FREE | Every Friday: May 29 - August 28 | 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
Aminata A. Gueye
Aminata A. Gueye is Craigardan’s 2026 JBL! Fellow. Amina is an honors graduate of Lehman College, where she double majored in Journalism and Africana Studies with a minor in English. Her writing explores the intersectionality of the Senegalese-American identity, self-worth, and history. She has been published in Brittle Paper for her poem “Lessons from Thiaroye (after ‘Move’ by Lucille Clifton)” and has been published in the United Nations’ Africa Renewal magazine. As part of the Cave Canem NYC Regional workshop, she performed her poetry at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Aminata is a two-time recipient of the 2024 and 2025 Lehman Writing Prize for Poetry.
Lucy Gibson
Lucy Gibson is a chef based in Brooklyn and Southampton. She cooks relaxed, convivial meals inspired by European home-cooking, the Long Island coastline, and her family's southern heritage. Formerly, Lucy was the Executive Chef at Rockefeller Center's Jupiter, and the Sous Chef at King, considered one of New York's best restaurants by the NYTimes. A graduate of Brown University and the Culinary Institute of America, she has cooked at Chez Panisse and the American Academy in Rome.
Karla Greenleaf-MacEwan
Karla Greenleaf-MacEwan is a high school English teacher who writes, dances, plays percussion, and goes to protests. Inspired by jazz dance teacher Mickey Davidson at Wesleyan University, she danced and choreographed in New York City throughout her twenties while supporting herself as a waitress, recreational specialist, children's creative movement teacher, and massage therapist. Journal writing always gave her solace and eventually inspired her to pursue the craft of fiction. When her first child was two, she began the MFA program in fiction writing at Brooklyn College, and after having her second child, completed her degree. While raising her children, she has taught composition and fiction writing at Brooklyn College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Montclair State University; class, race, and gender studies at SUNY Empire State College; and GED/adult education in Newark, New Jersey. Her stories have been published in the Brooklyn Review, WomenArts Quarterly, and Local Knowledge, and have won honorable mentions from the Minnetonka Review and the Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine. She acquired an agent for her novel Nineteen, which was a finalist for the 2018 Permafrost Book Prize in fiction. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her jazz pianist husband and their dog Chase, and is especially happy when her sons come home with their partners: Salomé and Cypress.