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
Lauren McElroy
Lauren McElroy is a Craigardan 2025 Teaching Fellow. Lauren is a queer, Black, experimental fiber artist currently working in knitwear design, punch needle embroidery, and on themselves. They have been published in Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Making Magazine, Spin Off Magazine, Knitstrips Interactive Knitting, Ply Magazine, is a season 7 Knitstar, and has created over 60 knitting patterns. You can find out more and interact with their work on their website, motherofpurl.net.
Elissa Lash
Elissa Lash is a 2025 Craigardan Alumni Fellow. She is a writer and performer. Her writing has been featured in The Rumpus, CRAFT, Atticus Review, Tangled Locks, Chicago Story Press, Silver Rose Quarterly and other publications. She won the 2024 CRAFT Literary essay contest and was nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net anthology. Her essay Whore Mother was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Elissa's memoir in progress, about her body's role as a sex worker and mother, was a finalist for the Kenyon Review's Developmental Editing Fellowship. She's workshopped with Nick Flynn, Sabrina Orah Mark, Beth Kanter, Chloe Caldwell, and Margo Steines. Elissa lives in Massachusetts with her partner and children.
When she's not writing, she's practicing real estate, advocating for affordable housing, performing improv comedy, mothering two amazing teenagers, doing yoga, cooking, brewing potions and making magic, or minding her flock of chickens.
Elise Jeanmaire
Elise Jeanmaire is a 2025 Craigardan Alumni Fellow. Elise is a transgender writer living in Providence, RI. She was a finalist for the 2024 American Short(er) Fiction Contest and the 2024 Whitefish Montana Prize for Humor. Her short stories have been published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Motif, and the upcoming _Figuration. When she’s not writing, she plays in an indie band called Long Stories, drives her very old and very feeble moped (Francoise) around Providence, and sleeps comfortably in the spooky home of a former mobster.