Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort was a Featured Artist at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. The MFAW program has a new libretto writing degree concentration. Read Deborah’s take on writing an updated libretto for a Mozart opera on the program blog. Alumni and Students: MFAW-VT student Anaïs Mitchell received a beautiful review,“Anaïs Mitchell Hopes to Change the World… Continue reading June Achievements
Category: Master’s Degree
May Achievements
Alumni and Students: MFAW-WA alumna Katharine English’s memoir Salvation: A Judge’s Memoir of a Mormon Childhood is now available. MFAW-VT Student Lucy Snyder’s fiction collection While The Black Stars Burn won a Bram Stoker Award. MFAW-VT student Christine Kalafus was the keynote speaker for Day Kimball Hospital’s National Nurses Week dinner: “Behind You All the Way,” where the theme of… Continue reading May Achievements
June 2016 Community News and Events
Photos courtesy of Friends of Aiyyana Maracle. Celebrating the Life of Aiyyana Maracle Former MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts student Aiyyana Maracle (MFAIA-VT ’03-’05) was a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, and a great-grandma four times over; a sovereign Haudenosaunee woman. For half a century, Aiyyana was actively involved with the merging of Ogwehoweh art and culture into the Euro-centric world… Continue reading June 2016 Community News and Events
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Info Sessions May 13, 24 and June 1, 9, 2016
MFA alumni transform their communities! Meet our alumni guests to hear about how the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts has made a difference in their careers and in their lives. We look forward to speaking with you and taking your questions. Video conference: May 13, 4:00pm (EDT) / 1:00pm (PDT) Phone conference: May 24, 6:30pm… Continue reading MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Info Sessions May 13, 24 and June 1, 9, 2016
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation
This semester my colleague, Rachael Van Fossen, and I have been co-facilitating a group study titled Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation. While the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program is best known for offering a way for students to pursue self-directed learning in one-to-one dialogue with a faculty advisor, increasingly the program’s Vermont site is offering… Continue reading MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation
April Achievements
FACULTY: Vermont MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s opera EMBEDDED, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and written with composer Patrick Soluri, opens at the Ft. Worth Opera on April 24 and runs through May 3. Selections from Brevoort’s Holocaust opera STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, written with composer Gerald Cohen, and one of the winners of the Frontiers competition,… Continue reading April Achievements
The Unfolding of the Heartbeet Community
Alumna Hannah Schwartz (IBA ‘01) Constructs a Cultural Hub for the Northeast Kingdom “Goddard is the reason I came to this area,” says Hannah, the executive director and co-founder of Heartbeet Lifesharing, a community that is home to 47 adults, including 16 individuals with special needs. Heartbeet Lifesharing in Hardwick, Vermont is wrapping up a… Continue reading The Unfolding of the Heartbeet Community
Bhanu Kapil: 30 Poets You Should Be Reading
In honor of National Poetry Month, MFAW faculty member Bhanu Kapil was featured yesterday at Lithub as one of “30 poets you should be reading.” Congratulations, Bhanu! And an added aside, we’re proud to say that of the 30 poets listed here, Eileen Myles, Claudia Rankine, Harryette Mullen and Amy King have all been Visiting… Continue reading Bhanu Kapil: 30 Poets You Should Be Reading
Goddard MFA faculty member named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow
Victoria Nelson, a member of the faculty in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing program, is the recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016. The Fellowship is often characterized as a “midcareer” award, and is intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the… Continue reading Goddard MFA faculty member named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow
April 2016 Community News and Events
Left – Rising: Small World Map, detail of work in progress. Center – Sharon Siskin introduces graduates during the MFAIA-WA Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony. Right – Where There is Life — mirror, wood, herbs, seeds, 62”x 66” 12”, 1994. Photos courtesy of Sharon Siskin. Activities with Sharon Siskin MFAIA-WA Faculty Advisor Sharon Siskin recently exhibited an installation entitled: Where There… Continue reading April 2016 Community News and Events
March Achievements
FACULTY: MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort was interviewed on WAMC’s Roundtable on March 11 about her play THE BLUE-SKY BOYS that opens at Capital Rep in Albany on March 15th. On March 18, MFA faculty member Kenny Fries will read from his work as part of the “Parahuman: New Perspectives on Life with Technology” conference at the… Continue reading March Achievements
Goddard College MFAIA Info Sessions for Fall 2016 Admissions
What’s That You Tried To Say? – an experimental work on playwright Samuel Beckett instigated by alumnus Mark O’Maley Information Sessions Vermont Site: Join Peter Hocking, the MFAIA-VT faculty admissions liaison, and Chip Cummings, the MFAIA admissions counselor, to learn more about the program. We’re offering hour-long conference calls on the following dates: May 24, 06:30… Continue reading Goddard College MFAIA Info Sessions for Fall 2016 Admissions
Black/Land Project and Deep Inspiration
Black/Land Project’s founder and director, Mistinguette Smith, joined us during the Spring 2016 Undergraduate residency. Mistinguette’s morning keynote, “Whose Speech Matters,” gave a deeply inspiring overview of the Black/Land Project while challenging us to see beyond the narrow frames of black relationships to land. Mistinguette also spoke about historical trauma in the context of black… Continue reading Black/Land Project and Deep Inspiration
And Our Jaws Dropped
A special day of graduating student presentations in the Undergraduate program, Spring 2016. A sampler of images and talks below: Herbalism & Permaculture: The House, The Farm, and the Marketplace, with Ifatunmise Jon Provost Cooking up Reflection, Connection, and Liberation, with Kristin Schwab I Believe It While I See It, with Cole Tucker-Walton Recognition Matters:… Continue reading And Our Jaws Dropped
Shabda Press featuring alumni books
Alumna Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW ’12) founded Shabda Press in 2011, and has since published some Goddardites – Sayra Pinto (MFAW ’11), Susan Deer Cloud (MFAW ’11), and David Giver (MFAW ’11). David’s new book I Still Remember the Last Time You Held My Hand was just published and Susan’s second book published by Shabda Press is… Continue reading Shabda Press featuring alumni books
Aimee Liu talks with Padma Lakshmi
On March 15, Port Townsend MFA faculty member Aimee Liu will interview Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi about her new book Love, Loss, and What We Ate. This vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, traces the arc of Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the… Continue reading Aimee Liu talks with Padma Lakshmi
Dawn Renee Jones wins 2015 Ruby Prize
Goddard MFA in Creative Writing alumna (’14) alumna Dawn Renee Jones is the winner of the Southern Rep Theatre’s 2015 Ruby Prize for her play, A Heap See. Named in honor of American activist Ruby Bridges, the Ruby Prize is presented annually to a woman playwright of color. As the Ruby Prize winner, Jones will receive a… Continue reading Dawn Renee Jones wins 2015 Ruby Prize
Chanelle John’s (BA ’13) Whole Soul Health
Recent alumna Chanelle John (BA ’13) joined us to lead two events during the Undergraduate Program residency. Drawing on her experiences as an entrepreneur, yoga teacher, and activist, Chanelle gave her workshop, “Working for Liberation: How Inspired Entrepreneurship Can Support Social Justice” to a packed room in the Clockhouse. “How can you build a business that… Continue reading Chanelle John’s (BA ’13) Whole Soul Health
Art Animates Social Consciousness—Jazz, Basketry and Burlesque
One week after the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) residency in Vermont and the day before she upstaged Coldplay in the Super Bowl halftime show, Beyoncé released “Formation,” her first new song in over a year. The next day, she “slayed” the halftime show in a pointed act of semiotic and political acumen. With the… Continue reading Art Animates Social Consciousness—Jazz, Basketry and Burlesque
An Extraordinary Graduation
The Undergraduate Program’s Graduation Ceremony was particularly special today, Feb. 28, 2016. It included a truly remarkable lineup of graduates. Plus, the graduates invited the incomparable Dr. Lisa Brooks (BA ’93) to be their commencement speaker. Lisa Brooks, whose Abenaki identity informed a large part of her own Goddard studies as well as her ongoing… Continue reading An Extraordinary Graduation