FREE | Every Friday: May 9 - September 19 | 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
Martha Vining
Martha Vining grew up on a small dairy farm in northern New York state and later graduated from St. Lawrence University with a degree in art history. She eventually followed her passion for cooking by graduating from the Cordon Bleu, London, and eventually landed in Asheville, NC. Martha has worked in many different aspects of food production throughout her culinary career, including cooking, baking, production management,t and teaching. She has done countless cooking demonstrations at Biltmore Estate and was a culinary arts instructor for Job Corps, a federal program for at-risk youth. Martha continues to teach a variety of week-long cooking classes at John C Campbell Folkschool in Brasstown, NC. These days Martha is involved in a local food pantry/garden near Asheville, where she does cooking segments on local TV station WLOS ‘Carolina Kitchen’ using food pantry and garden ingredients. She has had an ongoing interest in 19th-century cookbooks and the role of community cookbooks in recipe development.
Macayla Sandusky
Macayla Sandusky is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist and educator whose work is a practice of self-reflection and translation of memory. Through the fuzziness of recollecting, a stretching and blurring of imagery emerges. Layering, laboring, and repetition as part of the making process provide a foundation to convey how clay records information.
Mako received a BFA from The University of Arkansas in 2018 and currently teaches ceramic classes to adults at community studios in New York City.