Welcome Residents
Take a moment to learn about our AiR program and a bit about our resident cohorts. Check back into this story, as we updated it with February and March artist biographies.
About the Program:
Caldera Artists in Residence offers artists, creatives, and cultural workers time and space at Caldera in Sisters, Oregon, to deepen creative practice, experiment, and disrupt the status quo. We invite creatives of any discipline to find inspiration from the natural world surrounding Caldera’s property in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Central Oregon. Expanding Caldera’s creative ecosystem of more than 300 artists, our residency program showcases diverse adult learners and connects artist residents with Caldera youth.
January 2025 Cohort:
Muffie Delgado Connelly • muffiedelgadoconnelly.com
Muffie Delgado Connelly (she/her) is a Xicanx mother dance artist, movement researcher, and teacher. She is an artist/activist who believes in dance as a strategy for fostering resilience and resistance. Her mission is to make dance engage in somatic practices that address personal and community needs. Her work as a performer and choreographer has been presented in venues including the Art Institute of Chicago, Movement Research Festival (NY), The Gibney Dance Center (NY), Portland Center Stage, Performance Works NW, and Spotlight: USA in Bulgaria. She is the recipient of awards from the Ford Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, and RACC (Portland).
Alicia Goodwin • https://linguanigra.com/pages/gallery
Alicia Goodwin is a contemporary jeweler based in Chicago, renowned for her expertise in creating sculptural jewelry with striking textures. A graduate of New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Alicia adeptly incorporates ancient techniques like reticulation and acid etching into her contemporary designs. Driven by a deep passion for the artistry of complex ancient ceremonial jewelry, Alicia draws inspiration from the ingenuity of artisans who crafted masterpieces centuries before her, using minimal tools like fire, sand, and beeswax.
Johnny Huy Nguyễn • www.johnnyhuynguyen.com
Johnny Huy Nguyễn is a Vietnamese multidisciplinary dance artist based in unceded Ramaytush-Ohlone territory (SF). He weaves together movement, theater, media, spoken word, ritual, and installation to create physical works that investigate masculinity, lineage, and intergenerational trauma through a healing lens. Nguyễn is a 2023 United States of Asian America Festival Featured Artist, 2022 Isadora Duncan Dance Award recipient, and 2021 APAture Festival Featured Artist. His work has been presented by API Cultural Center, 500 Capp Street, and Asian Art Museum. His dance films have shown nationally and internationally - Contact Dance International Film Festival (Canada), Dance Camera Istanbul (Turkey).
Sunset Suh
Sunset Suh is a queer Korean American painter, currently based in Portland, OR. Suh was born and raised by their grandparents in the suburbs of Kansas City, Kansas, attending the Kansas City Art Institute and finishing their BFA in painting from the Pacific NW College of Art. Suh’s work examines conditioned culture: a flowery visual gateway leading to truth, queerness, and the comedy of identity. Allegorical moments of time and space are found in their work; intimate platforms of vulnerability resistant to assumed ideologies. Their studio practice channels hidden sensibilities via somatic interplay, a methodology to tinker our internal compass.
