Friday, July 1 | 5-6 PM | Free

Guest Speakers: Matthew Daddona, Dennis Delay, Lucia Maher-Tatar

Craigardan | 9216 NYS RT 9N, Elizabethtown, NY 12932

Matthew’s fiction, poetry, and non-fiction has been published in The New York Times, Newsday, Outside, Fast Company, UPROXX, Amtrak’s The National, Guernica, Tin House, Slice Magazine, The Southampton Review, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Decider.com, and other outlets. His debut poetry collection, House of Sound, was published by Trail to Table Press in October 2020. As a former member of Flashpoint/NYC, a New York City writing collaborative, he has performed his poetry and prose in over twenty venues across the five boroughs. Matthew is also the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize for poetry; his flash fiction piece “On Shaft Mining” was a runner-up for The Blue Earth Review’s 2017 fiction contest, and he earned 2nd place in River Styx’ 2021 microfiction contest. Alongside two other multi-hyphenates, he co-hosts Kill Genre, a quarterly reading series in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. He is currently working on his novel, to be submitted to publishers in the fall of 2021.

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.

Lucia Maher-Tatar is an artist and chef. She carries a flux approach to art making and cheffing, working with any materials encountered to create polymorphous, sculptural spaces and gatherings that activate all senses. Having grown up cooking, Lucia learned about food in her home kitchen with a sensibility towards bright, clean and herbaceous foods. Drawn to the model of ecosystem, LMT is interested in bridging collaboration in community and eco-mindedness, play and food, from the seed to the meal.

LMT was born in Albuquerque, NM, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, then spent ten years on the east coast between Baltimore, MD and NYC. She received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in Sustainability and Urban Farming from Maryland Institute College of Art. LMT currently lives in Santa Fe, where she is working as a private chef.