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).
Michele Parker Randall reads and writes poetry and authored The Museum of Everyday Life (Kelsay Books) and A Future Unmappable, chapbook (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry can also be found in Nimrod International Journal, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. Michele teaches poetry, personal essay, fairy tales, and Literature of Mental Health/Neurodivergent Literature at Stetson University, and she feels strongly that neurodivergent narratives can make the difference in reducing the stigma placed on those living with mental illness.
Michael Prior is Craigardan’s 2023 Master Artist Fellow. His second book of poems Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020) won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the British Columbia & Yukon Book Prizes Poetry Prize. Prior is the recent recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and elsewhere. He divides his time between Vancouver, Canada and Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he is an Assistant Professor of English and an ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is Craigardan’s 2023 John Brown Lives! Fellow. Gloria has written many books and articles. She is working on her first novel titled Wicked Prayers. Her book She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power is about The Black Women’s journey from Queen Nzingha to today’s activists. Gloria has an upcoming docuseries titled She Took Justice. She authored The Voting Rights War and Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present, a book that discusses race and education, voting rights, criminal justice, civil liberties and protest, the military and internationalism concerning African Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans. Gloria Browne-Marshall is a playwright with seven produced plays. Her recent play SHOT: Caught a Soul depicts a Black teen haunting the White police officer who shot him, and Dreams of Emmett Till takes that tragic encounter into the 21st century. She attended the MFA program in playwrighting at Sarah Lawrence College. She is working on a stage play titled Crossroads about murderous White rage and Black ambition.
Dennis Delay obtained a B.A. in Studio Art from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1996 and studied with the South African artists Rosenclaire while in residency in Italy. In 2007 he earned a M.S. in School Counseling at UVM and currently works with young children in Vermont schools. In February 2020, Delay stumbled upon maps that recorded the presence of his Irish immigrant ancestors farming on the very same land that Craigardan resides on. This marked the beginning of a growing body of work that investigates the intersections of genealogy and place. His work touches on a variety of themes (childhood, family systems, history, religion, the environment) while also posing questions about place/displacement, native/non-native, erasure/documentation, and growth/loss.