Master's Degree Archives - Page 17 of 24

May and June 2014 Achievements

Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s plays, The Women of Lockerbie and The Comfort Team were published by No Passport Press. Also, her play, The Velvet Weapon will receive a staged workshop in the Launch Pad program at UC Santa Barbara and a public reading in July followed by a Q & A with the author. Rebecca Brown… Continue reading May and June 2014 Achievements

Reflection from Graduating Student Mushkan DeFilippo

Mushkan DeFilippo (MA PSY ’14): This collage represents my vision of the woman I have become through my time at Goddard, and, thanks to my life experiences over those years, how I see myself as a therapist. I chose the image of The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, partially because I am Italian and also… Continue reading Reflection from Graduating Student Mushkan DeFilippo

Chris Millis

Chris Millis is a prize-winning, bestselling writer, producer, and cartoonist. He adapted his first novel, Small Apartments (Anvil Press, 2001), into a feature film directed by Jonas Akerlund that stars Billy Crystal, Matt Lucas, James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, Dolph Lundgren, Peter Stormare, Juno Temple, James Marsden, Amanda Plummer, Rosie Perez, Rebel Wilson, and many more.… Continue reading Chris Millis

News and Achievements – May 2014

Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. CURRENT STUDENTS AND ALUMNI Congratulations to all of those with new jobs: Jessica Bashline (MFAIA ’16) is serving as the Artistic Director… Continue reading News and Achievements – May 2014

March and April 2014 Achievements

Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s opera Die Fledermaus (aka The Polar Bat) was performed in April by the Anchorage Opera, and her backstage farce, The Velvet Weapon received a reading in the “Rhythm and Rebellion” series at the Wooly Mammoth Theater in Washington DC on April 20th. Jan Clausen‘s review of Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials… Continue reading March and April 2014 Achievements

The Mediocre Meditator: Brain Science and Procrastination

Faced with writing what seemed like an endless number of papers when I was in graduate school many years ago, I stumbled across a method for overcoming procrastination. Much more recently, in the November-December 2013 issue of The Psychotherapy Networker I came across an article that grounded my method in physiology. Eureka! I cried. (Well,… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator: Brain Science and Procrastination

Student Reflections on Drama Therapy & Embodied Play

Group Drama Therapy Session led by new MA in Psychology & Counseling student Sarvenaz Moshfegh Asiedu on April 1, 2014… “Coming from an expressive therapy program into a counseling psychology program, I am reminded how much I need to connect with people through embodied play. When we engage the body, we engage a… Continue reading Student Reflections on Drama Therapy & Embodied Play

News and Achievements – April 2014

Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. STUDENT AND ALUMNI EVENT – MAY 1, 2014 “Honest to Goddard: Student and Alumni Visual and Performing Arts Presentation” Thursday, May 1… Continue reading News and Achievements – April 2014

A Painting a Day: Reflection from Jacqueline Overstreet

Art as a Daily Practice: a reflection by MA in Psychology & Clinical Mental Health Counseling student Jacqueline Overstreet: “I have almost hit the three-month mark and I am almost a quarter of the way through the biggest artistic commitment I have taken on so far in my life. On Monday, January 13, 2014, I… Continue reading A Painting a Day: Reflection from Jacqueline Overstreet

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.

News and Achievements-March 2014

Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. ALUMNI Riva Weinstein (MFAIA-VT ’14) will present Walking in Circles of Art/Life/Nature, an 18-minute walking meditation on Saturday, April 19th, 2014. And… Continue reading News and Achievements-March 2014

Keeping Going with Creative Work

For artists’ whose vocation is the creation of works of art as well as persons who use artmaking as a vehicle for self expression, keeping a practice going can be a daunting task. There are times when the solitude of the darkroom is a balm for the pressures that come from living in the world.… Continue reading Keeping Going with Creative Work

Together We Go There: Emergent Co-Learning Beyond the Colonial*

As a progressive educator & developing scholar of decolonization, I have been thinking about interdisciplinarity, decolonization and “co-learning” a lot lately. This semester brought new and consequential insights on all three that I’d like to share. As the semester began, I enthusiastically set forth to explore interdisciplinarity with our newly-formed Interdisciplinary Art Learning Community. … Continue reading Together We Go There: Emergent Co-Learning Beyond the Colonial*

4th Annual Dual Language Conference Wrap-Up

At the heart of the fourth annual Dual Language Conference, held at the EDU Seattle Residency on Saturday, February 1, 2014, was the incredibly unified and hardworking core of volunteers that made up the planning committee. This group of over 30 volunteers was comprised of staff, students, faculty, alumni, and local community members and spent… Continue reading 4th Annual Dual Language Conference Wrap-Up

Self-Compassion at the First

Even though you can’t fail at meditating, meditating is all about failure. What I mean is this: Since you have this goal of focusing on the breath (or the sense of the whole body or whatever you’ve chosen) and since focused attention is, as the psychologist Steven Stosny says, “the most easily exhaustible and… Continue reading Self-Compassion at the First

January and February 2014 Achievements

Faculty Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading January and February 2014 Achievements