Elsewhere
606 South Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27406
Elsewhere—a living museum and artist residency set within a three-story former thrift store—is pleased to present South Elm Projects, a season of artscaping commissions for 14 national artists and collectives that will activate underutilized alleys and green-spaces in downtown Greensboro’s South Elm neighborhood.
Since 2003, Elsewhere has been transforming its former store and its vast material collection into a living museum that serves as a hub for local and global collaborations. As Greensboro’s downtown is undergoing rapid cultural and economic development, Elsewhere fosters a collaborative culture supportive of grassroots imaginations, creative leadership, and experimental models for civic engagement. South Elm Projects will amplify Elsewhere’s public practice and repurposeful ethos—commissioning 14 artists, collectives, and designers to create public and participatory projects within four neighborhood sites.
Funded by ArtPlace America, South Elm Projects brings together artists and neighbors to create public artworks that further civic engagement, public commons and urban wilds in advance of and with development. Commissioned artists include Works Progress, Heather Hart, Buster Simpson, Agustina Woodgate, Carmen Papalia, Camp Little Hope, Tom Russotti, Chloe Bass, Poncili Creación, Milagros Collective, Chat Travieso, Megan Mosholder, Samara Smith, and Greensboro Permaculture Guild.
From April through November, artists will work with Elsewhere’s curators, neighbors, small businesses, social agencies, arts and community leaders to design works that address critical issues and encourage smart approaches to ecology, social infrastructure, and urban place-making in Greensboro. Commissioned artworks will take form as greenscaping, light art, murals, and participatory sculpture and performance that enhances community investment, civic participation, and grassroots creativity.
Follow along with the process online here.
Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtPlace America, The Kresge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, The Fund for Democratic Communities, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Guilford Green Foundation, The Harpo Foundation, The Gallucci Creative Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Art Matters & friends like you.
