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309 Artist in Residence: January 2026
January | Anna Kohlweis
IG: @annakohlweis
Anna Kohlweis is an Austrian interdisciplinary artist. Utilizing visual arts, writing, and music in equal measures, her work lies in creating an expansive narrative universe highly influenced by folklore and personal mythology, the intricacies of language, silliness, light, and color, the politics of being alive, nonstop sensory overload, inhabiting a neurodivergent body, and the depths of human (dis)connection.
She has exhibited and performed in Europe and the United States, has illustrated various publications, written and recorded film scores, and is a published writer. She has been a performer and recording artist as Paper Bird (2006-2011) and Squalloscope (2011-now) and is one-half of the band Twin Tooth. Anna lives and works mostly in Vienna, Austria, on the internet, and in people's heads.
During her residency, she will dive further into her recent practice of creating artist books from locally salvaged materials and interweaving them with illustrations, poetry, and music.
IG: @annakohlweis
Anna Kohlweis is an Austrian interdisciplinary artist. Utilizing visual arts, writing, and music in equal measures, her work lies in creating an expansive narrative universe highly influenced by folklore and personal mythology, the intricacies of language, silliness, light, and color, the politics of being alive, nonstop sensory overload, inhabiting a neurodivergent body, and the depths of human (dis)connection.
She has exhibited and performed in Europe and the United States, has illustrated various publications, written and recorded film scores, and is a published writer. She has been a performer and recording artist as Paper Bird (2006-2011) and Squalloscope (2011-now) and is one-half of the band Twin Tooth. Anna lives and works mostly in Vienna, Austria, on the internet, and in people's heads.
During her residency, she will dive further into her recent practice of creating artist books from locally salvaged materials and interweaving them with illustrations, poetry, and music.
2026 Artists in residence
January | Anna Kohlweis (Vienna, Austria)
@annakohlweis | www.annakohlweis.com
Residing and working primarily in Vienna, Austria, Anna Kohlweis is an interdisciplinary practitioner whose work merges painting, drawing, music, fiber art, poetry, prose, sound, video, and illustration. As a recording artist, songwriter, and performer, they have released music under the names Paper Bird (2006–2011) and Squalloscope (2011–present). They are one half of the band Twin Tooth (with Jan Preißler), as well as one half of the songwriting duo Squalloscope & Andy the Doorbum. Drawing equally from visual art, writing, and music, their practice is centered on building an expansive narrative universe influenced by folklore, the politics of belonging, the intricacies of language, light, and color, sensory overload, the experience of inhabiting an autistic body, and the depth and persistence of human yearning.
February | CA Conrad (Greenfield, MA)
@caconrad88 | www.caconrad.com
CAConrad has been writing poems for more than 50 years and working with (Soma)tic poetry rituals for over 20 years. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Literary Award. The Book of Frank is available in 9 different languages, most recently French and Italian. They also exhibit poems as sculpture with recent shows in London, Hamburg, Melbourne, Porto, Santander, and Tucson. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute and De Ateliers in Amsterdam.
March | Julia Gorton (Jersey City, NJ)
@juliagortonnowave | www.juliagorton.com
Julia Gorton is an acclaimed photographer, designer, and visual artist whose work captures the raw energy and spirit of New York City’s punk and no-wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, and a graduate of Parsons School of Design, Gorton became a pivotal figure in documenting the countercultural movements that defined an era. Her stark black-and-white photographs of iconic musicians, artists, and underground figures—including Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, and members of the no-wave movement—are celebrated for their gritty authenticity and timeless aesthetic. Gorton's work offers an intimate glimpse into a transformative period in music, art, and cultural history, preserving the essence of a fleeting yet influential subculture. Julia Gorton’s contributions continue to resonate, serving as both a visual archive and a source of inspiration for those who seek to understand and celebrate the intersections of art, music, and rebellion.
April | Bread Box Theatre (Pensacola, FL)
@bread.box.theatre
Breadbox Theatre is a local puppet troupe dedicated to storytelling and creative community engagement. The group presents playful performances that often reinterpret classic fairy tales at DIY venues and regional festivals.
May | Jaime Diffee (Pensacola, FL)
@heyletscommunicate
Jaime Diffee is a Pensacola-based artist and museum professional currently serving as Preparator and Curatorial Coordinator at the Pensacola Museum of Art. In this role, they oversee exhibition installation and maintenance, collection care, and day-to-day museum operations. Their practice employs traditional oil painting techniques to examine contemporary subject matter, often bringing the human form and animal imagery into close, sometimes uneasy proximity. Through this approach, Diffee creates work that is darkly humorous and emotionally complex while remaining rooted in careful observation and painterly skill. Diffee earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of West Florida in 2017.
June | Quincy "Q" Hull (Denver, CO) & Talamieka Brice (Kimichael/Jackson, MS)
@qtherevolutionary
@talamieka
Quincy “Q” Hull is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist with deep roots in the Pensacola, Florida, poetry scene and an active presence in Denver’s arts community. A seasoned spoken word artist with over two decades of experience, Hull is known for his powerful performances and socially engaged writing that confronts issues of intolerance, injustice, and cultural identity. He is the author of several poetry books, including Tribal Initiations, Anarchism, and Like Crabs in a Bucket, and has released multiple music and spoken word CDs. Hull is a longtime member and former vice president of the Still Black See Writers’ & Artists’ Guild and has hosted open mics and featured at events nationwide. Since relocating to Denver in 2021, he has remained deeply involved in the local arts scene, including hosting the Corner Beet open mic at the Mercury Cafe.
Talamieka Brice is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, photographer, and visual storyteller from Kilmichael, Mississippi, currently based in Jackson. She is a graduate of Jackson State University and, alongside her husband Charles Brice, co-owns and operates Brice Media, a marketing and advertising company based in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Through Brice Media, she has worked with high profile clients including Kim Kardashian and the USA Olympic Fencing Team. Brice is widely recognized for her public art and documentary work, including the creation of the Barack Obama mural at the Barack H. Obama Magnet School in Jackson and her award-winning feature-length documentary Five A Mother’s Journey, which she wrote, produced, and directed. The film examines motherhood, Black identity, and racial history in America. In addition to her creative practice, Brice is an activist and the founder of Mississippi², a nonprofit dedicated to amplifying Black stories and creating spaces for healing and truth. She has been named a Person to Watch by Graphic Design USA, becoming the first and only Mississippian to receive this distinction.
July | Rainn Forrest & Bea Hurd (Baton Rouge, LA)
@appalachian_goth_clown | www.rainnjackson.com
@bea__hurd | www.beahurd.com
Rainn Forrest (they he) is an Appalachian Goth Clown, interdisciplinary artist, and community organizer whose work examines how queerness, disability, and regional identity shape lived experience within late stage capitalist culture in the United States. Their practice spans performance, participatory experience, video, collage, humor, and sculpture, and is informed by philosophical and critical theory, including the writings of Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno. Central to Rainn’s practice is creative collaboration as a means of resisting artistic competition and hierarchical social structures. Drawing from paratheatre, a participatory performance model developed by Jerzy Grotowski that dissolves the boundary between performer and spectator, Rainn creates ritual based experiences that emphasize collective action and non hierarchical power. Their work also incorporates clowning, Christian and pagan ritual, and satirical spirituality to critique Christian nationalism, capitalism, and the demand for constant productivity. Through humor, failure, and embodied participation, Rainn’s work imagines creative culture rooted in connection, care, and shared agency rather than profit. Rainn has frequently collaborated with Bea Hurd since 2021, with both artists embracing ADHD as a generative force in their work. They view neurodivergence and queerness as forms of productive glitch that challenge dominant systems and open space for alternative ways of being, making, and relating.
Bea Hurd is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice functions as an ongoing self-portrait rooted in material exploration, queer feminism, and embodied research. Working primarily in installation, film, and poetry, Hurd investigates queerhood, womanhood, diet culture, and the politics of pleasure through tactile, process driven methods that privilege collaboration and collective experience. Influenced by queer gothic aesthetics, feminist sexology, and horror, their work rejects the male gaze in favor of a ravenous, visceral female perspective. Hurd approaches making as ritual, embracing experimentation, vulnerability, and imperfection to create immersive, experiential works that foreground consumption, desire, and self-discovery as forms of agency and power.
August | Asha Dore (Seattle, WA)
@adjsbb
Asha Dore is a Seattle-based artist, writer, illustrator, and speech language pathologist whose interdisciplinary practice centers on language, neurodivergence, family, and care. Alongside her clinical work supporting children and families with communication disorders, she maintains an active literary and visual arts practice. Her essays and illustrations have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Slate, The Cut, and The Rumpus. Dore is the host of the literary interview podcast Totally Biased Reviews and the founding editor of Parley Lit, as well as editor in chief of Parley Productions. She is also a visual artist and muralist, and wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short film The Bleeds. Dore holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Oregon University and a clinical MS in Speech Therapy from Portland State University, and is active in the Pacific Northwest arts and special needs communities.
October | Chad Porter (San Francisco, CA)
@iamnotchadporter
Chad Porter is a contemporary visual artist based in San Francisco. Working primarily with ink on paper and risograph printing, his practice spans drawings, zines, and artist books that explore eroticism, pop culture, nostalgia, and personal narrative. Porter’s work is recognizable for its quirky characters, bold riso color palettes, and a balance of humor and intimacy. He publishes under his independent imprint, Auspicious Books, and has exhibited at events such as the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Actively sharing his work online, Porter uses both print and digital platforms to circulate his drawings and self-published projects.
November | Suzanne Byam (Gainesville, FL)
@g-garbonzo
Suzanne Byam, also known as Gabrielle Suzanne Byam, is an artist and longtime resident of Gainesville, Florida. She has been active in the Alachua County arts community for over a decade, working across multiple media and advocating for the needs of local artists, including applying to serve on the Arts Council of Alachua County. Byam has contributed to local historical archives through the sharing of historic photographs documenting Gainesville’s past and is also engaged in environmental advocacy at both the local and national level, speaking out against the reduction of national monument protections.
@annakohlweis | www.annakohlweis.com
Residing and working primarily in Vienna, Austria, Anna Kohlweis is an interdisciplinary practitioner whose work merges painting, drawing, music, fiber art, poetry, prose, sound, video, and illustration. As a recording artist, songwriter, and performer, they have released music under the names Paper Bird (2006–2011) and Squalloscope (2011–present). They are one half of the band Twin Tooth (with Jan Preißler), as well as one half of the songwriting duo Squalloscope & Andy the Doorbum. Drawing equally from visual art, writing, and music, their practice is centered on building an expansive narrative universe influenced by folklore, the politics of belonging, the intricacies of language, light, and color, sensory overload, the experience of inhabiting an autistic body, and the depth and persistence of human yearning.
February | CA Conrad (Greenfield, MA)
@caconrad88 | www.caconrad.com
CAConrad has been writing poems for more than 50 years and working with (Soma)tic poetry rituals for over 20 years. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Literary Award. The Book of Frank is available in 9 different languages, most recently French and Italian. They also exhibit poems as sculpture with recent shows in London, Hamburg, Melbourne, Porto, Santander, and Tucson. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute and De Ateliers in Amsterdam.
March | Julia Gorton (Jersey City, NJ)
@juliagortonnowave | www.juliagorton.com
Julia Gorton is an acclaimed photographer, designer, and visual artist whose work captures the raw energy and spirit of New York City’s punk and no-wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, and a graduate of Parsons School of Design, Gorton became a pivotal figure in documenting the countercultural movements that defined an era. Her stark black-and-white photographs of iconic musicians, artists, and underground figures—including Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, and members of the no-wave movement—are celebrated for their gritty authenticity and timeless aesthetic. Gorton's work offers an intimate glimpse into a transformative period in music, art, and cultural history, preserving the essence of a fleeting yet influential subculture. Julia Gorton’s contributions continue to resonate, serving as both a visual archive and a source of inspiration for those who seek to understand and celebrate the intersections of art, music, and rebellion.
April | Bread Box Theatre (Pensacola, FL)
@bread.box.theatre
Breadbox Theatre is a local puppet troupe dedicated to storytelling and creative community engagement. The group presents playful performances that often reinterpret classic fairy tales at DIY venues and regional festivals.
May | Jaime Diffee (Pensacola, FL)
@heyletscommunicate
Jaime Diffee is a Pensacola-based artist and museum professional currently serving as Preparator and Curatorial Coordinator at the Pensacola Museum of Art. In this role, they oversee exhibition installation and maintenance, collection care, and day-to-day museum operations. Their practice employs traditional oil painting techniques to examine contemporary subject matter, often bringing the human form and animal imagery into close, sometimes uneasy proximity. Through this approach, Diffee creates work that is darkly humorous and emotionally complex while remaining rooted in careful observation and painterly skill. Diffee earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of West Florida in 2017.
June | Quincy "Q" Hull (Denver, CO) & Talamieka Brice (Kimichael/Jackson, MS)
@qtherevolutionary
@talamieka
Quincy “Q” Hull is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist with deep roots in the Pensacola, Florida, poetry scene and an active presence in Denver’s arts community. A seasoned spoken word artist with over two decades of experience, Hull is known for his powerful performances and socially engaged writing that confronts issues of intolerance, injustice, and cultural identity. He is the author of several poetry books, including Tribal Initiations, Anarchism, and Like Crabs in a Bucket, and has released multiple music and spoken word CDs. Hull is a longtime member and former vice president of the Still Black See Writers’ & Artists’ Guild and has hosted open mics and featured at events nationwide. Since relocating to Denver in 2021, he has remained deeply involved in the local arts scene, including hosting the Corner Beet open mic at the Mercury Cafe.
Talamieka Brice is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, photographer, and visual storyteller from Kilmichael, Mississippi, currently based in Jackson. She is a graduate of Jackson State University and, alongside her husband Charles Brice, co-owns and operates Brice Media, a marketing and advertising company based in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Through Brice Media, she has worked with high profile clients including Kim Kardashian and the USA Olympic Fencing Team. Brice is widely recognized for her public art and documentary work, including the creation of the Barack Obama mural at the Barack H. Obama Magnet School in Jackson and her award-winning feature-length documentary Five A Mother’s Journey, which she wrote, produced, and directed. The film examines motherhood, Black identity, and racial history in America. In addition to her creative practice, Brice is an activist and the founder of Mississippi², a nonprofit dedicated to amplifying Black stories and creating spaces for healing and truth. She has been named a Person to Watch by Graphic Design USA, becoming the first and only Mississippian to receive this distinction.
July | Rainn Forrest & Bea Hurd (Baton Rouge, LA)
@appalachian_goth_clown | www.rainnjackson.com
@bea__hurd | www.beahurd.com
Rainn Forrest (they he) is an Appalachian Goth Clown, interdisciplinary artist, and community organizer whose work examines how queerness, disability, and regional identity shape lived experience within late stage capitalist culture in the United States. Their practice spans performance, participatory experience, video, collage, humor, and sculpture, and is informed by philosophical and critical theory, including the writings of Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno. Central to Rainn’s practice is creative collaboration as a means of resisting artistic competition and hierarchical social structures. Drawing from paratheatre, a participatory performance model developed by Jerzy Grotowski that dissolves the boundary between performer and spectator, Rainn creates ritual based experiences that emphasize collective action and non hierarchical power. Their work also incorporates clowning, Christian and pagan ritual, and satirical spirituality to critique Christian nationalism, capitalism, and the demand for constant productivity. Through humor, failure, and embodied participation, Rainn’s work imagines creative culture rooted in connection, care, and shared agency rather than profit. Rainn has frequently collaborated with Bea Hurd since 2021, with both artists embracing ADHD as a generative force in their work. They view neurodivergence and queerness as forms of productive glitch that challenge dominant systems and open space for alternative ways of being, making, and relating.
Bea Hurd is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice functions as an ongoing self-portrait rooted in material exploration, queer feminism, and embodied research. Working primarily in installation, film, and poetry, Hurd investigates queerhood, womanhood, diet culture, and the politics of pleasure through tactile, process driven methods that privilege collaboration and collective experience. Influenced by queer gothic aesthetics, feminist sexology, and horror, their work rejects the male gaze in favor of a ravenous, visceral female perspective. Hurd approaches making as ritual, embracing experimentation, vulnerability, and imperfection to create immersive, experiential works that foreground consumption, desire, and self-discovery as forms of agency and power.
August | Asha Dore (Seattle, WA)
@adjsbb
Asha Dore is a Seattle-based artist, writer, illustrator, and speech language pathologist whose interdisciplinary practice centers on language, neurodivergence, family, and care. Alongside her clinical work supporting children and families with communication disorders, she maintains an active literary and visual arts practice. Her essays and illustrations have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Slate, The Cut, and The Rumpus. Dore is the host of the literary interview podcast Totally Biased Reviews and the founding editor of Parley Lit, as well as editor in chief of Parley Productions. She is also a visual artist and muralist, and wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short film The Bleeds. Dore holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Oregon University and a clinical MS in Speech Therapy from Portland State University, and is active in the Pacific Northwest arts and special needs communities.
October | Chad Porter (San Francisco, CA)
@iamnotchadporter
Chad Porter is a contemporary visual artist based in San Francisco. Working primarily with ink on paper and risograph printing, his practice spans drawings, zines, and artist books that explore eroticism, pop culture, nostalgia, and personal narrative. Porter’s work is recognizable for its quirky characters, bold riso color palettes, and a balance of humor and intimacy. He publishes under his independent imprint, Auspicious Books, and has exhibited at events such as the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Actively sharing his work online, Porter uses both print and digital platforms to circulate his drawings and self-published projects.
November | Suzanne Byam (Gainesville, FL)
@g-garbonzo
Suzanne Byam, also known as Gabrielle Suzanne Byam, is an artist and longtime resident of Gainesville, Florida. She has been active in the Alachua County arts community for over a decade, working across multiple media and advocating for the needs of local artists, including applying to serve on the Arts Council of Alachua County. Byam has contributed to local historical archives through the sharing of historic photographs documenting Gainesville’s past and is also engaged in environmental advocacy at both the local and national level, speaking out against the reduction of national monument protections.
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The 309 Artist in Residence Program supports and advocates for regional, national, and international artists whose socially engaged work supports inclusivity and is relevant to the punk community. Our commitment to diversity is reflected in our aim to sustain an Artist in Residency Program that serves all of our community regardless of age and class and gives voice to underrepresented creative populations, particularly POC and LGBTQ2+ artists. |
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Our Artist-in-Residence (AIR) calendar is currently booked through 2027. We will reopen our application cycle on January 1, 2027, for residencies taking place in 2028.
Our annual AIR calendar is curated collaboratively from submitted applications through a nomination and voting process led by our Co-Executive Directors.
We seek artists and curators working in contemporary visual art, including but not limited to: zine and DIY print practices, photography, installation, experimental sound art, and crossover practices that include fashion, filmmaking, performance art, music, and writing.
AIRs receive 24-hour access to a first-floor live/workspace and access to the 309 archive for research purposes.
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For more information, see our 309 AIR STUDIO HANDBOOK.
- PROGRAMMING ~ Each Artist in Residence is offered the opportunity to create an educational or immersive experience for the local community. This can take the shape of a reading, lecture, open studio day, workshop, live performance, zoom programming, or other community engagement activity.
- THE 309 PUNK ARCHIVE ~ Each Artist in Residence participant donates one work created during their residency to the archive. The goal of the 309 Punk Archive is to inspire research and creative practice from our collective histories, which are currently preserved in the archive.
- PMA COLLABORATION ~ The Pensacola Museum of Art hosts the Annual 309 House Show. Each year, we exhibit a group show of the work created in the Artist in Residence Program.
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Testimonials
I cannot speak highly enough about the 309 Punk Project Artist in Residence program. My time at the house was truly a gift. The visionary founders and dedicated supporters behind this project have created a space that is nothing short of phenomenal—a place where the transformative energy of resistance and punk culture is kept vibrantly alive. The deep conversations and intense intersections with fellow artists and community members nourished my spirit and ignited my passion to create new work and collaborate with the house itself. This beloved project is a remarkable contribution to the art world. ~ Kim Darling, Artist In Residence
As an artist in residence at 309 Punk Project, I was afforded the freedom to reinvestigate my art practice, respond site-specifically, and interact with and serve an extraordinary community. Through social practice, photography, video, sound, and installation, I had the chance to honor my hometown community and my friend who'd passed away, a previous tenant of 309 N 6th Ave. The 309 Punk Project gave me a haven to make artwork again while simultaneously enlivening my career as a visual artist overall. ~ Felecia E Gail, Artist in Residence
As a late-in-life artist, I wanted to reboot my photography practice, which I began in my punk rock years, 1976-1980, in New York City. For almost four decades, I put my work aside to raise a family and be a design professor at Parsons School of Design. I am very good at helping others realize their potential, and I needed to do that myself. 309 Punk Project invited me to be a resident during their first year as a non-profit. I used my time in the house to photograph over a hundred members of the local community – neighbors, past residents, artists, punks, activists, art students and faculty, and members of the queer community. This opportunity helped me realize that as a photographer, I could use photography as a tool to connect with a divergent community by making portraits with them one by one. Two years later, I am still deeply connected to 309 and the people I met there, and I have returned to photograph them repeatedly. My residency helped me gain the confidence and experience I was missing and desperately needed. I have since taken this project to Los Angeles, Manhattan, London, Delaware, and Mobile – and in the coming year – Buffalo, Scranton, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and Tokyo. ~ Julia Gorton, Artist In Residence
As an artist in residence at 309 Punk Project, I was afforded the freedom to reinvestigate my art practice, respond site-specifically, and interact with and serve an extraordinary community. Through social practice, photography, video, sound, and installation, I had the chance to honor my hometown community and my friend who'd passed away, a previous tenant of 309 N 6th Ave. The 309 Punk Project gave me a haven to make artwork again while simultaneously enlivening my career as a visual artist overall. ~ Felecia E Gail, Artist in Residence
As a late-in-life artist, I wanted to reboot my photography practice, which I began in my punk rock years, 1976-1980, in New York City. For almost four decades, I put my work aside to raise a family and be a design professor at Parsons School of Design. I am very good at helping others realize their potential, and I needed to do that myself. 309 Punk Project invited me to be a resident during their first year as a non-profit. I used my time in the house to photograph over a hundred members of the local community – neighbors, past residents, artists, punks, activists, art students and faculty, and members of the queer community. This opportunity helped me realize that as a photographer, I could use photography as a tool to connect with a divergent community by making portraits with them one by one. Two years later, I am still deeply connected to 309 and the people I met there, and I have returned to photograph them repeatedly. My residency helped me gain the confidence and experience I was missing and desperately needed. I have since taken this project to Los Angeles, Manhattan, London, Delaware, and Mobile – and in the coming year – Buffalo, Scranton, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and Tokyo. ~ Julia Gorton, Artist In Residence
309 Local RESIDENT ARTISTS
The 309 Punk Project offers two upstairs rooms to the local community for fair, all-inclusive, rent with a renewable yearly lease.
Bryce Jollie was born in Pensacola, Florida, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of West Florida. Working primarily in music and digital photography under the pseudonym basttian, their practice extends into digital mixed media, including video and projection mapping. Raised in the Pensacola area, Bryce draws inspiration from the city’s rustic character and the authenticity and creative ethos of the local punk scene. They serve as co-head of event photography and documentation for the artist collective The Undergrowth and document Artists-in-Residence and music events for the 309 Punk Project.
