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
Mackenzie Pikaart
Mackenzie Pikaart is a clay artist whose practice explores relationships between her past selves and present memory, form and erosion, texture and color. Her work takes shape in functional objects for the home. By using somewhat playful shapes and colors, she creates a mirage where the viewer may only focus on the immediate attraction, but with deeper investigation, the voice of loneliness speaks loudly.
She is inspired by architecture, poetry, instrumental music, and rainy days. In all of these, the tension of togetherness and being alone creates beauty in the in between. Pikaart searches her memory for times of peace, self-love, others’ acceptance, and through that search reveals uneasy moments, times she wishes to forget, but also moments of joy, love, and a depth of personal understanding. Her works are meant for daily use, a reminder of living through all that life is. Mackenzie received her BFA in Crafts/ Ceramics from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she currently lives and works.
Maya Miller
Maya Miller is a potter, writer, and farmer originally from California. Currently a student at Oberlin College, I am studying Creative Writing, Gender, Feminist and Sexuality Studies, and Studio Art. My pottery is sold through SilverWear Gallery in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico, and my poetry and prose have been published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Dialogist, and Cleaver, among others. Having spent time farming during and before college, I am inspired by clay, soil, the environment, and its relationship with the body.