MFAIA co-Chair Ruth Wallen in conversation with recent graduates, Greer Reed and Adam Cates, MFAIA-VT F2020. During part three of this interview, conducted in November 2020, Greer and Adam continue to reflect upon their graduate studies at Goddard. Ruth Wallen: Could you say specifically what you learned or how you grew during your graduate study… Continue reading Trust the Process: Adam & Greer’s leap of faith at Goddard
Category: Performance Creation
Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part one)
March 13, 2019 This is the first installment of a three-part interview with Stefanie Batten Bland that was conducted by Reuben Radding on March 4, 2019 at New York University in New York City. Stefanie and Reuben are both current students in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College. All photographs in the series… Continue reading Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part one)
An Artist Speaks to the Dead, the Living, and the yet to Be Born: Patricia R. Corbett
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
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
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
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