Category: Master’s Degree

"Why I Love Goddard!" Juanita Martin (BA HAS '14)

  BA in Health Arts & Sciences student Juanita Martin, entering her Level 8 semester, on what makes Goddard College special: “I landed at Goddard at the ripe age of 51 with more college experience than a graduating PhD student, but I had not completed any one degree.  I had credits in various fields, from… Continue reading "Why I Love Goddard!" Juanita Martin (BA HAS '14)

News and Achievements – February 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 & Alumni Christine Brubaker  (MFAIA-VT ’15) will present her paper “Quantifying the Subjective: Acting and the Visual Analogue Scale” at… Continue reading News and Achievements – February 2014

Student Profile: Anjali Austin

  Anjali Austin is a student in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program and a returning professional. 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 Johnson, Alexandra Danilova, Glen Tetley, Valerie Bettis, Geoffrey Holder, and Frederick… Continue reading Student Profile: Anjali Austin

Alexis M. Smith

Alexis M. Smith (MFAW ’07) is the author of the novel Glaciers (Tin House Books), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a World Book Night 2013 selection. Glaciers has been translated into Spanish and Italian, and was recently published in the UK. Smith grew up in Soldotna, Alaska, and Seattle, Washington.… Continue reading Alexis M. Smith

Alumni Video Portrait: Elizabet Elliott (MFAIA ’13)

  Presenting a video interview with interdisciplinary artist and organizer Elizabet Elliott (MFAIA ’13), recent graduate of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College. ABOUT ELIZABET ELLIOTT Artist/ Curator/ Writer/ Freelance Consultant & Community Organizer I am an interdisciplinary artist with experience in both building and implementing programs across a range of art/community… Continue reading Alumni Video Portrait: Elizabet Elliott (MFAIA ’13)

Expressive Arts Reflection from Student Mushkan Defilippo

  These first images were produced for the course Trauma and Addiction. The first panel represents trauma. The images convey the different causes of trauma, childhood abuse, natural disasters, violence, war. The idea that I want to convey is that trauma shatters the inner world. Reality looks like a broken mirror, the images don’t fit,… Continue reading Expressive Arts Reflection from Student Mushkan Defilippo

News and Achievements – January 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. FACULTY Petra Kuppers (MFAIA-WA)is enjoying multiple artist residencies this Winter-Spring, including: Rancho Paradiso near Joshua Tree National Park, California; the Dansbyran Dance… Continue reading News and Achievements – January 2014

M.T. Anderson

M.T. Anderson has written stories for adults, picture books for children, adventure novels for young readers, and several books for older readers (both teens and adults). His satirical book Feed was a Finalist for the National Book Award and was the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. The first volume of his Octavian Nothing saga won the National… Continue reading M.T. Anderson

Polly Carl

Polly Carl is the director and editor of HowlRound: A Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College. Her work at HowlRound is focused on promoting practices for 21st Century theater making based on the core principle that theater is for everyone. She is also part of the ArtsEmerson programming team at Emerson College and is developing… Continue reading Polly Carl

November and December 2013 Achievements

Faculty Deborah Brevoort was inducted into the National Theatre Conference, an organization of theatre educators and professional theatre practitioners from around the US.  The NTC is a think tank, dedicated to addressing issues facing the American theatre.  She will also be in residence at  CAP 21 in New York City in January 2014 to further… Continue reading November and December 2013 Achievements

Alumna Doyle Canning and The Center for Story-based Strategy

I met Doyle Canning (BA EDU ’02) this fall during the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Day of Mourning is organized every year on Thanksgiving by the United American Indians of New England and builds a powerful counter-narrative about Thanksgiving. Imagine my delight when I learned that Doyle is a recent Goddard… Continue reading Alumna Doyle Canning and The Center for Story-based Strategy

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto: On the Birth of Clockhouse

  On November 1st, a new national literary journal was born.  Clockhouse was the dream of two of my master’s degree candidates in the MFA in Creative Writing program my very first semester teaching at Goddard.  Led by a group of alumni, editorially-independent, the journal they imagined was nevertheless essentially of Goddard, for Goddard; you… Continue reading Rahna Reiko Rizzuto: On the Birth of Clockhouse

News and Achievements – December 2013

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: Jeffrey M. Donato (2012), illustrator and educator, was accepted for publication this year. His Tarot D: The Didactic Tarot, which was… Continue reading News and Achievements – December 2013

The Mediocre Meditator Says: The Word for 2014 Will Be Neuroplasticity

If mindfulness was last year’s most popular phrase in psychology and self-help, this year’s word is bound to be neuroplasticity.  Neuroplasticity means that the brain and nervous system can change.  Of course psychotherapists have always believed this, else what have we been doing all these years.  Meditation teachers have known this, as have experienced members… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Says: The Word for 2014 Will Be Neuroplasticity

Pianos in the Streets

On a recent trip to California, I headed to Santa Barbara to visit one of my favorite art supply stores, Art Essentials, and to see the exhibit of photographer John Divola at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Meandering down State Street I encountered four pianos, each a block apart, positioned on the sidewalk near… Continue reading Pianos in the Streets

Elena Georgiou: Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied…

  For all the people who just wrote to ask me how to improve their work, see below: After twenty-two years of helping people to improve their writing–this applies to all genres–the top ten bits of advice come down to four.  I’ll leave it to a famous writer to pass on, since I love her… Continue reading Elena Georgiou: Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied…

News and Achievements – November 2013

Welcome to the inaugural post of the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program News Blog! We are very excited to have a regular avenue for everyone to learn about the achievements and good work of our students, alumni, and faculty. Students and Alumni Laura Ball’s (MFAIA ‘12) collaborative arts and non-profit organization, UNED!TED, received a… Continue reading News and Achievements – November 2013