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Artwork at the Psychology and Counseling Spring Residency

It’s wonderful to be back on Goddard’s campus in the midst of the mountains as spring insistently pushes its way in. We welcomed new students and presented our Expressive Arts opening in the Haybarn Theatre Gallery for the 6th time. As usual, the container created by the works on the wall, the artists’ presence… Continue reading Artwork at the Psychology and Counseling Spring Residency

March 2013 Achievements

FACULTY Deborah Brevoort‘s opera Steal a Pencil for Me, written with Gerald Cohen, will be presented in two concerts in April in Scarsdale and NYC. An article appeared in Opera World with all of the details. Beatrix Gates read and spoke about her poems and creative process in a program shared with artist Rebecca McCall as part of… Continue reading March 2013 Achievements

"This Place Is Magic"

This beautiful piece was read by my colleague, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, at the end of our January residency in Plainfield: As I put the snow and icicles of Goddard behind me for another semester, I was thinking about the question of whether one can teach writing. I don’t know if we taught it, or whether… Continue reading "This Place Is Magic"

Jungian Psychology

If someone asks if I am a Jungian, my answer is “yes.” Perhaps a more specific response would be that I am also a post Jungian and a post-post Jungian, too. I was first drawn to Jung’s work when I attended a gallery talk on Kuba (African) weavings. The docent who led the tour… Continue reading Jungian Psychology

The Mediocre Meditator: Her Second Lesson

Meditation has something to offer I decided after a workshop on meditation surprised me with a gift of extra energy, the kind protein bars promise but don’t deliver. I talked about this in my second post for this series, you can go back and read it if you’d like. But one year passed, then another.… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator: Her Second Lesson

Teaching and Learning at Goddard

I am a long way from becoming a good poet I am much closer, however, to becoming a good person. I thought about this during my graduation ceremony last weekend in Port Townsend, Washington where I celebrated the completion of a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Goddard College. Goddard is a wonderful… Continue reading Teaching and Learning at Goddard

February 2013 Achievements

FACULTY: Jan Clausen has a poem, “Ghazal: For Us” in the second issue of the poetry journal Theodate. Darrah Cloud’s latest play, Our Suburb, will premiere at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. next season, directed by Judith Ivey. Kenny Fries has work (poems) in the new edition of the just published The Disability Studies Reader… Continue reading February 2013 Achievements

Looking Forward to Residency and Expressive Arts

For me, a magical aspect of residency is getting ready: making airline reservations, planning the seminar I will teach, hearing from students about the artwork they will exhibit and present, and looking forward to conversations with students and faculty colleagues on campus. Here is a “sneak preview” of the seminar I will lead this upcoming… Continue reading Looking Forward to Residency and Expressive Arts

Patricia Powell

Patricia Powell is the author of Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda and most recently, The Fullness of Everything. A recipient of a PEN Award and a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers’ Award, Powell teaches in the MFA program at Mills College. She is currently at work on a memoir.

Artwork and Reflection

by MA in Psychology student Cherie Crowningshield of Port Kent, N.Y. When I was eleven I was intrigued by the thought of travel. The idea that someone could get on a plane and before long be immersed in a new culture, and environment always fascinated me. When I reached high school I met my… Continue reading Artwork and Reflection

A Writing Prompt

One thing you notice when you teach in an MFAW program is that students love writing prompts. And who can blame them? When Lynda Barry was our visiting writer / cartoonist / guru two years ago, a bunch of the faculty sat in on the remarkable workshops she offered in the Haybarn Theatre. The exercises… Continue reading A Writing Prompt

One Student's Amazing Work With Midwives for Haiti

In the fall of 2010, six months after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Jenna Schmitz (BA HAS ‘13) moved to Hinche in Haiti’s Central Plateau, 37 miles north of Port-au-Prince. Trained as a Certified Professional Midwife at Birthwise Midwifery School (which has a credit-bearing partnership with Goddard College), Jenna volunteered with a Haitian-led organization called Midwives for… Continue reading One Student's Amazing Work With Midwives for Haiti

Better Than A Chocolate Store

Last week while in New Orleans for our monthly Jungian training seminar, I found myself with a free day, but in a torrential rain storm. No chance of wandering and making photographs in the French Quarter this visit. I remembered passing by what looked like an art supply store in the Fat City neighborhood near… Continue reading Better Than A Chocolate Store

The Mediocre Meditator Thinks About Knitting

As a lifelong knitter but only a recent (four years) but dedicated (every day if I can, several seven-day retreats) meditator, here is a short list of similarities between the two activities which I thought might apply to many other kinds of learning processes as well: 1. The beginner gets immediate rewards. Knitting: The magical… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Thinks About Knitting

Alumna Lynne Vanderpot on Jung and Expressive Arts in Psychology and Counseling

I assume that many new MA in Psychology & Counseling students at Goddard can relate to the discomfort I experienced at first residency at being initiated into the process of, well, learning how to trust the process. To be perfectly authentic, I showed up on day one looking for much more explicit direction, and much… Continue reading Alumna Lynne Vanderpot on Jung and Expressive Arts in Psychology and Counseling

January 2013 Achievements

FACULTY Ryan Boudinot‘s Blueprints of the Afterlife has been named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The winner will be announced on March 29 at Norwescon, in Seatac, WA. Deborah Brevoort‘s play “The Velvet Weapon,” a backstage farce about democracy, will receive a staged reading in the NJ Playwright’s Contest Festival at William… Continue reading January 2013 Achievements

Liz Lerman to be Visiting Artist for MFAIA-VT Spring 2013 Residency

Choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, Liz Lerman, will be the visiting artist for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program’s Spring 2013 residency. Founder of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976, Lerman cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011, when she handed the artistic leadership… Continue reading Liz Lerman to be Visiting Artist for MFAIA-VT Spring 2013 Residency

Nikky Finney

Nikky Finney, National Book Award Winner for Poetry, was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history.… Continue reading Nikky Finney

Twinkling Genius

In July 2012, Neely Cohen (BA HAS ’12) reached the final round of Food Network’s “Sweet Genius”– a dessert competition. Neely and the other remaining contestants awaited instructions on what mystery ingredients they would need to include in their dessert stand-off. The winner of the challenge would get $10,000 and national recognition. The host, pastry… Continue reading Twinkling Genius