2027 Artist Residency Open CallApplications open September 25 and close October 25, 2026. Rolling residencies through 2027; first arrivals begin January 1. You'll hear where you stand by November 4.

Friends Who've Walked With Us

Meet the artists, writers, and thinkers who have shaped and been shaped by the Selah House community.

11 friend(s) found.

Kris McKinney

Kris McKinney

I am an experimental video/ installation artist and performance organizer. I also do collage based works and in many ways, collage informs my approach to video and spatial arrangement.

Kathy Lea

Kathy Lea

Artist

Gentleness - Nurturing - Fierce Authenticity self taught experimental music weaving prayer, ancient soul and presence flowetry de-industrializing my self re-membering relationship Fluid Insight Practitioner Tea grower Cosmic Bicycle

Idrissa Morehouse

Idrissa Morehouse

Long Term Community Member

Visual art becomes kinetic play From street art to jungle french food to frisbee jazz Longtime independent practitioner Life Coach Co-producer of the Sacred Sounds sessions at Selah House Dirt - Bunnies - Chalice

Ileana Simone

Ileana Simone

Steward

Ileana Simone Bell is a Detroit-based fine artist whose oil paintings explore the emotional, spiritual, and psychological landscapes of Black memory and being. She also leads The 126 Project, a faith-based initiative for artists exploring creativity and spirituality.

Ryan Myers-Johnson

Ryan Myers-Johnson

Practice-Based Resident

Ryan is a curator and producing of place-based public art, and works across various mediums to address the healing of spatial trauma. Additionally, she is a movement practitioner interested in the intersection of gospel music, Black Americanbhistory and the outdoors.

Stefanie Cohen and Corey Gearhart

Stefanie Cohen and Corey Gearhart

Steward

Artists Stefanie Cohen (she/her) and Corey Gearhart (he/him) have been merging, embracing, disrupting, fragmenting and mending our backgrounds, educations, and decades of training in performance art, theatre, dance, somatics, sculpture, writing, drawing, and so on, since 2010.

Sarah Jane Mark

Sarah Jane Mark

Steward

Sarah Jane Mark is Co-Founder of the Selah House, alongside her husband, Billy Mark. She is a fiber artist & fashion designer dedicated to the Slow/Sustainable fashion movement. She has founded Slow Stitch Detroit, a creative incubator & slow fashion maker space providing support for residents & community education. Sarah being rooted in her neighborhood & loves to bike to Slow Stitch, only a few blocks from Selah House.

Drew Fralick

Drew Fralick

Writer-in-Residence

Drew is a writer, standup comedian, licensed therapist, ordained pastor, and wonderful friend.

David Johnson

David Johnson

Steward

Background in a variety of mediums, currently working as a liturgist for the Selah House monastic prayer rhythms.

Marcus Elliot Miller

Marcus Elliot Miller

Steward

Marcus is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit, MI

Billy Mark

Billy Mark

Steward

An interdisciplinary poet