Summer Firing Celebration
ART
FOOD
MUSIC
FIRE!
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Beyond our weekly volunteer hours on the farm, we always welcome extra hands for a variety of tasks including farm store, trail work, at kiln firings, at events, and even with our many construction and maintenance projects. Email info@craigardan.org to tell us about your skills and interests.
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Buying local, seasonal, and organic food and goods in our store helps to further our work strengthening a regional food system and growing our community farm.
And remember - we have more than just great food in the farm store. Pick out your next gift from our selection of handmade pottery, cutting boards, sheepskins, and wool products.
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Consider making a tax-deductible unrestricted gift to Craigardan at any time of the year to help support us in our areas of greatest need.
You may wish to give a gift in honor of, or in memory of someone close to you.
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Include Craigardan in your year-end charitable giving and help us plan for the year ahead.
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We provide more than $150,000 in fellowships to artists and scholars each year.
You may choose to contribute towards an existing fellowship, or create a named award of your own.
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contact michele@craigardan.org for information on transferring gifts of stock or cryptocurrency to Craigardan.
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Help us reach our current goal of raising the final funds needed to build the new Studio.
With thanks to a FY2026 NYSCA capital grant, we are halfway there!
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Your gift makes an impact on many different levels from the personal experience of our artists-in-residence, to the ways in which Craigardan enriches the culture in the Adirondacks. Thank you!
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Celebrating the fire that brings us together
Craigardan’s Summer Firing Celebration is the annual summer event. We come together every July to celebrate the warmth and fire of creativity that connects and sustains us. Guests are invited to explore what’s new on campus as we fire the wood kiln, spend time with new friends and old, and enjoy great pizza from the wood fired bread oven. This is a free, open house style event that also helps to support Craigardan’s programs and fellowships and ongoing campus development.
Craigardan’s artist residencies bring diverse perspectives together, enabling participants to build skills, develop ideas, and help inform and grow a sense of place and purpose within a safe and supportive environment. In addition to visual and performing artists and writers, our residents include ceramic artists, farmers, activists, chefs, scholars, researchers, place-based artists, and other disciplines. We have supported more than 400 individuals working in over 25 different disciplines
We provide more than 130 innovative public programs. We offer an annual journal publication, classes, workshops, and events that actively foster creative exchange between visiting artists and the local Adirondack community. We aim to create educational experiences that encourage dialogue across the boundaries of media and thinking. And, we design intentional, place-based programs that are inclusive, responsive, and generative.
Craigardan’s campus is also a 320 acre educational Community Farm. In addition to providing incredible organic food to residents and free farm shares to local families in need, our fully diversified farm and working forest activates place beyond beauty and sets the stage for creative thinking. This setting reflects our region’s historic ties to agriculture, environmental conservation, and arts and culture. The farm is a medium through which we learn interwoven social, ecological, and financial frameworks for understanding creative process and changing systems.
**for gifts over $5000, please send a check to: Craigardan / 9216 NYS RT 9N / Elizabethtown, NY 12932
Craigardan is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization. All gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.