classes // workshops // events
POTTERY ON THE WHEEL with Macayla Sandusky: Thursday Evenings
Join us in the clay studio this summer for this all-levels, 6-week pottery class. We’ll get our hands dirty and make great pots!
LET’S MAKE ZINES! with Sally Pirie
Join 2025 Teaching Fellow and award-winning cartoonist Sally Pirie as we learn how to turn our own small-moment stories into beautiful mini-magazines (or, “zines’).
FOOD STORIES, THE FOOD SYSTEM AND NOURISHMENT with Jenny Breen
Join 2025 Teaching Fellow Jenny Breen for hands-on cooking classes that will bring together stories about our food, where it comes from, how we prepare and experience it, and why it matters for our health and the health of our planet.
2025 Wood Kiln Firing Workshop
Join us for a week-long workshop in the Adirondacks to gain hands-on experience learning about the exciting process of wood firing with Kyle Brumsted.
FLEECE TO FABRIC with Lauren McElroy
Join 2025 Teaching Fellow Lauren McElroy to learn the timeless techniques for transforming raw wool into beautiful handspun yarn.
Photo Courtesy of The Crafters Box
POETRY: PLAYING WITH WORDS with Theresa-Xuan Bui
Join 2025 Teaching Fellow Theresa-Xuan Bui for an immersive two-week course that invites participants to explore experimental writing practices.
POTTERY ON THE WHEEL with Macayla Sandusky: Tuesday Evenings
Join us in the clay studio this summer for this all-levels, 6-week pottery class. We’ll get our hands dirty and make great pots!
2025 Spring Writers Intensive
Craigardan will welcome acclaimed writer & mentor Kate Moses of Birds & Muses for a week-long spring writer’s intensive at Craigardan.
Fruit Tree Care and Pruning
Join us on Saturday, April 5th for a free educational workshop on fruit tree care with local arborist Peter Landau.
Portugal - 2025 International Clay Retreat
CLAY + FOOD + FIRE! Join us in Portugal this February for an unforgettable 10-day experience with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro!
Fruit Tree Care and Pruning
Join us on Saturday, March 16th for a free educational workshop on fruit tree care with local arborist Peter Landau.
Empty Bowl, Full Heart Fundraiser
Join us for the annual Empty Bowl fundraiser at Keene Central School. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
BOOKGARDAN 2023-24: GROW YOUR BOOK
For Women! Grow your book project to its fullest flowering in this year-long program of intense one-on-one literary mentorship and online group workshops, bracketed by two fall residencies at Craigardan.
FOOD CLAY FIRE: WOOD KILN BUILDING WORKSHOP
Build Craigardan’s new wood kiln! Join us for a special two-week, wood-fired kiln building workshop with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro!
Empty Bowl, Full Heart Fundraiser
Join us for the annual Empty Bowl fundraiser. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
Bookgardan 2022: Grow Your Book
Grow your book project to its fullest flowering in this year-long program of intense one-on-one literary mentorship and online group workshops, bracketed by two fall retreats as artists-in-residence at Craigardan.
Empty Bowl, Full Heart Fundraiser
Join us for the annual Empty Bowl fundraiser. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
Bookgardan: Grow Your Book
Grow your book project to its fullest flowering in this year-long program of intense one-on-one literary mentorship and online group workshops, bracketed by two fall retreats as artists-in-residence at Craigardan.
Empty Bowl, Full Heart Fundraiser
Join us for the annual Empty Bowl fundraiser. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
Bookgardan: Grow Your Book
Grow your book project to its fullest flowering in this year-long program of intense one-on-one literary mentorship and online group workshops, bracketed by two fall residencies with Craigardan.
Racial Equity Workshop with the Racial Equity Institute
Join The Racial Equity Institute and Craigardan for a two-day, Phase 1 Racial Equity Workshop. This will be a virtual event.
Bookgardan: Grow Your Book
Grow your book project to its fullest flowering in this year-long program of intense one-on-one literary mentorship and online group workshops, bracketed by two fall workshops at Craigardan.
La Via Di Gangivecchio: a retreat to Sicily
Meet us in Sicily for a one-week retreat at the 14th century monastery and world-class culinary estate, Gangivecchio. Offering two date options: 10/7-10/13 or 10/14-10/20
Materials Science: Weekend Workshop Intensive
A 3-day intensive introductory course on the science behind clay and glazes.
Empty Bowl, Full Heart Dinner
Join us for a special fundraising dinner event at the Keene School. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
Writing the Ingredients
Join us around the kitchen table for this experimental food and writing workshop with writer Erica Berry and chef Luke Ayres
Open Studio Day 2 // Empty Bowl, Full Heart Dinner
Come to the January open studios and learn how to make a bowl to donate to this year's special dinner event. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
Open Studio Day // Empty Bowl, Full Heart Dinner
Come to the January open studios and learn how to make a bowl to donate to this year's special dinner event. All proceeds go toward fighting hunger locally.
Wintering: A January Retreat
Inspired by Winterson’s writing and Craigardan’s majestic mountaintop views, multidisciplinary studio environment, and culinary focus, participants will be guided to develop their own balancing winter rituals – indoors and outdoors - while tending to their inner world and creative process.
Pottery Amplifies Community: A Wood Fire Workshop with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro
Join us for a week long workshop as we focus on our lives as potters, makers, and human beings.
Clay Camp!
Coming this summer... kids clay camp! A week of adventure in the studio and on the farm for ages 7-10.
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
Learn the basic principles of structural pruning with local expert, Peter Landau!
Empty Bowl, Full Heart Dinner
Come to the Feb 3rd open studio and learn how to make a bowl to donate to this year's special dinner event. Proceeds go to the Keene Food Pantry.
Gallery Sale + Makers Weekend
We are greeting the new season with a gallery sale and makers weekend!
Song of Myself
In a place-based writing and sound workshop, participants will explore what it might mean to find identity within the external (landscape), as well as how to find landscape (written and sonic) within themselves.