The sustainability team was formed in 2007 when Goddard’s then president Marc Schulman signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. We conducted a carbon inventory, created a climate action plan, and began working to reduce emissions. Our goal is to be carbon neutral in fuels burned on campus and electricity usage by 2020.… Continue reading Goddard Sustainability Progress Report – July 2014
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Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. They include, Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation,… Continue reading Lynn Nottage
May and June 2014 Achievements
Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s plays, The Women of Lockerbie and The Comfort Team were published by No Passport Press. Also, her play, The Velvet Weapon will receive a staged workshop in the Launch Pad program at UC Santa Barbara and a public reading in July followed by a Q & A with the author. Rebecca Brown… Continue reading May and June 2014 Achievements
Reflection from Graduating Student Mushkan DeFilippo
Mushkan DeFilippo (MA PSY ’14): This collage represents my vision of the woman I have become through my time at Goddard, and, thanks to my life experiences over those years, how I see myself as a therapist. I chose the image of The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, partially because I am Italian and also… Continue reading Reflection from Graduating Student Mushkan DeFilippo
Chris Millis
Chris Millis is a prize-winning, bestselling writer, producer, and cartoonist. He adapted his first novel, Small Apartments (Anvil Press, 2001), into a feature film directed by Jonas Akerlund that stars Billy Crystal, Matt Lucas, James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, Dolph Lundgren, Peter Stormare, Juno Temple, James Marsden, Amanda Plummer, Rosie Perez, Rebel Wilson, and many more.… Continue reading Chris Millis
The Soil-Health-Sustainability Continuum
Mike Puckett (BAS ’15) is exploring the relationship between soil health, food health, human health, and living sustainably. To create thriving soil, he has been researching soil nutrients, composting practices, and the role of mycelium in soil remediation. He is building a raised bed garden that demonstrates how to grow health-supporting food using sustainable practices,… Continue reading The Soil-Health-Sustainability Continuum
Goddard Professor to Explore “Aesthetics of Funk” at National Endowment of Humanities Institute
Plainfield, Vt. – H. Sharif Williams, a professor and chair of the Goddard College Faculty Council, has been accepted as a participant in the National Endowment of the Humanities three-week summer institute exploring “Black Aesthetics and African Centered Cultural Expressions” at Emory University in July. Dr. Williams, who is also known as “Dr. Herukhuti” (based upon… Continue reading Goddard Professor to Explore “Aesthetics of Funk” at National Endowment of Humanities Institute
News and Achievements – May 2014
Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. CURRENT STUDENTS AND ALUMNI Congratulations to all of those with new jobs: Jessica Bashline (MFAIA ’16) is serving as the Artistic Director… Continue reading News and Achievements – May 2014
BFAW Program Launches DUENDE Literary Journal
What is Duende? 1) “A sort of corkscrew that can get art into the sensibility of an audience…it climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet,” wrote poet Federico García Lorca in 1933, in “Theory and Play of the Duende.” 2) A new, all-online, national literary journal, produced by students in Goddard’s BFA… Continue reading BFAW Program Launches DUENDE Literary Journal
Johnny's Jubilance
Graduating student Johnny Ridenour (BAS ’14) chimes in about what brought him to Goddard: “When I finally got it together to return to school after 20+ years off, I thought of Goddard. My Dad did the same thing when he looked for a way to fit graduate school into a busy family life in the… Continue reading Johnny's Jubilance
March and April 2014 Achievements
Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s opera Die Fledermaus (aka The Polar Bat) was performed in April by the Anchorage Opera, and her backstage farce, The Velvet Weapon received a reading in the “Rhythm and Rebellion” series at the Wooly Mammoth Theater in Washington DC on April 20th. Jan Clausen‘s review of Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials… Continue reading March and April 2014 Achievements
BFA Faculty Poetry Reading: PoemCity 2014
Watch this video of BFA in Creative Writing faculty members Michael Leong, Michael Vizsolyi, Arisa White, and Wendy Call, and Program Director Janet Sylvester, reading original work as well as translations at this PoemCity 2014 event at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont here. Thanks to ORCA Media for this video coverage.
The Mediocre Meditator: Brain Science and Procrastination
Faced with writing what seemed like an endless number of papers when I was in graduate school many years ago, I stumbled across a method for overcoming procrastination. Much more recently, in the November-December 2013 issue of The Psychotherapy Networker I came across an article that grounded my method in physiology. Eureka! I cried. (Well,… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator: Brain Science and Procrastination
Student Reflections on Drama Therapy & Embodied Play
Group Drama Therapy Session led by new MA in Psychology & Counseling student Sarvenaz Moshfegh Asiedu on April 1, 2014… “Coming from an expressive therapy program into a counseling psychology program, I am reminded how much I need to connect with people through embodied play. When we engage the body, we engage a… Continue reading Student Reflections on Drama Therapy & Embodied Play
News and Achievements – April 2014
Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. STUDENT AND ALUMNI EVENT – MAY 1, 2014 “Honest to Goddard: Student and Alumni Visual and Performing Arts Presentation” Thursday, May 1… Continue reading News and Achievements – April 2014
Sustainability News and Resources
All news and resources below are reported from the Goddard Sustainability Listserv, April 2014. To join the Listserv, please email Catherine Lowther. Jean-Martin Fortier: A Model for Profitable Micro-Farming: Earn a living gardening on just 1.5 acres Jean-Martin Fortier and his wife, Maude-Hélène are a thirty something couple who have been farming successfully… Continue reading Sustainability News and Resources
BFA News & Achievements – Spring 2014
Welcome to our Spring 2014 BFA in Creative Writing eNewsletter! The students and faculty of our wonderful program have been busy since the fall residency. Here’s a run-down of recent publications, readings, collaborations, and general literary accomplishments: STUDENTS Cerridwin Aker has received a full scholarship to study nonfiction at the 27th annual Fishtrap Writers Conference… Continue reading BFA News & Achievements – Spring 2014
New York Times Best-Selling Author Speaks at Goddard April 14
Plainfield, Vt. – Visiting writer Justin Torres, author of the novel We the Animals, will read from his fiction, answer questions, and sign books on April 14th at 7:30pm at the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College. This event is free and open to the public as presented by Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing Program. Justin Torres’ We… Continue reading New York Times Best-Selling Author Speaks at Goddard April 14
A Painting a Day: Reflection from Jacqueline Overstreet
Art as a Daily Practice: a reflection by MA in Psychology & Clinical Mental Health Counseling student Jacqueline Overstreet: “I have almost hit the three-month mark and I am almost a quarter of the way through the biggest artistic commitment I have taken on so far in my life. On Monday, January 13, 2014, I… Continue reading A Painting a Day: Reflection from Jacqueline Overstreet
Above all else: don’t think of it as ART.
It’s become fashionable among American pundits to question the value of post-secondary education; and nowhere are these opinions more sharply aimed than at the arts and humanities. At an alarming rate, young people are told to get trained for utilitarian jobs, and to forego liberal education in favor of technical schooling. Conversely, it’s occasionally posed… Continue reading Above all else: don’t think of it as ART.