ECAR Artists
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Meet our 2025 Residents…
Grant Brownlow
Printmaking
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Grant M. Brownlow is a Michigan born and raised interdisciplinary artist and educator working primarily in printmaking and mixed media paintings. Grant creates intricate industrial-inspired compositions exploring the post-industrial midwestern psyche. The work, informed by his life and upbringing around post-industrial and automotive-centered ephemera, confronts ideas including class, identity, distortion of influences and self-destructive tendencies.
Grant was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he was heavily influenced by the industrial landscape of the Midwestern United States. During this time, Grant frequented autobody shops, racetracks, forgotten industrial sites and worked in plastic automotive factories. Grant studied Studio Art at Albion College after which he received his MFA from Purdue University in 2024. Grant currently lives and works in the greater Detroit, Michigan region.
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Jewan Goo
Photography
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Jewan Goo is a research-based artist whose image-based practice interrogates colonial juridical visibility through the analytic frameworks of visual culture studies and critical theory. His practice mobilizes forensic excavation and countervisual strategies to expose the regimes of documentation and legal architectures that engineer historical legitimacy and codify ideological narratives within state archives. Drawing on postcustodial archival theory and decolonial praxis, Goo engages in palimpsestic interventions, reconstructing visually undocumented histories and revealing the epistemic violence embedded in archival silences.
By treating shadow archives as contested sites, he asserts representational sovereignty and recuperates subjugated knowledge through images that challenge institutional authority and disrupt hegemonic frameworks. His research excavates how imperial scopic regimes, spatial dispositifs, and juridical infrastructures structure exclusion, mediate access to collective narratives, and naturalize power. Grounded in the analysis of state apparatuses and disciplinary power, Goo reconstructs the ways institutionalized epistemologies shape the perceptual and symbolic orders of the present.
Goo holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2025–2027 Core Program Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Kristal Sotomayor
Social Practice
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Kristal Sotomayor is an award-winning nonbinary Peruvian American director, producer, journalist and curator based in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Named one of “10 Latinx Filmmakers You Should Know About” by HipLatina, they are a 2023 DOC NYC Documentary New Leader Honoree and Rockwood Documentary Leadership Fellow.
Kristal’s short Latinx immigrant rights documentary Expanding Sanctuary won the Philadelphia Filmmaker Award at the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival and is distributed through OTV, Kanopy, and New Day Films. Their short experimental documentary Don’t Cry For Me All You Drag Queens won Best LGBTQ Documentary at the 2025 Poppy Jasper International Film Festival. Kristal’s debut narrative short film Las Cosas Que Brillan is a coming of age story about a Trans Latina mermaid and produced with support from BlackStar.
They are in development on their debut feature documentary Untitled PARS Project about surveillance of immigrant communities, produced with support from the Sundance Film Institute. They are in production on their first audio documentary on water rights in Pennsylvania through support from Voice of Witness. They are in development on a number of short and feature-length directorial projects through their company Sotomayor Productions.
Kristal’s work has also been supported by the Outfest, Points North Institute, MDOCS, DCTV, and NeXtDoc. They have curated acclaimed programming across the country at SFFILM, Frameline, True/False Film Fest, and the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. They are the Editor-in-Chief of the cinéSPEAK Journal and their freelance writing bylines include The Philadelphia Inquirer, Documentary Magazine, Autostraddle, AL DÍA, and WHYY.
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Past ECAR Residents…
Since 2010 Emmanuel College has hosted 48 artists from 16 different countries. Each artist is organized by the category they participated in during their residency, though many are interdisciplinary and explore many forms of art.