Azule Artist Interviews
Samuel Díaz Fernández & Ai Vuong
Filmmaking often requires a slow, steady pace—much like the mosaics found at Azule. Filmmakers Samuel and Ai used their residency to finally craft a rough cut of their decade-long documentary about our founder, Camille, and her unique “way of being in the world.”
Primal Beginning
Primal Beginning isn’t a typical band; it’s a collective shaped by time, experience, and a constant return to basic questions. The group used the space at Azule to build soundscapes centered on resonance and memory.
Victoria Brown
Victoria Brown calls herself a “social artist,” using her work to process the tensions of contemporary life. Based in Chattanooga, she spent her time at Azule using denim, fiber sculpture, and a bit of humor to tackle heavy themes like bodily autonomy.
Liz Nobels
What happens when a professional graphic designer leaves the agency deadlines of Atlanta behind? Liz Nobels came to Azule to step outside the “productive cycle” and rediscover the simple, unplanned joy of making art without an agenda.
Jackson Hussey
Jackson Hussey has been building things for as long as he can remember—he just didn’t always know it was art. Now a sculpture student in Chattanooga, Jackson spent his residency at Azule creating a reclaimed wood installation that questions the human idea of land ownership.
David Gwaltney
David Gwaltney is an Asheville, NC based interdisciplinary artist working across music, film, and photography. At Azule, he focused on finishing long-held projects and reflecting on creativity as emotional processing.
Laura Grothaus
Laura Grothaus is a writer and visual artist exploring speculative futures, labor movements, and folklore—drawing inspiration from myth, research, and the creative intersections of language and visual form.
Eden Fenn
Eden Fenn is a speculative fiction writer revising a novel that blends climate crisis, magic, and mission-driven labor. She draws inspiration from community, setting, and the power of first drafts.
Keith Roberson
Keith Roberson is a Florida-based artist and professor exploring consciousness, ecology, and storytelling through artificial intelligence, immersive video, and Appalachian landscapes—merging hand-coded systems with unpredictable, emergent digital forms.