FREE | Every Friday: July 7 - September 29
Reception 4:30 PM - 5:30 pm, Presentation 5 PM - 6 pm
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).
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 community-engaged scholar, he has worked on collaborative digital mapping workshops on local Indigenous foodways for Hamilton College.
His current book project, Kaniatarowanenneh Crossings: Indigenous Power and Presence in the St. Lawrence River Watershed, 1534-1842, is the first 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 Fairfield University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, SmokeLong en Español, The Offing, 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 Fairfield 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 state-mandated 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 fiction and nonfiction. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Sun Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Colorado Review, The Indiana Review, and others.