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).
Marlena Murtagh is a photographer and artist living with chronic pain in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2023, she will be launching programming designed to help those in chronic pain distract and disengage from the pain cycle. Her downloadables incorporate authentic self exploration, mark-making, and pain education as one method of pain management. In addition to her chronic pain work, she’s spent the past 10 years as a photography and design teacher.
Katherine Orfinger is a writer, artist, and recent graduate from Stetson University, where she earned her BA in English. She will go on to study at Rosemont College. Her work has appeared in Touchstone, Aeolus, Beyond Words, Outrageous Fortune, and others. Katherine’s writing is influenced by her Jewish faith and queer identity. Her hobbies include tinkering with analog cameras and spending quality time with her best friend, who happens to be a cat.
Carrie Hall lives in Brooklyn, where she is writing director at a large public university. Aside from writing fiction and essays, Hall studies how trauma in early childhood affects literacy learning in adulthood. She has recently published stories in Pleiades and Barren Magazines, has an essay forthcoming in New Letters and is working on a memoir called "The Boredoms," about what we can learn when we're not paying attention. She will be a writer-in-residence at UCross Foundation in September of this year.