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
E. Caris Rosefield
E. Caris Rosefield (she/her) is a queer writer, educator, and recent graduate of the MFA Program in Poetry at Rutgers University-Newark. Currently a high school teacher, she has also taught creative writing and literature for several universities and nonprofits, including the New England Literature Program, a cooperative education program based out of the University of Michigan, and juvenile justice organizations where she organized poetry workshops and readings. She currently serves as a mentor for the PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program. Her work has been recognized with fellowships and residencies from Kenyon Review, Fine Arts Work Center, Art Farm, the Sitka Fellows Program, Academy for Teachers, and Craigardan. Her writing appears in Sweet Tree Review, Arkana, and elsewhere.
Erynn Richardson
Erynn Richardson is a Southern California–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice draws deeply from folklore, myth, and the natural world. Working in drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and embroidery, she creates narratives that explore the delicate interplay between humans, animals, and nature. Her work invites viewers to rediscover a sense of wonder—a call to reflect on both the beauty and fragility of our bond with the natural world.
Richardson earned her BA and MA in Painting from CSU Northridge, and completed her MFA at CSU Long Beach in printmaking. She is currently a professor of drawing, printmaking, and design at the College of the Desert.
Sally Pirie
Sally Pirie is a Craigrdan 2025 Teaching Fellow. She was born in Northern Japan and grew up across Asia and the Pacific, spending her summers with her grandparents in Jackson, Mississippi, where she came to know the work of fellow Mississippian Walter Ingliss Anderson, who described art as a “process for grasping” and the world as a magical place full of animal “familiars.” Sally is a graduate of Punahou School, Grinnell College, and the University of Colorado. She is currently Professor of Child and Family Studies at the University of Massachusetts. An anthropologist of childhood and arts-based research, Professor Pirie’s areas of research focus include comics-based research, gender diversity in childhood, and feminized labor systems. As an award-winning graphic novelist and newspaper cartoonist, she now combines her work in gender and culture with illustration, non-fiction comics, zine-making, linocut printmaking, collage, and painting to explore questions about corporeality, imagination, and human development. Anderson’s “familiars” are with her still. You can learn more about her work at www.sallypirie.com