This entry documents MFAIA alum Patricia R.Corbett’s recent visit to the MFAIA Winter Residency, drawing her words from her commencement address. It also features photographs by current MFAIA student, Reuben Radding. — editor Patricia Corbett’s return to campus as both our alumni guest artist and commencement speaker during the Masters of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary… Continue reading An Artist Speaks to the Dead, the Living, and the yet to Be Born: Patricia R. Corbett
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Learning Alliance: Partnerships & Grants for Students with a Sustainability Focus
As a Goddard College student, you can earn credits with a network of dynamic organizations that have partnership agreements with Goddard. You can complete courses and programs of study with these partners during the semester and on between semester breaks, in some cases earning additional credits directly applicable towards your Goddard degree and satisfying some… Continue reading Learning Alliance: Partnerships & Grants for Students with a Sustainability Focus
Featured Alum: Joy Cosculluela – My Art is Where My Body Lives
Joy Cosculluela (MFAIA-WA ’14) is a performing artist, choreographer, and somatic educator and founder-artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a group of multicultural women artists dedicated to excavating and reshaping personal material into the performing arts. Since graduating from Goddard College, she has continued to expand her work in decolonial practices. Joy’s most current project, Barbette, was created at… Continue reading Featured Alum: Joy Cosculluela – My Art is Where My Body Lives
WHY SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART?
July 5, 2019 Creative practice for collective liberation This is the beginning of a conversation about how art could be something different altogether. The Situation: These are times of rising fascism, ecological destruction, spiraling inequity, and a culture of collapse. We need art, because the systems of conquest and oppression are so pervasive that the act of… Continue reading WHY SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART?
MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity
“Part scientific detective story, part meta-physical romp, The Trouble with Gravity is a revelation: the first in-depth, accessible study of this ubiquitous, elusive force. Gravity and our efforts to understand it, Panek reveals, have shaped not only the world we inhabit, but also our bodies, minds, and culture. Its influence can be seen in everything from ancient… Continue reading MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity
IMA student Odale Cress: The Care Package Story Project
IMA student, Odale Cress, is garnering a lot of well-deserved attention with her traveling exhibit, The Care Package Story Project. The following excerpt is from The Care Package Story Project website. The Care Package Story Project is a collection of photographs of care packages which I re-created from memories of care packages that I and other service members… Continue reading IMA student Odale Cress: The Care Package Story Project
“The Human Compass” – An Expressive Arts Practice by Casey Jakubowski
VIDEO: Casey Jakubowski’s Multimodal Expressive Arts Process, “The Human Compass.” Casey created a new Multimodal Expressive Process as a component of her coursework this semester in the Expressive Arts Therapy Concentration at Goddard College that incorporates movement, music, and drawing. The individually designed course is called “Crisis Intervention: Expressive Arts Crisis Intervention With Adolescents.” Her… Continue reading “The Human Compass” – An Expressive Arts Practice by Casey Jakubowski
International Students
Goddard College welcomes applications from international students. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorizes Goddard College to issue the I-20 Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) students and, therefore, to admit and enroll students to programs offered from Goddard’s Plainfield, Vermont, and Port Townsend, Washington, campuses. Goddard College offers its program in a low-residency format which requires students to… Continue reading International Students
Creating a Community of Truth: Tim Simmons (IMA ’18) Commencement Address
Tim Simmons (Individualized MA ’18) Commencement Address, Goddard Graduate Institute Goddard College February 17, 1019 I have to admit, part of my reason for being here today is a little selfish. I am so excited to be back here at Goddard with all of you – some of my very favorite people in the world.… Continue reading Creating a Community of Truth: Tim Simmons (IMA ’18) Commencement Address
Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony
Look. Listen. I’m what they call “mid-life.” I’m what they call “late-blooming.” And even though I was just an “average-Joe” and a “working-mother,” I happened to be in the “right-place-at-the-right-time” when the “opportunity-presented-itself.” I was “ready-willing-and-able” to “follow my dreams.” I’m lucky. I went back to school. I went to Goddard College. When I was… Continue reading Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony
Goddard launches new MFA concentration in Performance Creation
Goddard’s Performance Creation Concentration is the first low-residency program in the country designed specifically for theater artists, choreographers, musicians, or other artists working specifically in performance creation. PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Stephanie Batten Bland is the founder and artistic director of Company BBB, an interdisciplinary dance theater company performing original works that she conceives and choreographs. Since… Continue reading Goddard launches new MFA concentration in Performance Creation
MFAIA News: December 2018
Top: Katie Schwerin, Mt. Monadnock Labyrinth. Photo: Bill Whyte. Below: Images of the installation process. Photos: Reuben Radding, current MFAIA-VT student. The Mt. Monadnock Labyrinth Current MFAIA-VT student Katie Schwerin recently completed a public arts project titled, The Mt. Monadnock Labyrinth, a land art installation located near the Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, NH. The labyrinth… Continue reading MFAIA News: December 2018
MFA in Creative Writing Launches New Anthology
Goddard College is pleased to announce the 2018 release of a new edition of Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk About Writing, published by GenPop Books. This anthology consists of thirty essays by faculty members in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. All were originally delivered as keynote or commencement addresses between 2000 and 2018.… Continue reading MFA in Creative Writing Launches New Anthology
Human Animal Interaction Studies Concentration in Psychology Program
The Goddard College Psychology Program is proud to announce a new concentration in Human Animal Interaction Studies. Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) and Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) have grown exponentially in popularity in recent years. Animal-assisted therapists work as professionals and volunteers in a variety of settings, treating issues such as relationship conflict, depression, and trauma, with children,… Continue reading Human Animal Interaction Studies Concentration in Psychology Program
Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration
“Ceremonial activism” with Cease Wyss (Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:lo/Metis/ Hawaiian/Swiss) and Anne Riley (Cree and Dene) at the spring 2017 MFAIA residency, Puget Sound, Fort Worden, Washington. Photo: Goddard College Spurred on by the resurgence of indigenous movements, a profound inquiry into indigenous and decolonial practices has spread rapidly throughout the Americas. This resurgence has generated both institutional… Continue reading Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration
Alum John Eichenberger Uses Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Counseling Practice
A young man shook his head in shame and embarrassment. An offhand remark to a client had resulted in a rift in the therapeutic relationship. He wanted with all his being to repair it. Now, among peers, he explored the event. Not a single person said, “Well, this is what you should do.” No need.… Continue reading Alum John Eichenberger Uses Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Counseling Practice
Featured Alum: Neel Murgai (MFAIA ’10)
Hi I am Neel Murgai, a 2010 Goddard MFA-IA graduate. I am a sitarist, composer, overtone singer, frame drummer and teacher. My practice draws from many traditions, including Indian classical, jazz, minimalism, experimental music and more. I had already been a professional musician for over a decade before I attended Goddard. My education there helped… Continue reading Featured Alum: Neel Murgai (MFAIA ’10)
Visionary Aquaponics Podcast with Alum Maribou Latour
Alumna Maribou Latour (BAS ’12) has created the podcast Visionary Aquaponics based on her passion for food and water security, aquaponics, and permaculture. She features interviews with “the best voices, minds, and experts in the aquaponics industry, so that you can…learn about the amazing impacts, successes, failures, challenges, and tips of past and present aquaponic… Continue reading Visionary Aquaponics Podcast with Alum Maribou Latour
Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey
by Julia Ain-Krupa (IBA ‘11) I received my Fulbright scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The grant was specifically for creative writing, and my intention was to come to Poland–Krakow, specifically, where a new Jewish community is thriving–to write about inter-religious marriage in Poland, which was something that interested me, and which was also reflective… Continue reading Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey
Q&A with Jane Sanders (BA ‘80)
By Samantha Kolber (MFAW ‘14) Born the youngest of five into an Irish-Catholic family in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Jane O’Meara Sanders (BA ‘80) has been in public service for over 35 years, since she graduated from Goddard at age 30. She came to her studies and career unconventionally, attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville but… Continue reading Q&A with Jane Sanders (BA ‘80)