Ashley Beals (she/her) is a painter and print maker from northern Connecticut. 

While at Sable, Ashley experimented with anthrotype sunprinting. She also worked en plein air to create both watercolor and oil paintings. 

Some fun facts about Ashley are she is a part of an old lady/lesbian softball team and her first job was an ice cream scoopologist. 

Website: ashleybeals.com

IG: @ashley.beals.art

Caroline Brown (they/them) works with readily available “non-traditional” materials (trash, plants, food waster, etc.) and is from DC/Philly. 

While at Sable, Caroline spent time rummaging around the land for materials, collaborated on banana peel paper making, experimented with “goop” (wheat paste and yarn scarps), and made portals with bent sticks and mesh. 

Fun fact: I want to learn bird calls

Eva Hoffman (she/her) is a filmmaker, writer, and painter living in San Francisco, California but originally from Minnesota. 

While at Sable, Eva has been working on a feature length script that explores the dynamics of a queer couple in an open relationship, and also an experimental multi channel video installation, film and concert that explores memories as a journey through the California landscape. To balance these projects she also paints :) 

Eva could eat bread for breakfast, lunch & dinner and never get sick of it.

Lauren Zito (she/her) is a digital filmmaker/cinematographer from Plattsburgh, NY. 

While at Sable, Lauren explored her surroundings, chased light, listened & recorded the owls and woodpeckers. 

Spending the majority of her time down by Sable’s vineyards, she built and wore a crown of thorns and antlers of twigs. Her journey through the vineyards took her into the world of the crone and end of life power and passion. 

A fun fact: she is a poached egg artist! 

Website: laurenzito.com

Riley Taylor (they/them) is a figurative painter & art teacher from Meriden, NH, previously Memphis, TN. 

Here at Sable Riley has been painting  multi figure work combining imagery, inspiration, and memories from their experience here on the Sable land as a practice of commemorating small moments into a collaged narrative. 

Riley got their start as an artist drawing caricatures at Six Flags and festivals and developed a love of people in art.

Roan Wade (they/them) is a mixed-media artist and activist based in New Hampshire. Currently, their art practice focuses on the rise of grid aesthetics as a byproduct of surveillance capitalism and imagines ways we can subvert the surveillance state as a form of resistance.

While at Sable, they worked on a series of pixelated sculptures made by shredding and weaving photos taken from 90s calendars. They also worked on a series of drawings created from charcoal impressions of leaves found around Sable, imposed on gridded paper.

An interesting fact about Roan is that their middle name is Vandyke - named after the lesbian separatist movement, where a group of lesbians changed their last names and lived in their vans.

Ali Ellis (she/they) is a painter & writer from Brooklyn. 

While at Sable, Ali is contemplating and exploring holding. 

Ali is strawberry blonde. 

@artbyaliellis

Personal: @ablobali

Xiao Ma (any/all pronouns) is a photographer and paper maker currently living and working in NYC as a chaplain and a Master of Divinity student. 

While at Sable they collaborated with other artists to make photos, and make paper out of banana peels. They also led a photography workshop for the group, inviting us to "make photos" in relationship with objects, places, and each other. The result was not only interesting photos, but engaging conversation and deeper connections. Before departing, Xiao asked us- "How can attention itself be a creative practice?"

Angie Tyler (she/they/he) is a Boston based musician and actor.

While at Sable they learned how to accompany themselves on the ukelele, working on music from the 17th Century (Lucretzia Vizzana) and the 20th Century (Joni Mitchell). They also worked on transcribing an Antonia Bembo cantata from facsimile to modern notation.

Angie has the most percussive burps this side of the Mississippi.

Insta: @angieftyler

Erica Levy (she/her) is an artist and art teacher living in Philadelphia. While at Sable, Erica has been swimming, laughing, dancing, crying, and digging a big hole. She sculpted lots of clay forms and then put them in the hole for Sable’s first ever ceramic pit fire. Sharing the process with her new friends, she roasted s’mores above the pit fire and learned so much about making art with, on, and within our earth. Thank you Sable!

Fun fact: Erica just learned how to drive.

Liliana Colón (she/her) is a singer/songwriter originally from NYC, now based in Miami.

While at Sable, Liliana played with different tunings on her guitar and explored the different ways she could arrange songs. She wrote three songs at Sable, using the natural landscape as guidance and inspiration for her lyrics.

A fun fact about her is that she loooves to dance!

Instagram: @lily_flash

Mo Oberman (they/them) works with weaving and dancing and is from Madison, WI.

While at Sable Mo expanded into shared movement practice, enjoying material mistakes and feeling the softness of the earth. They loved Sable, the river, their cohort, and art looking forward to catching a breath from all the laughter.

Sarah Jane Timmons (she/her) is a watercolor artist and yoga teacher from Philadelphia.

While at Sable, Sarah continued a series of miniature paintings and illustrated favorite locations, ferns, and florals. She also taught several yoga classes for the cohort.

Sarah is also talented at designing cheeseboards and made one for one of our dinners together.

SarahJaneTimmons.com
@SarahJaneEllen7

Spencer Camlin (he/they) is a multimedia artist currently living in Deleware but attending school at the University of Hartford.

During his time at Sable, he allowed the nature, people, and community environment influence & inspire his works. With many ideas, they cast cyanotypes and made paper using widdled wood shavings and paper doodled on by the rest of the Sable community.

Spencer’s time at Sable helped him better undersatnd himself and his needs. Learning when to take breaks, rest, advocating for what you need and not feeling shame in taking it. He is so grateful fro Sable for this opportunity, and all of the wonderful people who made the community living a dream.

Fun Fact!: Along with being a visual artist, Spencer has been involved in theatre since he was 6!

Art account: @courderoy.jacket

Alec Lichtenberg (he/him) is a dancer, storyteller, youth advocate, and organizer from Lenapehoking/Queens, NYC.

Coming from German, Jewish, Irish, Welsh, Piscataway ancestry. Alec practiced and shared body story waymaking supported by percussion, flute, and community practice to work with and around social and intimate harm and healing. Alec is grateful to dance and create and got married to his partner Natasha the week before coming to Sable!

Juan David Viveros Murillo (he/they) is an afro latinx / queer immigrant artist/dancer/choreographer/sociologist and video maker based in Queens, New York and originally from Cali, Colombia.

While at Sable, Juan explored the possibility of movement, creation and siblinghood that the nature in Vermont could give them to inspire their journey.

Fun fact: Juan loves to combine words to make them funnier: sweet + suitcase = sweetcase

IG: @danzajuan
linktree - danzajuan

Manuela "Mango" Agudelo (she/they): dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, clown, puppeteer, community organizer, roller skater, film director, & professional yapper! From Envigado, Columbia, raised & based in Queens, New York.

While at Sable, Mango worked on developing the dance theater clowning piece MASKHARAH with her sibling and collaborator Juan Viveros. Their duo, KIRIBUMBA, explores social justice themes within their queer Columbian immigrant identity. Mango studied social justice & performance art in college and continues her social practice and dance making process while frolicking at Sable.

Fun fact: Mango can simultaneously translate English —> Spanish & knows Shrek in Spanish by heart <3

IG: @Manuela.Mango

Lauren Bass (she/her) is an artist from Lawrence, Kansas. She works in oil painting, charcoal, and ink.

While at Sable, Lauren has been connecting with her artistic practice through observational sketches and paintings of the environment, reading literature related to her practice, and gathering reference photography, sketches, and inspirations for her studio practice.

Photo by Tobey Katt

Lauren loves touching mosses and hugging trees, and she has been in zero productions of Annie.

Insta: Laurenbass_art
website: basslauren.myportfolio.com

Natalie (she/they) is a painter from Albany, NY. Natalie received their BFA in Painting and Drawing in 2025 from SUNY Purchase.

While at The Sable Project, Natalie has been enjoying painting, drawing, and writing based upon her experiences on the Sable land.

Fun fact #1: This is Natalie’s first artist residency!
Fun Fact #2: Natalie has never been in a production of Annie.

IG: @fringedsquawker
natalieoliverstudio.com

Photo by Tobey Katt

Sam Babineau (she/her) is a fiddle player and songwriter from Southeastern Massachusetts.

While at Sable, Sam has been working on new music, exploring playing the harp, and making tiny stamps.

Sam has been in 2 productions of Annie.

You can find Sam on Instagram @samarillionmusic or at her website sambabineau.com

Photo by Tobey Katt

Sydonia Axis (they/them) is a cross disciplinary artist who finds their creative practice at the confluence of farming, cooking, herbalism, photography & collage. They feel that art is an active collaboration with the world around them & that the curation of space is always a part of the creative practice.

Sydonia grew up between the corn fields of Ohio & the beaches of Rhode Island, but currently resides in Plainfield, Vermont. While at Sable, Sydonia compiled a cookbook zine from recipies they have created & compiled, collaged together with their own photography & found images. They were often seen with a camera slung over their shoulder documenting the slow beauty of Sable time.

Substack: @sydoniaxis
Radio archives: mixcloud.com/BaberhoodRadioArchive/

Tobey Katt (they/them) is an interdisciplinary Artist, photographer, facilitator and parade enthusiast from BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - currently based in Mid-coast MAINE.

While at Sable, Tobey has been braiding together anything they can find, reading poems, about Black Mountain College, creating a series of paintings saturated in joy, making photographs of their fellow ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, and baking desserts while laughing.

Tobey loves elaborate community art projects, swimming outside year round, and knows how to build a boat. They have been in zero productions of Annie.

Insta: @tobeykatt
Web: tobeykatt.com

Gabriella Belfiglio (she/they) - poetry

Photo by Tobey Katt

Storm Welch (they/he) is a traveling Crankie maker, performer, and organizer from Brattleboro, VT.

During their 4th stint at Sable, they spent their time designing a new Sable T-shirt, bundle-dying fabric using plants and objects form the Sable landscape, and meditating on transofmraiton and alchemy in the natural world.

You can find Storm on instagram at @stormthebirdy and in-person at puppet slams and contra-dances acrssoss the East Coast.

Jenna Joan (she/her) - photography and writing