In one sense, John Borstel’s new job involves binge watching his favorite shows. John settles into his task of watching (and adding metadata to) 1,329 video recordings of the work of choreographer, dancer, educator and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Liz Lerman and her company, the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange from Takoma Park, MD. The work… Continue reading John Borstel solidifies Liz Lerman’s legacy with NEH grant
Author: Ben Matchstick
MFAW Faculty Returns to Pandora in Avatar: Tsu’tey’s Path
MFAW-VT faculty member Sherri L. Smith‘s comic book series Avatar: Tsu’tey’s Path concluded last week with issue #6, “The Last Shadow.” “From his first meeting with Jake Sully to his acceptance of the Last Shadow, Tsu’tey’s life takes a path he could not anticipate, and which the film told only a part. Return to Pandora as the story… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Returns to Pandora in Avatar: Tsu’tey’s Path
Goddard’s Climate Commitment in Action: Sustainability Report
Goddard Annual Sustainability Progress Report July 2019 From the Sustainability Committee The sustainability committee was formed in 2007 when Goddard’s president signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. We conducted a carbon inventory, created a climate action plan, and began working to reduce energy use and carbon emissions with a goal to become… Continue reading Goddard’s Climate Commitment in Action: Sustainability Report
Good Tape: Notes from the Podcast School
For some time now, I have been interested in podcasts. Not so much in the things themselves, but in the explosion of interest in them, in our enthusiasm for hearing strangers chat. Wasn’t radio passé decades ago? We live in a society where our entertainment has surpassed technicolor and surround sound, to rumbling chairs in… Continue reading Good Tape: Notes from the Podcast School
UGP Faculty Karen Werner’s “Goddard moment”
I was in a master’s program in education when I felt a wave of wanting to be in spiritual practice. A gifted professor wove together Toni Morrison, Freud, the myth of Psyche and Cupid, and the professor’s own interviews with 9-13 year old girls. Voice, resonance, relationship, democracy. “The honesty of things is where they… Continue reading UGP Faculty Karen Werner’s “Goddard moment”
BFA Student protests deportation and family separation
In Philadelphia, the “Salute to America” Independence Day parade, with its cohort of Founding Fathers came to a halt. In his tallit and kippah, Goddard student, Mordecai Martin sat calmly alongside about 30 other protesters, their arms linked and their voices in song, preventing the parade from moving forward. The movement Never Again Action, which… Continue reading BFA Student protests deportation and family separation
What Takes Root: Socially Engaged Art
August 9, 2019 The last time I sat at this table, it was a place where things got stuck: an expanse of oak in a stuffy room where we sat across from a president that sheepishly told us no action was possible, the recommendations of the diversity workgroup were unrealistic, of course he agreed in… Continue reading What Takes Root: Socially Engaged Art
An Artist Speaks to the Dead, the Living, and the yet to Be Born: Patricia R. Corbett
This entry documents MFAIA alum Patricia R.Corbett’s recent visit to the MFAIA Winter Residency, drawing her words from her commencement address. It also features photographs by current MFAIA student, Reuben Radding. — editor Patricia Corbett’s return to campus as both our alumni guest artist and commencement speaker during the Masters of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary… Continue reading An Artist Speaks to the Dead, the Living, and the yet to Be Born: Patricia R. Corbett
Learning Alliance: Partnerships & Grants for Students with a Sustainability Focus
As a Goddard College student, you can earn credits with a network of dynamic organizations that have partnership agreements with Goddard. You can complete courses and programs of study with these partners during the semester and on between semester breaks, in some cases earning additional credits directly applicable towards your Goddard degree and satisfying some… Continue reading Learning Alliance: Partnerships & Grants for Students with a Sustainability Focus
Featured Alum: Joy Cosculluela – My Art is Where My Body Lives
Joy Cosculluela (MFAIA-WA ’14) is a performing artist, choreographer, and somatic educator and founder-artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a group of multicultural women artists dedicated to excavating and reshaping personal material into the performing arts. Since graduating from Goddard College, she has continued to expand her work in decolonial practices. Joy’s most current project, Barbette, was created at… Continue reading Featured Alum: Joy Cosculluela – My Art is Where My Body Lives
WHY SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART?
July 5, 2019 Creative practice for collective liberation This is the beginning of a conversation about how art could be something different altogether. The Situation: These are times of rising fascism, ecological destruction, spiraling inequity, and a culture of collapse. We need art, because the systems of conquest and oppression are so pervasive that the act of… Continue reading WHY SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART?
MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity
“Part scientific detective story, part meta-physical romp, The Trouble with Gravity is a revelation: the first in-depth, accessible study of this ubiquitous, elusive force. Gravity and our efforts to understand it, Panek reveals, have shaped not only the world we inhabit, but also our bodies, minds, and culture. Its influence can be seen in everything from ancient… Continue reading MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity
IMA student Odale Cress: The Care Package Story Project
IMA student, Odale Cress, is garnering a lot of well-deserved attention with her traveling exhibit, The Care Package Story Project. The following excerpt is from The Care Package Story Project website. The Care Package Story Project is a collection of photographs of care packages which I re-created from memories of care packages that I and other service members… Continue reading IMA student Odale Cress: The Care Package Story Project
Creating a Community of Truth: Tim Simmons (IMA ’18) Commencement Address
Tim Simmons (Individualized MA ’18) Commencement Address, Goddard Graduate Institute Goddard College February 17, 1019 I have to admit, part of my reason for being here today is a little selfish. I am so excited to be back here at Goddard with all of you – some of my very favorite people in the world.… Continue reading Creating a Community of Truth: Tim Simmons (IMA ’18) Commencement Address
Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony
Look. Listen. I’m what they call “mid-life.” I’m what they call “late-blooming.” And even though I was just an “average-Joe” and a “working-mother,” I happened to be in the “right-place-at-the-right-time” when the “opportunity-presented-itself.” I was “ready-willing-and-able” to “follow my dreams.” I’m lucky. I went back to school. I went to Goddard College. When I was… Continue reading Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony
Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey
by Julia Ain-Krupa (IBA ‘11) I received my Fulbright scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The grant was specifically for creative writing, and my intention was to come to Poland–Krakow, specifically, where a new Jewish community is thriving–to write about inter-religious marriage in Poland, which was something that interested me, and which was also reflective… Continue reading Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey
Q&A with Jane Sanders (BA ‘80)
By Samantha Kolber (MFAW ‘14) Born the youngest of five into an Irish-Catholic family in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Jane O’Meara Sanders (BA ‘80) has been in public service for over 35 years, since she graduated from Goddard at age 30. She came to her studies and career unconventionally, attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville but… Continue reading Q&A with Jane Sanders (BA ‘80)
Mónica Mayer: Forging a Feminist Art Movement in Mexico City
By Karen Muelhbauer In the late 1970s, Goddard College had a small office in Los Angeles. Run by Susan Rennie, the site sat at the crossroads of art and feminism and graduated a number of activist-artists, including 1980 alumna Mónica Mayer. Still active today, her practice includes performances, installations, social practice, drawing, and graphics. She… Continue reading Mónica Mayer: Forging a Feminist Art Movement in Mexico City
Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, 2019
PLAINFIELD, VT: Goddard College is pleased to congratulate Jaimie Li, recipient of the 2019 Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, and second-place awardee Domenick Danza. Jaimie Li is a member of PEN America and an alumna of Balliol College at Oxford University, where she received a BA in Jurisprudence in 2011. She has worked in film… Continue reading Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, 2019
Is Activism Dead? ‘Story as Activism’ and Goddard’s Conversation with the World
by Karla Haas Moskowitz, PhD As individuals and communities navigate their own sense of power, how and when stories are released into the world become critical forces that shape quests for both protection and influence. As activists and storytellers, our knowing what to say, when to say it, and to whom becomes pivotal in our… Continue reading Is Activism Dead? ‘Story as Activism’ and Goddard’s Conversation with the World