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
Curt Confer
Curt Confer is a visual artist who uses his body to translate language into slow sequences of movement. His work invites visitors into a shared space to reflect on themes of loss, memory, and interconnectivity. Using texts from queer theory, philosophy, social history, and poetry to inform his scripts, Curt interprets linguistic selections through the frame of his body, moving quietly or whispering within live tableaus made of light, sound, and found materials. His work also includes drawings and videos that further his exploration of how embodied knowledge is held onto and exchanged.
After graduating from Hamilton College in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Theater, Curt earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in 2007. Since then, he has exhibited at several institutions and galleries, including Columbia University, The School of Visual Arts, Carrie Able Gallery, and Site:Brooklyn. As an educator, Curt’s research into the history of performance art and experimental theater informs his curricula, which integrate performance with the visual arts. After completing a Master of Arts in Teaching at the School of Visual Arts in 2016, he served as an Adjunct Professor in the same program and currently teaches part-time in the BFA Fine Arts Program at Parsons, The New School. Curt was a recipient of the Dietrich Inchworm Grant through Hamilton College in 2018 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Daniel Mistir
Daniel Mistir wants to inspire an emotion inside somebody that they have not had in a while. That is why he watches films and reads books. Not to escape, but to experience something that’s been dormant inside, like love.
Daniel started writing while in college, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. His Ethiopian parents could not support his desire to write without proof of potential. So, in secret, he wrote and published a novel inspired by the stories they shared about where they grew up. That’s love to him.
Now, he’s finishing his Master's at the American Film Institute Conservatory, a SoHo House Fellow, and in post-production for a short film he directed. Daniel has followed his hunch and worked on projects with people around him, with a healthy naivete that’s allowed him to do everything before the age of 26.
Raised in Sacramento, CA, you can find him writing another novel in Hollywood Hills, CA.