June 9-11
@ Elsewhere Museum
606 South Elm Street
Greensboro, NC

Thing Tank is a weekend retreat into a world of things. A select group of scholars and artists are invited for a weekend residency at Elsewhere’s museum, exploring the social, historical, political, and material consciousness of things in an at-hand, immersive environment.

Thing Tank Participants:

• Bill Brown (U. Chicago),
• John Plotz (Brandeis U.),
• Sarah Wasserman (U. Delaware),
• David Alworth (Harvard),
• Jenny Marketou (Artist),
• Pedro Lasch (Duke Social Practice Lab),
• Emily Stamey (Weatherspoon Art Museum),
• John Bowles (UNC Chapel Hill),
• Gregory Grieve (UNC Greensboro),
• Andrew Saulters (Unicorn Press),
• Anna Wallace (Artist),
• Heather Richardson Hayton (Guilford College),
• George Scheer (Elsewhere Co-Founder + Director),
• Emily Ensminger (Elsewhere Program Curator)

Thing Tank is a collaboration between Cabinet Magazine, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG, and Elsewhere.

Thing Tank is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.