FREE | Every Friday: May 9 - September 19 | 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
Martha Vining
Martha Vining grew up on a small dairy farm in northern New York state and later graduated from St. Lawrence University with a degree in art history. She eventually followed her passion for cooking by graduating from the Cordon Bleu, London, and eventually landed in Asheville, NC. Martha has worked in many different aspects of food production throughout her culinary career, including cooking, baking, production management,t and teaching. She has done countless cooking demonstrations at Biltmore Estate and was a culinary arts instructor for Job Corps, a federal program for at-risk youth. Martha continues to teach a variety of week-long cooking classes at John C Campbell Folkschool in Brasstown, NC. These days Martha is involved in a local food pantry/garden near Asheville, where she does cooking segments on local TV station WLOS ‘Carolina Kitchen’ using food pantry and garden ingredients. She has had an ongoing interest in 19th-century cookbooks and the role of community cookbooks in recipe development.
Macayla Sandusky
Macayla Sandusky is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist and educator whose work is a practice of self-reflection and translation of memory. Through the fuzziness of recollecting, a stretching and blurring of imagery emerges. Layering, laboring, and repetition as part of the making process provide a foundation to convey how clay records information.
Mako received a BFA from The University of Arkansas in 2018 and currently teaches ceramic classes to adults at community studios in New York City.
Wesley Weissberg
Wesley Weissberg received her MFA in 2023 from Warren Wilson where she wrote short stories and studied with Peter Orner, Marissa Silver, and Alex Olin. Since graduating she has attended residencies at Millay Arts in upstate New York and Arteles in Finland, as well as the Kenyon Writers Workshop. She was shortlisted for the Master Review Short Story Prize in 2023 and Longlisted for the Disquiet Prize in 2024. For many years she produced radio programs for NPR, the BBC and ABC of Australia. She was the original producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and shared in two silver Dupont awards. Before becoming a radio producer, she worked as a print journalist, writing fiction in her free time. She completed an MFA a long time ago, at Johns Hopkins, where she was lucky enough to have studied with John Barth and Grace Paley. For over a year she read for The Common. Her story, "Mystery Point" was published in Notre Dame Review, April 2025. She lives in Cold Spring, New York, with her husband, a cuddly cat, and rambunctious dog. She is at work on a novel.