MFAIA Alumna Portrait: Roslyn Tate

MFAIA alumna and interdisciplinary performance artist Roslyn Tate (MFAIA ’10), was recently interviewed by faculty member Laiwan regarding how her work at Goddard has advanced her professional practice. Roslyn Tate, aka Chicava HoneyChild, is a burlesque dancer, actor and producer. She is the Creative Producer of New York City’s Brown Girls Burlesque and teacher at… Continue reading MFAIA Alumna Portrait: Roslyn Tate

MFAIA Alumnus Creates Financial Resource Guide for Artists

Congratualtions to E. Larson Gunness (MFAIA ’10) on his recently published, highly-accessible financial planning resource for artists and creative practitioners, Peace, Love, and Financial Planning: Financial Literacy for Right Brained People. The book grew out of Larson’s MFAIA practicum work, and his personal journey of connecting his life as a creative practitioner with his professional… Continue reading MFAIA Alumnus Creates Financial Resource Guide for Artists

Reading Diets

  One of the wonderful things about being in an MFA program is getting assigned books one would otherwise never read. I treasure those books that I discovered only because an advisor pushed it in front of me and insisted that it would blow my mind. My attitude as a student was to seek out… Continue reading Reading Diets

MFAW Program Fall 2011 Achievements

The Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk About Writing, an anthology written by members of the MFA in Creative Writing Program faculty, was published by The California Institute of Arts and Letters (July, 2011) and was launched at the fall Plainfield and Port Townsend residencies.  Our visiting writers and guests included acclaimed novelist Meg Wulitzer… Continue reading MFAW Program Fall 2011 Achievements

MFAIA faculty Devora Neumark Explores “The Third Realm of Beauty”

On September 19, 2012, Devora Neumark, MFAIA faculty member at the Vermont campus, gave a presentation titled Dialogic Live Art Performance and the Exploration of Third Realm Beauty as part of the Hexagram-Concordia Research-Creation Brown-Bag Series. The presentation was convened with the following overview: As with other forms of community-engaged art, dialogic performance is process-oriented,… Continue reading MFAIA faculty Devora Neumark Explores “The Third Realm of Beauty”

Residency Post from Student Cherie Crowningshield

  I was so thrilled to attend the Student Gallery opening at the Haybarn Theatre on September 15, 2012 as part of the MA in Psychology & Counseling program residency. Having an expressive arts background, I have an extreme interest in the concept of reflective work and how it can be translated with art materials.… Continue reading Residency Post from Student Cherie Crowningshield

MFAIA faculty and alumna named New Urban Arts Fellows

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts faculty member Rick Benjamin and alumna Beth Nixon (MFAIA ’09) have been named Arts Mentoring Fellows at New Urban Arts in Providence, RI for the 2012-13 year. Fellows support New Urban Arts’ artist mentors, share artwork or ideas about community arts practice and work as artists-in-residence. The Arts Mentoring Fellowship program… Continue reading MFAIA faculty and alumna named New Urban Arts Fellows

Residency Blog Installment from student Svea Boyda-Vikander

It’s 9:48 pm and I’m at the Goddard College Psychology & Counseling program residency in Plainfield, Vermont. My sister and I are staying in the family dorm so my bulldozer of a baby boy can sleep right beside me and she can look after him during the days. He’s 18 months old and passed out… Continue reading Residency Blog Installment from student Svea Boyda-Vikander

Expressive Arts at the Fall 2012 Residency

  Painting on the left by MA PSY student, Tanya Sapula. I am excited about our Fall residency that begins this week! The residency time will be infused with much creativity and artistic expression. Here’s some of what we will be doing. I will be teaching this workshop: Expressive Arts Practice: The Contributions of The Shaman, The… Continue reading Expressive Arts at the Fall 2012 Residency

Matthew Paneitz Builds Sustainable School in Guatemala

Matthew Paneitz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability from Goddard’s Undergraduate Program in the fall of 2012. He is the founder and executive director of Long Way Home, Inc., a 501(c)(3) that uses sustainable design and appropriate materials to construct self-sufficient schools that promote education, employment and environmental stewardship. In this video, he and his… Continue reading Matthew Paneitz Builds Sustainable School in Guatemala

The Inside Scoop About the Spring 2013 Seattle Residency

The BA and MA in Education-Seattle program’s spring 2013 semester begins with the Seattle Residency from February 2-9, 2013. The theme of the residency this spring is “The Power of Indigenous Documentaries in Conscientization, Education, and Building Cross-Cultural Collaboration.” Come to Goddard College to work on your Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts in… Continue reading The Inside Scoop About the Spring 2013 Seattle Residency

"Shadow Artists"

Recently, I have wondered why I have found so many “closeted” artists among the MA in Psychology students at Goddard. Perhaps artists who are students of psychology are intuitively drawn to a field that acknowledges and embraces the power of symbols and metaphor, creative expression, and the unique gifts and talents of each individual. Julia… Continue reading "Shadow Artists"

Report from the Sustainability Team at Goddard

Formed in 2007, the Goddard College Sustainability Team aims to help Goddard become carbon neutral in fuels burned on campus and electricity usage by 2020, and to increase energy efficiency and reduce consumption and waste. Below is a report of initiatives as of July 9, 2012. Energy Efficiency As a result of our ongoing upgrades… Continue reading Report from the Sustainability Team at Goddard

Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz is vice-president and editor-in-chief at Tarcher/Penguin, the division of Penguin books dedicated to metaphysical literature. He is the author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation (Bantam), which received the 2010 PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence. At Tarcher/Penguin, Horowitz has published writers and artists including David Lynch,… Continue reading Mitch Horowitz

Art and Psychology in Goddard’s P&C Program

I begin this blog to create a space for the discussion of the ways we have been integrating art, symbols, and creative expression into our curriculum of psychological theory and counselor training here at Goddard. About three years ago, I began to explore the ways that we could incorporate artistic practices and reflections on these… Continue reading Art and Psychology in Goddard’s P&C Program