O'Connor & Bauer are a songwriting duo and the heart behind The Wandering Artist Project. As founding members and inaugural artists-in-residence, they bring their rich blend of storytelling, melody, and lived experience to every creative space they touch. Their collaborative work reflects the spirit of the project itself—bold, honest, and rooted in the belief that art comes alive when we wander with intention.

S.N. Walker is a poet who writes from the edges—where memory flickers, systems fail, and the body keeps its own record. As a founding artist-in-residence at The Wandering Artist Project, Walker writes from survival and stillness, crafting poems that unearth what was buried, name what was denied, and hold space for what was once too much to hold. Their work resists neat conclusions, offering instead the power of honesty, ache, and hard-won truth.