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
Molly Hurley
Molly Hurley (she/her) has an MFA in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Rice University. From previous work with organizations such as Beyond the Bomb, The Prospect Hill Foundation, Women Cross DMZ, Daisy Alliance, and Reverse the Trend, she has garnered experiences in advocacy, philanthropy, social media and website development, and research. She serves as a Youth Advisor to The Prospect Hill Foundation’s Nuclear Committee and co-runs a monthly column for Inkstick Media with Lovely Umayam, founder of Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective, in which they critically analyze pop culture phenomena and their ties to national security. She’s also published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In her art-making practice, she most often comes back to explorations of connection: she believes it is the connections between the individual and the community that, in union, form the basis of both individual and community identities.
Betsy Power
Betsy Power is a recovering businesswoman and sculpture artist with a focus on large-scale outdoor work. She has found a form of healing in the curves and contours of sculpture - a poetry of self in physical form. Through the medium of clay, she explores the intricacy of emotions that go hand-in-hand with being human and that often feel indescribable through words. Transformation through the discovery of self, layers as a reflection of the complexity of life, and erosion as an analogy of the nature of memory, are themes that continue to fascinate and find their way into her sculptural work. Betsy lives and creates in Portland, OR.
Chad Michael Lange
Chad Michael Lange is a San Francisco-based fiction writer who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Lange has received two residencies at MacDowell and Millay Arts. The Jentel Foundation, The Ragdale Foundation, Hambidge Center, and Dorland Mountain Arts have also given him fellowships. He has been awarded grants from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the California Arts Council (to teach creative writing to LGBTQIA+ youth). His short fiction has appeared in Catamaran, Fourteen Hills, and ZYZZYVA.