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
Jenny Breen
Jenny Breen is Craigardan’s 2025 Teaching Fellow. Jenny has been working at the intersection of human, community, and environmental health in the Twin Cities and throughout the country for over 30 years. She co-creates training and learning experiences for individuals, communities, organizations, and colleagues to explore and expand food, health, and sustainability skills, and builds programming and community engagement based in human and planetary health, wellbeing, equity, justice, and joy.
Jenny’s content and classes utilize cooking and basic nutrition to address human and community health, including challenging the environmental and structural barriers within our systems. Culinary ‘medicine’ and regenerative food systems are foundational to her teaching, Jenny hopes for this collective work to impact the upstream effects of injustice within the food system and throughout our communities. All of Jenny's work in the kitchen happens within a culture of joy, connection, and satisfaction, which she believes to be fundamental to human and planetary wellbeing.
Jenny’s vision is to move toward equity and growth that translates to a healthier food system, a healthier community, and a healthier planet.
Shawndel N. Fraser
Shawndel N. Fraser is an Environmental Psychologist and interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges the realms of art, community engagement, and transformation. With expertise in the social and ecological sciences, she merges qualitative research methods with artistic and craft-based practices rooted in nature. Through her proprietary methodology, Artful Transcendence™—an interdisciplinary practice uniting ecological psychology, qualitative research, and artistic craft to catalyze healing and connection—she is dedicated to transforming personal and social landscapes through creativity, presence, and mytho-poetic ecological wisdom.