Category: Master’s Degree

December 2016 Community News and Events

Experimental Music Pioneer Pauline Oliveros, guest artist at the MFAIA-WA in 2009, spent time with students, with explorations in Deep Listening in the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden. Image right: Pauline with Monique Fleming (MFAIA-WA ’11) and Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA-WA ’12). Photos: Goddard College In Memory of Pauline Oliveros It is with sadness that… Continue reading December 2016 Community News and Events

November Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez‘s play Ping Pong, has been published by Broadway Play Publishing.  Also, Rogelio’s new play Blind Date was  part of this year’s Colorado Play Summit at the Denver Theater Center. MFAW-WA faculty member Kennan Norris‘s essay, “Post-Mortem Morning: Oakland and the Remains of the Left,” was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Scholastic’s… Continue reading November Achievements

Featured Alumna: Tracey Pilch (MFAIA ’07)

Artist and amateur astronomer Tracey Pilch (MFAIA ’07) is an adjunct professor in the Liberal Studies Department of Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, where she was honored as outstanding adjunct this year. She is also active in annual art projects which raise funds for local youth programs and charities in Alaska and Hawaii. “My time… Continue reading Featured Alumna: Tracey Pilch (MFAIA ’07)

Southern California booksellers honor Goddard faculty, author Sherri L. Smith

Goddard MFA faculty member Sherri L. Smith received the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association’s 2016 Middle Grade Award for The Toymaker’s Apprentice (Penguin/Random House, 2015), a “gorgeously imagined retelling of the Nutcracker.” SCIBA, as the group is known, is a non-profit trade association of independent booksellers, book wholesalers, publishers and other industry professionals located primarily… Continue reading Southern California booksellers honor Goddard faculty, author Sherri L. Smith

Sophia Maravell earns Goddard Entrepreneur Sustainability grant

Sophia Maravell (MA ’15) received the Goddard Entrepreneur Sustainability grant for starting her business Ecología Rising. Sophia writes: “Ecología Rising grew out of my work in Community Education at Goddard College with the guidance of key faculty members Jackie Fischer and Karla Haas-Moskowitz.” The word ‘ecología’ expresses a Greek philosophy that Sophia adopted and encountered… Continue reading Sophia Maravell earns Goddard Entrepreneur Sustainability grant

Early Learning Community Resource

Seattle’s Child Care Resources improves all children’s access to high quality early learning experiences by engaging with families, child care providers, and communities. Intrinsic to their daily work is identifying and addressing racism both internally and externally so that all children grow and develop in their early learning environments. How wonderful it is to see the… Continue reading Early Learning Community Resource

October Achievements

Faculty:  MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin‘s poem “Eelgrass” was chosen for the Poem-a-Day project of the American Academy of Poets. MFAW-WA faculty member Aimee Liu had an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. MFAW-VT faculty member Sherri Smith‘s middle grade novel, The Toymaker’s Apprentice, won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Middle Grade. MFAW-VT faculty member Victoria Nelson gave a talk… Continue reading October Achievements

Thomas J. McGlinchey (BA ’15) joins Delaware school as music teacher and chorus director

Thomas J. McGlinchey (BA ’15) joined Odyssey Charter School in Wilmington, Del., as a new K-4 music teacher and chorus director. McGlinchey is currently pursing is master’s degree in Goddard’s Education Program. As Odyssey Charter School is a Greek language bilingual program. I will be incorporating Greek music, song and dance into the music program,” he… Continue reading Thomas J. McGlinchey (BA ’15) joins Delaware school as music teacher and chorus director

The DSM-5 Reconstructed by Expressive Arts Therapy Student Brit Davis

While reading the DSM-5, I experienced many different emotions and contemplated why so many complex processes were all neatly organized into one publication. As an Expressive Arts Therapy response, I decided to reconstruct the DSM-5. After considering multiple meanings of the words “manual” and “disorder” (see definitions below), I was inspired to physically alter the… Continue reading The DSM-5 Reconstructed by Expressive Arts Therapy Student Brit Davis

September Achievements

Faculty: “Takimi-no-chaya, Rikugien,” the seventh of eight poems in MFAW- VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s “In the Gardens of Japan” cycle set by Japanese composer Kumiko Takahashi had its world premiere on September 16 as part of “The Traditional in the Contemporary — Ninety Years of Japanese Compositions,” at Orvis Auditorium, University of Hawaii – Manoa,… Continue reading September Achievements

October 2016 Community News and Events

Hanna Satterlee and Eliot Gray Fisher, recipients of the Fall 2016 Goddard Alumni Art Project Awards. Photos courtesy of the artists Goddard Alumni Art Project Awards We are proud to announce alumna Hanna Satterlee (MFAIA-VT & WA ’16) and alumnus Eliot Gray Fisher (MFAIA–WA ’15), are the Fall 2016 recipients of the Goddard Alumni Art… Continue reading October 2016 Community News and Events

2016 Goddard Annual Sustainability Progress Report

Background The sustainability team was formed in 2007 when Goddard’s president signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. We conducted a carbon inventory, created a climate action plan, and began working to reduce energy use and carbon emissions with a goal to become carbon neutral in fuels burned on campus and electricity usage… Continue reading 2016 Goddard Annual Sustainability Progress Report

First MFAIA Group Study in Decolonial and Indigenous Art Practices

by JuPong Lin MFAIA faculty advisor Devora Neumark and I offered a group study in Decolonial and Indigenous Art practice last semester. The co-learning experience was truly collaborative, transformative, and inspiring in the depth of the work of co-constructing collective knowledge. Participants engaged deeply with questions of decolonial practice and the challenges to indigenous well-being; we… Continue reading First MFAIA Group Study in Decolonial and Indigenous Art Practices

VIDEO: Petra Kuppers | Detroit Performs Clip

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts advisor Petra Kuppers was featured on Detroit Public TV’s show, Detroit Performs, for her community art work about disability and dance at the Northville Art House. “Art is the transformation of everyday into something else,” she says. Watch the 8-minute video clip above.  

August Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil‘s July Commencement Speech, which was posted on the MFAW blog, was featured on Literary Hub: The Best of the Literary Internet. Read her speech here. MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates read “from Orlando: Make Beautiful in Maine” at The Cannery in South Penobscott, Maine.  Bea also participated in the event sponsored by Reversing Falls Sanctuary, in collaboration with the… Continue reading August Achievements

Alumna Priscilla Backman to receive Goddard Presidential Award

PLAINFIELD, Vt. — Goddard College President Robert Kenny will posthumously present Priscilla Ruth Davis Backman with the Presidential Award for Activism during the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, August 21, at 4:00 p.m. in the Haybarn Theatre on Goddard’s Plainfield campus. The Goddard Presidential Award for Activism recognizes alumni who have made significant contributions in the field of social… Continue reading Alumna Priscilla Backman to receive Goddard Presidential Award

August 2016 Community News and Events

Diego Piñón. Photo credit left: Rafael Perez Evans; right: courtesy of Diego Piñón. Diego Piñón, Upcoming MFAIA-WA Guest Artist and Centrum Artist-in-Resident We are pleased and privileged to welcome internationally renowned movement/dance artist Diego Piñón as our upcoming guest artist for the fall 2016 MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts residency at Fort Worden, Port Townsend (September 16-24, 2016).… Continue reading August 2016 Community News and Events

July Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin read from his novel Branwell and discussed the construction of historical characters with OUT magazine editor Aaron Hicklin at One Grand Books, a store whose inventory is curated by various folks selecting the 10 books they’d take with them to a deserted island.  You can read an interview with Douglas on… Continue reading July Achievements

Days for Girls: Q & A with Celeste Mergens

Celeste A. Mergens (MFAW ’06) of Lynden, Wash., is the executive director and founder of Days for Girls International (www.daysforgirls.org), which was featured in the January 2014 issue of Oprah Magazine. Global Washington, a Seattle-based organization whose mission is to promote international development by coordinating the efforts of other globally-minded philanthropic, research and business organizations… Continue reading Days for Girls: Q & A with Celeste Mergens