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).
Kristen Tauer is a writer and arts and culture journalist based in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in NYU’s Dovetail, WomenArts Quarterly,The New York Times, and The Coachella Review. In 2016, she helped launch the independent food publication Counter Service. She’s originally from Ithaca, NY and graduated from Cornell University.
Howard Fishman is a 2023 Teaching Fellow. Howard is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, where he has published essays on music, film, theater, literature, travel, and culture. His bylines have also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Artforum, San Francisco Chronicle, Mojo, The Village Voice, Jazziz, and Salmagundi. His play, A Star Has Burnt My Eye, was a New York Times “Critics Pick.” As a performing songwriter and bandleader, Fishman has toured internationally as a headlining artist for over two decades. He has released eleven albums to date, and is the producer of the album Connie’s Piano Songs: The Art Songs of Elizabeth “Connie” Converse. He is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Kalika Kulukundis is a British artist/maker currently studying for a Bachelors degree at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. Kalika comes from a multicultural background and has lived between the United Kingdom, India, and Ireland. Her main interests are the natural world and making things. She satisfies these interests through learning about geography and biology as well as making and studying art. Kalika is fascinated with how we use the natural world to produce craft. Her ideas are grounded in an anticapitalist thinking that puts the environment first. With roots in the countryside, she is inspired by the community nature of rural spaces and how this way of living creates an innate understanding of the environment and the species that cohabit different ecologies. Her work is process-led, and centers around the meditative nature of producing art and craft.