FREE | Every Friday: May 10 - October 11 | Presentation 5 PM - 6 PM
Join us throughout the residency season for our free public series of short and informal artist talks, readings, and presentations. We’ll learn about works-in-progress from our artists and scholars-in-residence with informative and inspiring presentations in all disciplines. This is a wonderful way to kick off your weekend! Bring a friend, all are welcome.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene). Google Maps Link
Michiko Theurer
Michiko Theurer is Craigardan’s 2024 Master Artist Fellow. Michiko is a multimedia artist, performer, and community transformation facilitator who loves geeky dancing and shared pots of tea. As a biracial and multi-modal artist, she is drawn to in-between spaces, and to the ways that these in-between spaces (of disciplines, of media, of cultures) can support joyful engagement with ecological and social complexity. She holds a doctorate in violin performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is completing a second doctorate in musicology at Stanford University through a transmedia autobiographical project that cultivates space for collective presence, grief, and gratitude. She has performed and created installations at public libraries and music venues across the United States and Canada, and she adores every single dog she’s ever met.
Karina Yanes
Karina Yanes is a ceramic artist whose work addresses her experience existing at the intersection of three cultures as a Puerto Rican-Palestinian-Midwesterner. Her work explores how living between cultures impacts a person’s development of identity and understanding of belonging. Karina was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Denison University and is currently a graduate student in Ceramics at the University of Florida. Karina is a recipient of the 2024 NCECA graduate fellowship and has participated in the Open Studio Residency at Haystack School of Craft and the CIRCA Graduate Residency Exchange
Jennifer Steil
Jennifer Steil is the British-American author of the novel Exile Music, which won the Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards and the Multicultural and Historical International Book Awards. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. Previous books include the novel The Ambassador’s Wife and the memoir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Orleans Review, Saranac Review, Kenyon Review, World Policy Journal, Best Women’s Short Fiction 2023, Gay & Lesbian Review, Action, Spectacle, The Week, Time, Life, The Washington Times, and Vogue UK.