Artists in Residence

Lynn Tomlinson is an internationally acclaimed animator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her current work explores environmental themes, often imagining how non-human beings might view humanity’s impact. Her films have screened at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery (USA), The Pompidou Center, and at international film festivals including Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival. She is Associate Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University (USA).

During her residency, Lynn Tomlinson will draw inspiration from Green Box’s natural setting to animate cyclical sequences for an ecological media artwork using colorful transforming visual imagery. Animated cycles will create an interwoven composition of scenes that loop and build, imagining non-human perspectives, and evoking ecological empathy.

Parker Yamasaki is an arts and culture reporter for the statewide publication The Colorado Sun. She holds an MA in Arts Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has freelanced for the Chicago Reader, Newcity Chicago, Southwest Contemporary, Boulder Weekly and DARIA, among other publications. She is a former Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism fellow, a Dow Jones News intern, and a graduate of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Parker got her start in culture reporting as an editor at Iceland’s only English-printed paper, The Reykjavík Grapevine. She was born and raised in California and has lived all over the southwest.

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1979, Yasuaki Onishi currently lives and works in Hyogo. After earning a B.A. in Sculpture at the School of Art & Design, University of Tsukuba in 2001, he completed the M.A. program in Sculpture at the Graduate School of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts in 2004. He received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2025. Through his experience with making molds, became interested in relationships between positive forms and negative space and in grasping not only objects themselves but also their surroundings. His works have consistently dealt with the themes of margins, volumes, and boundaries.

Born in Hyogo, Japan in 1981, Minako Yoshida currently lives and works in Hyogo. She graduated from Japan Institute of Photography and Film in 2002. She was the recipient of the Excellence Award at the Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2002, selected by French photographer Marc Riboud. Her work focuses on the theme of creating new harmony between oneself and others through photography.　 She has been documenting and production assistant the work of sculptor Yasuaki Onishi from 2020. 

Selected recent solo exhibitions include: from the desk to ICELAND, VISUAL ARTS GALLERY (Osaka, Japan, 2022); samskeyti, WACOAL STUDYHALL KYOTO (Kyoto, Japan, 2018); and Ordinary Days, galleryMain (Kyoto, Japan, 2016). Selected group exhibitions include: galleryMain archive project #1 (galleryMain, Kyoto, Japan, 2020); OfferingsⅡ (THE TERMINAL KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan, 2016); and Canon New Cosmos of Photography (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 2002). 

CoCo Ree Lemery is an award-winning industrial designer and educator whose visionary approach to design seamlessly integrates sustainability, craftsmanship, and industry expertise. Celebrated for her contributions to furniture design, her studio, Studio Kloak, received this year’s NYCxDesign Award for Best Independent Design Studio. The studio continues to push boundaries, developing collections that leverage hand production as a tool for innovation, environmental stewardship, and rethinking planned obsolescence. Her work has been exhibited globally, with upcoming shows in New York City, Brussels, Colorado, and Stockholm. As a former Design Director turned academic, CoCo brings a wealth of industry experience to her teaching. She has created best-selling products for esteemed retailers such as Pottery Barn, Neiman Marcus, Jonathan Adler, and Williams Sonoma, with her designs reaching an international audience. A respected thought leader, CoCo is frequently featured in prominent media outlets including The Washington Post, CNBC, Business Insider, and Fast Company, sharing her insights on furniture design, sustainability, and the future of the industry.

Nandita Shenoy is a New York City-based actor and playwright who loves making audiences laugh. Her plays include The Future Is Female…, premiered at Flint Repertory Theatre in 2023, and Washer/Dryer, which debuted Off-Broadway and has been produced nationwide. She has received numerous accolades, including a 2022-23 Hermitage Artists Retreat Fellowship and recognition on the 2020 Kilroy’s List. As an actor, Nandita has originated roles in world premieres at theaters like Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Cal Shakes and has appeared on TV shows such as Evil, Dickinson, and The Last OG. A passionate advocate for diversity in theater, she serves on the Steering Committee of the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, which has earned Tony and Obie honors for its work. Nandita holds a BA in English from Yale and is a proud member of Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, AEA, and SAG-AFTRA. When not creating, she enjoys cooking, costume dramas, and chocolate.

Alice Klock and Florian Lochner discovered their co-creative magic while serving as dancers and Choreographic Fellows at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2017, they created FLOCK, through which they perform their own work and co-create new choreography for film and stage. Their most recent international tours include their productions “Somewhere Between” (named one of Chicago Tribune’s top 10 shows of 2023)  and “Quest”. As a team, they have choreographed for multiple dance companies, universities, and cultural institutions, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Whim W’Him,, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Backhausdance, Orsolina 28, Ballet Idaho, Seattle Dance Collective, the Goethe Institut, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA, and the 92nd Street Y. Every year they create a new work for the Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall in southern Germany where they are company in residence. FLOCK strives to bring artists and audiences together in environments that are open, dynamic, and based on joy.

Helanius J. Wilkins is an award-winning choreographer, performance artist, artivist, and educator who engages artmaking to forge paths towards social change and equitable landscapes. Helanius enjoys creating, presenting, and receiving commissions for choreography throughout the United States and abroad. He has choreographed and directed over 60 works, including two critically-acclaimed musical productions for Washington, DC’s Studio Theater – “Passing Strange” (2010) and “POP!” (2011). He founded and artistically directed EDGEWORKS Dance Theater in Washington DC, a dance company predominantly of Black men that existed for 13 years. EDGWORKS was the primary repository for his choreography from 2001 – 2014.  

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Blake Pfeil is an Ambie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His latest body of work, “All-American Ruins,” has been the recipient of numerous awards for its genre-bending, multimodal storytelling, including recent UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nominations for Podcast of the Year (Regional) two years in a row. The project has won dozens of awards and been featured in 11 countries and 17 states, most notably On Air Fest, SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival, Medium Day, Berliner Hörspielfestival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilm Lund, Garden State Film Festival, Newburgh Fringe Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Oscar Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, and CineHealth International Film & Media Festival where it was awarded Best Podcast. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project “abandoned” hit no. 1 on Apple Podcasts’ Places & Travel charts. Outside “All-American Ruins,” Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado’s “Lost Highways” while also working his “day job” as the Operations & Programs Manager at TMI Project and “night job” as co-host of Cinema Kingston! on Radio Kingston/WKNY. Blake is an alumni of SUNY Stony Brook’s Audio Podcast Fellowship, a SWF Michael Ajakwe Innovation Award Winner, and a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist.