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
Linda Pagani
Linda Pagani is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston. Her early photographic work initiated a career-long inquiry into the sensorial experience of an environment. In recent work, she regenerates the built structure, adorning walls with sculptural elements, while continuing in her investigation into 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 on quiet and studied form.
Pagani studied Interior Architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and went on to complete a four-year Studio Diploma in Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston. She has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including the Karsh Prize in Photography, and her alma mater’s prestigious SMFA 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. The artist lives in Lexington, MA.
Kate Moses
Kate Moses is a literary mentor and has been passionate about guiding writers toward realizing the full potential of their literary projects for over 30 years. She has been an actively publishing writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism for just as long. Her award-winning first novel, Wintering, has been published to international accolades in 16 languages. Cakewalk: A Memoir was chosen by NPR as one of its favorite memoirs of 2010. Kate is also the coeditor of two bestselling anthologies of essays on motherhood, Mothers Who Think and Because I Said So. Kate and her books have received numerous commendations including an American Book Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, a Prix des Lectrices de Elle, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Poets & Writers Debut Fiction selection, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship as well as fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Hedgebrook, Karuna, The Lighthouse Works, and MacDowell.
Kate’s has been a founding senior editor and staff writer at Salon, senior acquisitions editor at North Point Press, a senior or managing editor at several monthly magazines, and the literary director of Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. She has been on the creative writing faculties at San Francisco State, University of San Francisco, the State University of New York, the Gotham Writers Workshop, Key West Literary Seminar, and Hedgebrook, and has taught at twenty-plus colleges and universities in the U.S. and England. Kate holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University and a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from the University of the Pacific.
Carrie Hall
Carrie Hall writes essays about drunk punks in the frozen tundra, about traveling through Central America during the wars, and about the science and philosophy of boredom. She's currently working on a memoir called MURDERAPOLIS about Minnesota in the early 90's.
Work on this memoir has been supported by grants and residencies from the RF CUNY Foundation, UCross Foundation, Craigardan and Millay Arts. Hall's essays have been published in New Letters, The Missouri Review, Barren and Pleiades Magazines. Her essay "The Boredom Circuit" was runner-up for the Missouri Review's 34th Editor's prize. Another essay, "Jesus and the Gavacha" won December Magazine's 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Award for Creative Nonfiction. Of the winning piece, judge Leslie Jamison wrote: "This essay is gorgeous and deft, allergic to easy formulations and reduction; a nimble collection of brush strokes and a bruised song." Hall works as an Assistant Professor and Director of First Year Writing at the City University of New York, where she also studies the effects of early childhood trauma on literacy learning.