Spring 2026 Artists-in-Residence

As a composer, she has participated in prestigious music festivals such as June in Buffalo (USA), Impuls (Austria), SoundSCAPE (Italy), and Barcelona Modern (Spain), among others. Her compositions have been featured in these international settings, where she has had the opportunity to collaborate with leading musicians, such as the [Switch~Ensemble] and the Arditti Quartet.

An active performer, she has been a flutist in a range of ensembles, including “Ensemble Arsis” (specializing in baroque music), “Samba no Pe” (a Brazilian fusion group), “El Enjambre,” and “The Academic Complex” (both new music ensembles). Her performances span diverse musical genres.

In recent years, she has been working on music with live electronics that generate interactions between sound and light (including video) employing feedback systems. This path includes her work on designing and building new music instrument, sound devices, and music interfaces.

Althea Murphy-Price’s (b. 1979 San Jose, CA) variable practice often involves printmaking, photography, and sculpture. The inherent duality of print provides a platform to explore these characteristics under the lens of deception. Motifs of race, hair culture, and feminine identity serve as tools of decoration. Bright colors, shiny surfaces, texture, and dimensional forms extend off the page in a suggestion of play, celebration, and analysis. Murphy-Price is the recipient of the 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography from the Tennessee Art Commission. Her works have been exhibited in cities such as Spain, Paris, China, Italy, and Sweden. She is included in public collections such as Thrivent, the Cleveland Arts Clinic, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, and The British Museum. Her work has been featured in the publications of Art Papers Magazine, Art in Print Magazine, Printmaking Today Magazine (UK), and Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process. Murphy-Price lives in Knoxville TN and is a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee since 2010. She received her BA in Fine Art from Spelman College, her MA in Printmaking and Painting from Purdue University and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

Artist Debora Bernagozzi works primarily with the mediums of video, photography, and fiber. She received her BFA in Video from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2002. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, including at the Denver Art Museum, Burchfield Penney Museum, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. She was awarded artist residencies at the Experimental Television Center, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, and in Kuala Lumpur.

Inspired by residency experiences that were transformational for them both personally and artistically, Debora and Jason Bernagozzi, along with Hank Rudolph co-founded Signal Culture, a nonprofit organization that provides residencies, resources, and exhibition opportunities for artists, researchers, and innovators working in experimental media art. She serves as Executive Director while continuing to make and exhibit her own work.

Ericka Walker received a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives and works in Mi’kmaqi (Atlantic Canada), where she is a practicing artist and an Associate Professor at NSCAD University.

Walker’s practice operates on vernacular histories of the graphic arts. Her print works and site-specific murals subvert the propagandistic function of nostalgia in contemporary culture, disputing the civilizing influence and assumed moral authority of nation building in North America.

Walker exhibits widely throughout North America and internationally, with pieces housed in multiple public and private collections. Her work appeared recently in exhibitions at the Palace of Arts in the Egyptian Opera House Square, Cairo, Egypt; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA; Musée Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada; the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, USA; the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada; Huron Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Civic and Cultural Center Numancia, Santander, Spain; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; The Reach Gallery and Museum, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, and the International Print Center, NYC, NY.

Allison Leigh Holt is a neurodivergent, anti-disciplinary artist, a Fulbright scholar (Indonesia), and the first person in their household to graduate high school. A current Lucas Arts Fellow at Montalvo Art Center, they have held residencies at EMPAC, Djerassi, the Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (Indonesia), Bullseye Glass Company, and the Experimental Television Center; and resident researcher roles at Sanggar Perbakayun, the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Notable exhibitions include Eye Filmmuseum (The Netherlands), The Ford Foundation Gallery, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, BAMPFA, Stanford University, SFMOMA, The Exploratorium, Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (solo, Indonesia), The North Dakota Museum of Art (solo), and San Francisco Cinematheque. They have lectured at Stanford Arts Institute’s Imagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science; FEMeeting: Women in Art|Science|Technology (Canada); RIXC Art-Science Festival (Riga, Latvia); After Agency (Mickiewicz University, Poland); Video Vortex (Indonesia); the 20th Annual Science of Consciousness Conference; the American Anthropological Association Conference; and the Yogyakarta International New Media Festival. At the University of North Dakota Writers Conference, Holt was in dialogue with science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson and theoretical physicist Brian Greene; and has served on the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute faculty.

Holt’s commissions include The Ford Foundation Gallery, San Francisco Arts Commission, the David Bermant Foundation, the Zero1 Biennial, Pro Arts Gallery, and UC Santa Barbara’s Denise Montell Molecular Science Laboratory, where they are also included in the collection. They have taught at San Francisco State University, Massachusetts College of Art, and developed Neurodivergent Media, an experimental media pedagogy for autistics. Their writing features in journals like Panorama, Public, Leonardo, and Yale’s Theater Magazine. Holtstudied at The Evergreen State College (BA), Massachusetts College of Art (MFA), and now, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D. candidate).

Lili Chin is an artist based in New York City. Combining installation, video and sculpture, her practice focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas that investigate themes of memory, duration and spirituality. Selected international exhibition venues include Microscope Gallery, The Drawing Center, Below Grand, Island Gallery, White Columns (online), Bronx River Art Center, as well as several other art organizations in the US, Singapore, Scotland, Latin America, Europe, Japan and China. Her films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, 601 Art Space, Edinburgh Film Festival and the Pacific Film Archive. She has created commissioned installations for the He Xiangning Museum in Shenzhen and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, CT. She is a recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Visual Studies Workshop, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Marble House Project, the Galveston Artist Residency and more. She was awarded an LMCC Creative Engagement grant and additionally curates projects and screenings. She received an MFA from the University of California San Diego, a BFA from Pratt Institute, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.