❀ 2026 RESIDENTS ❀

In 2026, we're hosting two residency types: longer Gardener-in-Residence stays, and week-long Regenerative Retreats. Overall, our combined 2026 resident cohort features an array of ambitious and creative organizers, artists, land workers, publishers, landscape designers, herbalists, and others whose practices center environmental sustainability, climate justice, and healing for the natural world. Scroll on to meet The Strange's 2026 residents—we're excited to start hosting them soon!

Ariana Faye Allensworth works across design, cultural strategy, and curatorial practice to examine interwoven histories of land, power, and Black spatial memory. Rooted in her ancestral ties to Allensworth, CA—the state’s only Black Freedom Colony (est. 1908)—she is laying the groundwork for a land-based art and ecology project there.

Katelyn Lipton is a Korean American artist, farmer, and organizer whose work is rooted in food sovereignty and community building. Weaving together plant studies and traditional Korean crafts, her work connects people to the land, to each other, and to themselves through poetry, public art, printmaking, and papermaking.

Danielle N. Choi is a Massachusetts-based landscape architect, writer, and educator. Her work investigates how constructed landscapes stage encounters among technology, ecology, and public life, attending to the often-overlooked work of making and maintenance that reshapes the ethical and aesthetic boundaries of design in a rapidly changing climate.

Tractor Beam is a speculative fiction publication exploring anti-apocalyptic futures rooted in soil, food, and farming—aka soilpunk. Co-founded and edited by Claire Gustavson and Lana Z Porter, it draws on speculative design, anthropology, climate tech, and journalism, and the conviction that fiction shapes the future—and our future is on Earth.

Raised in their mother’s backyard gardens, Emeran Irby returned to agriculture through restaurant work, eventually finding their way into food studies, farming, writing, and storytelling. They later co-founded Dinner Bell Magazine, and have worked in agricultural nonprofits for the past ten years.

Poppies 4 Palestine is an autonomous guerrilla planting project with the aim of sowing poppy seeds across New York City to honor the Palestinian martyrs and resistance against the ongoing genocide, and as a grieving ritual for our Palestinian community.

Logan Williams is an artist, journalist, and bird watcher from the United States living in New York. He uses data and interactivity to explore the ways that technology mediates and augments human awareness of nature. Technology is interpreted broadly, from microscopy and machine learning to taxonomic and didactic systems.

Gili Rappaport is an artist and naturalist exploring the vital intersections of embodiment and ecology. Through devoted land-based research and storytelling, Gili aims to remember the bonds between people and place, cultivating collective solidarity and care rooted in the patterns of the forest and beyond.

Kali Villarosa is a land tender, community organizer, and emerging storyteller exploring the many mediums through which liberation can be actualized. Brooklyn-born and living in New Orleans, she currently stewards land at Speakeasy Farm, a land sovereignty project offering free produce, farming education, herbal medicine, and space for joyful gathering.

Sea Armstrong and Jamaica Kalika are artists and filmmakers brought together by a shared devotion to land approached through distinct practices. Sea explores ecology, folklore, and inheritance; Jamaica’s work centers stewardship, foodways, and documentary practice. Their collaborative practice approaches filmmaking as ritual, exploring how communities restore relationships with the natural world and imagine regenerative futures.

lee rae walsh is an artist-poet-photographer- teacher-researcher-and-friend. They have facilitated independent spaces for study, experimental performances, small-scale publishing, and collaborative practice for over ten years. lee runs Sunday School, a platform that celebrates alternative forms of pedagogy, calling on a cabinet of queer angels as guides. They are currently editing a long-form writing project inspired by years spent in an epistolary love affair with Claude Cahun.

Alison Maurer is a municipal restoration planner, trained in landscape architecture. At work, she builds parks and cultivates wildlife habitat with residents as co-creators. She is motivated to reconnect humans to their environments following disturbance. Her research focuses on post-disaster sites, regeneration, care, non-scalability, and hybrid labor.

Pssst! Now that you've reached the bottom of this page, you might like to check out our off-shoot projects: Dark Properties, an ecological editorial project, and Moon Rock Flowers, the mini flower farm we run on-site at The Strange.