FREE | Every Friday: May 10 - October 11 | 5 PM - 6 PM
Join us for our free public series of artist talks, readings, and presentations throughout our residency season. We’ll celebrate the series with a 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!
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene). Google Maps Link
Shawndel N. Fraser
Shawndel N. Fraser is the Craigardan + John Brown Lives 2024 JBL! Fellow. Shawndel is an Environmental Psychologist, Public Intellectual, and Artist whose work and words catalyze transformation through interdisciplinary engagement. She creates a new nature–culture imagination by developing pragmatic solutions rooted in the social and natural sciences, esoteric wisdom, artistic practice, and healing modalities to create safe(r)environments.
As a generalist / multi-disciplinary artist, Shawndel may employ ceramics, fiber art, digital media, writing, bookbinding, metals, jewelry, papermaking, and traditional crafts as needed. As a social scientist and open “Ajna” thinker, she weaves connections between philosophy, current events, (socio)cultural norms, aesthetics, pride, and practices. Her goal is ultimately to uncover opportunities for “inner-personal alchemy” to drive cultural transformation and consilience rooted in ecofeminist deep-ecology.
Christienne L. Hinz Ph.D.
Christienne L. Hinz is a Ph.D. in modern Japanese history and has published articles on entrepreneurship among 19th to 20th-century Japanese women. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essay nominated memoirist, a poet, and a Master Gardener specializing in organic gardening, orcharding, and sub/urban ecosystem restoration. A beekeeper, a ceramicist, and a textile artist, Christienne enjoys life with her partner of 25 years, and her two children.