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 Grace Fossett Grace Fossett. Through clay and illustration, Grace seeks to actively blur the historical boundaries between fine art and craft. By using traditional handbuilding and surface design techniques, they give their pots and sculptures depth and breadth by world-building narratives through a trans non-binary lens. Dealing in dreams and histories, real and imagined, Grace’s visual lexicon acts as a narrator, spiraling storyteller, and subject. Arch, hand, castle, spaceship, strong man, truck, sword, dragon, dog, gun, motorcycle– as monikers for narrative, these forms suggest movement and the passage of time. They become the driving force of stories, multi-functional narratives to hold secrets that shelter and shuttle you from place to place. With this lexicon, they record their history onto the surface of pots or pages of a comic, a history that tells lies and undisputed facts, one that accounts for the utterly mundane and fantastically extraordinary— of interactions seen on the street to altercations witnessed in a dream. Shards and slices of daily life altered by an overactive imagination. This library of personal iconography is carved/scratched/printed onto ceramic objects, allowing you to hold story and history in your hands. The forms lovingly interacts with the user, creating an experience that is both tactile and cerebral. Grace’s work is a playful yet emotionally charged exploration of gender, fantasy, and relationship with self— familial, platonic, and romantic. It conjures up a dream-like sense in my audience, blending fantasy and humor with poignant resonance. Ari Cordovero Ari Cordovero is a writer whose work traces intimate thresholds of transformation: girlhood and motherhood, inheritance and rupture, devotion and leaving. Across lyric essays and narrative nonfiction, she explores lineage, memory, and the body as both archive and instrument of survival. She grew up in the Rocky Mountain Southwest, in a landscape shaped by sagebrush, long silences, and a sense of distance that sharpened attention inward. Though geographically suburban, the terrain carried something older and elemental — a place where imagination thrived in the absence of noise. As a child, she was an obsessive reader and improvisational storyteller, narrating elaborate worlds to friends long before she understood that writing could be a vocation. One friend recently reminded her that, at th...
Creative Residencies. Public Programs. Community Farm. Supporting interdisciplinary creativity in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
