classes // workshops // events
APPLIED POETICS of PUPPETRY, PERFORMANCE, and VOGUE with Theresa-Xuan Bui
Come explore different gestures of movement through the lens of puppetry, performance, and vogue with Theresa-Xuan Bui as a means of understanding one’s relationship to self and how we move about the world.
BUILDING A ROCKET KILN with Lisa Orr
We’re hosting potter Lisa Orr on campus this week to build a quick-firing kiln that is fueled with wood (but not a wood-fired kiln!).
GROUNDS for CREATION: With Allison Dobbs and Leanne Rabesa
Join 2024 Teaching Fellows Allison Dobbs and Leanne Rabesa for two hours of live music, art, and the common grounds between them.
MORE THAN PRETTY WORDS: WHAT DO POEMS DO? With Michele Parker Randall
Join 2024 Teaching Fellow Michele Parker Randall for a unique and engaging poetry workshop.
SEE, THINK and MAKE LIKE a FILMMAKER with Fanxi Sun
Join 2024 Teaching Fellow Fanxi Sun for a fun introductory course about filmmaking!
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: LEARNING THE CONNIE CONVERSE LESSON with Howard Fishman
In the first 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. This is a two session course offered from 6 pm - 8 pm on August 17 + 24.
BRINGING OUR MOST EFFECTIVE SELVES TO OUR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION: THE ROLE OF AWARENESS AND ACCEPTANCE with Rachael Reichenbach
In this course we will explore one pathway towards becoming effective liberation workers - the development of a liberatory consciousness through awareness, acceptance, analysis, action, and accountability. This is a two session course offered from 6PM - 8pm, August 15 + 22.
THE PRACTICE OF BEING TOGETHER with Theresa-Xuan Bui
The poet and performance artist, Theresa-Xuan Bui (they/them), will deliver a three-part series exploring how the nuances of our nation provide an opportunity to understand the complexity of our individual narratives. This is a three session course offered from 6 pm - 7 pm, July 27, August 3rd + 10th.
HISTORY + MAKERS with Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer: (RE)MAKING THE ADIRONDACKS THROUGH CREATIVE NON-FICTION
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. This is the third class of his three part series History + Makers. You may choose to attend one or all three classes.
HISTORY + MAKERS with Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer: FIRST OBLIGATIONS
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. This class forms part of the three part series History + Makers. You may choose to attend one or all three classes.
CREATING HEALTHY NARRATIVES IN CHILDREN with Evan Shopper
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. This is a two session course offered from 12 PM - 2 PM on July 8 + 15.
HISTORY + MAKERS with Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer: FIRST MAKERS
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 and forms part of Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer’s three part series History + Makers. You may choose to attend one or all three classes.
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Tomato = Pizza
Fresh from the garden. Join us for the final class of our summer cooking series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Burgers
Take your burger to the next level. Course no.7 in our new cooking series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Falafel
It’s a falafel party! We’re spicing up summer with our new cooking series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Pie!
Join Chef Luke in the kitchen for our summer cooking (and eating!) series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // BBQ
We’re getting you ready to grill the best local chicken around. Join us for the last June course in our summer series at the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Bread
Let’s bake - and break - bread together. Join us for course no.3 in our summer series at the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Ravioli
It’s ravioli night! Course two in our new summer cooking (and eating!) series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn
Cooking Series at the Deers Head Inn // Tacos
Join Chef Luke in the kitchen for a new summer cooking (and eating!) series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn
Eating Your Freezer // Pies!
Join Chef Luke in the kitchen for a new winter cooking series.
Eating Your Freezer // Summer Squash and Zucchini
Join Chef Luke in the kitchen for the start of a new winter cooking series.
Writing the Ingredients
Join us around the kitchen table for this experimental food and writing workshop with writer Erica Berry and chef Luke Ayres
The Whole Fruit
Join Greer Rochford, our culinary artist-in-residence, for a delicious evening of eating and learning new ways to use and prepare the whole fruit.
Agriculture and the Environment with Margot Pollans
In this discussion, Prof. Pollans will provide an overview of agricultural exceptionalism within the context of the environmental movement and the more recent food movement.
Baking With Luke: Bagels
Join Luke Ayres in the kitchen for Sunday Brunch, the most delicious meal of the week.
Rural America
Join us for a short course with scholar-in-residence, David Fontana. The conflict between rural and urban America is as old as the American Republic. It was what divided Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the late eighteenth century, and it is what divides our country in the early twenty-first century.