Top Left: The launch of Lutra, a rowboat built by Seitu Jones and MFAIA-WA students, with Goddard West Campus Director Joyce Gustafson and Stacy Dawson Stearns at the Fall 2011 Residency. Top Right: Students take Lutra out for a row during group advising with Seitu. Lower Left: Seitu prepares students for Lutra, with Hattie Mae Williams, Pat… Continue reading August 2017 Community News and Events
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July Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s In the Gardens of Japan, a poem sequence, has been published by Garden Oak Press. The poems are a companion to In the Province of the Gods, which will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in September. Alumni and students: MFAW-VT alumna Laurel Radzieski‘s first poetry collection, Red Mother, will be published… Continue reading July Achievements
June Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries gave three talks in Sofia, Bulgaria. He presented “Stumbling over History: Aktion T4 and the Holocaust” at Shalom Bulgaria and “Disability History and Disability Rights in the United States” and “Extraordinary Bodies: Disability Representation in Literature, Film, Visual Art, and Performance” at Sofia University. The talks were sponsored by the Bulgarian… Continue reading June Achievements
Alumnus Kevin Rabas Appointed Kansas’ Poet Laureate
Kevin Rabas, who earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard in 2002, has been appointed to a two-year session as Kansas’ poet laureate. Kevin chairs the Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism at Emporia State University, while also leading the Poetry and Playwriting tracks. He has seven books, including Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a… Continue reading Alumnus Kevin Rabas Appointed Kansas’ Poet Laureate
June 2017 Community News and Events
Images courtesy of Storme Webber. Storme Webber at the Frye Museum Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist and alumna Storme Webber (MFAIA-WA ’14) will present a reimagining of her city through experimental memoir, archival photographs, poetry, social history, installation, and performance. Meeting at the confluence of First Nations and pre-Stonewall-working-class-LGBTQ cultures in Pioneer Square, Webber’s work valorizes the submerged… Continue reading June 2017 Community News and Events
May Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom‘s novel Three Apples Fell from Heaven will be adapted by Motorcycle Diaries writer José Rivera and directed by Shekhar Kapur. This will be the first film from Disruptive Narrative, a new social justice storytelling production which launched at Cannes as part of the Refugee Voices in Film day. This summer,… Continue reading May Achievements
Nicole Emma Meistrich receives 2017 Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship
PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College is pleased to award the 2017 Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship to Nicole Emma Meistrich of Boulder, Colo. Meistrich is an Advocate member of PEN America. She attended Warren Wilson College, but later earned a bachelor’s in sociology at Binghamton University. Meistrich is a technical coordinator at an IT consulting firm.… Continue reading Nicole Emma Meistrich receives 2017 Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship
Sleeping Weazel Presents Robbie McCauley
Sleeping Weazel presented “a convening in performance” in honor of Robbie McCauley’s life and work on last month, an event coordinated in collaboration with the Emerson College Performing Arts Department and Office of the Arts. The convening drew together a distinguished circle of performers, scholars, writers, and community activists who’ve been influenced, transformed, and/or mentored… Continue reading Sleeping Weazel Presents Robbie McCauley
‘An American Noel’ by alumna Marianna Boncek to be staged at the Hudson Valley Short Play Festival
An American Noel by Marianna Boncek (MA EDU ’98) will be staged at the Hudson Valley Short Play Festival at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, New York. The festival runs September 15-17, 2017. Marianna is an English teacher, author, and poet. She has a particularly keen interest in “lost” local history. Her two… Continue reading ‘An American Noel’ by alumna Marianna Boncek to be staged at the Hudson Valley Short Play Festival
Vision 2019: Goddard in the New Era
Introduction The Goddard community holds a strong sense of the purposes and values, which are the essence of the College and a Goddard education. The College’s ability to realize those high ideals has been frustrated by decreasing enrollment and the challenge of operating with inadequate resources. Despite the efforts of all Goddard employees, we have… Continue reading Vision 2019: Goddard in the New Era
April Achievements
Faculty: To kick off National Poetry Month, on April 2, MFAW program director Elena Georgiou was one of two featured poets at Poem City in Montpelier, VT. MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. Rogelio’s new play, Blind Date, will have its world premiere next season at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek‘s collaboration with Temple Grandin, The… Continue reading April Achievements
New Goddard College MFAIA Concentration in Performance Creation
Bienvenue, Company SBB, 2017 – Stefanie Batten Bland, MFAIA’20. Photo: JC Dhien In February 2017, the Goddard College MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program inaugurated an exciting new academic concentration in Performance Creation. Twenty students—including actors, theater directors, choreographers, musicians, playwrights, and performance artists—elected the concentration in its first semester. Building upon the interdisciplinary strength… Continue reading New Goddard College MFAIA Concentration in Performance Creation
Goddard faculty member Rogelio Martinez named 2017 Guggenheim Fellow
PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Rogelio Martinez, a faculty member in Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, has been named a 2017 Drama and Performing Art Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the 173 Guggenheim Fellows were chosen from a group of almost 3,000… Continue reading Goddard faculty member Rogelio Martinez named 2017 Guggenheim Fellow
April 2017 Community News and Events
Image Left: Cease Wyss leads the MFAIA-WA through a walk through the forests of Fort Worden, as participants receive the teachings of northwest coast plants. Image Right: Patrisse Cullors leads participants through the ceremony of having each others’ backs in radical acts of remembrance. Photos: Goddard College Ceremonial Activism with Cease Wyss and Patrisse Cullors The… Continue reading April 2017 Community News and Events
Goddard faculty member Arisa White a Lambda Literary Award finalist
PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Arisa White, a faculty member in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing Program, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury, 2016), is one eight books nominated for the Lesbian Poetry prize. Lambda Literary, the nation’s oldest and largest literary arts organization advancing… Continue reading Goddard faculty member Arisa White a Lambda Literary Award finalist
March Achievements
Faculty: MFAW program director Elena Georgiou‘s short story collection, The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, will be published by GenPop Books in October, 2017. MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s In the Gardens of Japan, a poem sequence, will be published by Garden Oak Press in August. The poem sequence is important to the narrative of In the Province of the Gods, which will… Continue reading March Achievements
The Expressive Arts Are Abundant at the Psychology and Counseling Residency
The Expressive Arts abound during Residency in the Psychology and Counseling Program. There are Expressive Arts workshops, the sharing of students’ Creative Theses and Capstone work at our Poster Session, student led open studio times, and informal jam sessions. Our Expressive Arts Opening is a very important event. In our Haybarn Art Gallery, students present… Continue reading The Expressive Arts Are Abundant at the Psychology and Counseling Residency
February Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom‘s sixth novel, The Brick House, an illuminated book about a house where people go to dream, will be published in August by Awst Press. Her seventh novel, The New American, about a young Guatemalan-American college student, a “Dreamer,” who is deported to Guatemala and makes his way back home to California, will be… Continue reading February Achievements
A Message on Executive Order on Immigration
To the Goddard Community: Goddard is of the world, not separate from the world, so what issues from the White House affects our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends. The President signed an executive order declaring a 90-day ban on entry into the United States by citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations. This order fundamentally contradicts… Continue reading A Message on Executive Order on Immigration
January Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Michael Klein‘s poem, “Beginners,” was chosen as the Poem-of-the-day by the American Academy of Poets on January 29. MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was interviewed for the show Out in the Open with Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC Radio, called “What Moms Can’t Say.” MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates co-organized #WRITERS RESIST: Listening to Our Histories on Martin Luther King Day… Continue reading January Achievements