Category: MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts

MFA Alumni Portrait and Commencement Speech – Jessica Plumb

Jessica Plumb is a 2010 graduate of Goddard’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program in Port Townsend, Washington. She is a writer, co-director and producer of the film, Return of the River, which documents the plight of wild salmon and the fight to un-dam the Elwha river in the Olympic Peninsula. The film has received ten international and… Continue reading MFA Alumni Portrait and Commencement Speech – Jessica Plumb

Alumni Portrait — Anjali Austin

Video podcast profile of Anjali Austin upon graduation in Spring 2015. Anjali Austin is an alumna of Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA ’15) program and was a returning professional to our program. A former member of Dance Theatre of Harlem for 13 years, she has worked with noted teachers and choreographers such as Agnes de Mille, Louis… Continue reading Alumni Portrait — Anjali Austin

Community News and Events, August 2015

Still from Baba Israel’s upcoming project The Spinning Wheel. Photo: Joel Chester Fildes The Spinning Wheel: a Son Remixes a Father’s Radical Archive Steve Ben Israel was a New York jazz musician, poet, stand-up comic, political activist and core member of the iconic ensemble ‘The Living Theatre’. He passed away in 2012, leaving behind a legacy of… Continue reading Community News and Events, August 2015

Devora Neumark — Mansura Revisited

MANSURA REVISITED: A Brief Overview of the Project [DE] COLONIZER: RESEARCH/ART LABORATORY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (Eitan Bronstein Aparicio and Eléonore Merza Bronstein Co-Directors) and DEVORA NEUMARK JULY 2015 Mansura Revisited is a multilayered life/art project involving the living histories of several generations. It is at once an aesthetic inquiry into the role that the beautification… Continue reading Devora Neumark — Mansura Revisited

Alumni Gathering Session Proposals

Hey there fellow MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts alumni, I’m Tyson, a 2015 graduate with specialties in comics / illustration and creative facilitation. I’ve happily accepted the task of helping to organize alumni sessions for the upcoming pilot MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Alumni Gathering on July 24-26. I’m excited to be part of this effort along with… Continue reading Alumni Gathering Session Proposals

Alumni Portrait – Neel Murgai

Neel Murgai (MFAIA ’10) at the Brooklyn Bowl Hi, I am Neel Murgai, a 2010 Goddard MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts 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… Continue reading Alumni Portrait – Neel Murgai

Alumni Portrait – Stacey (Zebith) Thalden

Photograph by M. Walker My name is Stacey (Zebith) Thalden. I graduated from Goddard College, Vermont Campus, in 2012 with a degree from the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program. As a nature illustrator, I delight in the bold shapes decorating the shell of a beetle and the iridescent sheen illuminating the feathers of a bird.… Continue reading Alumni Portrait – Stacey (Zebith) Thalden

Practicing Presence: Dialogic Education in the MFAIA

Excerpts from talk about the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program presented for a panel, “Distance Making? Studio Pedagogy On and Offline,” at College Art Association, Feb. 2015 In reflecting on how students and faculty are present to one another, I would like to begin with the words of recent graduates. This is how they describe… Continue reading Practicing Presence: Dialogic Education in the MFAIA

The Power of Acknowledgement

The following commencement address was delivered at the graduation ceremony for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program in Plainfield, Vermont, on July 27, 2014, by MFAIA student Christine Brubaker: I want to share something I’ve been thinking a lot about over the past year–the power of acknowledgement. I want to talk about the possibilities… Continue reading The Power of Acknowledgement

New and Achievements – September 2014

STUDENTS & ALUMNI Coming soon to a bedroom near you…NOBODY’S HOME: a multi-sensory meditation-comedy on the nature of nothing, performed for extraordinary audiences in ordinary bedrooms.  An original play by Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews (IBA ’09, MFAIA ’16) and Mason Rosenthal of the Medium Theatre Company is now touring New York and will be coming to… Continue reading New and Achievements – September 2014

Student and Alumni Achievements

Catharine Slusar (MFAIA ’15) has been hired as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Theater at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Richard Ambelang (MFAIA ’12) has a solo show of medium format transparency photos, Approaching Abstraction: From the Montpelier Boxcars I & II Series, at City Center, Montpelier, Vt., through January 30, 2015. Wolf Luman (MFAIA ’16)… Continue reading Student and Alumni Achievements

News and Achievements – October 2014

Students and Alumni A new anthology The Multispecies Salon, edited by Eben Kirksey, includes a chapter byKarin Bolender (MFAIA ‘07) about her R.A.W. Ass Milk Soap Project, and one by Kirksey about Deanna Pindell’s (MFAIA ’11) “recipes” for forest restoration.” The book and accompanying website document the vanguard of the emerging field of Multispecies Studies,… Continue reading News and Achievements – October 2014

News and Achievements – August 2014

Students and Alumni Ryan Conarro (MFAIA ’15) is performing in Perseverance Theatre’s production of The Blue Bear in Juneau, Alaska, at Perseverance’s SummerFest. The Blue Bear is a two-person place-based piece adapted from a memoir by southeast Alaska wilderness guide Lynn Schooler. Conarro was part of the original team of collaborators who created the play… Continue reading News and Achievements – August 2014

Art as action: MFA students reflect on Gaza bombings

This blog post was originally printed in The Rutland Herald on August 5, 2014. Reprinted here with permission. It wasn’t all what they planned, but sometimes events demand art and action of the most immediate kind, with little planning. At least, that was the view of a small group of artists in Goddard College’s MFA… Continue reading Art as action: MFA students reflect on Gaza bombings

News and Achievements – July 2014

Students and Alumni Beth Nixon (MFAIA ’09) is touring her new “suitcase theater” show, Lava Fossil, this year, including the Boston Center for the Arts, July 25-26, 2014, at Providence Fringe Festival, and in November at Philadelphia’s First Person Arts Festival. Beth also received funding from Pop Up Providence’s tactical urban program for a community… Continue reading News and Achievements – July 2014

Above all else: don’t think of it as ART.

It’s become fashionable among American pundits to question the value of post-secondary education; and nowhere are these opinions more sharply aimed than at the arts and humanities. At an alarming rate, young people are told to get trained for utilitarian jobs, and to forego liberal education in favor of technical schooling. Conversely, it’s occasionally posed… Continue reading Above all else: don’t think of it as ART.