This article is updated and adapted from an interview by Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) that originally appeared in Clockworks magazine in 2015. Alumnus and award-winning fantasy author Piers Anthony (BA RUP ’56), has sold over 100 books, 21 of which were on the New York Times Bestseller List. While at Goddard from 1952-1956, he… Continue reading Love and Ogres: an interview with alum Piers Anthony
Category: Interview
Corona Diary: Reuben Radding, MFAIA-VT Alum
Reuben Radding (MFAIA-VT ’19) in conversation with MFAIA co-Chair Ruth Wallen Q: How has your creative practice changed or evolved during the pandemic? RR: Honestly, my process has hardly changed at all. It’s only the world that’s changed. Working during the pandemic has however brought me back to my origins and bolstered my sense of… Continue reading Corona Diary: Reuben Radding, MFAIA-VT Alum
School of Phish: Jon Fishman’s Goddard Journey
Jon Fishman (BA ’90) is the legendary drummer and vacuum machine-player from the rock band Phish. Phish’s potent blend of progressive rock, jazzy funk, and harmony-infused jam first reached its setting point at Goddard College in Plainfield Vermont where three of the four members earned BA degrees and forged the bond that would carry them… Continue reading School of Phish: Jon Fishman’s Goddard Journey
Teaching Pottery Online: Art Practices in a Pandemic
Willi Singleton in Conversation with MFAIA Lead Faculty, Ruth Wallen Willi Singleton has been wood-firing his climbing kiln in Kempton, Pennsylvania for thirty-three years, using mostly clay taken from Hawk Mountain mixed with Stancill’s clay from the northern Chesapeake coast. Willi studied Visual Art at The Evergreen State College 1981 before pursuing wood-fired ceramics in Japan… Continue reading Teaching Pottery Online: Art Practices in a Pandemic
The Fight for the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
A conversation with Goddard alum Hartman Deetz In the end of March, Secretary David Bernhardt of the Department of the Interior ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take the Mashpee Wampanoag’s 321-acre reservation out of trust. This removed it from the federal reservation system. This federal action uses a legal loophole, arguing that the Mashpee… Continue reading The Fight for the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
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)
Caleb Pitkin Continues Family Legacy at Goddard
Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) had the honor of sitting down with Caleb Pitkin (BA ’80), grandson of Founding President Tim Pitkin, at his home to discuss the long history of the Pitkin family and his own experience at Goddard College. DB: How did you find Goddard? CP: My family has been involved with Goddard… Continue reading Caleb Pitkin Continues Family Legacy at Goddard
MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine
As one of the three finalists for the New American Voices Award, given by the Institute for Immigration Research, Elena was interviewed for the following article in Bustle Magazine. From the website, here’s a little bit about the award: “The idea for the award, which is sponsored by the Institute for Immigration Research, arose over a year… Continue reading MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom
MFAW-WA faculty member Keenan Norris has interviewed another MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom about her work as Creative Director of the New American Story Project (NASP). The NASP is a collaboration of artists presenting oral histories and stories of immigrants and refugees in order to bear witness, raise awareness, and provoke transformative conversation. Here’s the… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Listen in on Kenny Fries’ interview on Ethereal
MFAW-VT Faculty member Kenny Fries stopped by Ethereal to talk about hi new book In The Province of the Gods, among many other things. The podcast is here.
Bhanu Kapil discovers tangents and gets creative on WGDR.
Listen to this interview with MFAW-VT Faculty member Bhanu Kapil here:
Kirsten Childs: Underneath It All
Goddard MFAW faculty Deborah Brevoort gave her Fall 2016 advising group the extraordinary opportunity to connect with the prolific writer, Kirsten Childs. Her credentials span various works, but we had the pleasure of examining her musical, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. This is a funny and poignant story about a little black girl named Viveca Stanton and her journey of self-discovery.
The New American Story Project
Goddard MFA in Creative Writing faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom, along with four other artists and writers, for the past year and a half has been working on The New American Story Project, a digital oral history project recording the stories of children who have fled violence in Central America and have come to the United States as refugees. JoAnne Tompkins, a current student in the Goddard MFA in Writing Program in Port Townsend, WA, interviews Aharonian Marcom about The New American Story Project.