Free | Every Friday: July 7 - September 29
reception 4:30PM - 5:30pm, Presentation 5PM - 6pm
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 drinks and snacks with our visiting artists-in-residence. We’ll hear from poets, scholars, visual artists, storytellers, and potters. All are welcome!
Craigardan’s Applebarn Series is made possible in part thanks to support from the Charles R. Wood Foundation.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene).
Jenny Cosgrove is a ceramic sculptor and painter whose work explores archetypal imagery and culturally significant topics through dreamlike renderings of the figure. 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 figural 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 Office 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 fiction. 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.