The Time Being

Curated by Lauren Nye and Nandini Makrandi

December 5, 2025 - January 17, 2026

The Time Being celebrates the unique community cultivated at the Stove Works residency in 2025. The featured artists, writers, and performers stepped outside of their home studios to reside here, exploring their craft, creating new work, and taking time away from their usual routines. This beautiful in-between period provided a blank canvas for ideas to grow, serving as a waypoint on their journey—if only for the time being. Here, we revisit the year’s residents and honor their impact on this space.

Participating Artists

Ahmed Ozsever, Alex Zak, Anastasia Kirages, André Ramos-Woodward, Beck Haberstroh, Caroline Cloutier, Dave Kube, Debbie Kenote, Doi Kim, Dylan Ahern, Harrison Wayne, Helen Jones, Holland Hopson, Hunter Swenson, Jackie Lewis, Jacq Groves, Jessica Harvey, Jordan Holm, Jorge Palacios, Juan-Manuel Pinzon, Kate Greenwell, Katie Mongoven, Kayla Jones, Mami Takahashi, Marilla Cubberley, Megan Ledbetter, Monica Sheets, Sarah Wagner, Savithri Velaga.

More to come

About the Curators

Lauren Nye is the Associate Curator at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In this position, she focuses on preserving, researching, and presenting the permanent collection, primarily working with pieces from the Colonial period to the early 20th century. Before moving to Tennessee in 2023, she served as the Director of Exhibitions at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for ten years.

In her freelance work, Nye collaborates with artists, independent galleries, and collectors to bring creative projects to life. Before her work in museums, she managed multiple commercial galleries, curating solo and group exhibitions since 2010. She has experience coordinating complex public art projects and has assisted in sculptural installations nationally and internationally. Nye regularly serves as a professional development speaker, exhibition juror, and art contest judge and is an active member of the board of directors of the Susquehanna Art Museum.

Nandini Makrandi has been the Chief Curator of the Hunter Museum since 2013. Prior to becoming Chief Curator, Nandini was the Hunter Museum’s Curator of Contemporary Art for nine years and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. During her tenure at the Hunter, Nandini has focused on increasing diversity and dialogue within the collection and exhibitions program by broadening the museum’s contemporary holdings, curating over 70 changing exhibitions, organizing the first five nationally touring exhibitions at the Hunter, and originating several seminar courses in contemporary art and criticism for the University. Nandini was a recipient of an American Alliance of Museums Curators Committee Fellowship and participated in the Getty Leadership and Management Seminar. Before joining the Hunter, Nandini was a curator at the Knoxville Museum of Art for seven years and worked with the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, North Carolina.

About the Year-End resident review

The year-end review is an opportunity for us to celebrate the Artists who have moved through our residency program. Each year, our residency hosts roughly 60 artists on-site. They have hailed from as far as Vienna, Austria, and from as near as Duncan Ave in Highland Park. There are no imposed production benchmarks for the Artists; our only hope is that they use the time, space, and resources available to them in ways that best serve their practice. 

Each year-end review is curated by a local or regional Curator or Artist, who conducts monthly studio visits with each of our residents. Each work on view is available for purchase. All sales are split evenly between the artist and Stove Works. Your support not only feeds an artist, it feeds our staff. It also ensures that our programming will remain free and open to the public. And that our residency program remains available to artists at no charge.