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
Arista Wilson
Arista Wilson is a painter and ceramicist from Virginia, United States. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023. She has taught classes and workshops at various community studios including Baltimore Clayworks, as well as a month-long ceramic intensive at the Fish Factory Creative Centre Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, and assisted at the Arrowmont School of Craft in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She has completed residencies at the Fish Factory Creative Centre and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Arista has exhibited work in numerous group shows including The Clay Studio, Mudflat Studio, and Sawtooth Center among others, and solo shows in Gateway Gallery and Middendorf Gallery. She has travelled along the East Coast of America selling her work at fine art fairs, and her work is in private collections around the world.
Annie Furman
Annie Furman is a writer, theater-maker, and educator raised predominately by horses and sugar maples in Upstate New York. After earning her BA in theater and linguistics at Dartmouth College, she worked as an environmental and outdoor educator for several years in New York’s Adirondack State Park and New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest. She is currently pursing her MFA Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where her thesis project Lifeworlds explores applications of theater and dialogical art in environmental education curricula. Her plays, poetry, and short stories have appeared in publications including All Good Things Must Begin: Short Plays Imagining the Future, Fire Season, and Solarpunk Magazine (forthcoming). You can find her on Instagram @a.furrman, or more likely somewhere out in the mountains looking at plants with her horse.