Creative Weavings of Art: Goddard Student Brings Students and Graduates Together for New Arts Festival | originally published in Clockworks Spring/Summer 2013 issue by Jim Sable, Business Manager of Prismatic Productions, Inc. For 150 years, Goddard graduates have assimilated into the creative weavings of art across the world. With interdisciplinary art, numerous artistic fields… Continue reading Featured Student: John Ollom (MFAIA '14)
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Collaborative Learning: The Self in Context
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone.… Continue reading Collaborative Learning: The Self in Context
May 2013 Achievements
Students and Alumni Summer Graef (MFAW ’14) took part in a literary event for Goddard’s Northwest writers in May at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington. Justin Hall’s (MFAW ’14, pictured at left) book, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT anthology published in 2013. Ron… Continue reading May 2013 Achievements
Interview with interdisciplinary movement artist Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA '12)
Alumna Stacy Dawson Stearns, of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at the Port Townsend, Washington residency site in 2012. In this video, Stacy talks about her somatic practices in artwork and her recent award of a CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) Grant. For more information about Stacy’s work… Continue reading Interview with interdisciplinary movement artist Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA '12)
Goddard College Receives National Climate Leadership Award
PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College, the first low-residency college in the U.S., announced today that it has won a National Climate Leadership award from a coalition of university and college presidents. The award, given by American College and University President’s Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), recognizes Goddard’s leadership role in education around sustainability and climate mitigation. The award… Continue reading Goddard College Receives National Climate Leadership Award
The Mediocre Meditator #7: One Day or One Moment at a Time is Easier Said than Done
I have learned a lot from AA, although I am not an alcoholic. When my mind is twittering about what I need to do tomorrow and what so and so said earlier today, whether I canget it all done, and what did she mean when she said x or y and did I handle it… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator #7: One Day or One Moment at a Time is Easier Said than Done
Full Evening of Entertainment Planned for Alternative Media Conference
Plainfield, Vt. — Goddard College announced today that the culmination of its May 18th Alternative Media Conference will be a show titled Combustible Cabaret/Digital Vaudeville curated by Ben t. Matchstick. The show will feature Old-World painted banner shows, hip-hop puppet shows, mobile digital projection vehicles, and the Indonesian musical instrument, gamelan Sulukala. A gamelan is a set of… Continue reading Full Evening of Entertainment Planned for Alternative Media Conference
The Mediocre Meditator Wonders Whether Meditation is for Everybody
And she answers: Probably not. Meditation is only one way to find stillness within. My husband sings in two choirs. A good friend walks in the woods. Well, I walk in the woods. I even like walking in the woods. But walking in the woods doesn’t make me quiet. I feel refreshed, usually, and ready… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Wonders Whether Meditation is for Everybody
Join us at the Alternative Media Conference
UPDATE: Coming back in September 2022! Democracy is at stake! We’ll be back with more information soon, until then, here’s some history of conference: In 1970 alumnus Larry Yurdin (BA ’67) organized the first Alternative Media Conference at Goddard, a revolutionary event with the goal of creating media that “awakens rather than aestheticizes.” Goddard’s community… Continue reading Join us at the Alternative Media Conference
April 2013 Achievements
FACULTY Deborah Brevoort‘s opera Steal a Pencil for Me, written with Gerald Cohen, had its world premiere in Scarsdale and New York City on April 28-30. Jan Clausen had a sestina from her poetry collection If You Like Difficulty, “Pigs Advance as Organ Transplant Factories for People,” appear in an all-sestina anthology edited by Marilyn Krysl… Continue reading April 2013 Achievements
The "Why" of Tiny
Meet Mariah Coz (BAS ‘14), left. She lives in a renovated 1960s off-grid trailer she named “The COMET” (Cost-effective, Off-grid Mobile Eco Trailer) while she pursues her studies in Tiny Houses in relation to the environment, the economy, and sustainable principles. Mariah is also exploring the space outside of a tiny house – small, intensive,… Continue reading The "Why" of Tiny
Hartmann and Ratner to headline Goddard College Alternative Media Conference
Plainfield, Vt. – Internationally recognized progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann and White House Correspondent and Bureau Chief for Talk News Radio Service Ellen Ratner will headline the Alternative Media Conference to be held at Goddard College on May 18. Hartmann’s appearance will include a live, in-person, broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann… Continue reading Hartmann and Ratner to headline Goddard College Alternative Media Conference
International Democratic Education Conference
Goddard College students, along with a few faculty and alumni, met during the January Goddard EDU residency to plan and discuss the role that the College could play in the upcoming International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC). IDEC 2013 will be held in Boulder, Colorado this August 4th through 8th, providing an exciting opportunity for… Continue reading International Democratic Education Conference
Student Leslie Whitcomb Reflects on Expressive Arts Therapy
In life sometimes I get so caught up in all the mundane and necessary things that I forget why I started to do something. Or why I am walking down a specific path. In learning to counsel with people and to listen to them I became so caught up in the information and the process… Continue reading Student Leslie Whitcomb Reflects on Expressive Arts Therapy
Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf
Originally published on Her Kind, the blog for Vida (Women in the Literary Arts). Why did I resurrect Virginia Woolf? I am British. (Working-class roots. Cypriot ancestry.) With this birthright comes an acute sense of class. So every time I hear about Virginia Woolf’s five hundred pounds per year inheritance, which relieved her from the… Continue reading Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf
Student Reflection on Psychology and Counseling Art Opening #3
From Greta Enriquez (MA PSY) I was very nervous sharing my artwork. For me art is so personal and the interpretative aspects of viewing art compounded my anxiety. That was before I was called on to introduce my product. Stepping up in front of my classmates was immediately calming- the support and acceptance was… Continue reading Student Reflection on Psychology and Counseling Art Opening #3
Students Reflect on the Psychology & Counseling Art Exhibit #2
Being part of the Goddard family has blessed me with the opportunity to express myself in ways that are extremely natural to me. Creating art, and then being able to show it in this year’s Expressive Arts Exhibit, was a way to travel full-circle through my research and learning process. Coming from an art… Continue reading Students Reflect on the Psychology & Counseling Art Exhibit #2
Artwork at the Psychology and Counseling Spring Residency
It’s wonderful to be back on Goddard’s campus in the midst of the mountains as spring insistently pushes its way in. We welcomed new students and presented our Expressive Arts opening in the Haybarn Theatre Gallery for the 6th time. As usual, the container created by the works on the wall, the artists’ presence… Continue reading Artwork at the Psychology and Counseling Spring Residency
March 2013 Achievements
FACULTY Deborah Brevoort‘s opera Steal a Pencil for Me, written with Gerald Cohen, will be presented in two concerts in April in Scarsdale and NYC. An article appeared in Opera World with all of the details. Beatrix Gates read and spoke about her poems and creative process in a program shared with artist Rebecca McCall as part of… Continue reading March 2013 Achievements
Goddard and the Future of Higher Education
A few weeks ago I participated in a panel discussion about the reinvention of higher education sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The discussion was a critical reminder of our urgent need to respond to the new demands for accountability and relevance in higher education. Colleges now face extraordinary financial pressures and technological… Continue reading Goddard and the Future of Higher Education