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at Louis Place announces the inaugural Artist Publishing Cohort: March - September 2025
The Artist Publishing Cohort is a new initiative offering personalized support for eight artists with publishing projects in progress. Selected artists receive a $1,000 stipend, coaching and staff support, optional weekly workshop, and access to aLP resources. Read more here.
Ang Zheng writes with a camera and a pen. In his work, he draws on his experience living in Brooklyn's Chinatown to re-write himself and the world around him. Ang co-founded Publishing is Pleasure, a publishing project that stages his love for the scribbled word. He is currently based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. https://zheng-ang.com
Corey De'Juan Sherrard Jr. engineers a developing system for composing songs and generating objects that respond to the deficit of black post-capitalist propaganda within a world culture. He is a School for Poetic Computation alum and graduated from the University of Houston with a BS in Digital Media in 2020. Sherrard has exhibited at Sanman Studios, Sabine Street Studios, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Basket Books and Art, and the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center. He was a recipient of the 2023 Jones Artist Award. He now consults at the Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts, DJs monthly with internet radio station Ice House Radio, spins jazz on his weekly radio show STEAM at KTRU-LP 96.1 FM, and is a member of experimental music group Essex Moor.Photo taken by Ericka del Karmen ValladeresDescription: Corey Sherrard spinning records for Alice Coltrane tribute at Echoes in Houston, TX. https://cds-j.xyz
Frances Chang is a musician, multidisciplinary artist and film composer living and performing in New York. Combining use of varied instrumentation, playful electronics, and poetry, her unique strain of sonic world building aims to disrupt accepted reality. Her songs are an experiment in emotional transparency and communication, probing the tension between lonely, idiosyncratic personal experience, and the drive to understand and be understood through a collective language. She often performs solo with a piano, guitar, and electronics, and with her linear-ambient duo, Die Artist. Her second solo album, Psychedelic Anxiety, explores metaphysical unease with a toolset of minimal, intensely colorful elements. She recently scored Where Can We Be Found?, a doc about the Lebanese cedar tree and the ecological problems of its political emblem-hood, and Sunset Seduction, an art film/contract and institutional critique of the arts nonprofit-industrial complex. https://plutoness.com
free feral plays with sound, song and story to curate multidimensional experiences. As a musician and composer, they create scores for film, theatre, and dance using strings, loops, and vocals. As a writer, they like to explore non-fiction narratives through a poet's eye view. free has participated in numerous fellowships including Found Sound Nation's OneBeat and AIR's New Voices. They hold a BM from Oberlin Conservatory, a Certificate in Documentary Studies from the Center from Documentary Studies at Duke, and an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. @freefereal
Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist. Their practice of fonts, video, performance, and writing extends from ongoing research on queer publishing histories. They've performed at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, Cooper Cole in Toronto, and PAGEANT in Brooklyn; exhibited at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, Culture Station in Seoul, and Printed Matter in New York City; and published with Are.na, Draw Down Books, GenderFail, Inga Books, Source Type, and the Walker Art Center. They are a recipient of an Independent Project Grant from NYSCA + Architectural League of New York and a Research Fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. They are based in Brooklyn, NY.Image Credit: Photo by Ang Zheng Image Description: A portrait of Nat Pyper in their home. Nat has medium-length dark curly hair, is wearing a light grey striped shirt, and is looking into the camera with a smile. https://www.natpyper.com
Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) is an undisciplinary™ artist-scholar who transforms narratives of power and access through installations of performance, film, writing, and photography. RMB has completed projects in venues on five continents, including Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Qalam wa Lawh, Rabat; Recess, Brooklyn; Royal Academy of Arts, London; and Turbine Hall, Johannesburg. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Artsy, Performa Magazine, Prospect New Orleans, and the covers of Chicago Reader and New City. Her directorial debut screened at Metrograph, Slamdance, and the Oscar-qualifying Athens International Film + Video Fest (Special Jury Mention, Prod: Jennifer Reeder). RMB studied Arabic and French in Morocco and holds degrees from Yale, SAIC, and Northwestern, trained by Paul Gilroy (sociology), Barbara DeGenevieve (photography), and Joshua Chambers-Letson (performance studies). She is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. https://www.rmbstudios.com
Sarah Rara's multi-disciplinary practice— including video, sound, performance, and writing— explores the position of witness within fragile systems, and the socio-political and personal dimensions of sensing technologies. Their work considers gender, queerness, technology, disability, and illness in connection with environmental research. They are a primary organizer of the ongoing project lucky dragons (2005-present). Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London's Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 in New York, REDCAT and Human Resources in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, Documenta 14 in Athens, and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Rara is Assistant Professor of Moving Image at Williams College. https://www.sarahrara.com
Silas Munro is a designer, artist, writer, curator, surfer, and descendant of the Banyole people of Eastern Uganda. He is the founder of the design studio Polymode. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest at Letterform Archive and the co-curator of Reverberations: Lineages in Design History at the Ford Foundation Gallery. He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America and co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19th-21st Century. His work was recently exhibited at the Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford, the Raizes Gallery at Lesley University, the LA Design Festival, and the Scottsdale Museum of Art, and in the upcoming group show Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print at Print Center New York. Munro is Founding Faculty, Chair Emeritus for the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts. 1. Ford Foundation Gallery, Photo: Jane Kratochvil.2. Installation view, Silas Munro: How Can the Grid Deal with a Messy World?, Hartford Art School's Joseloff Gallery, 2025. Photo by Garrett Uhde. @siborg81
The Artist Publishing Cohort at Louis Place is made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field, with funding from Wagner Foundation.
at Louis Place is a sponsored artist with The Performance Zone Inc (dba The Field), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the arts community. Contributions to The Field earmarked for “at Louis Place” are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.