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June 2013 Achievements

Students and Alumni Maria Chaudhuri‘s (MFAW ’09) memoir, Beloved Strangers, which she started working on at Goddard, is due to be published by Bloomsbury UK in early 2014. Ron Heacock’s (MFAW ’13) story, “Inarguably Dead” is going to be published in the journal, Cease, Cows. Sarah Kishpaugh’s (MFAW ’14) essay, “Remembering Who You Are” appears on… Continue reading June 2013 Achievements

John Clinton Eisner

John Clinton Eisner is Lark’s Artistic Director and is primarily responsible for Lark’s vision. He co-founded the Lark in 1994 as a community of theater professionals with a shared commitment to new play development. He divides his time between working directly with playwrights and creating strategies with artistic leaders in the U.S. and abroad to… Continue reading John Clinton Eisner

Damien Echols

Born in 1974, Damien Echols grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. At the age of eighteen, he was wrongfully convicted of murder, along with Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, Jr., thereafter known as The West Memphis Three. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on death row… Continue reading Damien Echols

Damien Echols

Writing and Art Making, a Dialogue

Occasionally I have to convince people of writing’s importance within an artist’s practice. To my mind, the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program’s (MFAIA) emphasis on developing strong writing skills—through the dialogue between students and advisors, as a documentary tool, and as a means of critical thinking—is a fundamental benefit of our curriculum. It serves to… Continue reading Writing and Art Making, a Dialogue

Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels: Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell,The Walking Tour, Versailles, The Thin Place and Duplex. She has been the recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2006 Lannan Award for Fiction. She lives in Vermont and… Continue reading Kathryn Davis

Soul Cards and Reflection by Student Nirodha Stearns (MA PSY '13)

I created fifteen “Soul Cards” [pictured at left] for the Expressive Arts exhibition at our MA in Psychology & Counseling Residency in April 2013. What started out as something like just a compliance to fulfilling coursework for a course on Addiction turned into an adventure in discovery, interaction and personal healing. My father died… Continue reading Soul Cards and Reflection by Student Nirodha Stearns (MA PSY '13)

Featured Student: John Ollom (MFAIA '14)

Creative Weavings of Art: Goddard Student Brings Students and Graduates Together for New Arts Festival | originally published in Clockworks Spring/Summer 2013 issue by Jim Sable, Business Manager of Prismatic Productions, Inc. For 150 years, Goddard graduates have assimilated into the creative weavings of art across the world. With interdisciplinary art, numerous artistic fields… Continue reading Featured Student: John Ollom (MFAIA '14)

Collaborative Learning: The Self in Context

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone.… Continue reading Collaborative Learning: The Self in Context

May 2013 Achievements

Students and Alumni Summer Graef (MFAW ’14) took part in a literary event for Goddard’s Northwest writers in May at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington. Justin Hall’s (MFAW ’14, pictured at left) book, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT anthology published in 2013. Ron… Continue reading May 2013 Achievements

Interview with interdisciplinary movement artist Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA '12)

Alumna Stacy Dawson Stearns, of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at the Port Townsend, Washington residency site in 2012. In this video, Stacy talks about her somatic practices in artwork and her recent award of a CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) Grant. For more information about Stacy’s work… Continue reading Interview with interdisciplinary movement artist Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA '12)

The Mediocre Meditator #7: One Day or One Moment at a Time is Easier Said than Done

I have learned a lot from AA, although I am not an alcoholic. When my mind is twittering about what I need to do tomorrow and what so and so said earlier today, whether I canget it all done, and what did she mean when she said x or y and did I handle it… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator #7: One Day or One Moment at a Time is Easier Said than Done

The Mediocre Meditator Wonders Whether Meditation is for Everybody

And she answers: Probably not. Meditation is only one way to find stillness within. My husband sings in two choirs. A good friend walks in the woods. Well, I walk in the woods. I even like walking in the woods. But walking in the woods doesn’t make me quiet. I feel refreshed, usually, and ready… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Wonders Whether Meditation is for Everybody

April 2013 Achievements

FACULTY Deborah Brevoort‘s opera Steal a Pencil for Me, written with Gerald Cohen, had its world premiere in Scarsdale and New York City on April 28-30. Jan Clausen had a sestina from her poetry collection If You Like Difficulty, “Pigs Advance as Organ Transplant Factories for People,” appear in an all-sestina anthology edited by Marilyn Krysl… Continue reading April 2013 Achievements

International Democratic Education Conference

Goddard College students, along with a few faculty and alumni, met during the January Goddard EDU residency to plan and discuss the role that the College could play in the upcoming International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC). IDEC 2013 will be held in Boulder, Colorado this August 4th through 8th, providing an exciting opportunity for… Continue reading International Democratic Education Conference

Student Leslie Whitcomb Reflects on Expressive Arts Therapy

In life sometimes I get so caught up in all the mundane and necessary things that I forget why I started to do something. Or why I am walking down a specific path. In learning to counsel with people and to listen to them I became so caught up in the information and the process… Continue reading Student Leslie Whitcomb Reflects on Expressive Arts Therapy

Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf

Originally published on Her Kind, the blog for Vida (Women in the Literary Arts). Why did I resurrect Virginia Woolf? I am British. (Working-class roots. Cypriot ancestry.) With this birthright comes an acute sense of class. So every time I hear about Virginia Woolf’s five hundred pounds per year inheritance, which relieved her from the… Continue reading Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf

Student Reflection on Psychology and Counseling Art Opening #3

From Greta Enriquez (MA PSY) I was very nervous sharing my artwork. For me art is so personal and the interpretative aspects of viewing art compounded my anxiety. That was before I was called on to introduce my product. Stepping up in front of my classmates was immediately calming- the support and acceptance was… Continue reading Student Reflection on Psychology and Counseling Art Opening #3

Students Reflect on the Psychology & Counseling Art Exhibit #2

Being part of the Goddard family has blessed me with the opportunity to express myself in ways that are extremely natural to me. Creating art, and then being able to show it in this year’s Expressive Arts Exhibit, was a way to travel full-circle through my research and learning process. Coming from an art… Continue reading Students Reflect on the Psychology & Counseling Art Exhibit #2