12/16/2025
✨THE MEADOW ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (WINTER 2026) ✨
🔮 Loveis Wise (they/them) is an illustrator, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. Currently based in Los Angeles, Loveis’ work is centered around reimagining futures, liberation, and q***r/gender-expansive communities and their stories.
We are such big fans of Loveis and their work, and we can’t wait for you to see the magic they create with their upcoming project ✨
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We received so many applications, and we were BLOWN AWAY by the amount of talent in our extended community. Which is why we’re also establishing our inaugural Meadow Artists’ Cohort! Four more incredible artists will be joining our Artist in Residence this winter. We truly love their work, and we know you will, too.
⛅️ Santos Arrué (she/her) is a Guatemalan-Honduran-American writer/director born and raised in Los Angeles whose work explores identity, foreignness, displacement, and community. Santos was a 2025 Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Fellow and is currently developing her debut feature, How to Stop the Sky from Wanting.
☎️ Alyssa Spradley (she/her) writes poetry, prose, and songs as a way to process big emotions and questions in life. In her project, how often do you call your mom, Alyssa writes about the complexity of coming of age while navigating her mom’s ten year progressive brain disease.
🌊 heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (they/them) is a q***r, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are a professor of feminist, q***r, and disability studies; and poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal. Their poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in American Poetry Review, The Normal School, and Waxwing, among other places.
🌀 Alex Nystrom (he/him) is an Ojibwe filmmaker born and raised in Minneapolis. Alex is a 2025 Sundance Institute Native Lab Fellow developing his debut feature film, Spiral, which most recently participated in the 2025 Gotham Week Project Market.