Artist Residency
Murmuration runs two artist residencies. One takes place in the Murmuration studio-gallery, offering an opportunity for an artist with an upcoming exhibition at Murmuration to develop a site-specific project. The other takes place at the Bawden family’s 150 year-old farm in Arena, Wisconsin, where artists are invited to make work in response to this unique place.
2025 Artists-in-Residence
Aleksandra Walaszek
Aleksandra Walaszek is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Wrocław, Poland based in Chicago. She slips between fixed mediums while exploring subjects such as identity, memory, and (hi)story-telling. Working across object, video and installation, she uses a fluid material vocabulary to explore both personal and collective narratives.
Wałaszek received an MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MA in Media Arts from Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. Wałaszek is a co-founder of artist-run space called Forma Otwarta in Oleśnica, Poland. She has received several scholarships including the Fulbright Graduate Student Award, and Individual Artist Grant from Polish Cultural Institute in New York. She participated in many exhibitions, festivals, and art residencies. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at various venues, including the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Warsaw Contemporary Museum, WRO Media Art Biennale, Hyde Park Art Center among others. She has been Artist-in-Residence in Mexico, USA, Poland, Spain, Japan, and Germany.
Mariana Noreña G
Mariana Noreña G explores how humans relate to place through ecology, history, and mythology. Her research-driven, site-responsive practice investigates the material memory of landscapes and natural phenomena, creating echoes between geological processes and daily life. Working with earth matter and locally sourced materials, she reveals intimate and collective stories that speak to the symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment.
Her work has been exhibited, published, and collected nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibition was “Territorio Ceniza” at Murmuration (Chicago, USA); other solo shows include “Instructions for a Walk” at Garage 04 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and “Reflections of Place” at UNAM Chicago (Chicago, USA). She has also participated in group exhibitions in Colombia at venues including La Feria del Millón Art Fair, Contemporary Museum of Art of Bogota, and SGR Gallery; Her work is part of the collection at the Museo Bolivariano of Contemporary Art. In the U.S., her work has been shown at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University (New York), Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, Michigan), Co-prosperity, Gallery 1922, SAIC Galleries, RHAA, The Franklin, and the Gala at Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago).
Mariana is a 2025 Re / Match Artist Award recipient and was a 2023 Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. She holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Design and Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting and Drawing from La Universidad de Los Andes, where she received a merit distinction for her thesis and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Madison Mae Parker
Madison Mae Parker (they/she) is a word witch, writer, performer, ritual artist, arts doula, somatic educator, and space-maker. Voted as best poet in Kansas City, Missouri in 2022 by The Pitch Magazine, she finds deep belonging in the stretching of language through poetry and questioning where a poem might long to live. Having toured and taught internationally with her poetry in the US, Europe, Singapore, and Australia, she feels most at ease while performing and facilitating rituals and conversations around the things that make us human. In addition to holding an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024), they hold an expressive arts therapy certification through the Tamalpa Institute (2023). Their absolute favorite way to be in the world is helping fellow artists discover their own creative intuition through 1:1 explorations as an Arts Doula and crafting customized rituals. Alongside their work at the Chicago Poetry Center as a poet-in-residence, they teach somatics classes with Khecari and assist with administrative work as an Operational Assistant. When they are not art-ing, you can find her watching anime and eating Hot Cheetos with her cats MeowZaki and Magic Conch Shell. www.madisonmaeparker.com
Alan Huck
Alan Huck (b. 1990) is a photographer, writer, and educator based in Chicago. He received his MFA from the University of Hartford’s international low-residency program in 2018. His first book, I walk toward the sun which is always going down, was published by MACK in late 2019 and shortlisted for the 2020 Rencontres d’Arles Photo-text Book Award. A Narrow Foothold, a collaborative artist book with German photographer Jonas Feige was published by Another Earth in 2024. He teaches various interdisciplinary workshops through the Penumbra Foundation.
2024 Artists-in-Residence
Chang-Ching “Casper” Su
Chang-Ching “Casper” Su (b.Taiwan, based in Chicago) is a multidisciplinary artist with a research-based approach. His work explores the nuanced dynamics of power and authority that shape contemporary sociopolitical systems. Su has participated in international exhibitions including EXPO Chicago, Suwon International Photo Festival, Skövde Art Museum, and Tainan International Photo Festival, and also got residency from Santa Fe Art Institute and CPSLive. He holds a BA in Political Science from National Taiwan University and earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Kamille Kirschling
Kamille Kirschling is an installation artist who works with large-format photographs. They expose the melancholy of memory held in suburban houses, developments, and spaces. Analyzing the economic promise of progress and what remains left behind in its shadow. Photography allows the deconstruction and abstraction of the home to capture the rhythm of presence and absence. Tracing how memories evolve through continuous re-remembering and lay latent to resurface through surroundings. They construct installations using the elements of photography to explore ambiguity within the process of image-making while questioning how technology affects our perception of reality and certainty.
Josephine Dorsey-Lauck
Josephine Dorsey-Lauck, a Chicago-based textile artist, works with the intricate relationships between objects and their owners, particularly; how we reckon with our cloth today. Favoring process heavy approaches like weaving, dye and print, the work seeks to inhabit a unique and ambiguous realm, existing between drawing, cloth, garment and something else. Through her work, Jo encourages viewers to reflect on the importance of craftsmanship, and its subtle disappearance which clears the way to an entirely new space for textiles to exist.
