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
Category: Master’s Degree
Senior Study: Making a Shipping Container Home
For his senior study, Devin Mason (BAS ’15) has been steadily building a house out of a shipping container in Albany, Vermont. Devin will be sharing his process and insights about shipping containers and living off-the-grid at his graduating student presentation at the Fall ’15 Undergraduate Program-Option 1 residency. For a wonderful and detailed description of… Continue reading Senior Study: Making a Shipping Container Home
Visiting Soul Fire Farm!
Hillary Melville‘s (IBA ’16) daughter Shante Melville, and recent alumna GaBrilla Ballard (IBA ’15) joined Goddard faculty members Pamela Booker and Bobby Buchanan for a work party at Soul Fire Farm in Fall 2014. Also in the photograph are farmer Jonah Vitale-Wolff and his son Emet. Alumnus Gaetano Vaccaro (IBA ’09) and his family also… Continue reading Visiting Soul Fire Farm!
Sustainable-Healthy Dietary Shifts for Human and Environmental Health
Individualized Bachelor of Arts graduate Christiana Wyly (IBA ’15) is a leader in educating people about the impacts of their dietary choices and promoting sustainable-healthy eating patterns to support human and environmental health. She is the coordinator of the My Plate My Planet initiative, an informal aggregation of groups supporting sustainability in the 2015 U.S. Dietary Guidelines.… Continue reading Sustainable-Healthy Dietary Shifts for Human and Environmental Health
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
A Cauldron of Fermented Foods
Brian Lyman (IBA ’15) is the co-founder and marketing manager of Cauldron Fermented Foods in Boston. Cauldron follows traditional fermentation practices, using salt brine in an anaerobic environment at the correct temperature. They are currently marketing three products: Black and White Sauerkraut, Firecracker Carrots, and Dilly Green Beans. They also have prototypes for cucumber pickles,… Continue reading A Cauldron of Fermented Foods
Students Make a Better World Through Activism
ACTIVISM & ORGANIZING Hartman Deetz (IBA ’15) spoke in March at a Solidarity event in support of US Steelworkers striking over health and safety concerns. Hartman is also a teacher at Deecolonize Academy, “a multi-generational skool 4 the people by the people,” based in Oakland, Calif. Ya-Ping Douglass (IBA ’16) was arrested in April in… Continue reading Students Make a Better World Through Activism
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
Undergraduate Program Updates: Jobs, Teaching, Presenting
Spring ’15 updates from the Undergraduate Program about jobs, teaching, and academic offerings. Carina Antonino DiMare (BA HAS ’14) (formerly Carina Rockland) launched and now has a thriving bodywork practice in Amherst and Greenfield, Massachusetts. Carina specializes in therapeutic Swedish massage, deep tissue, Ayurvedic bodywork and massage for chronic pain, injury, illness and cancer. Making… Continue reading Undergraduate Program Updates: Jobs, Teaching, Presenting
Community News And Events, June 2015
Andrea Parkins Andrea Parkins is a 2015 Grantee for Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund for NY State Artists MFAIA-VT Faculty Advisor Andrea Parkins is a 2015 grantee for Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund, a Regrant Partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Electronic Media and Film Program. The fund… Continue reading Community News And Events, June 2015
MFA Alumna Wins 2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Pat Valdata (MFAW ’91) who, with Jeff Hardin, has won the Donald Justice Prize for poetry in 2015. Each will receive a $1,000 prize and their books will be published by West Chester University. The competition, for a book-length manuscript written primarily in form, was judged by poet Dick Davis. Valdata, adjunct associate… Continue reading MFA Alumna Wins 2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize
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 Mediocre Meditator Turns toward Fear and Includes a Lesson in the History of Psychology
When I was coming up, professionally, in the middle of the 1970s, my colleagues and I at The Women’s Mental Health Collective in Somerville, Massachusetts had this idea (or maybe we didn’t have this idea ourselves but rather there was an idea around, part of the zeitgeist, the cultural atmosphere). The idea was that in… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Turns toward Fear and Includes a Lesson in the History of Psychology
Speaking Truth in the World
The following students, alumni, and faculty of the Goddard Undergraduate program shared these exciting accomplishments -being invited to speak publicly about issues close to their hearts. Melanie Goodman Dante (IBA ’03, MA HAS ’06) was an invited speaker on May 8th at Philadelphia SEXx Interactive. Melanie’s talk was entitled, “The Romance of Erotic Labor: Intimacy… Continue reading Speaking Truth in the World
Graduate School Updates from Recent Alumni
It’s a treat to hear from some of our Goddard Undergraduate alumni about graduate studies they are in the midst of or recently completed. Here are some Spring ’15 updates: Jordan Bosse (IBA ‘06) sent in this exciting news from his Ph.D. program in Nursing at University of Massachusetts-Amherst: I’ve just completed my coursework and… Continue reading Graduate School Updates from Recent Alumni
More Spring ’15 News: CREATING!
News of recent creative projects by Goddard Undergraduate Students, Alumni, and Faculty. As you’ll see, lots of exciting news! This winter, Matt Hogan (IBA ’16) was artist-in-residence at Generator Makerspace in Burlington, Vermont. While at Generator Makerspace, Matt created the lighting design for portraits that he took during the recent UGP2 residency, including this stunning… Continue reading More Spring ’15 News: CREATING!
AmeriCorps Possibilities: A Stipend While you Study
Charlotte LaVictoire (IBA ’16) accepted an AmeriCorps position focusing on literacy with a non-profit called Waite House in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. Charlotte is planning to integrate this applied work with her senior study next year. She generously wrote up tips for other students who are interested in AmeriCorps, including ways a position can… Continue reading AmeriCorps Possibilities: A Stipend While you Study
Spring ’15 Graduate School Acceptances!
It’s that time of year when our Goddard Undergaduate (UGP) students and alumni share news of graduate school acceptances and completions. Hearty congratulations to all of you, including GaBrilla Ballard (IBA’15) for getting a full scholarship to the Smith College School of Social Work’s MSW Program. GaBrilla starts her graduate studies this summer. Marjorie Hunt… Continue reading Spring ’15 Graduate School Acceptances!
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