2026 Artists in Residence

angel shanel edwards is a first-generation Jamaican and Philly-rooted artist. They utilize the creative modalities of movement, poetics, filmmaking, and photography to witness and re/member blackness as it moves through daily life, love, intimacy, and transitions [*gendered and otherwise]. angel is moved and led by the beautiful and messy cartographies of black life. 

Qiaira Riley is an interdisciplinary artist + educator +cultural worker, raised on Chicago’s south-side and based in Philadelphia. She holds a dual BA in Black Studies and Studio Art from Lake Forest College, as well as a MFA in Socially Engaged StudioArt from Moore College of Art & Design. She is a co-founder and curator of 2.0, a collective collaborating with artists and organizations to curate free, experimental offerings for Black women and femmes. Qiaira’s 2021 MFA thesis-turned-zine “How Tiffany Pollard Built the Internet: Representations of Simulacra, Virtuality, and Black women and femmes on the Internet and Its Art” is a part of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection. She also hosts "Something You Can Feel," a contemporary Black art history podcast, that can be found on Apple and Spotify. Qiaira is currently a PhD student in the University of Delaware’s Art History Department, studying Black American house museums and historic domestic interiors.  

Yannick Lowery is an interdisciplinary artist currently working in Philadelphia, PA. Originally from New York City, he embraces both cities as cultural and creative influences, drawing on their rich and diverse visual art histories to fuel his practice. Yannick studied sculpture and graphic design at The Atlanta College of Art (now SCAD) and Columbia College in Chicago.

Yannick’s work often weaves together illustrated proverbs, premonitions, and historical references to guide viewers through cultural introspection and imaginative narratives. Using archival imagery and his own photography, he engages in world-building through collage, animation, cyanotypes, and sculptural pieces, creating thought-provoking and exploratory works.

KT Abadir-Mullally is an artist and archivist who creates interactive installations and hosts workshops that discuss the movement of information and how much or little control we have over what is remembered or forgotten. Through sculpture and relationship building, Abadir-Mullally’s work debates the fragileness of our modern cultural production, our hunger for legacy, and the desire for ideas and information to die. Her work explores cultural histories, collective thinking, preservation, queer resilience, and strength through fibers and archival records.