Current Annual Residents
September 2025 – July 2026
Camryn Claude (she/her)
Camryn Claude is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, and harpist based in Richmond, VA. Originally from Manassas, VA, she received her Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing with a concentration in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2025. She was the 2024–2025 Cabell First Novelist Award Fellow, and from 2023–2024, she was associate art editor at Blackbird: An Online Journal for Literature and the Arts. She writes speculative fiction and creative nonfiction that often explores themes of Blackness, monstrosity, generational inheritance, and the liberating power of music and art. Her work can be found in Blackbird Journal.
Justice Dwight (she/her, he/him, they/them)
Justice Dwight is a self-taught visual artist from Richmond, VA by way of Plainfield, NJ. His love for art began at six years old, inspired by his father’s portraits and his mother’s vibrant doll collection, which sparked his eye for color theory. Rooted in Black and queer identity, Dwight draws influence from artists like Barkley Hendricks, Bisa Butler, and Derrick Adams. He works primarily in acrylic and mixed-media—often incorporating glitter, fabric, and rhinestones to bring his canvases to life. His work has been exhibited at Southside Contemporary, Capital One, and Iridian Gallery. He was commissioned by the U.S. Embassy to paint a mural in Cuba celebrating Black and queer beauty. Online, his art has caught the attention of the University of Maryland and celebrities like Issa Rae, Big Freedia, and Azealia Banks.
justicedwightart.bigcartel.com / @justicedwight
Margaret Meehan (she/her)
Margaret Meehan’s work is a research-based, multi-disciplinary exploration that pulls from film, music, popular culture, folklore, and traditional crafts. She considers the origins of outcasts through their representation–in particular, the tendency for women and societal “others” to be seen as monsters. Meehan’s research includes teratology and medicine, ornithology, the aesthetics of cuteness, materiality in high and low culture as well as modes of feminist protest. This all stems from her curiosity about the lines that separate what is protected from what is feared and how gendering plays into these expectations. She’s shown at Art Pace San Antonio, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Dallas Museum of Art, Flowers Gallery in London, Conduit Gallery in Dallas, and Ulterior Gallery in New York. Awards and residencies include the Nasher Sculpture Center Microgrant, The Lighthouse Works Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency, the Dozier Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. Meehan’s work has been featured in the Guardian, Sculpture Magazine, New American Paintings, and Artforum, among others.
Sadie Sheldon (She/they)
Sadie Sheldon is a multimedia artist and storyteller. Her projects are informed by her semi‑nomadic lifestyle which has allowed her to engage with communities from numerous artist‑in‑residence opportunities and Fellowships, including the Joan Mitchell Center, Stove Works, Elsewhere Museum, Vermont Studio Center and Sculpture Space. She creates immersive works that combine textile processes with unlikely materials to reflect our rapidly changing landscape, magnifying the effects of post‑consumer materials and plastics on the natural world. Sourcing materials from the city in which it’s created, her works explore community identity from the things we leave behind.
