Make Action Arts – Goddard hosts Radical Art-Making Event In May, Goddard College will host Make Action Arts for a radical art-making intensive. This Vermont-based group of artist activists has hosted successful art-making events in support of direct action campaigns in Vermont and New York, including a “bomb train” blockade in the Port of Albany… Continue reading Make Action Arts
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Remembering Margo MacLeod
Margo MacLeod To the Goddard Community: I’m writing with the sad news of the passing of former Goddard faculty member and program director Margo MacLeod. Margo died peacefully among family and friends on April 2nd. Margo was a well-loved and respected member of our community. She lead the Indivualized BA and Individualized MA programs for… Continue reading Remembering Margo MacLeod
April 2018 Community News and Events
Pam Hall with her project Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge, an impressive work made in collaboration with community members. Photos courtesy of Pam Hall. Towards An Encyclopedia Of Local Knowledge Now Online The Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge is a collaborative art-and-knowledge project by former MFAIA faculty advisor and beloved community member Pam Hall and hundreds of participants in communities… Continue reading April 2018 Community News and Events
Goddard launches new BFA in Socially Engaged Art
How can art engage communities to facilitate meaningful social change? The greatest potential of art today lies not in the “masterwork,” either as a luxury commodity or a durable monument of individual creative impulse, but in the deliberate co-creation of unique social circumstances and new possibilities for engagement. “Goddard College has a long history of… Continue reading Goddard launches new BFA in Socially Engaged Art
Goddard College and North American PEN Centers Partner for Creative Writing Scholarships
The Goddard College / PEN North America partnership provides one $10,000 scholarship to an MFA applicant in Creative Writing who is a member of PEN America, PEN Canada, or PEN Mexico. Additionally, North American PEN members who are admitted to Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, but who do not receive the Goddard/PEN North American… Continue reading Goddard College and North American PEN Centers Partner for Creative Writing Scholarships
Puerto Rico Benefit Concert raises $4k for Hurricane relief
A star-cast benefit performance was held at the Goddard College Haybarn Theater on November 10, 2018. Performers included a number of local groups and individuals, as well as musicians from Puerto Rico and Central America. Also showcased was an original operatic composition by Goddard UGP2 faculty members Antonio Gonzales Walker and Otto Mueller. The benefit… Continue reading Puerto Rico Benefit Concert raises $4k for Hurricane relief
February 2018 Community News and Events
Ruth Wallen. Exhibition flier courtesy of the artist. Solo Exhibition: Remember the Trees MFAIA-VT Faculty Advisor Ruth Wallen has a solo exhibition Remember the Trees: southern California’s changing ecology at Mesa College Art Gallery from March 12 to April 3, 2018. Over 100 million trees have died in California due to the intertwined impacts of urbanization, globalization and… Continue reading February 2018 Community News and Events
December Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil gave a talk at the British Columbia Nurses’ Union annual human rights and equity conference, in Vancouver. She spoke on themes related to foreign life and care. Copies of Bhanu’s Schizophrene were distributed as door prizes by the organizers. MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has six poems included in 12 Poetas: Antologia de Neuvos… Continue reading December Achievements
December 2017 Community News and Events
Stefanie Batten Bland — 41 times. Image courtesy of the artist. 41 times International choreographic artist and current MFAIA-VT student, Stefanie Batten Bland reflects on themes of racial profiling, unity and healing. In 41 times, a full-company creation for TU Dance of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Batten Bland’s dance theatre work pays homage to the 1999 killing of… Continue reading December 2017 Community News and Events
November Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s recently published In the Province of the Gods was chosen by Passport Magazine as a Best Gift Book for 2017. Catapult published “Meeting MM: On Friendship and Disability in Japan,” an adapted excerpt from the book. Another excerpt was published at Accessible Japan. The Japan Times, Japan’s leading English language newspaper,… Continue reading November Achievements
October Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto presentated Imagining Hiroshima “That Day Now,” an interdisciplinary symposium on the effects of the atomic bomb on post WWII Japanese culture, celebrating Keiko Ogura, survivor and founder of the Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace. The event was sponsored by the Japan Foundation and hosted at Syracuse University. MFAW-WA faculty member Victoria Nelson… Continue reading October Achievements
Goddard College Breaks Ground for Construction of New Wood Chip Boiler
Goddard College is proud to announce the beginning of its construction of a new wood chip boiler that will be a part of Goddard’s effort towards sustainability and renewable energy. The project is a “win-win” for both the college and the environment, Goddard College Director of Facilities Scott Blanchard stated during the ground breaking. … Continue reading Goddard College Breaks Ground for Construction of New Wood Chip Boiler
Alumnus: William H. Macy Explores Roots in PBS Program
Check out Alumnus William H. Macy’s recent exploration of his family’s history in a recent episode of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-3-puritans-and-pioneers-dfypdx
October 2017 Community News and Events
New MFAIA-WA Faculty Advisor Jamie Figueroa speaking on Individual Identity as Portal to Collective/The Emergence of an Authentic Voice. Photos: Goddard College Indigenous Presence at MFAIA Residency The September MFAIA residency in Port Townsend featured a strong Indigenous presence and opened the new Indigenous and Decolonial Art (IDA) concentration to current students. Next semester the IDA… Continue reading October 2017 Community News and Events
Goddard President: Bob Kenny Joins AVIC Presidents in Statement Against DACA Revocation
Two weeks ago Goddard College’s President Bob Kenny was one of seventeen College Presidents from AVIC (Association of Vermont Independent Colleges) to sign the “Statement on the Revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program”. This statement outlined the groups deep concern over the termination of the DACA program, and expressed their support… Continue reading Goddard President: Bob Kenny Joins AVIC Presidents in Statement Against DACA Revocation
September Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil was commissioned by The Guardian to re-write selected tweets by Donald Trump for an article, “Trump in 280.” Bhanu is included in the Poetry Foundation‘s article, “DACA Rescinded & Poets Respond.” Her work appears in three anthologies this fall: Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers (Ohio State University Press); Atlantic Drift: an Anthology… Continue reading September Achievements
Goddard College Faculty Kenny Fries Featured in New York Times
Goddard College MFAW Faculty Kenny Fries‘s article “The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled” appeared in the New York Times and the Sunday Review (09/13/2017). Here is an excerpt: “I sit facing the young German neurologist, across a small table in a theater in Hamburg, Germany. I’m here giving one-on-one talks called “The Unenhanced: What… Continue reading Goddard College Faculty Kenny Fries Featured in New York Times
Spherical Music: Concert and Discussion with Neel Murgai
Presenting a world premier solo concert, Neel will perform his latest experiments in overtone singing and electronic looping along side his sitar and frame drum. From droning, experimental soundscapes to chants, ragas and rhythms, Neel will lead the audience in a unique musical journey that is the culmination of his 20 years of practice as… Continue reading Spherical Music: Concert and Discussion with Neel Murgai
August Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom, in collaboration with artist/writer Fowzia Karimi, will publish The Brick House this fall. The book will be published by Awst Press. In commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, The Progressive published MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries’s “A Healing Tree: Remembering Hiroshima,” which is an adapted excerpt from In the… Continue reading August Achievements
Ronald and Belmont Pitkin receive posthumous Goddard Award for Excellence
PLAINFIELD, Vt. — Goddard College President Robert Kenny presented Ronald and Belmont Pitkin with the posthumous Goddard Award for Excellence during a public memorial service to celebrate Ronald Pitkin’s life on Saturday, Aug. 12, in the Haybarn Theatre on Goddard’s Plainfield Campus. The Goddard College Award for Excellence recognizes individuals who have given exceptional service… Continue reading Ronald and Belmont Pitkin receive posthumous Goddard Award for Excellence