ARTS Southeast is excited to announce

the ON::View Artists-in-Residence of 2026!

Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at ARTS Southeast, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The studio’s large windows look out onto Bull Street, allowing the artists’ work to be on view to the community at all times. ARTS Southeast’s visitors and passersby on the sidewalk witness the artists’ process as it unfolds in real time, seeing all the steps involved from concept to final execution. Community events like workshops, performances, public art projects and artist talks, offer creative ways to interact with the public. The ON::View Residency supports artists from across the globe, working in all media and provides studio space, accommodations, and the opportunity to live, work and play alongside local artists in a vibrant community.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR 2026 ON::VIEW ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE BELOW

Check our Calendar of Events for details on Artist Talks, workshops, open studio days and more!

January 2026

Fay Sanders

queens, ny

Fay Sanders (b. 1991) in Bronx, NY is an artist based in Queens, NY with an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. Sanders has exhibited with The Hole, The Lodge LA, La Loma Projects, Tchotchke Gallery, and Field Projects and has held solo exhibitions at Smith College and the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Sanders has been an artist in residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, MASS MoCA, Kimmel Harding Center and Vermont Studio Center. She is a 2023 FST Studio Projects Fund recipient. She was recently a visiting artist at Smith College and Sarah Lawrence College.

february 2026

emily haRrold

Orangeburg, sc

Emily Harrold, Director/Producer, is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg, SC. Her films have screened at festivals including Tribeca, DOCNYC and Telluride. Her short film MELTDOWN IN DIXIE, a TOPIC original – has garnered many awards including a 2022 DuPont Columbia Finalist designation and a 2022 Silver Telly Award. Her feature directing debut, WHILE I BREATHE I HOPE won the documentary Audience Award at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival, premiered on WORLD Channel's AfroPop series in 2019, and won a 2020 Southeast Region Emmy. Her feature producing debut, MONKEY BUSINESS, premiered at the 2017 LA Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2017 Nantucket Film Festival. Harrold has produced numerous films for PBS’s American Experience including FORGOTTEN HERO about the NAACP’s Walter White, THE LIE DETECTOR, FLOOD IN THE DESERT, and VOICE OF FREEDOM about singer Marian Anderson. Harrold is part of the team behind Discovery's TIGERLAND (Sundance 2019) and National Geographic's REBUILDING PARADISE (Sundance 2020). She was in DOC NYC’s 2021 40 Under 40 Class. Harrold is a member of Film Fatales, Documentary Producers Alliance, and The Filmshop collective. She graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has an MA in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

march 2026

josh aronson

miami, fl

Josh Aronson (b. 1994, Toronto, Canada) is a Florida-based artist whose photographs explore masculinity, tenderness, and belonging within the landscapes of the American South. Raised in Florida by parents of Middle Eastern and Eastern European descent, he uses photography to reimagine connections between people and place. His work has been published in The New York Times, Frieze, Vogue, and The Guardian, and his debut zine, Tropicana (2020), is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library and The Library of Congress. He is the founder of Photo Book Speed Date, a public program that fosters engagement with photobooks through fast-paced, community-driven conversations.

april 2026

flora ranis

Flora Ranis is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller from the Everglades whose work explores the molten, hand-made qualities of our built environment. In a celebration of non-dualist ontologies, she explores the intimacy between traditionally natural forms and contemporary state markers. She received her BA from Yale University, where she pursued ethnic studies and learned how to weld. Flora was recently awarded an emerging artist fellowship from the NE Sculpture & Gallery Factory and residencies at The Steel Yard and The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. She is a recipient of the Boynes International Young Artist Award, the Bill May Furniture Scholarship, and the Metal Museum’s Carlsen Family Scholarship. She has exhibited works in solo and group shows across the country, including Stonewall National Museum and Yale University. She currently has two sculptures on view at Meredith Sculpture Park with a forthcoming group exhibition at the Art Complex Museum.

may 2026

hannah keats

tallahassee, fl

Hannah Keats is an artist based in Tallahassee, Florida, whose practice centers on biomorphic sculptural paintings and installations inspired by nature and science fiction. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida State University and is currently exploring her connection to marine ecosystems through her evolving body of sculptural paintings.

Keats was recently recognized by The Nature Conservancy with an award for her work addressing shark conservation and was named a finalist in the 2026 Miami University Young Painters Competition. In June 2025, she opened her first museum solo exhibition, Breaking Binaries: Hybrid Processes, at the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University.

Beyond her studio practice, Keats is an avid shark tooth and fossil hunter. When not creating, she can often be found combing the beaches of North Florida for fossils or exploring the outdoors with her partner and their two dogs.

JUNE 2026

Cheryl Capezzuti

Pittsburgh, PA

For nearly thirty years, Cheryl Capezzuti has used the discards of American life as sculptural media to explore the human condition. Her work is deeply embedded in the present, evolving from an engagement with everyday experiences toward a more universal context. What began in the 1990s as a humorous look at the banality of domestic life took a poignant turn in 1999; after the loss of her grandmother, Capezzuti began to view these fibers as physical remnants of lived experience, shifting her focus toward themes of love, loss, and memory. This evolved into a prolific period of community-engaged art, including a long-term residency at Duds-N-Suds laundromat in Pittsburgh, and the creation of celebrated giant puppets for city-wide celebrations.

In response to the 2020 pandemic, she returned to dryer lint as her primary medium, utilizing it to reflect the contemporary American state of mind. By pairing this ephemeral material with sturdy metal armatures, she has created hundreds of large-scale, archival sculptures that remain deeply rooted in community. Ranging from miniature figures to looming, overscale forms, her work continues to transform little bits of ourselves into a powerful commentary on the human condition.

SEPTEMBER 2026

SONYA YONG JAMES

ATLANTA, GA

Sonya Yong James lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She received a BFA from Georgia State University, where she focused on printmaking and sculpture. James has exhibited nationally and internationally for the past twenty-five years and has been the recipient of several grants, including the Artadia grant in 2019, and was a nominee for the 2023 United States Artists Fellowship award.

Her work is held in numerous collections, including the High Museum of Art, Art in Embassies, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. James has exhibited in galleries and museums such as MOCA GA, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, UAB’s Abroms-Engels Institute for the Visual Arts, and the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans. James has received grants for residencies at the Atlanta Contemporary and Mass MOCA. James was included in the Atlanta Biennial in 2024.

OCTOBER 2026

JOANNA ANGELL

Savannah, ga

Joanna Angell is a studio artist living and working in Savannah, Georgia. Her ceramics, paintings, and prints are exhibited nationally and belong to private and public collections that include The President’s Collection of the University of Georgia, the South Carolina Palmetto Hands Collection, and the John F. Kennedy Fine Arts Department Collection at Savannah State University.

She earned a BA in English from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey and an MFA from the University of Georgia where she studied with Tamarind printmaker Charles Morgan and ceramicist Ron Meyers.

Joanna teaches Ceramics and Printmaking as an Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and serves as the Director of the USCB Sea Islands Center Gallery.

NOVEMBER 2026

SHEA SLEMMER

Savannah, GA

Shea Slemmer (b. 1977) grew up barefoot and unsupervised in the rolling horse country of Ocala, FL, which is another way of saying she learned early that light, space, and weather are serious teachers. After earning her BFA from the University of North Florida, she did what many sensible people do—she ignored stability and followed the work.

Her studios have been in Savannah, GA, Manhattan, and Marfa, TX, which explains both her tolerance for extremes and her refusal to paint small. Shea’s paintings now live in collections across the United States and Europe, quietly rearranging walls and occasionally entire rooms.She has exhibited in solo shows at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn and The Telfair Museum in Savannah, and her work has appeared in Studio Visit Magazine, Atomic Ranch, Luxe, Savannah Magazine, and The South Magazine. Today, she still works the way she grew up—close to the ground, attentive to light, and slightly allergic to unnecessary rules.

JANUARy 2027

lé dieguê

Savannah, GA

lé dieguê (b. Caracas, Venezuela) is a multi-disciplinary artist, poet, and instructor based in Savannah, Georgia. He studies light and color as signifiers of memory, culture, and existence.

His paintings bridge the realms of science, ancient scriptures, Op Art, kinetic art, and graffiti. Developing pictorial investigations that link color to states of mind, experiences, and their poetic essence in our lives.

Through photography and studio experimentation, lé dieguê documents light to reconnect life to its primal composition—what he calls the “inner plasma of the being.” Our primary and internal palette. His paintings honor light as a constant yet often overlooked bridge between us and the universe.