FREE | Every Friday: June 19 - 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
Samantha McLelland
Samantha McLelland is a Massachusetts-based visual artist and educator, whose current focus is primarily ceramics. She has a Master’s degree in Art Education and has taught public school at the elementary and middle school level, and currently teaches pottery to adults. Her ceramics have been published in Pottery Making Illustrated magazine; she has participated in several New England-area art shows; and she sells her work privately. In addition, she is an accomplished illustrator, and published Rosie’s Garden, written by Olivia Coates, in 2025 with EK Kids Publishing.
Her current body of work is inspired by Abstract Expressionism. Her pieces explore the expressive and emotive potential within ceramics by decentralizing form as the focus and instead showcasing color, texture, and balance, inviting the viewer to look deeply and find an emotional resonance within the work. The final result is fully abstract, yet warm and grounded.
Meaghan Lynch
Meaghan Lynch lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her family. She is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. She spends her time between Brooklyn, the Adirondacks, and Ireland. Her career spans design, teaching, and illustration. She has been a founding partner in a design firm, a studio prospect for over a decade. Professionally, she has collaborated on award-winning projects. As an illustrator, plants are the subject of her art. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses at various universities in the US and abroad. While establishing her design practice and teaching, she became interested in the natural world-and plants specifically- not only as her material palette, but as worthy of individual consideration in their own right. This led her to study Botanical Illustration at the New York Botanical Gardens. Her cross-disciplinary career focuses on our connection to the natural world through careful examination and illustration of plants.
Erynn Richardson
Erynn Richardson is a drawing-based artist working in Southern California. Her work explores memory, nature, and loss. Through drawing, she records the world as she experiences it; the shifting climate reshapes the land, the slow erosion of time, and the way memory fades until it becomes a ghost.
Richardson earned her BA and MA in Painting from CSU Northridge and completed her MFA in Printmaking at CSU Long Beach. She is a professor of drawing, printmaking, and design at the College of the Desert.