FREE | Every Friday: July 7 - September 29
RECEPTION 4:30pm - 5:30pm, Presentation 5pm - 6pm
Join us throughout the summer for our free public series of artist talks, readings, and presentations. We’ll celebrate the series with a NEW weekly reception — arrive early and enjoy free drinks and snacks with our visiting artists-in-residence. We’ll hear from poets, scholars, visual artists, storytellers, and potters. All are welcome!
Craigardan’s Applebarn Series is made possible in part thanks to support from the Charles R. Wood Foundation.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene).
Marisha Falkovich was born in Moscow, Russia and is an artist now based in New York City. She works primarily in clay, drawing and animation. Along with her art practice she runs a small ceramics and lamps shop.
Christina Rivera’s essays are published at The Kenyon Review, Orion Magazine, Catapult, Bat City Review, HuffPost Personal, Atticus Review, and River Teeth’s Beautiful Things. She won Pacifica Literary Review’s 2019 CNF contest judged by Melissa Febos and her essay “The 17th Day" (at Terrain.org) won the John Burroughs 2023 Nature Essay Award. Christina’s book of essays MY OCEANS—ecofeminist reflections from the confluence of motherhood and marine life—was selected as a finalist for The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature as well as longlisted for the Graywolf ‘22 Prize. MY OCEANS is now forthcoming from Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press in the spring of ‘25.
Tal Beery is an artist, independent curator, and co-executive director of the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre in the Catskill Mountains, just two hours north of New York City. He is co-founder and administrator of Arts & Ecology Incorporated, a nonprofit exploring the connections between nature and culture through artist-centered projects, consulting services for organizations, and fiscal sponsorships for artists. His published articles, artistic research, and curatorial projects explore human relationships with their environments and arts institutional design. Previous projects include Eco Practicum, School of Apocalypse, and Occupy Museums. Tal’s independent and collaborative art works have been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, El Museo Del Barrio, and others.