Second Shift Studio Space 2025-26 Resident Artists
DELANEY KESHENA (THEY/THEM)
Delaney Keshena (Menominee) is a moccasin maker and fine artist born in a border town in sleepy, north-central Wisconsin.
With the body as site, Keshena uses hair, skin and glass in their practice of crafting jewelry objects that relate stories of family, nation and contemporary Indigenous experience. Delaney’s work has been shown in Italy, Belgium, Canada and throughout the United States.
Delaney’s practice has been supported by multi-year residencies through the North House Folk School and Public Functionary. Most recently, they’ve completed the Aunte Indigenous Artist Residency in British Columbia, CA and were named as a Harlan Boss Emerging Artist through the American Craft Council.
DELANEY KESHENA
ELLA LEIDY (SHE/HER)
Ella Leidy is an interdisciplinary artist and sculptor who works with found objects, photographs, and textiles. Drawing on both memory and materiality, she examines rural practices of craft, labor, and queer expression. Her sculptural work reimagines the remembered through processes of deconstruction, disruption, and misassembly. Leidy grew up in North Dakota before moving to Minneapolis to attend the University of Minnesota, where she earned her BFA in 2025. Here, her work earned her multiple merit scholarships and has been featured in various group exhibitions across the Twin Cities.
ELLA LEIDY
MEHER KHAN (SHE/HER)
Meher Khan (she/her) is a multimedia artist with training in printmaking, graphic design, and communications. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Graphic Design and Studio Art, both from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and obtained her Master of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2024.
Meher’s current art practice centers around identity and her second generation American experience. Her most recent work incorporates printmaking and textile as material, drawing on their historical context–tied to her Indian lineage–and their place in her current, lived experience.
MEHER KHAN
PRIMA JALICHANDRA-SAKUNTABHAI (THEY/THEM)
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (b. Bangkok, Thailand) is a transdisciplinary artist, curator and art worker, currently based in St Paul, Minnesota. They received a Visual Arts Degree from the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes Metropole and a License in Film Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. They hold a BFA from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and a MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
Through performative lectures, videos and site-specific installations, their practice questions nationalist narratives at the base of Euro-centric masculine power and its effects on other forms of identity and sense of belonging. They take apart the physical and structural tools of the Western academic, underlining the fictional nature of Western rationality and the way history and memory are told to legitimize certain truths over others.