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
Carly Marie DeMento
Carly Marie DeMento is a poet and writer for climate-change startups living in her hometown, San Diego, California. She recently began to submit her poetry at the age of 40. Her work has appeared in the North American Review, Kestrel, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and been featured in poem gumball machines and hung in kitchens. With support from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Craigardan's Interdisciplinary Residency, she was a 2023 finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize. In 2024, Carly was a featured reader at the 2024 San Diego Writer's Festival and co-founded the Ta-ku (taco haiku) series for the San Diego Poetry Annual. Beyond writing and publishing poetry, Carly uses her background as the front-woman of an indie rock band to organize events that bring poets of different ages and backgrounds together at independent bookstores and cocktail bars across California. She has also been a guest teacher, creating and teaching poetry workshops for teenage writers and visual artists.
As a woman coping with infertility and the near-certainty that her bloodline will end with her, Carly hopes to use her poetry to spark creativity in others and create community that weaves our social fabric together beyond our blood families. Trickster, sensualist, and raging introvert-extrovert, you can find her doing micro-dances as she eats snacks or skipping off to her shed with a steaming cup of English tea.
Dr. Lise Deguire
Dr. Lise Deguire is a clinical psychologist, author, activist, and burn survivor. After being severely burned as a four-year-old, she spent much of her childhood in the hospital, undergoing surgical procedures. Dr. Deguire is the author of the multiple award-winning book, Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor. She is also the co-editor of Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference.
Dr. Deguire attended Tufts University, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Widener University and is in solo practice in New Jersey. Dr. Deguire has appeared on NPR, NBC, ABC, FOX, and Sirius XM. She is a TEDx speaker, a national keynote speaker and has presented for The American Psychological Association, the World Burn Congress, The Security and Exchange Commission, and The American Burn Association. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Psychology Today, The Psychotherapy Networker, Thrive Global and Tiny Buddha. Dr. Deguire blogs regularly about psychological resilience and was recently awarded her second artists’ residency at Craigardan. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and her website, LiseDeguire.com
Hannah Plummer
Hannah Plummer is a New Jersey-based land and installation artist who focuses on process-driven and site-specific practices. While earning a degree in Fine Arts from Massachusetts's Gordon College, Hannah discovered great peace in creating land art in the Chebacco Woods and rocky coastline of the surrounding North Shore. In her current land art practice, Hannah takes a special interest in topics of permanence through ephemeral compositions that last mere minutes to days in nature. In working outdoors, Hannah partners with the elements, finding joy through adjusting her process or surrendering her piece to the rain, wind, or river current, but ultimately, to time. By allowing her piece to return from which it came, her work becomes reconstituted, as if it never existed. Through her practice, she explores the intrinsic and transformative value of creative expression and experimentation in our daily lives - a restorative and generative act that fosters connection with others, our material surroundings, and the intangible. Her work embodies a reverence for the interconnectedness of art, nature, and faith, offering glimpses into the beauty of not product-oriented, but process-focused art.