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
Michelle Lizet Flores
Michelle Lizet Flores is a graduate of the FSU and NYU creative writing programs. She is the Department Chair of Creative Writing at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL. She has previously been published in magazines and journals such as the NCTE English Journal, The Rio Grande Review, and Salt Hill Journal. A finalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Poetry, she is the author of the chapbooks Cuentos from the Swamp and Memoria, as well as the picture book, Carlito the Bat Learns to Trick or Treat. Her short fiction can be found in the anthology, Places We Build in the Universe through Flowersong Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Invasive Species, is available through Finishing Line Press. Find out more at michellelizetflores.com.
Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle is a writer and critic whose work focuses on immigration policy, right-wing political movements, and where the two intersect. Her recent work has examined violent reactions to demographic change, from the 2019 shooting in El Paso to the resurgence of pronatalism among liberals and conservatives alike. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Drift, Politico Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. “The Most Surveilled Place in America,” her report on the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border published in The Verge, was a finalist for the 2023 Livingston Award for National Reporting. She is currently working on her first book, BLOOD AND SOIL, a history of the origins of the conservation movement in the United States and early environmentalists’ ties to eugenicist and nativist movements, to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2027.
Jake Sell Hicks
Jake ( t[he]y ) moves through the world attempting to understand the relationships between people and place. He has a master's in human geography, during which he studied indigeneity, political possibility, and ephemeral intentional communities. His undergrad was a seriously frivolous jaunt through fine arts, visual culture, s.t.s, and queer studies.
Jake grew up in the forests of the Indian River Lakes region of New York. He currently works as a wilderness guide in what is now called the Delaware Water Gap, but has also been an artist of diverse media, as well as having a few small publications of his writings. He has previously been a part of organized sociopolitical efforts of several varieties, mainly in Rochester, NY, and Pocahontas County, WV. He has moved a lot, traveled a lot, and compared the lifeways of many Peoples.
He aspires to membership of a pluralistic community, situated deeply, affectionately, and exuberantly in place. Someday, access to (common[?]) land with forest--alongside a community--would allow for experimentation and further entanglement in the deep webs of the material, social, and ecological.