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Featured Alum: Joy Cosculluela – My Art is Where My Body Lives

Joy Cosculluela (MFAIA-WA ’14) is a performing artist, choreographer, and somatic educator and founder-artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a group of multicultural women artists dedicated to excavating and reshaping personal material into the performing arts. Since graduating from Goddard College, she has continued to expand her work in decolonial practices. Joy’s most current project, Barbette, was created at… Continue reading Featured Alum: Joy Cosculluela – My Art is Where My Body Lives

MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity

“Part scientific detective story, part meta-physical romp, The Trouble with Gravity is a revelation: the first in-depth, accessible study of this ubiquitous, elusive force. Gravity and our efforts to understand it, Panek reveals, have shaped not only the world we inhabit, but also our bodies, minds, and culture. Its influence can be seen in everything from ancient… Continue reading MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity

IMA student Odale Cress: The Care Package Story Project

IMA student, Odale Cress, is garnering a lot of well-deserved attention with her traveling exhibit, The Care Package Story Project. The following excerpt is from The Care Package Story Project website. The Care Package Story Project is a collection of photographs of care packages which I re-created from memories of care packages that I and other service members… Continue reading IMA student Odale Cress: The Care Package Story Project

“The Human Compass” – An Expressive Arts Practice by Casey Jakubowski

VIDEO: Casey Jakubowski’s Multimodal Expressive Arts Process, “The Human Compass.” Casey created a new Multimodal Expressive Process as a component of her coursework this semester in the Expressive Arts Therapy Concentration at Goddard College that incorporates movement, music, and drawing. The individually designed course is called “Crisis Intervention: Expressive Arts Crisis Intervention With Adolescents.” Her… Continue reading “The Human Compass” – An Expressive Arts Practice by Casey Jakubowski

Creating a Community of Truth: Tim Simmons (IMA ’18) Commencement Address

Tim Simmons (Individualized MA ’18) Commencement Address, Goddard Graduate Institute Goddard College February 17, 1019 I have to admit, part of my reason for being here today is a little selfish. I am so excited to be back here at Goddard with all of you – some of my very favorite people in the world.… Continue reading Creating a Community of Truth: Tim Simmons (IMA ’18) Commencement Address

Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony

Look. Listen. I’m what they call “mid-life.” I’m what they call “late-blooming.” And even though I was just an “average-Joe” and a “working-mother,” I happened to be in the “right-place-at-the-right-time” when the “opportunity-presented-itself.” I was “ready-willing-and-able” to “follow my dreams.” I’m lucky. I went back to school. I went to Goddard College. When I was… Continue reading Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony

Goddard launches new MFA concentration in Performance Creation

Goddard’s Performance Creation Concentration is the first low-residency program in the country designed specifically for theater artists, choreographers, musicians, or other artists working specifically in performance creation. PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Stephanie Batten Bland is the founder and artistic director of Company BBB, an interdisciplinary dance theater company performing original works that she conceives and choreographs. Since… Continue reading Goddard launches new MFA concentration in Performance Creation

MFAIA News: December 2018

Top: Katie Schwerin, Mt. Monadnock Labyrinth. Photo: Bill Whyte. Below: Images of the installation process. Photos: Reuben Radding, current MFAIA-VT student. The Mt. Monadnock Labyrinth Current MFAIA-VT student Katie Schwerin recently completed a public arts project titled, The Mt. Monadnock Labyrinth, a land art installation located near the Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, NH. The labyrinth… Continue reading MFAIA News: December 2018

MFA in Creative Writing Launches New Anthology

Goddard College is pleased to announce the 2018 release of a new edition of Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk About Writing, published by GenPop Books. This anthology consists of thirty essays by faculty members in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. All were originally delivered as keynote or commencement addresses between 2000 and 2018.… Continue reading MFA in Creative Writing Launches New Anthology

Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration

“Ceremonial activism” with Cease Wyss (Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:lo/Metis/ Hawaiian/Swiss) and Anne Riley (Cree and Dene) at the spring 2017 MFAIA residency, Puget Sound, Fort Worden, Washington. Photo: Goddard College Spurred on by the resurgence of indigenous movements, a profound inquiry into indigenous and decolonial practices has spread rapidly throughout the Americas. This resurgence has generated both institutional… Continue reading Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration

Alum John Eichenberger Uses Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Counseling Practice

A young man shook his head in shame and embarrassment. An offhand remark to a client had resulted in a rift in the therapeutic relationship. He wanted with all his being to repair it. Now, among peers, he explored the event. Not a single person said, “Well, this is what you should do.” No need.… Continue reading Alum John Eichenberger Uses Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Counseling Practice

Featured Alum: Neel Murgai (MFAIA ’10)

Hi I am Neel Murgai, a 2010 Goddard MFA-IA graduate. I am a sitarist, composer, overtone singer, frame drummer and teacher. My practice draws from many traditions, including Indian classical, jazz, minimalism, experimental music and more. I had already been a professional musician for over a decade before I attended Goddard. My education there helped… Continue reading Featured Alum: Neel Murgai (MFAIA ’10)

Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey

by Julia Ain-Krupa (IBA ‘11) I received my Fulbright scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The grant was specifically for creative writing, and my intention was to come to Poland–Krakow, specifically, where a new Jewish community is thriving–to write about inter-religious marriage in Poland, which was something that interested me, and which was also reflective… Continue reading Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey

Mónica Mayer: Forging a Feminist Art Movement in Mexico City

By Karen Muelhbauer In the late 1970s, Goddard College had a small office in Los Angeles. Run by Susan Rennie, the site sat at the crossroads of art and feminism and graduated a number of activist-artists, including 1980 alumna Mónica Mayer. Still active today, her practice includes performances, installations, social practice, drawing, and graphics. She… Continue reading Mónica Mayer: Forging a Feminist Art Movement in Mexico City

Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, 2019

PLAINFIELD, VT: Goddard College is pleased to congratulate Jaimie Li, recipient of the 2019 Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, and second-place awardee Domenick Danza. Jaimie Li is a member of PEN America and an alumna of Balliol College at Oxford University, where she received a BA in Jurisprudence in 2011. She has worked in film… Continue reading Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, 2019

Is Activism Dead? ‘Story as Activism’ and Goddard’s Conversation with the World

by Karla Haas Moskowitz, PhD As individuals and communities navigate their own sense of power, how and when stories are released into the world become critical forces that shape quests for both protection and influence. As activists and storytellers, our knowing what to say, when to say it, and to whom becomes pivotal in our… Continue reading Is Activism Dead? ‘Story as Activism’ and Goddard’s Conversation with the World

October 2018 Community News and Events

Top: Elfin Forest Chaparral Through the Seasons. Below: Pushing Up Daises. Photos: Ruth Wallen Ruth Wallen’s “Daylighting Escondido Creek Watershed,” a part of Public Address’s DesEscondido No Longer Hidden, at California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum. Currently much of Escondido Creek is hidden by chain link fences and the original creek bed obscured by a cement… Continue reading October 2018 Community News and Events

On Disability and Diversity: The Exclusivity of Inclusion

…disability is too often excluded in discussions of diversity, a good deal of which, for good reason, focuses on race. This silence is especially noteworthy because disability crosses racial, gender, sexuality, class, and national boundaries.