This Virtual Artist Salon series was designed to showcase and advance the 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow's creative practices, provide space for an exchange of ideas and perspectives among all participants, and further the connection between Kresge Artist Fellows and the wider arts community.

Andrew Morton is an award-winning playwright and theatre maker who creates socially engaged theatre both with and for vulnerable populations. His work has been produced across Michigan, the United States, and internationally. Originally from England, Morton holds a Master of Arts in community arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is currently based in Detroit, where he is a project manager at TimeSlips Creative Storytelling. Morton’s next project, Sofa Stories, created with young people who have experienced homelessness, will premiere in multiple spaces in Detroit in 2021.

Paige Wood is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and creative consultant. Born in Detroit and working worldwide, Paige has produced and/or co-written a number of critically-acclaimed documentary and narrative films since the start of her freelance career in 2018. Currently, she serves as the supervising producer of five narrative-shifting multimedia projects supported by The Ford Foundation, and teaches as an adjunct instructor in the film program at Wayne State University. Paige is an alumna of Firelight Media’s 2018-2019 Impact Producer Fellowship cohort as well as a recipient of the Sundance Institute’s 2019 Knight Fellowship.

Brandon Walley is a filmmaker and curator based in Detroit, Michigan. He creates 16mm, Super 8mm, and digital films that explore the abstractions between humanity, ecology, industry, and technology. For over a decade, his films have been screened widely including Kunsthaus Graz (Austria), Strangloscope (Brazil), Rooftop Film (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and more. Brandon has taught film production at various institutions including the College for Creative Studies, Lawrence Technological University, and YArts of Metro Detroit. Brandon has been Media City Film Festival’s Regional Artists’ Curator since 2008, is head of the festival Screening Committee, and is the organization’s Board Chair.