fellows
The multi-hyphenate artist, creative visionary, or cultural change-maker often exists in a liminal space when it comes to traditional funding models and opportunities. All too often, women and people of color in particular are not paid for the work they create, shoulder, and put into the world. With the 2026 inaugural cohort of Fellows, Good Chaos aims to reverse this trend by providing support so visionaries can take time, space, and a chance to experiment without regard to risk.
We are honored to work with and learn from our 2026 Fellows: andrea yarbrough, Yosi Sergant, and Nora Daley.
ABOUT andrea yarbrough
andrea yarbrough is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and cooperative builder born, raised, and based on Chicago's South Side. Her practice sits at the intersection of social practice, placekeeping, and community ownership, exploring how art can serve as a tool for collective care, economic justice, and neighborhood self-determination.
She stewards in c/o: Black women, a collaborative placekeeping initiative that advances a Black feminist praxis of care by supporting cooperative models of cultural production, land stewardship, and shared ownership. Working with reclaimed and everyday materials, andrea transforms discarded objects, spaces, and places into artworks that reflect the interconnected values of circular and solidarity economies.
andrea is a worker-owner of Cooperation Racine, where she develops cooperative creative economies that enable artists and cultural workers to build collective wealth through shared ownership of businesses, land, and creative infrastructure. She holds a Master of Arts in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
ABOUT yosi sergant
Yosi Sergant is a nationally recognized cultural strategist, organizer, and creative producer working at the intersection of arts, culture, and civic engagement. Throughout his career, he has helped people and organizations tackling some of the world’s toughest challenges build momentum and championed the role of artists in shaping culture—and, in turn, public opinion and policy.
His work explores how intentionally designed cultural strategies can create new narratives, reshape social norms, fuel movements, and spark lasting behavioral change. Through his agency, TaskForce, he has partnered with foundations, nonprofits, artists, and civic institutions to harness creativity to engage communities, inspire participation, and build collective power. Today, he and the TaskForce team are responsible for some of the most notable public will campaigns, and for building infrastructure needed to support a new generation of cultural creatives and strategists.
Before founding TaskForce, Yosi served as Director of Communications at the National Endowment for the Arts and in the Office of Public Engagement at the Obama White House. Prior to that, he commissioned and led the iconic HOPE poster campaign with artist Shepard Fairey.
At the heart of his work is a simple belief: culture is one of our most powerful forces for change—and it takes culture to change culture.
ABOUT Nora Daley
Nora Daley is Chair of the Illinois Arts Council Agency and Co-Chair of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. With over 25 years of experience across public, private, and nonprofit sectors, she has led major civic and cultural initiatives, including a comprehensive transformation of the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Daley has served in leadership roles with organizations such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Terra Foundation for American Art, After School Matters, and Navy Pier, Inc. and has advised a range of civic, cultural, and policy organizations. A builder, collaborator, problem solver, and system innovator, Daley holds a BA in Art History from Fairfield University and lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.