Addie Ulrey (she/her)

Dates of Residency: 9/22 – 10/6

Residency Plan 
Go offline! This summer I began work on a new project exploring the ways our intimacy with technology is reshaping us. Through weekly gatherings here in Detroit, a “working group” that I convened has attempted to map the hybrid terrain we now live in. Are digital and physical separate any more? What parts of ourselves – those parts incompatible with constant digital connection – are falling away? Receiving this residency offers me time to digest and write into the questions that came from this generous, cacophonous first phase of collaboration. It also offers the opportunity to “do” the work in another, more direct and experiential way: I get to step away from the daily tether of digital life for nearly two weeks. Thinking about this, I feel both anticipatory freedom and the anxiety of unfamiliar, unfilled space.

Community Program
I’m Not Here Right Now: Working Group with River’s Edge Theatre Company, Anywhere Theatre Company, & local performing artists

About Addie
Addie Ulrey is a multidisciplinary writer and theater maker currently living in Detroit. Her plays have been seen in NYC at the Tank, the Exponential Festival, Theatrelab and the Concord Theatricals Off-Off Broadway Festival. Residencies and awards include: the Everwood Farmstead, the New Harmony Project with collaborator T Carlis Roberts; the index freiraum artist residency in Zurich, Switzerland; the Rona Jaffe Playwriting Fellowship; the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust; and a 2024 developmental commission from the Hearth Theater. Addie was an original company member of Ragged Wing Ensemble in Oakland, CA, with whom she wrote and produced new plays between 2010 and 2020. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College.

Artist’s Social Media
www.addieulrey.com
https://addiejulrey.substack.com
Instagram: @aj_ulrey

E’mon Lauren

Dates of Residency: 9/22 – 10/6

Residency Plan
At Bethany I will complete the final revision of Finesse, my debut full-length poetry collection. The manuscript gathers thirty-four poems across four sections into one sustained argument: that Black women’s daily acts of survival, beauty, and self-making constitute a literature. The foundational frame is in place and the major poems are drafted, several already published. What remains is the structural and sequencing work that turns a strong collection of poems into a coherent book, and that requires uninterrupted time my schedule in Chicago does not allow. Mornings I will revise, with particular attention to the third section and its work on grief and collective memory. Afternoons I will read into the poets whose formal decisions I am in conversation with, and write new material if revision opens the space. Evenings I want to be among the other residents. I write alone, but I think best in community. I am coming to Bethany to finish this book.

Community Program
A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words: a Poetry Workshop with E’mon Lauren
In partnership with Hudson Valley Writers Center
@ Hudson Valley Writers Center – Sleepy Hollow, NY
Fri. September 25, 2026 5-6PM (Before “The People’s Mic”)

About E’mon
E’mon Lauren is a poet, performer, and educator from Chicago’s West Side. She is the city’s first Youth Poet Laureate and the author of COMMANDO (Haymarket Books), with work published in Poetry Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, and Sixty Inches From Center. For over a decade she has contributed poetry and cultural journalism to South Side Weekly and performed across Chicago, including at the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Cultural Center, and Millennium Park. She is the creator and executive producer of The Real Hoodwives of Chicago, a podcast and talk show centering Black femme voices. Her work is rooted in hood womanism, a framework that centers Black femme life on Chicago’s West and South Sides. Her debut full-length collection, Finesse, is forthcoming.

Artist’s Social Media
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Photo Credit: The Sanctuary, Carlo Liou

Laura Perovich (she/her)

Dates of Residency: 9/22 – 10/6

Residency Plan
During this residency, I will explore themes of craft, community, and corporality in the context of emerging sociotechnical systems. These investigations seek to bridge the space between my textile art and my movement practice. How do tools shape our physical experience of making? What do we learn about our bodies and selves by making with others? How do technologies further or interrupt this learning? During the residency I will create sketches, prototypes, processes, and first-attempts that will serve as foundation and fuel for this direction of work.

Community Program
Getting your process unstuck: 
Embodied practices for creative blocks
Thursday, September 24, 2026 7-8:30PM

About Laura
Laura Perovich is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. Her practice explores the push and pull between people and technologies through the lenses of craft, community, and corporality. She creates textile art and embodied experiences that aim to help us find something interesting about who we are, alone and together. Perovich received her PhD from MIT and is an associate professor at Northeastern University. Her work also draws on her experience as a dancer, somatic practitioner in training, environmentalist, and maker.

Michelle Elena Zarco (she/her)

Dates of Residency: 9/22 – 10/6

Residency Plan
For three years, I’ve taught music inside men’s and women’s correctional facilities through Musicambia – general music, instrumental skills, and songwriting workshops. During my residency at BAC, I’ll arrange four songs written by incarcerated songwriters into performance-ready works for chamber ensemble, giving them new life and a chance to be heard outside the walls where they were written. Art made inside prisons has always depended on collaboration to reach audiences beyond them, and I want to steward that process: taking songs shaped by real talent and circumstance, and arranging them with care. My hope is to present them not as a separate category of “prison art,” but mixed into a program alongside my own work. These are voices that deserve to be heard on the same plane as any other artist’s. Mass incarceration remains a defining issue in this country. This project insists that extraordinary artistic voices exist inside its walls, and belong in front of audiences on the outside. The arrangements from this residency will form the foundation of a future recording project.

Community Program
An Evening of Music by Michelle Zarco
In partnership with Musicambia
Mon. ARTober 5, 2026 7PM

About Michelle
Michelle is a classically trained flutist based in NYC, with a musical practice spanning classical, world, and pop idioms. She also sings, plays piano, and percussion. In 2024 she founded Orchestra Elena, whose debut performance at Brooklyn Bridge Park was broadcast live on WNYC. She teaches music and songwriting inside correctional facilities through Musicambia, and draws on seven years in classical artist management at Colbert Artists Management to advise musicians on branding and career strategy, most recently as the selected consulting artist for Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward grant. Born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S., she is currently training to become a healer through craniosacral therapy, energy work, and herbalism, and feels most grounded spending time outdoors in nature. She believes in the power of healing through creativity, self expression, and self empowerment, and hopes to help the people around her become healthier and more fully themselves.

Artist’s Social Media
Instagram: @michellezarco 

Photo Credit: Nichole Washington

Sarah Boucher (she/her)

Dates of Residency: 9/22 – 10/6

Residency Plan
I will be creating a large-scale drawing that will provide visual cues of passing time through the changes of color. The drawing will also be punctuated with time stamps and arbitrary hourly wage amounts. By a capitalist standpoint, the work I complete should be quantified and assigned a value. My hopes for this is to reflect back on the viewers current understandings or biases of how art can and should be valued, through the lens we are so used to looking through, and hopefully leave a space for them to wonder about how this aligns with their own personal philosophy.

Community Program
Workshop exploring creativity and self-expression as essential to health and wellbeing. Details TBA.

About Sarah
Sarah Boucher is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and mental health worker from Yellowstone County, Montana. She received her BA in Human Services from MSU Billings in 2021, and graduates with an MS in Mental Health Counseling in 2026. Her artistic practice is deeply intertwined with her experiences working in the mental health field in Montana as she takes in lived experiences of her clients. She believes the act of creating is a healing practice, and enjoys bringing it into her work with clients in mental health counseling. Her recent artistic focus has oriented around creating visual illustrations of abstract sociological and political concepts; as well as psychological concepts, such as the complex thoughts, feelings and realizations we face during a healing process. Her work is featured in numerous online publications and she recently was awarded Merit for 2D Excellence at Montana State University Billings.

Artist’s Social Media
www.sarahboucherart.com
Instagram: @sarahboucher.art
YouTube: Art by SB

Photo Credit: Jo Sevier