We are very excited to announce
the ON::View Artists-in-Residence of Summer & Fall 2025!
Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at ARTS Southeast, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The studio’s large windows look out onto Bull Street, allowing the artists’ work to be on view to the community at all times. ARTS Southeast’s visitors and passersby on the sidewalk witness the artists’ process as it unfolds in real time, seeing all the steps involved from concept to final execution. Community events like workshops, performances, public art projects and artist talks, offer creative ways to interact with the public. The ON::View Residency supports artists from across the globe, working in all media and provides studio space, accommodations, and the opportunity to live, work and play alongside local artists in a vibrant community.
See below for brief Project Descriptions and Artist Bios.
Check our Calendar of Events for details on Artist Talks, workshops, open studio days and more!
Davion Alston
Atlanta, GA
June & July 2025
Davion is a visual artist, educator, and critic based between Atlanta, GA, New Haven, CT, and Brooklyn, NY. He describes his work as a constant flow of doing and undoing; thematically informed by his personal upbringing, and out of the desire to know where his genealogical lineage comes from. The language for his artistic process rests at the intersections of visibility, endurance, stillness, memory, displacement, and connectivity; usually blurring and redefining his relationship between photography, sculpture, and installation.
“There is history that sits beneath my feet in my grandparents backyard. In recent bodies of work I have travelled home to McIntosh and Glynn County to document various sites of oyster tabby shells, ruins, plantation grounds, and architecture. I want to deeply understand the roots and foundations of where I come from by documenting parts of the land that still hold original tabby ruins and foundations (related to slave trade and housing); to later create my own molds and studies for a longer term project. Each visit feels like a homecoming as I unpack a history that is embedded within the infrastructure of my upbringing. Through the camera, my desire to handbuild, and my intention to mine memory; my goal is to photograph and build different small forms of oyster tabby objects – using this as a time to process and to redefine the key materials I need to use to create.”
Melinda Borysevicz
Cilento, Italy
August & September 2025
Melinda Borysevicz is an Italian-American figurative artist currently living and working in rural southern Italy. After participating for many years in Savannah Georgia’s vibrant creative scene, she travelled to a village not too far from her ancestral home in southern Italy. “A couple months away” has turned into several years after Borysevicz simply stayed to continue to paint. Her narrative portrait and figure paintings spring directly from her personal experience of having re-discovered her ancestral home.
“I’ve been intrigued by the theme of processions the past few years, initially inspired by the religious processions that happen with regularity in every village in the valley where I live in southern Italy. These processions recall ancient local practices of bringing gifts to the gods that once protected this area and they mirror similar events in every culture. There is power in a group of people all walking together, united in celebration, prayer, exodus; liberation…I started to imagine what a contemporary Savannah procession might look like...an assembly of characters moving together towards their to-be-determined destination. Where are we going? What do we carry with us? Who are we surrounded by? What obstacles might we face? Who is reluctant, who is watching, what/who will be left behind? The figures and faces for this work will come directly from Savannah’s historic and contemporary milieu: portrait sittings will be open to the public, leaving space for spontaneous participation and conversations about the past, present, and future of Savannah.”
Noah Reyes
Atlanta, GA
October 2025
Noah Reyes (b.1994) is an artist taking steps in many different directions, resulting in a peculiar dance between curating, writing, and artmaking. After receiving a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Noah returned to their hometown of Atlanta. They aim to bridge connections between people, cultures, and art in hopes of shaping a more empathetic and nurturing future. Noah has exhibited at various spaces across the American southeast including MOCA GA, Zeitgeist Gallery, and Westobou. They have spoken at GSU, UGA, and Atlanta Contemporary for their work as an artist and curator. Noah is the Editorial + Outreach Coordinator for Art Papers, serves as a board member for Lostintheletters, and sometimes writes for ArtsATL, ART PAPERS, Burnaway, and IMPACT.
“For the duration of the ON::View Residency I plan to work on a series of paintings and sculptures I have been developing, as well as exploring new structures and configurations to present the works. These works would include paintings and drawings as well as sites of assemblage with the inclusion of mixed media and found objects. A modestly sized “cradle” will reside by the Residency window acting as a stage or framework in which to present new experimentations of my work for the duration of the Residency.”
ARTS Southeast invites the public to welcome each artist and engage in artistic and cultural exchange. Each artist will have regular open studio hours for members of the community to drop in, see their work, and have the opportunity for collaboration.
Follow along with the residents via Instagram @onviewresidency
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts.This programming is also made possible with investment by the City of Savannah. Special thanks to our local Residency Sponsors Starlandia Supply, Green Truck Pub, and Starland Yard, and program partners SCAD Museum of Art and Telfair Museums.
