2023 Program Guide

CRAIGARDAN

2023 PROGRAM GUIDE

CREATIVE RESIDENCIES COMMUNITY FARM PUBLIC PROGRAMS www.craigardan.org 518.242.6535 9216 NYS Route 9N Elizabethtown, NY 12932

CRAIGARDAN FIRST FIRING OPEN HOUSE JULY 1, 2023 you’re invited! location: 44.21999, -73.66996 We hope you’ll join us for a celebration of Craigardan’s new campus and a taste of what’s to come

Welcome to the new Craigardan! Join us for a summer’s day full of art, friends, music, food, and re. Come with family and friends to explore the grounds, hang out by the camp re, picnic on the lawn, get your hands into some art-making, and be a part of the rst ring of our new wood kiln.

Please join us in celebrating what we’ve achieved together, check out the new site and happenings, be an integral part of the capital campaign for the new campus, and help us create a community legacy in the Adirondacks!

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PLEASE JOIN US!

EVENT FIRST FIRING: Open House and Bene t Saturday, July 1st // 3pm - 8pm FREE // suggested donation 3-8pm: Experience Craigardan’s new site, view current and future plans, + learn about summer programs and events.

This day celebrates our opening with the rst ring of Craigardan’s new kiln, the hearth and heart of our new home. We’ll be ring the kiln all day, and inviting you to participate in a community-wide project. Stamp your name into a clay tile to be installed on the new campus and become a part of something truly special.

During the open house we’re picnicking on the lawn with gorgeous views overlooking Rocky Peak Ridge. Throw a blanket out in the eld or choose a table in the tent. Pizzas are available hot out of the wood- red oven all day; and custom picnic totes with drinks, snacks, and goodies are available for a suggested donation of $25-$150. All proceeds go toward building our new Adirondack campus. Full details are available online.

4-5pm: Plan to spend happy hour with us and a line-up of special guest speakers including Loren Michael Mortimer, Mary Barringer, and Michele Drozd as we cut the ribbon, share stories, and start new traditions with you at Craigardan.

PICNIC DETAILS We will be serving up pizzas + cookies hot from the wood- red oven all day.

These can be purchased individually, but they’re also included in our picnic dinner tote. Each tote is a custom branded canvas bag for you to keep and it is lled with food, drinks, and fun surprises for 1-2 people. You’ll choose from 3 different pizzas (Vegetarian and GF available) and a selection of alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks. Coffee, tea, and water are free all day. The purchase of a pizza or tote includes a small donation to Craigardan’s capital campaign.

SUGGESTED DONATIONS Be a part of the campaign for the new campus We are kicking off our capital campaign to bring the new campus to the nish line! Get all the details on July 1st. $25 $40 $80 $150 $200 - $1000 $5000+ $10,000+

order a pizza on the lawn receive a camp re tote receive a snack tote receive a picnic dinner tote support the capital campaign name a trail in the new network name a room in the new buildings

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Reserve your tote + donate at www.craigardan.org/events

CRAIGARDAN / PROGRAM GUIDE Join us on campus this summer! Craigardan provides CREATIVE RESIDENCIES to artists and scholars from around the region and around the world. We also offer PUBLIC PROGRAMS such as classes, workshops, and events throughout the season. And all of this is set within our working COMMUNITY FARM, with educational opportunities and food-access programs including our popular Farm Store.

Read through this guide and circle all the things that interest you. From food and farming to artist talks and inspiring classes — there’s something for everyone. Please note: some offerings require advance registration.

EVEN MORE PROGRAMS, EVENTS, AND THE CLAY STUDIO Keep up with Craigardan news and additional offerings throughout the year by following us on social media (@craigardan), or sign up for our email newsletter on our website. In addition to listings in this guide, this summer we’ll also host wood kiln rings + pizza dinners; and bike maintenance clinics and group rides with Mark Nassan of Leepoff Cycles. We are not teaching public pottery classes yet, but we will soon! If you’re an experienced clay artist or potter looking for space to work, send us an email.

TO REGISTER Visit www.craigardan.org/events to read full program descriptions, nd more event details, and to register. Program locations on campus will vary — online descriptions will specify parking and meeting locations either at the farm or at the main campus.

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The farm, farm store, and our of ce is open to the public Monday through Saturday, 9am-6pm. The main campus is not currently open to the public outside of event hours.

Main campus visits can be arranged by

phone 518.242.6535 or email info@craigardan.org.

We welcome school eld trips, guided family farm walks, and organizational partnerships that open up the world of responsible agriculture to the community. We are able to design educational programs to meet the needs of diverse groups, skill levels, and interests. To inquire, please contact program@craigardan.org.

RESIDENCIES Creative residencies are available to artists and scholars who are local to the region and to folks from around the nation and around the world. We have supported individuals and groups working in more than 25 different disciplines, at all stages of their careers. The application period for 2024 residencies is open from September 1 through January 30. Learn more online at craigardan.org/residencies.

SUPPORT Craigardan is supported by individual community members, private foundations, and grants.

Craigardan’s arts programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Of ce of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

The 2023 Community Farm Program is supported in part by the Adirondack Foundation, Cloudsplitter Foundation, J.M. McDonald Foundation, Stewart’s Foundation, and the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and the Essex Farm Institute.

2023 Public Programs are made possible by the generosity of participants and individual donors like you, with additional support from the Essex County Arts Council and the Charles R Wood Foundation.

Our ongoing campus construction is supported by our capital campaign. Please consider supporting this community legacy.

RESOURCE FREE FOOD FRIDGE

May 15 - Nov 15

Offered in solidarity, not charity and available 24/7 on the front porch of the Farm Store, no questions asked.

Take what you need and/or donate what you can. Please help us spread the word to families who could bene t from free access to local food. In addition to our farm, 14 farms and individuals contributed to the fridge last year. The fridge is seasonally available from May 15 Nov 15. Please contact program@craigardan.org with any inquiries and/or if you are interested in donating food.

The Free Food Fridge is made possible with support from the Empty Bowls, Full Heart Fundraiser, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and the Stewart’s Foundation.

EVENT COMMUNITY FARM PLANTING DAY 10am - 12pm // FREE

Saturday May 27

Rain date June 3. Help us plant our garden! Share in the joy that comes from planting seeds and starts with the satisfaction of knowing the fruits of your labor will help feed our local community and visiting artists all season long. Make new friends, get your hands in the soil, and learn from staff and friends. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring a water bottle and sunscreen. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

No experience necessary. Registration is encouraged.

WEEKLY EVENT TUESDAY BEGINNER MTB RIDES with Mark Nassan 6pm - 8pm // FREE Every Tuesday June 6 through October 24

Tuesdays June 6 - Oct 24

Join us at the Blueberry Hill Trails in Elizabethtown every Tuesday evening (weather permitting) for group mountain bike rides with local guru Mark Nassan. This is geared towards beginners but all levels are welcome for this fun, supportive, laid back group ride. Mark provides skills, tips, and techniques along the way, so you’re sure to learn something new every time.

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Meet at the Bronson Way parking area with your bike, helmet, water, and snacks. Registration is not necessary — feel free to bring a friend and spread the word. Keep an eye out for group road and gravel rides with Mark as well as bike maintenance clinics at Craigardan.

WEEKLY EVENT VOLUNTEER ON THE FARM 9am - 11am // FREE Join us on the farm any or every Saturday from June 10 through September 30th. During volunteer hours you will have the hands-on experience of working on our small-scale, diversi ed farm. As a community farm, we focus on education and access. We provide avorful, healthy, and seasonal produce, meat and eggs for free or at a subsidized price to the community. We grow a Saturdays June 10 - Sept 30 wide variety of vegetables and work with sheep, pigs, chickens, and bees. By learning how to grow what you eat alongside friends and neighbors, you can start or add to your home garden or ock, while also supporting the local farm and food landscape.

Plus, it’s tons of fun and you get to take home a small share of the harvest. No experience necessary, best suited for teens and adults. Registration is not necessary.

WORKSHOP FIRE, CLAY, FOOD: with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro 9am - 5pm // $1050-$2050

June 12 - June 26

Join us for two incredible weeks in the Adirondacks with Sam and Mark. This is food, clay, and re at its very best.

Learn about kiln construction and planning; stay in luxury camping accommodations in the heart of New York’s Adirondack wilderness; eat delicious farm food; make pots; and roll up your sleeves to help build the hearth of Craigardan’s new home. All food, accommodations, instructions, materials, and equipment included.

Please register online at craigardan.org/events

WEEKLY EVENT SILENT MEDITATION with Peter Beuf Every Wednesday starting June 14, through Sept 13 6:30pm - 7:15pm // donate what you wish

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As we enter a new, post-pandemic phase in society, Peter feels a need for the ritual of sitting in a room with a group of people in silence. This practice builds community. A non-denominational and non-hierarchical "sangha" is inclusive of all people. Pascal's oft quoted "All human unhappiness comes from man's [he, she, they] inability to sit quietly in a room alone" seems more Wednesdays June 14-Sept 13 relevant now than in the seventeenth century. Since none of us are alone it is important to feel the unity that can only come from silence in numbers. The purpose of this practice will be to unite community members in silence. Each class will begin with a brief instruction about intention and breathing followed by half an hour of silent meditation. Registration is not necessary.

WEEKLY EVENT APPLEBARN TALKS Every Friday: July 7 - September 29 Reception 4:30pm - 5pm, Talk 5pm - 6pm // FREE

Fridays July 7-Sept 29

Join us throughout the summer for our free public series of artist talks, readings, and presentations. We’ll celebrate the series with a NEW weekly reception — arrive early and enjoy free refreshments with our visiting artists-in-residence. We’ll hear from poets, scholars, creative writers, visual artists, storytellers, and potters.

All are welcome!

Craigardan’s Applebarn Series is supported in part thanks to the Charles R. Wood Foundation.

CLASS CREATING HEALTHY NARRATIVES IN CHILDREN with Evan Shopper 12pm - 2pm // $40 per person or couple (50% discount for WIC and SNAP parents)

Saturday July 8 + 15

If you’re a parent, then you know that little kids often don’t make complete sense. They act bizarrely and their emotions are erratic, even bewildering. This course helps make sense of a child’s behavior, as well as the complex emotions that drive the behavior. Once parents fully understand their child’s emotions, they can understand what to do and how to help their child.

But there’s another related, perhaps more important piece to the parenting puzzle that no one talks about: narratives. Narratives are essentially core stories that develop as we emotionally react to and make sense of our earliest experiences. These narratives tell us what to expect about the future, who we are, and who others will be. They determine every decision we will make. If that sounds like a big deal, you’re right. But here’s the catch: because kids naturally misperceive what’s happening, they frequently form long-lasting, inaccurate, and even harmful narratives about themselves and others. In this session we’ll explore the relationship between narratives and emotions, and how parents can help their child develop healthy narratives.

Optional part-2 takes place on Saturday, July 15. At its core, the second session explores how we all struggle and stumble and succeed as parents, and we’ll do all this in a nonjudgmental, supportive way. Using everything that was covered in the rst class, the second session will now further explore parenting challenges with real-life examples. Parents will be encouraged to share situations in which their child’s behavior, motives, and/or feelings were not clear, nor was it obvious what the parent should do.

We’ll break down all the details into their parts to understand the child’s behavior and feelings, how a parent might speak to these emotions, what narratives might be forming as a result, and how parents can help their child form healthy narratives. Expect a lot of lively discussion as parent participation is strongly encouraged.

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Please register online at craigardan.org/events

CLASS HISTORY + MAKERS with Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer 6pm - 8pm // $20 per person, per class

Thursdays July 6, 13 + 20

Creativity meets inquiry in this place-based history series. As an organization deeply rooted in this region’s unique history, Craigardan exists at the nexus of processes (re)making this region’s present and future.

Through multidisciplinary and multisensory encounters with the past, participants will experience history as a creative yet collaborative catalyst for positive change in our own lives, our organizations, and the communities that sustain us.

THURSDAY, JULY 6 // FIRST MAKERS Native American arts not only have deep history within the Adirondack Region, Indigenous creativity encodes and embodies these dynamic stories on the landscape itself. This session combines an introduction to the history of the First Makers who worked in this region, and a pottery class taught by Katsitsionni Fox from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory.

THURSDAY, JULY 13 // FIRST OBLIGATIONS While the Adirondack region has a continuous history as Native American homeland extending back at least 12,000 years, most of the 12.5 million people who reside in or visit each year are not Indigenous to these lands and waters. As non-Native guests on ancestral Indigenous land, what are our obligations to its original caretakers? How might early treaties with Native Americans and the “original instructions” for coexisting on the land guide us through these spaces in the present day?

Join Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer for an introduction to the treaties and trickeries that transformed Native American homelands into the Adirondack Park during the 18th and 19th centuries. Even though past generations have disregarded or broken treaty agreements, this course challenges participants to re-engage these foundational documents as frameworks for relational accountability with Native American communities that maintain intimate connections with the lands and waterways within the boundaries of the Adirondack Park.

THURSDAY, JULY 20 // (RE)MAKING THE ADIRONDACKS THROUGH CREATIVE NONFICTION Nearly two centuries ago, poets, painters and geologists invented the idea of the “Adirondacks.” This creative place-making helped ensure that this land would remain “forever wild,” but this work also elevated ideas of white supremacy over the land while simultaneously erasing more than 10,000 years of Indigenous presence within their ancestral homelands. Join historian Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer for an immersive place-based workshop at Craigardan that invites writers, podcasters, and storytellers of all kinds to return to these Romantic-era narratives of the Adirondacks to harness the transformative power of creative non- ction to address the legacies of colonialism in the region while also writing new futures into existence.

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Please register for each class online at craigardan.org/events

CLASS BACKYARD BEES 11am - 1pm // $5 suggested donation Join local beekeepers Michele Drozd, Sam Bowser, and Laura Von Rosk as we open up Craigardan’s hives for an inspection. See what the inner workings of a bee hive look like and try to spot the queen! You’ll learn about bee behavior, how bees make honey, and what role they play on the farm and in the ecosystem. We’ll also tastetest some honey from around the region (and the Saturday July 22 grocery store) and talk about basic equipment and what it takes to get started. This introduction to beekeeping with novice beekeepers Michele, Sam, and Laura may just inspire you to maintain a hive or two of your own - if we can do it, so can you! Preregistration is appreciated, but not necessary.

CLASS THE PRACTICE OF BEING TOGETHER with Theresa-Xuan Bui 6pm - 7pm // $30 per person Amid the turbulence of an ever-changing America, there is an urgency for empathy. The poet and performance artist will deliver a three-part series exploring how the nuances of our nation provide an opportunity to understand the complexity of our individual narratives.

Thursday July 27, Aug 3 + 10

Theresa will discuss their interdisciplinary work which seeks to understand the self within larger power structures, namely experiences surrounding the ideals of America and immigrant households. They will describe their investment in performance as a process of somatic knowledge — the ways in which memory, trauma, and wisdom are carried within our bodies. Utilizing a series of embodiment exercises, Theresa will guide participants in a contemplation of the self through performative movements and re ective prompts. In connection with Craigardan’s mission of interdisciplinary learning, new questions, and initiatives, this series will unearth the through-line between our individual narratives and collective environment. Please register online at craigardan.org/events CLASS LIVING LANDSCAPE: HOW SHEEP, CHICKENS, AND PIGS PLAY A ROLE 11am - 1pm // $5 suggested donation

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Saturday August 5

The sheep, pigs, and chickens all have important roles at Craigardan. On our farm we raise sheep for soil improvement, meat, and wool; pigs for compost, soil tillage, and meat; and chickens for soil improvement, pest management, and the best eggs around! Come learn how we care for and manage our livestock, how these animals t into an integrated living landscape, and how they respond to care and provide for all of us. Preregistration is appreciated, but not necessary.

CLASS BRINGING OUR MOST EFFECTIVE SELVES TO OUR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION: The Role of Awareness and Acceptance with Rachael Reichenbach 6pm - 8pm // $40 per person

Tuesday August 15 + 22

We live in dangerous times. Violence, hatred, and domination are rampant and glori ed. Our planet, and our most marginalized, historically excluded, and vulnerable people are being targeted. We are all at risk.

How do we be with this overwhelming reality? So many of us feel sad, angry, and scared and we want to do something. But what can we do? And how?

In this two-part class we will explore one pathway towards becoming effective liberation workers - the development of a liberatory consciousness through awareness, acceptance, analysis, action, and accountability. The term and process coined by Dr. Barbara J. Love offers a roadmap towards showing up effectively to reduce harm and further justice. This workshop will speci cally delve into the importance of awareness and acceptance as precursors to action. Together we will raise awareness of ourselves as change agents, and learn how acceptance of injustice is integral to effectively engaging with injustice.

In this highly experiential series participants will be invited to engage in personal re ection and practice, and to connect with themselves and each other through journaling, guided visualization, and song. Please register online at craigardan.org/events CLASS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Learning the Connie Converse Lesson with Howard Fishman 6pm - 8pm // $40 per person When musician and New Yorker contributing writer Howard Fishman rst heard the music of the obscure 1950s-era songwriter Connie Converse, his life and career screeched to a halt. Her visionary music, unrecognized in her own time and only recently released in this century, “revealed a tear in the fabric of Thursday August 17 + 24 our culture, one that required mending.” Twelve years and countless hours of research, travel, and interviews later, Fishman’s new book To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse is a celebration of the unseen and unheard in our society, people making work not for the promise of popularity and wealth, but for beauty and self-expression.

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Converse intentionally disappeared in 1974, at age 50, feeling disconnected and despairing of ever nding a way of making herself known. But as Fishman says in the epilogue to his book: “How might Connie Converse have fared had she lived in a society in which everyday creativity was honored, and all took a genuine interest in the things one another made? The famous artists we love and admire are one thing, but what about that health care worker down the street who writes poetry on the side? What about that aunt who paints watercolors as a hobby, or that high school teacher who curates a gorgeously thriving garden, or is experimenting with new culinary creations, or who just wrote a new song— not to upload on

social media, but simply for the sake of doing something beautiful, as Converse did throughout her life? In today’s trend toward everything local, can we take more of an interest in local art, too? Can we nd a way to celebrate one another, and the creative spark that resides in each of us?”

In the rst segment of this two-part class, Fishman will talk about his work as a biographer and literary detective, and about why he became obsessed with Connie Converse’s life and work. Attendees will then be given an assignment that will inform the workshop’s second session, when the general public will be invited to engage with and celebrate the fruit of their endeavors.

Please register online at craigardan.org/events EVENT DONNALDSON BROWN: author of Because I Loved You in conversation with Kate Moses 7pm - 8pm // $5 suggested donation Donnaldson Brown will be in conversation with Kate Moses and will read from her debut novel Because I Loved You (published Spring ’23). The novel is an epic love story and rich family saga that takes readers from the East Texas chaparral in 1972, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, to New York City’s vibrant Tuesday August 29 downtown art scene in the mid-1980’s, to the (prepandemic) present day, and from dreams lost to dreams rediscovered. Brown weaves together a powerful story of abiding love—romantic love, parental love, and the kind of love that sets a person free to choose one’s own path and maybe, hopefully, return. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.

“A novel of passion and place, ambition and expectation, Because I Loved You is a beautifully written story that speaks with equal tenderness to the wild abandon of young love and the awful heartbreak of dreams deferred. A gorgeous debut.” -Amy Brill, author of The Movement of Stars CLASS COMPOST IT! 11am - 1pm // $5 suggested donation

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According to the USDA, food scraps and yard waste currently make up 20-30 percent of what we throw away.

Composting keeps food scraps out of land lls and is a sustainable and inexpensive way to create soil amendments for your garden and lawn — think of it as nature’s way of recycling! In this workshop you will learn how to compost food scraps, leaf litter, and more in your Saturday Sept 2 own backyard. We’ll cover different methods, dealing with wildlife, and how to make good quality compost that your plants will love. By composting at home, you can feel good knowing that through this small act you are working to address climate change. Preregistration is appreciated, but not necessary. Craigardan’s new composting system is made possible in part by a grant from the Essex Farm Institute.

RESOURCE GARDAN SHARE: SIX WEEKS OF FREE VEGETABLES 2:30pm - 6pm pick up // FREE Is local food unaffordable for you? Would you like to incorporate more fresh, local vegetables into your family’s diet? Would your family bene t from free vegetables every week and guidance on how to prepare and cook them? If so, the Gardan Share Program may be for you! This program is intended for families who do Thursdays Sept 7 - Oct 12 not have easy access to affordable, local food.

Participants pick-up free farm shares of seasonal produce along with nutritional information, tips, and recipes every Thursday from September 7th to October 12th at the farm. Space is limited.

Contact program@craigardan.org or call 518.242.6535 to sign up.

CLASS SPEAKING RIVERS with Blake Lavia + Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo 6pm - 8pm // $20 per person In this storytelling session we will explore how human beings can speak with and alongside rivers. In order to ful ll our roles and responsibilities to the Adirondack Waterways and the ecosystems they sustain, we will delve into the concepts of the Rights/Rites of Rivers.

Throughout the workshop, we will use storytelling as the Thursday Sept 7 bridge to imagine a new reality; a reality in which humans can act reciprocally with the beings and environments that bring life to all. That reality is currently taking place across the region as local municipalities adopt ecocentric local laws, and the stories we tell are vital part of this movement. Please register online at craigardan.org/events

EVENT AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING with Michael “Yoko” Amos 6pm - 7pm // $5 suggested donation

Thursday Sept 14

Frustrated musician, DJ, mentor, storyteller, and avid skier — Yoko has lived and DJ’ed across the country. He comes to Craigardan in September for a four week residency to capture his life stories in writing and to hone his storytelling craft. Filled with humor and love, personal growth and revelation, his stories artfully examine his unconventional life journey from urban to rural America while allowing the listener to re ect carefully on their own.

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Join us for three beautiful fall evenings of informal storytelling and sharing with Yoko.

Refreshments provided. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary. This program is supported in part by the Essex County Arts Council.

EVENT EMPTY BOWL, FULL HEART MAKERS DAYS IN THE CLAY STUDIO 9am-12pm // FREE Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! Come on Thursday the 21st, Saturday the 23rd, or both days. We’ll be creating bowls by several methods that will later be glazed and red in the wood kiln. You'll be getting your hands “dirty” with clay and learning how the process Thursday Sept 21 works while supporting local food initiatives. And, you’ll be invited back for the wood kiln ring to experience the multi-day process and see the work come out of the kiln. This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.

EVENT AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING with Michael “Yoko” Amos 6pm - 7pm // $5 suggested donation

Thursday Sept 21

Frustrated musician, DJ, mentor, storyteller, and avid skier — Yoko has lived and DJ’ed across the country. He comes to Craigardan in September for a four week residency to capture his life stories in writing and to hone his storytelling craft. Filled with humor and love, personal growth and revelation, his stories artfully examine his unconventional life journey from urban to rural America while allowing the listener to re ect carefully on their own.

Join us for three beautiful fall evenings of informal storytelling and sharing with Yoko.

Refreshments provided. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary. This program is supported in part by the Essex County Arts Council.

EVENT EMPTY BOWL, FULL HEART MAKERS DAYS IN THE CLAY STUDIO 9am - 12pm // FREE

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Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! Come on Thursday the 21st, Saturday the 23rd, or both days. We’ll be creating bowls by several methods that will later be glazed and red in the wood kiln. You'll be getting your Saturday Sept 23 hands “dirty” with clay and learning how the process works while supporting local food initiatives. And, you’ll be invited back for the wood kiln ring to experience the multi-day process and see the work come out of the kiln. This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.

EVENT AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING with Michael “Yoko” Amos 6pm - 7pm // $5 suggested donation

Thursday Sept 28

Frustrated musician, DJ, mentor, storyteller, and avid skier — Yoko has lived and DJ’ed across the country. He comes to Craigardan in September for a four week residency to capture his life stories in writing and to hone his storytelling craft. Filled with humor and love, personal growth and revelation, his stories artfully examine his unconventional life journey from urban to rural America while allowing the listener to re ect carefully on their own.

Join us for three beautiful fall evenings of informal storytelling and sharing with Yoko.

Refreshments provided. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary. This program is supported in part by the Essex County Arts Council.

EVENT COMMUNITY HARVEST DAY 11am - 3pm // FREE

Saturday October 7 word. This is a family friendly event!

What is better than the harvest season?! All of our work leads up to this time of celebration and bounty. In May we invite you to join us in planting some of what we will be harvesting months later during our Fall harvest.

Imagine a bounty of colorful root vegetables, winter squash, alliums, and hearty greens; friends and neighbors (old and new); cozy seasonal snacks; and an all around jolly good time. We’ll also send you home with a taste of the harvest. Registration is encouraged but please feel free to bring a friend and spread the

WORKSHOP BOOKGARDAN 2023/2024 with Kate Moses ONLINE + IN-RESIDENCE AT CRAIGARDAN $10,900 (full year + 2 residencies)

Starting Monday, Oct 16

Bring your book project and your literary practice to full fruition in Bookgardan, a year-long program of sustained, one-on-one mentorship and Master Classlevel craft curriculum created by an acclaimed writer, seasoned editor, and devoted & inspiring literary mentor, shared with an intimate cohort of like-minded literary artists.

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Hone your work-in-progress, develop your technical expertise, and re ne your inimitable artistic process over twelve months of online connection bookended by two full weeks as fall writers-in-residence at Craigardan. One fellowship is available each year. Learn more and apply online at craigardan.org/bookgardan

9am - 5pm // FREE Craigardan’s 320 acre campus is a patchwork of new elds and previously logged forest navigated on a network of skidder tracks and new trails. We need your help clearing debris, stabilizing soils, and creating paths to open up new possibilities for walking, skiing, biking, and exploring the property.

October 28-29

Grab a friend and spend some time with us outside, rain or shine. Lunch, refreshments and equipment provided.

No experience is necessary. Registration is not required.

DID YOU KNOW? ‣ Craigardan was established in 2016, and moved from Keene to Elizabethtown in 2019 to build a new campus as a community resource. ‣ Each year Craigardan’s Community Farm + Farm Store gives away thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables, returns thousands of dollars in pro ts to local farmers, and saves consumers thousands of dollars off the cost of local food. ‣ Each summer Craigardan provides more than $50,000 in scholarships and fellowships to support artists and scholars here in the Adirondacks.

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EVENT TRAIL-WORK WEEKEND

FRIDAY APPLEBARN TALKS with Craigardan’s 2023 Artists-In-Residence

WELCOME 2023 CRAIGARDAN ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Every Friday: July 7 - September 29 Reception 4:30 - 5pm, Presentation 5 - 6pm // FREE JULY 7 Loren Michael Mortimer is a 2023 Teaching Fellow. Mike holds the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Native American History at Emory University. A public scholar, digital humanist, and interdisciplinary historian, Mike has devoted his career to training creative history-makers to address global challenges at a local level.

He received his PhD in History with a designated emphasis in Native American Studies from UC Davis in 2019. From 2020-2021, he was the American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Race, Migration, and Indigeneity at Indiana University Bloomington. As a communityengaged scholar, he has worked on collaborative digital mapping workshops on local Indigenous foodways for Hamilton College.

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His current book project, Kaniatarowanenneh Crossings: Indigenous

Power and Presence in the St. Lawrence River Watershed, 1534-1842, is the rst transnational study of the Seven Fires — a confederacy of Catholic Mohawk, Wendat, Wabanaki, and Anishinaabe mission communities along the US-Canada border that had shared ties to the lands and waters that now comprise the Adirondack Park. As an expert in the Indigenous and environmental history of the Adirondack Park, Mike’s research has been recognized by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, while his digital history projects have received support from Mellon Public Scholars and the American Philosophical Society.

Victoria Buitron is a writer and translator who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Fair eld University.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, SmokeLong en Español, The Of ng, and other literary magazines. A

VONA fellow, her work has been selected for 2022’s Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf’s Top 50. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, is the 2021 Fair eld Book Prize winner.

Evan Shopper, LICSW, is a 2023 Teaching Fellow. Evan holds a Masters in Social Work from the Smith College School of Social Work. He currently is a psychotherapist in private practice in Amherst, MA. Though he sees all ages, he specializes in working with kids and adolescents. For years he has taught both parenting classes to parents of preschoolers and toddlers as well as statemandated co-parenting classes for divorcing parents. He is currently writing a parenting book that incorporates the tools and understanding therapists use when working with young children. Prior to being a therapist, Evan received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. For many years, he was visiting faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, teaching ction and non ction. His ction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Sun Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Colorado Review, The Indiana Review, and others.

JULY 14 Marlena Murtagh is a photographer and artist living with chronic pain in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2023, she will be launching programming designed to help those in chronic pain distract and disengage from the pain cycle. Her downloadables incorporate authentic self exploration, mark-making, and pain education as one method of pain management. In addition to her chronic pain work, she’s spent the past 10 years as a photography and design teacher.

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Felicity Sheehy’s chapbook Losing the Farm (Southword Editions, 2021) won rst place in the Munster Literature Centre's international chapbook competition.

Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily,

Narrative, The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Blackbird, 32 Poems, The Common, Literary Matters, and elsewhere.

Her work has received an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Jane Martin Prize for U.K. residents under the age of thirty. She was a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the 2021 Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholar at the Community of Writers, a 2022 Thomas Lux Scholar at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the 2022 Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She has also received support from the Fine Arts Work Center, Narrative Magazine, Smartish Pace, the York Poetry Prize, and the Ledbury Poetry Festival, among others. In 2019 and 2020, she was named one of Narrative Magazine's 30 below 30 emerging writers.

JULY 21 Jenny Cosgrove is a ceramic sculptor and painter whose work explores archetypal imagery and culturally signi cant topics through dreamlike renderings of the gure.

Delusions, dreams, and explorations of the taboo drive the work and a tension is held between the tender and lewd, transcendent and ordinary. Jenny graduated from Alfred University in 2022.

Angela Cho teaches architecture and design at the Daniels Faculty at University of Toronto and the School of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her own research is driven by a preoccupation with the ethics and ironies of preservation efforts in architecture, which she primarily investigates through casting processes. In her ceramic work, her pieces tend to evoke bodies — human bodies, plant bodies — without crossing into being representational. Across all disciplines, her interest is in material itself and in letting her work bear gural and textural signs of manual process and manual thinking.

Angela holds a Master of Architecture degree from U of T and a Bachelor of Interior Design from TMU. She continues to

collaborate at Of ce of Adrian Phiffer on a variety of projects including sculptures, stop-motion animations, and shortlisted architecture competition entries. She lives and works in Toronto.

Dane Mainella is a poet-orchardist from the southeastern coast of New England, who writes and gardens with living communities in mind. Dane has published several books of verse and ction. Lately his writing has been inspired by the ecologies of forest succession, and the ways in which humans interact with these timescales. Dane keeps a small nursery of useful perennial plants, and helps people design, establish, and care for orchards, gardens, and food forests.

JULY 28 William Camponovo’s poetry has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, The Seattle Review, The Los Angeles Review, Best New Poets, and online at Poetry Northwest. Through Lost & Found, the publishing house of the Center for the Humanities at the City University of New York, he published “Jack Forbes: ‘Yanga Ya’: Selected Poems and The Goals of Education,” which curated pedagogical materials from Indigenous scholar, activist, and poet Jack Forbes. William has studied poetry and poetics at Johns Hopkins, the University of Washington, and the Graduate Center at CUNY. He teaches with the Bard Prison Initiative.

Brad Shingleton now devotes his time to writing as an independent scholar after a career in law. His work had recently concentrated on law, ethics and society, topics on which he has recently published a book and several journal articles. He has also written on aspects of moral reasoning and ethical con ict. Brad has authored personal essays on nature and naturalists that have appeared in the Washington Post and literary journals such as The Snowy Egret. He lives in Maryland.

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Mia Vodanovich is the cross-pollinated child of farmland and Bay Area ‘burbs. Mia is a writer, teacher, podcast co-host, and

semi-avid ABBA fan. She received her MA in English at Notre Dame de Namur University and has had work published in The Bohemian, Leaf by Leaf, House of HASH, and Unstamatic Magazine, with a piece forthcoming in Healthline Zine. Her chapbook Not Long for This World was published in February 2023 with Bottlecap Press.

Melissa Dickey was born and raised in New Orleans and now lives in Western Massachusetts where she teaches high school English. She is the author of two books of poetry published by Rescue Press and another forthcoming from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

Her writing has appeared in Bennington Review, The Spectacle, Laurel Review, jubilat, and Interim, among other publications. She is also the mother of four children.

AUGUST 4 Michele Parker Randall reads and writes poetry and authored The Museum of Everyday Life (Kelsay Books) and A Future Unmappable, chapbook (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry can also be found in Nimrod International Journal, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. Michele teaches poetry, personal essay, fairy tales, and Literature of Mental Health/Neurodivergent Literature at Stetson University, and she feels strongly that neurodivergent narratives can make the difference in reducing the stigma placed on those living with mental illness.

Michael Prior is Craigardan’s 2023 Master Artist Fellow. His second book of poems Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/ Penguin Random House, 2020) won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the British Columbia & Yukon Book Prizes Poetry Prize. Prior is the recent recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The Kenyon

Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and elsewhere. He divides his time between Vancouver, Canada and Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he is an Assistant Professor of English and an ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College.

Dennis Delay obtained a B.A. in Studio Art from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1996 and studied with the South African artists Rosenclaire while in residency in Italy. In 2007 he earned a M.S. in School Counseling at UVM and currently works with young children in Vermont schools. In February 2020, Delay stumbled upon maps that recorded the presence of his Irish immigrant ancestors farming on the very same land that Craigardan resides on. This marked the beginning of a growing body of work that investigates the intersections of genealogy and place. His work touches on a variety of themes (childhood, family systems, history, religion, the environment) while also posing questions about place/displacement, native/non-native, erasure/documentation, and growth/loss.

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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is Craigardan’s 2023 John Brown Lives! Fellow. Gloria has written many books and articles. She is working on her rst novel titled Wicked Prayers. Her book She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power is about The Black Women’s journey from Queen Nzingha to today’s activists. Gloria has an upcoming docuseries titled She Took Justice. She authored The Voting Rights War and Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present, a book that discusses race and education, voting rights, criminal justice, civil liberties and protest, the military and internationalism concerning African Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans. Gloria Browne-Marshall is a playwright with seven produced plays.

Her recent play SHOT: Caught a Soul depicts a Black teen haunting the White police of cer who shot him, and Dreams of Emmett Till takes that tragic encounter into

the 21st century. She attended the MFA program in playwrighting at Sarah Lawrence College. She is working on a stage play titled Crossroads about murderous White rage and Black ambition.

Rachael Reichenbach (she/they) is a 2023 Teaching Fellow. Rachael is a racial justice and systems change facilitator, coach, and trainer. She supports white-bodied folks to disrupt internalized white superiority inside themselves & their relationships and to embody anti-racist culture that is sane, loving, collaborative, and equitable. She supports multi-racial social justice organizations and networks to develop and re ne processes for effective, humancentered collaboration and meaningful engagement across lines of difference.

Additionally, she offers workshops that are designed to develop and deepen liberatory consciousness and a systems approach to social, racial, and environmental justice. She lives at Wild Hydrangea, an intentional community in Northern Alabama, on the land of the Upper Creek and Cherokee.

Colin Bonini is a writer from San Jose, California and a current MFA candidate in Fiction at Arizona State University. His work appears or is forthcoming in the Under Review, The Adroit Journal, Wig-Wag, Glassworks Magazine, and elsewhere.

AUGUST 18 Kristen Tauer is a writer and arts and culture journalist based in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in NYU’s Dovetail, WomenArts Quarterly,The New York Times, and The Coachella Review. In 2016, she helped launch the independent food publication Counter Service. She’s originally from Ithaca, NY and graduated from Cornell University.

Howard Fishman is a 2023 Teaching Fellow. Howard is a culture writer, musician, theatre artist, and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. His rst book To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse will be published by Dutton in May, 2023. Fishman

is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and has also written for The Washington Post Magazine, Vanity Fair, the San Francisco Chronicle, Artforum, The Mojo Gallery, The Village Voice, No Depression, and JAZZIZ Magazine. His play A Star Has Burnt My Eye had its world premiere at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the Next Wave Festival. The production was a New York Times ‘Critics Pick,’ and went on to tour regionally. Fishman has made featurelength appearances on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, World Cafe with David Dye, and Soundcheck with John Schaefer, and has appeared as a featured commentator on CNN, BBC World News, and on The Smerconish Podcast on SiriusXM. He has also presented at TEDx in Brooklyn.

Kalika Kulukundis is a British artist/maker currently studying for a Bachelors degree at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. Kalika comes from a multicultural background and has lived between the United Kingdom, India, and Ireland. Her main interests are the natural world and making things. She satis es these interests through learning about geography and biology as well as making and studying art. Kalika is fascinated with how we use the natural world to produce craft. Her ideas are grounded in an anticapitalist thinking that puts the environment rst. With roots in the countryside, she is inspired by the community nature of rural spaces and how this way of living creates an innate understanding of the environment and the species that cohabit different ecologies. Her work is process-led, and centers around the meditative nature of producing art and craft.

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Carolyn Bardos is a writer (mostly poetry) and a visual artist (mostly painting) based in Troy, New York. She grew up farther downstate in Newburgh. She began making art with serious intent in a high school ceramics class in the 1970s, a period of renewed widespread interest in craftwork.

Between 2000 and 2019, she worked in several art-related capacities. She ran a

small art center in rural New Hampshire, worked as an actor in regional theatre, wrote and produced plays, and operated an independent publishing company. Her artwork has appeared most recently at Martinez Gallery in Troy, NY. A chapbook of her poetry, Yesterday’s Daybreak, was published in 2011 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in Charlotte, NC. Khanh Pham found pottery as an art that suits her interest in learning and helps her build patience. She wants to use this art form as a middle point between other art interests including designing, drawing, and sculpting. Khanh was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US at age 14. With this history she had to overcome many challenges to be where she is today. Khanh wants to continue to bring her life experiences into her work and conversations. Pottery soothes her and she wants to share that comfort with others.

Sarah Mock is on a mission to prove that it is possible to feed people without exploiting farmers, farmworkers, the environment, or communities. That mission required her to become an agriculture and food expert, and today she writes, podcasts, researches, and advises on everything from farm production, strategy, and marketing to ag history and economics to logistics, supply chains, and climate impact. She’s worked in and around agriculture across the country and around the globe, with nonpro ts, the US Department of Agriculture, Silicon Valley companies, the national news media, and directly with farms. Her work has culminated in a number of award-winning projects, including her best selling book Farm (and Other F Words) and her latest, Big Team Farms. Raised on her family’s farm in Wyoming, Sarah is now rooted in Albuquerque, NM. SEPTEMBER 1 Max Gray is a writer, journalist, and nature lover. His ction, non ction, and music criticism have appeared in Cutbank, Mount Hope, Jelly Bucket, and The Rumpus. He is a

graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and a former resident at The Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton, GA. Donelle Wedderburn is Craigardan’s 2023 Trillium Fellow. Donelle is an audio producer with a special love for sound and product design. She has contributed to producing and developing a range of broadcasts and podcasts for ABC News, 10% Happier, Blind Landing, and NPR. In her free time, she loves to write poetry, watch movies, and obsess about architecture and industrial design.

Claire Cox is a writer and high school teacher in New York City. Her debut novel Silver Beach won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2021.

SEPTEMBER 8 Marisha Falkovich was born in Moscow, Russia and is an artist now based in New York City. She works primarily in clay, drawing and animation. Along with her art practice she runs a small ceramics and lamps shop.

Julia Skinner, PhD is the author of Our Fermented Lives and is a fermentation enthusiast, educator, writer, visual artist, food historian, and founder of Root Kitchens. She has won multiple awards for her writing and her work with fermentation, food history, and community work, including being the only writer or culinary professional to win two 40 Under 40 awards in the same year. Julia is an avid wild foods enthusiast, and curious about the ways wild plants and wild microbes, and the art and food we make with them, inform and disrupt our sense of place. She lives in Atlanta, GA and part time in Cork, Ireland.

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Tal Beery is an artist, independent curator, and co-executive director of the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre in the Catskill Mountains, just two hours north of New York City. He is co-founder and administrator of Arts & Ecology

Incorporated, a nonpro t exploring the connections between nature and culture through artist-centered projects, consulting services for organizations, and scal sponsorships for artists. His published articles, artistic research, and curatorial projects explore human relationships with their environments and arts institutional design. Previous projects include Eco Practicum, School of Apocalypse, and Occupy Museums. Tal’s independent and collaborative art works have been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, El Museo Del Barrio, and others.

SEPTEMBER 15 Gayle Burnett has been leading and facilitating courageous conversations regarding diversity, race, and equity for much of her lifetime. She founded Peace of Culture, in 2018, as an expression of her commitment to the work. Gayle is the coauthor of Peace in Everyday Relationships (Hunter House Publishers, 2003) which provides information, practical tools and real-life examples to support readers in the development of con ict resolution skills within diverse environments. From 1990 to 2004, she worked with a wide array of diversity and leadership clients, including Ernst & Young, Lucent Technologies, AT&T and the NCAA, supporting increased understanding and effectiveness amongst their employees.

Gayle’s career choices have also been diverse, She began as an assistant vice president and analyst for a Wall Street clearinghouse bank, where she worked in the international markets of Singapore, Australia and London. She gained a rsthand understanding of the subtle difference between people that can create misunderstanding, con ict and poor performance. As a past partner and principal of Inter-Change Consultants (1989 – 2003) and as the Atlanta

Coordinator for the National Resolving Con ict Creatively Program (1995 – 2000), she worked tirelessly towards ending violence and racism in the world. She joined the Atlanta Public Schools, in 2003, where she served in several capacities, including the Executive Director of Innovation. Gayle joined the boards of KIPP Metro Atlanta (May 2019), the Georgia Charter Schools Association (September 2019), and Wesley International Academy (June 2021) to continue her service to the children of Atlanta. Gayle Burnett holds an MA in Economics from the City College of New York, is a Fellow Alum of Harvard University’s Strategic Data Project, and a Gallup-certi ed Strengths Coach.

Christina Rivera’s essays are published at The Kenyon Review, Orion Magazine, Catapult, Bat City Review, HuffPost Personal, Atticus Review, and River Teeth’s Beautiful Things. She won Paci ca Literary Review’s 2019 CNF contest judged by Melissa Febos and her essay The 17th Day (at Terrain.org) won the John Burroughs 2023 Nature Essay Award. Christina’s book of essays MY OCEANS—ecofeminist re ections from the con uence of motherhood and marine life— was selected as a nalist for The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature as well as longlisted for the Graywolf ‘22 Prize.

MY OCEANS is now forthcoming from Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press in the spring of ‘25.

Elise Jeanmaire is a queer/trans writer from Providence, Rhode Island. She was a nalist in the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Artist Contest and the 2021 Queer-Art Mentorship Program. In 2022, she was selected as a ction contributor at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. At the start of 2023, an early draft of her novel, Waiting for Providence, was awarded a fellowship for the GrubStreet Novel Generator program.

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Tereza Nesnidalova is a Czech visual artist currently living in Iceland, with experience in many elds including illustration, painting, photography, tattooing, fashion

design, and set decoration. She has always been inspired by Asian art and culture and likes to combine art and craft together, incorporating the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi that embraces the beauty of imperfection. Tereza uses natural dyes in her work as well as pigments collected from nature around her. She loves to capture women’s faces and bodies, but her inspiration also comes from nature with all its forms and shapes.

Katharine Wyatt has been practicing art in a variety of mediums throughout her life, but during the Covid-19 pandemic she reconnected with painting, which remains her focus. Having worked in regenerative agriculture for the last seven years, her time spent farming and painting inspires her process in each. She currently lives in California, her home state.

Natasha D’Souza is a business journalist, leadership coach, speaker and contributor to Fortune Magazine and the Harvard Business Review. She forayed into journalism following an almost 15 year high-octane career spanning business intelligence, international news, investor relations and strategic communications at leading institutions in London, Washington, DC and Dubai. Natasha has interviewed some of the most brilliant minds of our time including former CEO of Apple, John Sculley; bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, Founder of Acumen and one of Forbes Greatest Living Business Minds, Jacqueline Novogratz; among many others.

In her writing and speaking, she is committed to a fresh, global perspective on how we can achieve domain-changing innovation, future-forward careers and transformational leadership by tapping into powerful capabilities of the human “higher mind,” namely creativity and intuition. Her insights on topics spanning modern-day careers, entrepreneurship, leadership and resilience have been featured in Fast Company and the Harvard Business Review. Natasha was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she now lives and writes. She attended the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a North Carolina Fellow, studying public health and international economics.

SEPTEMBER 29 Michael “Yoko” Amos spent High School in the Bronx cutting class and learning to mix music in his bedroom: a collection that stretched from his mothers eclectic taste: Blood, Sweat, and Tears; Dizzy Gillespie; thumbed thru Aretha Franklin to Carmen McRae with splashes of Odeta, Richie Havens and a strong dose of Calypso!

Michael now travels through life writing his own soundtrack. He became a DJ for family reunions, local parties, clubs, and working the wedding circuit. He can now be found spinning at parties on the east coast from Upstate NY to Florida, and from Columbia, South America to northern Minnesota. He currently resides in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Re ecting back on the musical arc of his life, Michael spreads love through assisting any being who connects to the vibration and is moved in some way with the music he plays. Michael considers himself a 64 year-old “working DJ” who has developed a knack for deep moving and connecting with crows and music.

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Lawrence MacDevitt did not begin to emerge as an artist until he was in his 60s.

He spent much of his working life as a teacher, a therapist and a facilitator who worked to build community coalitions. Lawrence designed and built a Sky Yurt, the rst of a planned series of SkyHigh Shelters to be used by a band of nomadic artists and crafters. The frame was exhibited at the 2013 Champlain Makers Faire. In Chicago, he developed the MyLai Memorial Exhibit, a 2000 square foot traveling exhibit with a set of sculptural interactive art components. Lawrence took the exhibit on tour to Veterans for Peace chapters in 15 different cities in 2018 and 2019. Now back in Essex, NY, Lawrence is working on a series of outdoor sculptures using parts and pieces from the original SkyYurt project. He values setting up conditions where viewers/visitors can

become participants/ collaborators, and also experience attentive respect from the artist for their contributions. Lawrence currently produces and co-hosts SpeakEazy, a monthly storytelling open mic.

Honora Spicer is a writer and experiential educator interested in place-based practices of public humanities. Her documentary poetry and literary translations from Spanish have appeared in Cardboard House Press, The Academy of American Poets, Tripwire, Asymptote, Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, Action Books' Poesía en Acción, and elsewhere. As a history instructor at El Paso Community College, she led the Mellon Humanities Collaborative project 'Carceral Geography in El Paso, TX: Creating Soundwalks to Experience Disappeared Histories.' Her Commentary in Jacket2, 'Architectures of Disappearance,' features poetry and performance that take geographical approaches to making visible physical and linguistic architectures of movement constriction. She has designed and led expeditionary learning programs, teaching college-accredited courses in literature, history, and Spanish language while mountain biking, mountaineering, and paddling. She is currently writing a PhD in History at Harvard University and lives in Providence, RI. Chelsea Catherine has lived and worked all over the country. In 2018, they won the Mary C Mohr award for non ction through the Southern Indiana Review and their second book, Summer of the Cicadas, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press.

In 2022, they won an Emerging Artist's Award from Creative Pinellas and spent a month in Alaska at the Alderworks Artists Retreat. They are part of a cohort of ValleyCreates artist grantees in Western Massachusetts and their story, “The NotDeer”, is forthcoming in an anthology out of London, UK.

CRAIGARDAN (krā gärden) is a RESIDENCY PROGRAM that

supports artists and scholars from around the region and around the world.

We bring people together for place-based and interdisciplinary learning; providing: CREATIVE RESIDENCIES PUBLIC COURSES COMMUNITY FARM PROGRAMS that span diverse artistic and knowledge disciplines in order to foster: CURIOSITY INQUIRY COLLABORATION which generates positive social change through collective creativity.

CONTACT CRAIGARDAN www.craigardan.org info@craigardan.org 518.242.6535 9216 NYS Route 9N Elizabethtown, NY 12932