Category: Master’s Degree

Considering the Bigger Picture: Education as a Practice of Freedom

Goddard values the principles of liberatory education. Even if it is not directly stated in the educational philosophy, it is clear. We care about critical thinking, experimental learning, dialog and becoming lifetime learners who impact social change. We care about social justice. We understand that liberatory education is a practice of freedom…a practice that at… Continue reading Considering the Bigger Picture: Education as a Practice of Freedom

October 2013 Achievements

Students and Alumni Sarah Cedeno (MFAW ’14) was interviewed for The Missouri Review’s Working Writers Series. Emily Scott (MFAW ’12) had three of her poems published in the October 1, 2013, Volume 1, Issue 3 of Spilt Infinitive, a digital literary magazine.  Trisha Winn (MFAW ’14) is a Finalist in Hippocampus Magazine’s Remember in November 2013… Continue reading October 2013 Achievements

Deborah Brevoort: The Radical Power of Art

Lewis Hyde, in a terrific book called The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, compares the radical power of art to gift giving.  All over the world, gift-giving rituals work in invisible ways to create community, strengthen bonds between people, and create obligations.   In Southeast Alaskan native cultures, for example, anyone who… Continue reading Deborah Brevoort: The Radical Power of Art

“Not Knowing (or everything you always already knew about grad school but were afraid to be)”

The following was delivered as a graduation speech on September 22, 2013 for the Fall 2013 semester commencement ceremony of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program in Port Townsend, Washington: From 2000 to 2007, after studying dance and contemporary performance for many years, I became a practicing artist. I created solo and ensemble works, performed… Continue reading “Not Knowing (or everything you always already knew about grad school but were afraid to be)”

Performance Art at the Fall 2013 Expressive Arts Opening

One of my favorite parts of the Expressive Arts Opening of the Psychology and Counseling Program is the student artists’ presentation of their own work as “Performance Art”. At our opening during Fall 2013 Residency, Nicole Grubman read from her book, “I Left My Sole in Vermont: A Walker’s Journey and Guide through Central Vermont… Continue reading Performance Art at the Fall 2013 Expressive Arts Opening

Victoria Nelson’s Commencement Address, Fall 2013

Commencement July 14, 2013 Welcome graduates and families and friends, welcome students, welcome everybody to the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing graduation ceremony here at Port Townsend. And congratulations, graduates, for successfully completing a rigorous and life-changing two years of study and writing. You have been honing your creative writing skills in the protected environment… Continue reading Victoria Nelson’s Commencement Address, Fall 2013

Fall 2013 Expressive Arts Opening

I have returned to Goddard for fall residency and am immediately inspired. Students have shared their work at our Psychology and Counseling Expressive Arts Opening and the principles of Expressive Arts Therapy are embodied by the works created as well as by the creators. Students have engaged with varied mediums including clay, photography, written narrative,… Continue reading Fall 2013 Expressive Arts Opening

Residency Highlights: Art Crawl, July 2013

John Borstel, “Painting My Face: A Daily Practice” Residencies are an intense opportunity to immerse in graduate study away from many of the distractions of daily life.  Not only is the residency a time to set the groundwork for the semester’s work–writing your study plan and developing a relationship with your advisor and advising group–but… Continue reading Residency Highlights: Art Crawl, July 2013

Critical Composition: Think, Make, Write

As part of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) Vermont Fall 2013 curricular offerings, I am facilitating a group study, Critical Composition: Think, Make, Write. It’s inspired by the teaching and writing of my friend Anne West, whose book—Mapping: The Intelligence of Artistic Work—travels with me as both inspiration and teacher. As I’ve written before,… Continue reading Critical Composition: Think, Make, Write

August 2013 Achievements

Students and Alumni Charlie Bondhus’s (MFAW ’05) second poetry book, All the Heat We Could Carry, winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, is now available for preorder. Tony Mena (MFAW) had an essay posted online by The New York Times.   Natalie Raymond (MFAW ’15) was interviewed by new online feminist… Continue reading August 2013 Achievements

Poem Written by a Student in Tribute to David Frisby

  Something, Sometimes         by Diana Abath Something told me to move towards you A camaraderie of the skin—yet not that simple A connection of the heart, the mind No—for I knew neither about yours or mine in that moment Something told me to move towards you A message—in your stance, your sitting, your comfort… Continue reading Poem Written by a Student in Tribute to David Frisby

A Beginning Farmer Shares Her Journey

Kelly Allen (BAS ‘14) is developing a small farm in Maine where she is growing and marketing vegetables to individuals and restaurants. Her self-designed studies this semester included garden preparation, permaculture design principles, soil science, composting, cold climate farming practices, growing fruits, grains, and beans, GMOs, seed saving, how to market vegetables, and an evaluation… Continue reading A Beginning Farmer Shares Her Journey

July 2013 Achievements

Students and Alumni Kyle Bella (MFAW ’14) had an essay called “Queering racialized bodies,” which explores the relationship between the poetry of Akilah Oliver, Ronaldo Wilson, and the intersections of queer identity and race published online at the Jacket2. Donelle McGee (MFAW ’12) had two poems published in the summer issue of Brainchild Magazine. Tony… Continue reading July 2013 Achievements

Installing The Good

  “Mother Nature wants us to be afraid,” says Rick Hanson, the author of Buddha’s Brain.  Survival of the most cheerful is not, after all, what counts over the millennia.  Survival of the alertest does. The individual who is sensitive to fear will be the first to tell her hunting and gathering comrades that she… Continue reading Installing The Good

The Being of Human: Art, Ethics, and Engagement

Artistic Practice as/and Knowledge Production in an Age of Uncertainty: Some forty years ago, British visual anthropologist and social scientist Gregory Bateson suggested that the loss of aesthetic wisdom has brought humanity to the brink of unhoming ourselves on earth. “Mere purposive rationality unaided by such phenomena as art, religion, dream, and the like, is… Continue reading The Being of Human: Art, Ethics, and Engagement

Tom Lutz

Tom Lutz is the founder and editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His books — Doing Nothing (American Book Award), Crying (New York Times Notable Book), Cosmopolitan Vistas (Choice Outstanding Academic Title), and American Nervousness, 1903 (New York Times Notable Book) — have been translated into twelve languages and have appeared on theNew York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in New… Continue reading Tom Lutz