FREE | Every Friday: May 10 - October 11 | 5 PM - 6 PM
Join us throughout the residency season for our free public series of short and informal artist talks, readings, and presentations. We’ll learn about works-in-progress from our artists and scholars-in-residence with informative and inspiring presentations in all disciplines. This is a wonderful way to kick off your weekend! Bring a friend, 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
Katherine Orfinger
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.
Fanxi Sun
Fanxi Sun is Craigardan’s 2024 Teaching Fellow. Fanxi (b. Huzhou, China) works with moving and still images, sound, and installation. While constructing her own dynamic mechanism in an experimental narrative style, Sun studies the body, the mind, and the subjectivity. She explores and experiments with the concept of time and space in multi-layered audio-visual experiences. The physical and the psychological closely interact in her practice, where the intense reality consists of all of the apparatus of representation.
Sun’s works have been shown at film festivals and exhibitions across the world, including Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival (Charlottesville VA), VIDEOAKTION #4 (Berlin, Germany), SPE Combined-Caucus Exhibition (Denver CO), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre's "Unbounded" (Xiamen, China). She was the finalist of the 21st Trawick Prize at Bethesda Urban Partnership and artist-in-residence at the Alex Brown Foundation. Sun holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she now teaches as an adjunct professor.
Emilia Gonzalez
Emilia Gonzalez is an emerging ceramic artist. As a Colombian-Canadian, she is constantly exploring questions around hybrid identities, belonging, and community. She began to play with clay at a young age in her grandmother’s pottery studio and has recently re-connected with the practice. Her work is inspired by nature’s textures, shapes, colors, sounds, and cycles. Emilia is also a community facilitator and an action research scholar, where she weaves popular education and arts-based methods into social transformation processes. She is an introvert with a passion for meaningful social connections, who loves experimenting in the kitchen, bikepacking, climbing rocks, and drinking tea.