Author: Goddard Staff

June 2016 Community News and Events

Photos courtesy of Friends of Aiyyana Maracle. Celebrating the Life of Aiyyana Maracle Former MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts student Aiyyana Maracle (MFAIA-VT ’03-’05) was a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, and a great-grandma four times over; a sovereign Haudenosaunee woman. For half a century, Aiyyana was actively involved with the merging of Ogwehoweh art and culture into the Euro-centric world… Continue reading June 2016 Community News and Events

Goddard signs agreements to accept Burlington College students

PLAINFIELD, Vt. — Goddard College today announced it has signed teach-out agreements that allows Goddard to accept Burlington College’s currently enrolled bachelor’s and master’s degree students who are displaced by its closing. “We are sad to see Burlington College, a fellow liberal arts school with a similar mission to honor the individuality of each student… Continue reading Goddard signs agreements to accept Burlington College students

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Info Sessions May 13, 24 and June 1, 9, 2016

  MFA alumni transform their communities! Meet our alumni guests to hear about how the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts has made a difference in their careers and in their lives. We look forward to speaking with you and taking your questions. Video conference: May 13, 4:00pm (EDT) / 1:00pm (PDT) Phone conference: May 24, 6:30pm… Continue reading MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Info Sessions May 13, 24 and June 1, 9, 2016

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation

This semester my colleague, Rachael Van Fossen, and I have been co-facilitating a group study titled Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation. While the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program is best known for offering a way for students to pursue self-directed learning in one-to-one dialogue with a faculty advisor, increasingly the program’s Vermont site is offering… Continue reading MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation

April Achievements

FACULTY: Vermont MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s opera EMBEDDED, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and written with composer Patrick Soluri, opens at the Ft. Worth Opera on April 24 and runs through May 3. Selections from Brevoort’s Holocaust opera STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, written with composer Gerald Cohen, and one of the winners of the Frontiers competition,… Continue reading April Achievements

The Unfolding of the Heartbeet Community

Alumna Hannah Schwartz (IBA ‘01) Constructs a Cultural Hub for the Northeast Kingdom “Goddard is the reason I came to this area,” says Hannah, the executive director and co-founder of Heartbeet Lifesharing, a community that is home to 47 adults, including 16 individuals with special needs. Heartbeet Lifesharing in Hardwick, Vermont is wrapping up a… Continue reading The Unfolding of the Heartbeet Community

Bhanu Kapil: 30 Poets You Should Be Reading

In honor of National Poetry Month, MFAW faculty member Bhanu Kapil was featured yesterday at Lithub as one of “30 poets you should be reading.” Congratulations, Bhanu! And an added aside, we’re proud to say that of the 30 poets listed here, Eileen Myles, Claudia Rankine, Harryette Mullen and Amy King have all been Visiting… Continue reading Bhanu Kapil: 30 Poets You Should Be Reading

Goddard MFA faculty member named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow

Victoria Nelson, a member of the faculty in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing program, is the recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016. The Fellowship is often characterized as a “midcareer” award, and is intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the… Continue reading Goddard MFA faculty member named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow

April 2016 Community News and Events

Left – Rising: Small World Map, detail of work in progress. Center – Sharon Siskin introduces graduates during the MFAIA-WA Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony. Right – Where There is Life — mirror, wood, herbs, seeds, 62”x 66” 12”, 1994. Photos courtesy of Sharon Siskin.  Activities with Sharon Siskin MFAIA-WA Faculty Advisor Sharon Siskin recently exhibited an installation entitled: Where There… Continue reading April 2016 Community News and Events

March Achievements

FACULTY: MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort was interviewed on WAMC’s Roundtable on March 11 about her play THE BLUE-SKY BOYS that opens at Capital Rep in Albany on March 15th. On March 18, MFA faculty member Kenny Fries will read from his work as part of the “Parahuman:  New Perspectives on Life with Technology” conference at the… Continue reading March Achievements

Goddard College MFAIA Info Sessions for Fall 2016 Admissions

What’s That You Tried To Say? – an experimental work on playwright Samuel Beckett instigated by alumnus Mark O’Maley Information Sessions Vermont Site: Join Peter Hocking, the MFAIA-VT faculty admissions liaison, and Chip Cummings, the MFAIA admissions counselor, to learn more about the program. We’re offering hour-long conference calls on the following dates: May 24, 06:30… Continue reading Goddard College MFAIA Info Sessions for Fall 2016 Admissions

Black/Land Project and Deep Inspiration

Black/Land Project’s founder and director, Mistinguette Smith, joined us during the Spring 2016 Undergraduate residency. Mistinguette’s morning keynote, “Whose Speech Matters,” gave a deeply inspiring overview of the Black/Land Project while challenging us to see beyond the narrow frames of black relationships to land. Mistinguette also spoke about historical trauma in the context of black… Continue reading Black/Land Project and Deep Inspiration

Three new Trustees join Goddard board

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College’s Board of Trustees welcomed three new members at its March meeting. Retired professor and researcher Dr. Christopher W. Lovell; writer, empath and conscious channel Paul Selig; and nonprofit executive and former chief nursing officer Dr. Gloria J. Willingham-Touré join 14 continuing members of the College’s governing board. Christopher W. Lovell,… Continue reading Three new Trustees join Goddard board

And Our Jaws Dropped

A special day of graduating student presentations in the Undergraduate program, Spring 2016. A sampler of images and talks below: Herbalism & Permaculture: The House, The Farm, and the Marketplace, with Ifatunmise Jon Provost Cooking up Reflection, Connection, and Liberation, with Kristin Schwab I Believe It While I See It, with Cole Tucker-Walton Recognition Matters:… Continue reading And Our Jaws Dropped

Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom Round 2!

On Friday, March 25, the UGP2 Residency Opening Session launched in the Haybarn Theatre with an open mic sharing on the theme of Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom. Then, as in UGP1’s Opening Session, we transitioned into a World Cafe reflection about Goddard College’s draft Social Justice and Anti-Oppression Statement. The energy in the room was… Continue reading Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom Round 2!

Every Ending is a Beginning

Some lovely images of the closing session of the Spring semester Undergraduate Residency cycle (UGP1) that ended on March 3, 2016. It was a very moving circle bringing closure to a powerful week. And now we embark on Spring residency of UGP2, which begins on March 24, 2016.

NEIEP + Goddard = Exciting Partnership

The National Elevator Industry Educational Program (NEIEP) is an exciting educational project that comes out of a union, the International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) and the companies who employ its members.  The overall mission of NEIEP is to improve the knowledge and skills of apprentices and mechanics -and this includes helping place and financially… Continue reading NEIEP + Goddard = Exciting Partnership