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🎨 Meet the 2025 SpaceCraft Fellows 🎨
We’re thrilled to introduce the four incredible artists selected for the SpaceCraft Fellowship. This fellowship is all about empowering local artists to bring unique arts programming to our makerspace, and these creators are ready to inspire!
Each of these talented individuals shares a passion for cultivating a space where artists can feel inspired, connected, and truly in community. As SpaceCraft advocates, they believe in the transformative power of creativity and collaboration.
Throughout the fellowship, these artists will curate events ranging from live music to poetry readings to independent film screenings—making SpaceCraft the hub for Knoxville’s creative pulse. This is your time to engage with SpaceCraft, meet an engaged arts community, and be part of something transformative.
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It’s an honor to partner with these artists, all deeply rooted in Knoxville, to shape a vibrant future for arts programming at SpaceCraft. Stay tuned as we highlight each fellow and the exciting projects they’re bringing to life.
Jaq Honey is a local musician known for his whimsical, tender lyricism. Tree-hugger, slow-cooker, & all-around creative soul, his music radiates an authentic warmth that invites listeners to envision the bold and bright future we can create together.
What is your desired mission and purpose?
To make joyful noises with other people, to nurture an environment of bravery & play for folks to experiment with different instruments or styles of music, to give folks a chance to play their instrument around others to help bring their art out into the light!! I’ve been collecting eclectic instruments for many years & it’s been my dream for a long time to share the joy they bring me with others.
How do you see the SpaceCraft Fellowship supporting you in achieving this mission?
I have an exceedingly busy life - this Fellowship will give me a structure under which I can intentionally carve out space for playful, unbridled creative expression in community with others. If I were trying to do this on my own, I would have to do the parts of event planning that I hate (marketing & social media engagement specifically). Also, since the vibe I’m going for already exists within SpaceCraft, it’ll be easier to get folks on board!
Lunar Groove is an improv music jam session - pick up one of the instruments on stage and play something! Never played that instrument before? The best way to learn is by doing and we’ll be here to help. Explore unique sounds (like the theremin and the didgeridoo) as you embrace your bravest self. If you want to play something familiar, bring your own favored instrument along and play something comfortable. Get in the flow with your fellow astronauts and discover the joy of the groove!
Stay in Jaq’s orbit: Linktree | Instagram | Apple Music | Spotify
Ty Murray is a modern-day Renaissance woman rooted in the Appalachian South. Her creative process is a dynamic fusion of artistry and activism, her work flows like a “dirty south” two-step, blending the mind and body in living color. Working across mediums including performance, ceramics, photography, and mixed media, Ty crafts experiences that invite deep engagement, contemplation and celebration. Drawing from her roots and a vision for a vibrantly harmonious world, she seeks to build bridges between creativity and critical thought while exploring rhythms of the Black diaspora.
Beyond her visual work, Ty is a vinyl record enthusiast and tradition bearer. Her connection to music is intrinsic, and as a DJ, she journeys through soulful sounds bringing joy and liberation to the dance floor. She started Sadie Pearl Records as an initiative to center music and movement in mindful ways. Named after her great aunt, Sadie Pearl Scales—a matriarch who embodied the spirit of Sankfofa—she carries the spirit of community and cultural preservation. Ty’s artistic voice is funky, and free-spirited. She’s here to make you think, feel, and move—sometimes all at once.
What is your desired mission and purpose?
I’m a vinyl enthusiast and cultural bearer who spins records to connect the past with the present. My sets are a sonic journey, creating a nostalgic yet afro-futuristic atmosphere that brings joy, connection & liberation to the dance floor. I started Sadie Pearl Records as an initiative to center music and movement in mindful ways. Sadie Pearl Records embodies what it means to share in the love of music, to empower others to express themselves, and to uplift the cultural richness of Appalachia.
How do you see the SpaceCraft Fellowship supporting you in achieving this mission?
SpaceCraft is rooted in play, artistic growth, and cultural exploration. This space unites artists and audiences through experimentation and joy, which is exactly what SPF aims to do with each episode. I take great interest in curating spaces where friends and strangers alike can connect and create together, I believe that SpaceCraft will be a beautiful conduit for this!
Sadie Pearl & Friends is more than a show, it’s a specially curated listening experience! Join DJ Ty Dye as she jumps behind the turntables alongside featured guests. Each set will be a storytelling journey through a different theme that keeps listeners moving and grooving. This is an affirming, welcoming & expressive space for all folks, where music is the central connecting force. Bring yourself, bring your friends, bring your boo - the goal is to vibe, create & connect with community!
Kristina Danielle is a local activist, published writer, and musician. Their musical project, telefronetic, is focused on the decolonization of experimental, punk, and noise music with a focus on bringing the genres back to its Black and Queer roots. As a writer (poetry, short story, and lyrical) they seek to connect the spoken and read word to the sparkliest, gentlest, and most vulnerable parts of ourselves.
What is your desired mission and purpose?
Wishful Speaking seeks to combine the parts of us that are compelled to create something out of nothing! It calls to those of us who write and create stories from all of our parts. Those of us who seek to share in community, to be brave, and to speak out loud (or quietly) in a safe space.
Kristina is excited to partner with SpaceCraft to be the container for open mic poetry and story sharing with a sprinkle of music and experimental noise.
How do you see the SpaceCraft Fellowship supporting you in achieving this mission?
SpaceCraft provides a safe, people centered, space to share art. I imagine the use of the space, promotion, and resources will be provided by SpaceCraft as well.
Please come with an open mind and squishy heart:) Share some of your poetry and stories and/or join us in listening to the folks in our community share theirs. Occasionally we will have time after our reading to enjoy live music by amazing local and visiting artists.
This space will center and uplift Queer BIPOC voices and stories but everyone is welcome.
Born in Memphis Tennessee, Olivia Lichterman received a BFA in time-based art from the University of Tennessee in 2019 and was awarded several prestigious scholarships during that time such as Outstanding Senior in Time-Based Art, the Iles Scholarship, and the Mary Lynn Glustoff Scholarship.
“As a multimedia artist, I find that video and sound work are powerful tools for expression. In my installations, I draw from the subconscious mind to evoke the sensory aspects of existence as experienced through time; liminal, tactile, and visceral sensations that form memory in combination with the agency of sound to transform a space.”
What is your desired mission and purpose?
To make films in collaboration with other filmmakers in Knoxville in a capacity that encourages learning and innovation.
How do you see the SpaceCraft Fellowship supporting you in achieving this mission?
SpaceCraft can serve as a space to showcase up and coming Knoxville Filmmakers through a Minute Films format.
Movie night for independent minute films. Showcasing a variety of talent and experimental works from local filmmakers involved in Minute Films.
Stay in Olivia’s orbit: Instagram
Interested in becoming a SpaceCraft Fellow in 2026? Contact Jaleria Rivera ([email protected]) for opportunities.