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).
Tereza Nesnidalova is a Czech visual artist currently living in Iceland, with experience in many fields including illustration, painting, photography, tattooing, fashion design, and set decoration. She has always been inspired by Asian art and culture and likes to combine art and craft together, incorporating the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi that embraces the beauty of imperfection. Tereza uses natural dyes in her work as well as pigments collected from nature around her. She loves to capture women’s faces and bodies, but her inspiration also comes from nature with all its forms and shapes.
Katharine Wyatt has been practicing art in a variety of mediums throughout her life, but during the Covid-19 pandemic she reconnected with painting, which remains her focus. Having worked in regenerative agriculture for the last seven years, her time spent farming and painting inspires her process in each. She currently lives in California, her home state.
Natasha D’Souza is a business journalist, leadership coach, speaker and contributor to Fortune Magazine and the Harvard Business Review. She forayed into journalism following an almost 15 year high-octane career spanning business intelligence, international news, investor relations and strategic communications at leading institutions in London, Washington, DC and Dubai. Natasha has interviewed some of the most brilliant minds of our time including former CEO of Apple, John Sculley; bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, Founder of Acumen and one of Forbes Greatest Living Business Minds, Jacqueline Novogratz; among many others. In her writing and speaking, she is committed to a fresh, global perspective on how we can achieve domain-changing innovation, future-forward careers and transformational leadership by tapping into powerful capabilities of the human “higher mind,” namely creativity and intuition. Her insights on topics spanning modern-day careers, entrepreneurship, leadership and resilience have been featured in Fast Company and the Harvard Business Review. Natasha was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she now lives and writes. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a North Carolina Fellow, studying public health and international economics.