sweet potato!

@clairegieringer

https://www.self-portraitseries.com/21

Zoe Moynihan is an illustrator and dancer from Mill Valley, California, who recently completed a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. While trained in empirical thought, she is investigating the subtler and more emotive realms of herself at Sable. Her work is inspired by Vedic philosophy, yogic science, and mystical experience. Zoe is creating a picture book which explores the process of dying. She also loves to laugh and play and kiss little flowers.

Em Peake is a gardener and a poet based in Western Massachusetts. Her current work explores the intersections of place, queerness and health. At Sable, she is digging.

More info at https://sites.google.com/view/empeake.

Margot Chisholm is from Providence, Rhode Island. Her artistic mediums are painting, printmaking, zine-making, weaving and baking. At Sable she is working on some booklets/zines, weaving, and learning how to use the dragon oven to bake bread.

Margot feels like she’ll be self-actualized at age 27. Right now Margot is 20; everyone else at Sable seems 27. Many of them actually are.

Matthew Paul Corley aka Mapaco hails from the mountains of Colorado. Mapaco is a poet and visual artist. At Sable he serves as the photo/video intern, exploring the use of digital and film cameras for capturing the Sable project. He is currently working on a small series of zines because “Hey, zines are cool.”

www.matthewpaulcorley.com

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Tia Pogue is from Westport, CT, attends school in Middlebury, VT, and likes to call Woods Hole, MA, home. Though she primarily writes creative nonfiction, she enjoys dabbling in other genres and media as well and has recently discovered a knack for writing reptilian love songs. She’s ambivalent about Bigfoot, but would definitely rank him above capitalism.

Eli Hooker comes from Raleigh, NC, and is excited to be moving at Sable, as he often does. He likes to tap dance and other such forms of locomotion. During the year he studies abroad in Austria, but is home for the summah.

Everett Renderer is a painter, writer, and musician from Upper Jay, NY. Here at Sable he is working on several paintings in the woods and writing songs.

This is Everett’s second summer at Sable; who knows how many more will come!

Voloz Collective is an international theatre company brought together by two years of training at L’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. At Sable they are working on a fast-paced, comedic, film noir-esque tale of a man’s journey around the world as he chases and is chased by his would-be assassins.

Cast: Emily Wheatman (UK), Paul Lofferon (France), Sam Rayner (UK), Olivia Zerphy (USA)

Voloz is disappointed to have not yet seen a bear, despite their best efforts.

Candace Jensen is a visual artist, writer and practicing Tantric. Her work focuses on deep-green query through symbol, myth and visual language, and she makes images and poem-essays that are informed by the histories and materials of painting, printmaking, bookmaking, Tantra painting, calligraphy and manuscript illumination. Jensen has exhibited and curated at venues in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Brooklyn, New York City, and Antwerp, Belgium. She currently collaborates on exhibitions and salons with Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and also with poets, artists and environmentalists in Vermont through letterpress, calligraphy, readings and direct actions. She loves using small lists within her writing, and is an enthusiastic over-user of em-dashes and hyperbolic adjectives.

While at Sable, Candace focused on reading, note-taking and sketching responses to ecological texts such as Donna Haraway's essay "Tentacular Thinking," and Bruno Latour's "Down to Earth." She contemplated dreamy vegetal landscapes and swam in the cold water of the White River, taught and practiced Tantric asana on the stage, and developed a wonderful new camp-ready sauce that is lemon and tahini based. There was a fine blending of green beings, cool waters and said tasty sauce. Originally from the Pocono Mountains in Northeast Pennsylvania, she has also lived in Philadelphia, Northern California and even briefly in Italy as a student. She earned her BFA at Tyler School of Art (’08) and her MFA in painting and printmaking at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (’18). She currently lives in Southeastern Vermont, and is in the beginning stages of establishing a residency retreat space for art, writing, regenerative gardening and alternative academics with a focus on deep green theory and practice. She forages for mushrooms frequently, hikes with her rescue dog, Skyebear, and occasionally breaks away from normal life for weeks at a time on self-supported bicycle tours with her husband.

EmmaGrace Skove-Epes is movement-based artist, performance maker, educator, organizer, caregiver, and Brooklyn native. She is interested in engaging collaboratively with the environments she performs in, attempting to use movement as a way of listening to the space around her, people around her, and the places where her own embodied history, meets the present moment, as well as imagination, fantasy, and projection.

Some words for some of the many (mostly) wordless things her practice investigates: multi-sensory listening and witnessing, alternate modes of taking up space, queerness, grief, following pleasure as a creative directive, and seeking ways to credit influences amidst unknown and fractured lineages.

EmmaGrace can hold her breath underwater for a long time.

At Sable, EmmaGrace slowed down, improvised with and through the plants in the garden, learned pieces of information about these plants through conversations with the resident artists, wrote a lot, and filled the studio with leaves, jars, stones, shoes, and tiny glass bottles encasing plants. She shared excerpts of a work-in-process incorporating movement and non-linear writing exploring intersections of toxic white conditioning, queer femme-ishness, and addiction.

Jackie Du is an Artist and Educator living in Brooklyn, New York.

Jackie is a scallion pancake.

Jackie is from the pink kitchen in the woods.

Her mediums are bouquets of play.

At Sable, she is exploring new smells.

Find her online at www.jackiedu.net.

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This workshop is called THIS WORKSHOP IS CALLED. Jackie Du facilitates creative interactions through open-ended gameplay in a participant-led experience. Referencing Oliver Herring’s TASK game and the inherent multitudes of skills in the Artists-in-Residence, this workshop aims to activate a joyful abundance of movement, thought and connection.

Tina Wang is a performance artist based in New York City. She grew up in Taiwan, Venezuela, Brazil, El Salvador, and Mexico. Her work takes up themes of identity, play, and resilience by relating body movement to found objects. In her current Thirst series, she uses a roll of industrial bubble wrap to visually dismember parts of the body.

At Sable, she studied the interplay of her materials and a wooded environment in preparation for upcoming shows in New York City's outdoor spaces. Check out @tinawangdotnet on instagram for more information.

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Tina's study of Iyengar yoga is integral to the way she makes performances. A key connection is the method's use of objects to clarify the body's shape. In her Sable workshop, artists first practiced yoga postures in contact with tree trunks to discern energy in different parts of the body. Drawing on her artistic practice, Tina emphasized the way that potential body sculptures could be derived from considering the emotional qualities of objects. The artists then selected objects on the Sable farm to accompany their own explorations in creative movement and body sculpture.

Ruby Rose is an illustrator and graphic designer hailing from Boston. She enjoys creating creepy characters and using her sketchbook as a daily artifact.

At Sable, she reconnected with the dirt.

Find her stuff at: rubyrose.work / @rosegrows

Jameson Williams is a computer programmer and multi-instrumentalist from Boston. He is a classically trained cellist and a touring bassist/guitarist. When he wasn't helping on the farm at Sable he could often be found playing acoustic guitar in a nice shady spot outside.