Author: Goddard Staff

January 2013 Achievements

FACULTY Ryan Boudinot‘s Blueprints of the Afterlife has been named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The winner will be announced on March 29 at Norwescon, in Seatac, WA. Deborah Brevoort‘s play “The Velvet Weapon,” a backstage farce about democracy, will receive a staged reading in the NJ Playwright’s Contest Festival at William… Continue reading January 2013 Achievements

Liz Lerman to be Visiting Artist for MFAIA-VT Spring 2013 Residency

Choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, Liz Lerman, will be the visiting artist for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program’s Spring 2013 residency. Founder of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976, Lerman cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011, when she handed the artistic leadership… Continue reading Liz Lerman to be Visiting Artist for MFAIA-VT Spring 2013 Residency

Nikky Finney

Nikky Finney, National Book Award Winner for Poetry, was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history.… Continue reading Nikky Finney

Twinkling Genius

In July 2012, Neely Cohen (BA HAS ’12) reached the final round of Food Network’s “Sweet Genius”– a dessert competition. Neely and the other remaining contestants awaited instructions on what mystery ingredients they would need to include in their dessert stand-off. The winner of the challenge would get $10,000 and national recognition. The host, pastry… Continue reading Twinkling Genius

Karen Englemann

Engelmann is a writer and designer. She was born and raised in the American Midwest, then moved to Sweden after completing university studies in drawing and design. The city of Malmö was homebase for eight years, but she now lives just north of NYC. The November issue of O, the Oprah Magazine reviewed The Stockholm Octavio, her… Continue reading Karen Englemann

Contemplation, Clarity, and the Poem

Complex thoughts distilled through plain diction, interactions with the natural world, and specificity of details can heighten imagery and evoke larger implications.  This endeavor to make human connection through introspection, reflection and acute awareness of one’s environment is a prevalent style employed by many ancient Chinese poets.  Within this seemingly simplistic approach, these masters arrived… Continue reading Contemplation, Clarity, and the Poem

December 2012 Achievements

  December was a big month for Goddard’s MFAW program with our alumni and faculty earning major kudos in the professional world! This month The Silver Linings Playbook (shown at right), a Hollywood film based on Goddard alumnus (MFAW ’07) Matthew Quick’s thesis novel, was released by the Weinstein  Company.  Starring Robert De Niro, Bradley… Continue reading December 2012 Achievements

Reading, Listening, and Making Poems

  I’ve been thinking lately how certain literary influences have informed and shaped my writing.  As a narrative/lyric poet interested in story and expressed feeling, the poets I keep returning to for inspiration include Richard Hugo, Stanley Plumly, James Wright, Philip Levine, William Matthews, B.H. Fairchild, Lynda Hull, Sharon Olds, and others who draw from… Continue reading Reading, Listening, and Making Poems

INTERsectionS

By Mary Sui Yee Wong, IBA Faculty INTERsectionS was an interdisciplinary student exhibition that endeavored to invite cross-pollination, open conversation and dynamic exchange between creators and their community. In keeping with the format of a salon, INTERsectionS offered students a chance to present visual artwork, installation, videos, spoken word, readings, performance, music and other creative… Continue reading INTERsectionS

FLUXUS: Who Set you flowin’?

By Pamela Booker, IBA Faculty This past fall residency, in partnership with two of my faculty besties, Otto Muller and Suiyee Wong (pictured below)—ever the motley crew in pursuit of frivolity—we realized a longtime vision of organizing and presenting a collaborative, Fluxus-based workshop. Not only did the experience exceed our expectations in terms of audience… Continue reading FLUXUS: Who Set you flowin’?

Large Sculpture Exhibit & Events Coming to Downtown Montpelier

PLAINFIELD, Vt. — The Goddard Art Gallery at 54 Main in Montpelier is opening its third art show on December 7. The show, titled “An Unfamiliar Picnic,” features metal and hand-worked sculpture by Kat Clear of Burlington, Vt. and Torin Porter of Glover, Vt. Clear and Porter both have experience making sculptural environments for music festival audiences and bands… Continue reading Large Sculpture Exhibit & Events Coming to Downtown Montpelier

Silence

With November recently behind us, writers across America are slumped over their keyboards, having endured another NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, in which the name of the game is cranking out as many pages of one’s novel as possible in thirty days. Years ago when I first heard about this month of extreme page… Continue reading Silence

The Mediocre Meditator #3: My Three Best Books on Meditation

Below are brief descriptions of my current three favorite books on meditation. Each one is written by psychologists who have been practicing psychotherapists and meditators for more than 25 years. I use them for reference, inspiration and companionship. I reread them and refer them to clients, friends, students and colleagues. Radical Acceptance (Bantam Books, 2003)… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator #3: My Three Best Books on Meditation

Bethe Hagens and Global Ecological Mind

In December, I was part of a “Philosophy and Ecology of Mind” panel at the American Anthropological Assn. Annual Meeting in San Francisco (themed Borders and Crossings). Among those in our group were Jason Wirth, Timothy Morton, and Sarah Williams. My paper, “Global Ecological Mind,” extended my work on geodesic universal vector geometry (UVG) in Plato and… Continue reading Bethe Hagens and Global Ecological Mind

Goddard Awarded Grant to Help Bolster Vermont Internships

Plainfield, Vt.  — Goddard College today announced it received a $25,035 grant from the Vermont Department of Labor to support internships for students in its Master of Arts in Psychology and Counseling program. Funds from the grant will provide Goddard College students who live and carry out their internships in Vermont with need-based stipends for… Continue reading Goddard Awarded Grant to Help Bolster Vermont Internships

Making a Safe and Empowering Birth Culture: Interview with Alumna Amy Chavez

17 years ago, Amy Chavez (BA HAS ’11, MA HAS ’13) paused her college career in order to raise her two daughters, now 16 and 13. While raising her children, Amy became a doula, studied herbalism, received her associate degree in science, a massage therapy license, and became a childbirth educator and prenatal yoga instructor.  In the… Continue reading Making a Safe and Empowering Birth Culture: Interview with Alumna Amy Chavez

Bread and Puppet Theater Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Goddard College

Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College today announced that Bread and Puppet Theater will present a special November 30th performance at Goddard’s Plainfield campus. The celebratory revival show will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bread and Puppet’s distinctive brand of artistry – combining towering puppets and insurgent political narratives in stunning visual performances. The show will take place at… Continue reading Bread and Puppet Theater Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Goddard College