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
Allison Dobbs
Allison Dobbs is Craigardan’s 2024 Teaching Fellow in collaboration with Leanne Rabesa. Allison is a freelance violinist and visual artist based in Boston, MA. A passionate teacher and chamber musician, Allison has enjoyed developing curricula offering flexible and unusual entry points into learning. She was a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Grant in 2021 for her PlayTogether Go curriculum, a chamber music program that commissioned original works from composers of underrepresented communities. She was also part of a curriculum cohort for the Castle of Our Skins organization, creating multidisciplinary lesson plans for Anthony Davis’s opera X and Anthony Green’s chamber work Catto’s Courage in 2022 and 2023. Allison’s recent engagements as an orchestral musician include section positions with Great Bay Philharmonic and MassOpera, and principal positions with NEMPAC Opera and the Brockton Symphony. She studied visual art at the Cooper Union and violin performance at Texas Tech University and the Boston Conservatory.
Leanne Rabesa
Leanne Rabesa is Craigardan’s 2024 Teaching Fellow in collaboration with Allison Hobbs. Leanne is a violist based in Jamaica Plain, MA, and is active as a performer, composer, arranger, and teacher. Her wide-ranging interests span from arranging obscure works for the viola ensemble and revising the viola curriculum for the American String Teachers Association to researching connections between music and visual art. In whatever time is still left, she can often be found knitting, cooking, or reconstructing the orchestra parts of Klebanov’s viola concerto from the solo part and the single extant recording. Leanne earned both BM and MM degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied viola with George Taylor and chamber music with the Ying Quartet, Zvi Zeitlin, and Charlie Castleman, among others. She lives surrounded by her personal library and a lot of yarn with her two spoiled cats.
Brian Mihok
Brian Mihok is a writer and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Fast Company, American Short Fiction, Cagibi, The Disconnect, Vol 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. His novel, The Quantum Manual of Style, was released in 2013. He also edits matchbook, an online literary magazine of short prose. Find him, his writing, and his films at brianmihok.com.