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
Virgina Chang Ph.D.
Virginia Chang, Ph.D., is an end-of-life doula, educator, and writer. She supports the dying and their families/caregivers to approach the end of life in a positive, meaningful, and affirming way. She works as a doula privately and volunteers for VNS Health. She teaches for the University of Vermont End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate program, as well as is an established mentor in the field. Virginia has been featured in the media, such as CNN, AARP, and PBS, and has written on death, mortality, and doula work in magazines and journals, such as Scientific American and Intima. She is inspired by her work as a doula and writes to remember the stories of the dying. She is grateful for their words of wisdom on living a life with meaning and purpose. Virginia lives, works, and writes in New York City.
Linda Pagani
Linda Pagani is an interdisciplinary artist whose early photographic work initiated a career-long inquiry into the sensorial experience of an environment. Her ethereal images extract the space between, transforming architecture into compositions of line and light, and landscape into dream-like states. In recent work, she reconstructs the built structure, adorning walls with sculptural elements while continuing in her investigation of emotional connection with our surroundings. Early exposure to artisanship has greatly influenced Pagani’s process and materials. Working with older technologies (analog camera, paper-making, enameling) and materials (copper, porcelain, glass), she bases her work in quiet and studied form. Having studied Interior Architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pagani went on to complete a four-year Studio Diploma in Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She has received awards and fellowships for her work, including the Karsh Prize in Photography, and her alma mater’s prestigious Traveling Fellowship. Her work is held in private and public collections, including the Brigham Women’s Hospital Collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Pagani lives and works in Lexington, MA.
Chauna Craig
Chauna Craig is the author of the story collection The Widow’s Guide to Edible Mushrooms, winner of a Next Gen Indies award for short fiction, and Wings and Other Things, both published by Press 53. Her fiction has appeared most recently in the anthologies Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton) and Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (WVU Press), and her creative work has been recognized in the Pushcart Prize anthology, and by Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading.