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
Audrey Blood
Audrey Danze Blood is an artist and printmaker based in Austin, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking and a Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art and Design from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2018 and her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art from Bowdoin College in 2013. She has worked as an educator at The University of Texas at Austin, Rhode Island School of Design, St. Mark's School, and at the deYoung Museum. She has worked as a printmaking lab technician at The University of Texas at Austin, as a research and studio assistant at Zea Mays Printmaking and Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and as a farmer in Sunderland, Massachusetts, and in Austin, Texas.
Jessica Mendoza
Jessica Mendoza is a writer, tutor, and professor in Long Beach, CA. She holds a B.A. in Screenwriting and will earn her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at CSULB in the spring of 2024. She has been previously published in The Good Life Review, Streetlight Magazine, The Dillydoun Review, and La Piccoletta Barca. Jessica spends most of her time feverishly grading essays and raving about the semicolon’s usefulness to her students, who kindly humor her fits of punctuation passion. She can be found on Twitter/X @JessMProse.
Emily Olick Llano
Emily Olick Llano is a Colombian-American ceramicist, printmaker, and fiber artist. She began making pottery in 2020 and has a strong affinity for whimsical surface design techniques. Emily’s previous works in fiber, pulp, and ink have drawn from her maternal lineage and explored themes of bicultural identity, Colombian heritage, and indigeneity. She attended the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine, and holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College and an M.A. from Stanford University. Emily currently resides in Northern California with her cat, Alfie.