Category: MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts

Experimental Music Pioneer Pauline Oliveros, guest artist at the MFAIA-WA in 2009, spent time with students, with explorations in Deep Listening in the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden. Image right: Pauline with Monique Fleming (MFAIA-WA ’11) and Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA-WA ’12). Photos: Goddard College In Memory of Pauline Oliveros It is with sadness that… Continue reading December 2016 Community News and Events

Hanna Satterlee and Eliot Gray Fisher, recipients of the Fall 2016 Goddard Alumni Art Project Awards. Photos courtesy of the artists Goddard Alumni Art Project Awards We are proud to announce alumna Hanna Satterlee (MFAIA-VT & WA ’16) and alumnus Eliot Gray Fisher (MFAIA–WA ’15), are the Fall 2016 recipients of the Goddard Alumni Art… Continue reading October 2016 Community News and Events

by JuPong Lin MFAIA faculty advisor Devora Neumark and I offered a group study in Decolonial and Indigenous Art practice last semester. The co-learning experience was truly collaborative, transformative, and inspiring in the depth of the work of co-constructing collective knowledge. Participants engaged deeply with questions of decolonial practice and the challenges to indigenous well-being; we… Continue reading First MFAIA Group Study in Decolonial and Indigenous Art Practices

Diego Piñón. Photo credit left: Rafael Perez Evans; right: courtesy of Diego Piñón. Diego Piñón, Upcoming MFAIA-WA Guest Artist and Centrum Artist-in-Resident We are pleased and privileged to welcome internationally renowned movement/dance artist Diego Piñón as our upcoming guest artist for the fall 2016 MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts residency at Fort Worden, Port Townsend (September 16-24, 2016).… Continue reading August 2016 Community News and Events

Photos courtesy of Friends of Aiyyana Maracle. Celebrating the Life of Aiyyana Maracle Former MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts student Aiyyana Maracle (MFAIA-VT ’03-’05) was a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, and a great-grandma four times over; a sovereign Haudenosaunee woman. For half a century, Aiyyana was actively involved with the merging of Ogwehoweh art and culture into the Euro-centric world… Continue reading June 2016 Community News and Events

  MFA alumni transform their communities! Meet our alumni guests to hear about how the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts has made a difference in their careers and in their lives. We look forward to speaking with you and taking your questions. Video conference: May 13, 4:00pm (EDT) / 1:00pm (PDT) Phone conference: May 24, 6:30pm… Continue reading MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Info Sessions May 13, 24 and June 1, 9, 2016

This semester my colleague, Rachael Van Fossen, and I have been co-facilitating a group study titled Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation. While the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program is best known for offering a way for students to pursue self-directed learning in one-to-one dialogue with a faculty advisor, increasingly the program’s Vermont site is offering… Continue reading MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation

Left – Rising: Small World Map, detail of work in progress. Center – Sharon Siskin introduces graduates during the MFAIA-WA Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony. Right – Where There is Life — mirror, wood, herbs, seeds, 62”x 66” 12”, 1994. Photos courtesy of Sharon Siskin.  Activities with Sharon Siskin MFAIA-WA Faculty Advisor Sharon Siskin recently exhibited an installation entitled: Where There… Continue reading April 2016 Community News and Events

What’s That You Tried To Say? – an experimental work on playwright Samuel Beckett instigated by alumnus Mark O’Maley Information Sessions Vermont Site: Join Peter Hocking, the MFAIA-VT faculty admissions liaison, and Chip Cummings, the MFAIA admissions counselor, to learn more about the program. We’re offering hour-long conference calls on the following dates: May 24, 06:30… Continue reading Goddard College MFAIA Info Sessions for Fall 2016 Admissions

One week after the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) residency in Vermont and the day before she upstaged Coldplay in the Super Bowl halftime show, Beyoncé released “Formation,” her first new song in over a year. The next day, she “slayed” the halftime show in a pointed act of semiotic and political acumen. With the… Continue reading Art Animates Social Consciousness—Jazz, Basketry and Burlesque

Photo Credit: Su-Ying Lee and Jennifer L. Davis How To Make Space and Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Curated by Jennifer Davis & Su-Ying Lee, How To Make Space is an exhibition that frames the temporary architectures built by Hong Kong’s population of female migrant domestic workers (MDWs) as gestures of female spatial… Continue reading February 2016 Community News and Events

While talking with my friend, Catharine Slusar (MFAIA 2015), about her recent production of Erik Ehn’s The Saint Plays, she mentioned that the Greek etymology of the word martyr is ‘to witness.’ Having just completed the principle work on an MFA in Creative Writing, in which one thread of my inquiry was focused on the… Continue reading Artist As Witness

October 2015 was a very busy month for MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts-Washington Faculty Advisor Seitu Jones. On October 9th & 10th he moderated a panel on food justice and spoke about his work at Harvard’s Black In Design conference. From October 12th through the 16th he was artist in residence for the Athens Arts Commission’s Public Art Planning… Continue reading December 2015 Community News and Events

In his essay, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Community,” Parker Palmer writes, “The most common connotation of the word community in our culture is intimacy, but this is a trap.” Too often I fall for the trap, avoiding a more complicated reality. Unlike intimacy, which is always a choice, and which requires reciprocity, in the… Continue reading Living Within Tension: Collaborative Learning in the Arts

   Alumna Imani Uzuri (MFAIA-VT ’12) conducts the Revolutionary Choir at the Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, to launch the pilot MFAIA Alumni Gathering that was held concurrent to the July 2015 residency in Plainfield, Vermont. Photos: Goddard College by Tyson Pease (MFAIA-VT ’15) In the spirit of its residency theme, “Artist in the World: Working Collectives,” the… Continue reading The Launch of a New Alumni Gathering

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Washington group visit Learning from Orcas: The Story of Hope, Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Photo: Laiwan VISITING HOPE Sue Long, Port Townsend Marine Science Center Board Member and Port Townsend Community Life Staff Member at Goddard opened the Center for a personalized visit by MFAIA-WA Workgroups and Faculty Advisors Sharon Siskin, Devora Neumark… Continue reading October 2015 Community News and Events

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College is proud to announce the recipients of the Spring/Summer 2015 Alumni Arts Project Award, a bi-annual grant that aims to bring the arts to communities by supporting new work by graduates of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program. Three alumni artists with collaborative community art projects received $500 each to… Continue reading Goddard Announces the Recipients of the Spring/Summer ’15 Alumni Arts Project Award