L'Oiseau Residency
Summer 2023
Embedded in Nintendo's life-simulator game Animal Crossing New Horizons are tools and space to make and display works of players from around the world. During the program, 10 artists will create their work in community with each other. This residency is a collaborative program, linking people from across the globe whose practices are diverse.
Our Current Residents
Alice Madrigal (She/Her)
Alice Madrigal is a New York City-based artist, and a recent UC Santa Barbara graduate from the Department of Art’s honors program. She creates colorful, patterned, vibrant, and child-like illustrations which are inspired by dreams, fantasies, and nostalgic moments from her childhood. Alice highlights individuality and self-expression, as well as navigates confidence, sensuality, and body positivity, within her illustrations. She has been perpetually crafting her characters since childhood, and as they continue to grow and transform so does she. Alice is an aspiring children’s book illustrator. She has recently shown works at the Glass Box Gallery and the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, in Santa Barbara.
Elizabeth Gottlieb (She/Her)
Elizabeth Gottlieb is a Los Angeles-based 2D animator and illustrator working in television and social media for clients such as ShadowMachine, Buzzfeed, and Hallmark. Through her personal and professional work, she strives to find the comedy in the mundane parts of our lives.
Holly Myer (She/Her)
Holly Myer is an LA-based creative professional in the entertainment industry. With a film/animation degree from NYU, and a lifelong love for TV, movies, and music, her art often focuses on human reactions and playful connections to pop culture. Her work has been featured in art shows in New York City and Southern California, including a gallery at Nickelodeon, and a solo show at The Jim Henson Company, which included an interactive coloring installation. She has contributed to many children’s television shows and family-favorite movies and volunteers with Young Storytellers, a nonprofit providing free arts programming to students in the Los Angeles area.
Benjamin Salin (He/Him)
Benjamin Salin is a Los Angles based musician, sketch artist, writer, model builder, and cook who strives to use creativity as an extension of himself and as a means of exploring both himself and the world. Though not professionally trained he is always striving to learn and grow creatively.
Jacob Saucedo (He/Him)
Jacob Saucedo is an Animator and Story Artist living in sunny Oxnard, California. His work ranges from collaborating with LatinX in Animation for short film character animation, children's book illustrations, and pitch bibles for animated series. He jumps at the chance to learn new art programs to create any and every idea that pops into his head. When not drawing he loves dreaming about his next trip to Japan and consuming the nearest piece of chocolate.
Dani Kwan (They/Them)
Dani Kwan is an artist who responds to social institutions, identity politics, and ecology. With a critical perspective on human/human and human/non-human interactions, they incorporate history, philosophy, the natural sciences, field studies, and material culture in their research. The subjects they have addressed are varied, such as gender performativity, bird-nesting techniques, virtual world-building, and geological processes. Driven by concept, Kwan’s creative practice encompasses diverse forms of expression and media including video, performance, sound, curation, drawing, sculpture, photography, graphic design, and fiber arts. Their work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Ball, and the Ventura County Government Center.
Our 2022 Residents
Matthew Pagoaga
Matthew Pagoaga is a Los Angeles-based artist and technologist. His work interprets datasets toward aesthetic revisualizations and embodied experiences utilizing a combination of mixed-media, technology, public art, and light and space installations. Matthew’s work probes elements of shared exploration, self-history, and collaborative play. At the same time, his work also interprets processes of archival degradation, social justice, and disruption. Matthew's work has been jury-selected in the MOZAIK Future Art Awards in both 2020 and 2021, won multiple Honoraria awards from the Burning Man organization, received a grant from the CalArts Commission on Sustainability (CCS), as well received other honorariums and awards. Matthew holds an M.F.A. in Art + Technology from California Institute of the Arts, and is actively creating work that hybridizes gallery installation work with a post-studio, public art and sculpture practice.
Project: A Respite From Modern Speed
Dani Kwan
Dani Kwan is an artist who responds to contemporary culture, identity politics, and ecology. With a critical perspective on human interactions between each other and the world around us; they incorporate history, communication, the natural sciences, and bodily senses in their research. The subjects they have addressed are varied, such as gender performativity, bird-nesting techniques, virtual world-building, and geological processes. Driven by concept, Dani’s creative practice encompasses diverse forms of expression and media including video, performance, sound, curation, sculpture, photography, graphic design, and fiber arts. Their work has been shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Ball, the WAV Gallery, and the Paris-American Academy.
Project: Maintenence Work
Elizabeth Gottlieb
Elizabeth Gottlieb is a Los Angeles-based 2D animator and illustrator working in television and social media for clients such as ShadowMachine, Buzzfeed, and Hallmark. Through her personal and professional work, she strives to find the comedy in the mundane parts of our lives.
Project: I Only Want What I Can't Have
Jacob Saucedo
I work with characters and the idea of creating a bridge for your suspension of disbelief. In animation, it is important that the slightest expression or feel of a character pulls you into their journey. I am selling you that this being has a story in its own world and if you enjoy visiting them, hopefully you'll let them stay in yours for a while.
Project: A Mystery Most Fowl
