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 Sue Ellen Herne Kononwa'tshén:ri ión:kia'ts Onkwehonwehnéha. (Kononwa'tshén:ri is my indigenous name.) Sue Ellen Herne ión:kia'ts Kiohrhénsha. (Sue Ellen Herne is my English name.) Wakhskaré:wake, Ahkwesáhsne nitewaké:non. (I'm Bear Clan from Akwesasne.) I have over forty years of experience in creating thought-provoking paintings and installations with a focus on Haudenosaunee (specifically Mohawk) culture and language. Images of my work may be found in: Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art - a collection of Essays edited by J.C.H. King and Christian F. Feest, 2007 Iroquois Art, Power and History by Neal Keating, 2012 I’m an artist who spent 23 years working at the Akwesasne Museum as the program coordinator. I have been a life-long learner of culture and language, and I have shared what I have learned in classrooms, through my art, and in my work as museum program coordinator. In 2018, I left my job to study in two full-time Kanién’keha (Mohawk) language programs. I’m continuing to study, most recently in an Advanced Fluency Program in order to surpass my current intermediate level of fluency. I participated in a one-week artist's residency at Craigardan in 2024, following my graduation from the Ratiwennahní:rats language program in Kahnawake. I wanted to explore how to best manage my time in order to do all of the things I want to do: create art for myself and others, support language and cultural revitalization, and make traditional items for my family, with the overall goal of incorporating all of this into my life in a meaningful way. The residency helped to clarify things for me, and now that two years have passed, I would love to be able to experience a week at Craigardan with other Mohawk people who have like-minded pursuits. Kaiahtenhtas Thompson Kaiahtenhtas Thompson (she/her) is an Akwesasne, Wolf Clan-based beadwork artist whose intricate pieces tell stories rooted in Kanien'kehá:ka culture and the natural world. Born in Cornwall, Ontario, Thompson creates complex, image-rich works using beads, porcupine quills, white birch bark, black ash splint, cedar, sweetgrass, crystals, shells, and wool. Her signature "basket weave" technique—developed self-taught while working beside master basket maker Carrie Hill and drawing on childhood memories of her grandmother weaving—transforms beads into three-dimensional surfaces that echo woven splint, bridging beadwork...
Creative Residencies. Public Programs. Community Farm. Supporting interdisciplinary creativity in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
