FACULTY: Port Townsend MFA faculty member Darrah Cloud’s play for young people, JOAN THE GIRL OF ARC, will be published in the March issue of Dramatics Magazine. Darrah is also producing the 6th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival for Half Moon Theatre which goes up March 11-13 at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park,… Continue reading February Achievements
Category: Master’s Degree
Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom
The Spring 2016 Undergraduate (UGP) Residencies are focusing on the theme, Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom. The UGP1 Residency Opening Session launched with a participatory “Citizen Howl” and transitioned into a World Cafe reflection about Goddard College’s draft Social Justice and Anti-Oppression Statement. The theme of Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom will be an ongoing thread through… Continue reading Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom
Sherri L. Smith coming to AWP
One of our newest faculty members in Port Townsend, Sherri L. Smith, has written the article, Brown Girl Dreaming: Entering the Twilight Zone with Jacqueline Woodson and the Dalai Lama, which was published by the National Book Foundation in celebration of Black History Month. Sherri will also be on two panels at the upcoming AWP in LA.… Continue reading Sherri L. Smith coming to AWP
Deborah Brevoort Finalist for Opera Prize!
MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort has been named a finalist for the Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize with composer Patrick Soluri for their opera of Albert Nobbs. The competition, which is held by the Crane Opera Ensemble and the Crane School of Music seeks to encourage the creation of new opera works that explore themes related to tolerance, inclusion or diversity. Four finalists… Continue reading Deborah Brevoort Finalist for Opera Prize!
Yoga, Justice, and Inclusion: Chanelle John (IBA ’13) in the News
Goddard Undergraduate alumna Chanelle John (IBA ’13) is featured in a news story produced by WBUR in Boston. The story is called, “Boston’s Yoga For People Of Color Raises Questions About Inclusiveness.” We are thrilled Chanelle John will be a guest presenter during the upcoming Spring 2106 Undergraduate Residencies. Chanelle will be offering a workshop,… Continue reading Yoga, Justice, and Inclusion: Chanelle John (IBA ’13) in the News
Jacob Brennan talks about his Internship Experience
In this video, Psychology & Counseling student Jake Brennan shares a musical composition he made as he processed what learned in his Goddard internship. Read his statement below: “As an artist I am always reflecting on what is going on within and around me through my art. Last year, I started interning as a full-time clinician… Continue reading Jacob Brennan talks about his Internship Experience
February 2016 Community News and Events
Photo Credit: Su-Ying Lee and Jennifer L. Davis How To Make Space and Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Curated by Jennifer Davis & Su-Ying Lee, How To Make Space is an exhibition that frames the temporary architectures built by Hong Kong’s population of female migrant domestic workers (MDWs) as gestures of female spatial… Continue reading February 2016 Community News and Events
January Achievements
FACULTY: For the 20th Anniversary of its annual New PlayFest, Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend has invited Darrah Cloud, MFA in Creative Writing Faculty member, to be its guest playwright. Darrah will be teaching two workshops in addition to working on her new play, The Posthumous Democrat, which will be given two readings… Continue reading January Achievements
New Goddard Partnership with Food First!
The Undergraduate Program is thrilled to announce that current Goddard students can now receive academic credit (up to 3 undergraduate credits) for ten-day Food Sovereignty Tours (FST) organized by Food First. Participants can experience local food systems and the food sovereignty movement first-hand, with critical reflection and writing. The educational tours take place over ten-day… Continue reading New Goddard Partnership with Food First!
Why I Chose Goddard’s BA in Sustainability Program
Host of Visionary Aquaponics podcast, Maribou Latour (BAS ’12) on why she chose Goddard’s BA in Sustainability Program.
Podcast Visionary
Maribou Latour (BAS ’12) has created the podcast Visionary Aquaponics based on her passion for food and water security, aquaponics, and permaculture. She features interviews with “the best voices, minds, and experts in the aquaponics industry, so that you can…learn about the amazing impacts, successes, failures, challenges, and tips of past and present aquaponic ventures around the world.” The podcast already includes… Continue reading Podcast Visionary
Personal Process in Multimodal Expressive Arts
In Multimodal Expressive Arts, “Personal Process” describes the counselor or psychotherapist’s Expressive Arts work done in relation to her own lived experiences. By participating in Multimodal Expressive Arts the counselor works through and is healed related to experiences in day to day life. Through “Personal Process” work, the psychotherapist experiences what the client will experience… Continue reading Personal Process in Multimodal Expressive Arts
The New American Story Project with Micheline Aharoninan Marcom
Port Townsend faculty member Micheline Aharoninan Marcom has put her writing skills towards developing the following new site whose focus is on Social Justice as it pertains to unaccompanied Central American minors living in Oakland who came as part of the so-called “surge” on the US border in 2014. Click on the link below and you… Continue reading The New American Story Project with Micheline Aharoninan Marcom
December Achievements
FACULTY: Vermont faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s opera STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, written with Gerald Cohen, is one of the winner’s of the 2016 Frontiers Competition at Fort Worth Opera. Frontiers, which presents “the best and brightest new voices in opera” has been hailed as “one of the most significant music events of the year. ” This… Continue reading December Achievements
John McManus’s Fox Tooth Heart now available
Vermont faculty member John McManus’s new collection of short stories Fox Tooth Heart has been selected by the American Booksellers Association as an Indie Next Pick for December 2015, and is a finalist for Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award. The book has been getting great reviews. (Listed below.) You can read more about… Continue reading John McManus’s Fox Tooth Heart now available
Artist As Witness
While talking with my friend, Catharine Slusar (MFAIA 2015), about her recent production of Erik Ehn’s The Saint Plays, she mentioned that the Greek etymology of the word martyr is ‘to witness.’ Having just completed the principle work on an MFA in Creative Writing, in which one thread of my inquiry was focused on the… Continue reading Artist As Witness
December 2015 Community News and Events
October 2015 was a very busy month for MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts-Washington Faculty Advisor Seitu Jones. On October 9th & 10th he moderated a panel on food justice and spoke about his work at Harvard’s Black In Design conference. From October 12th through the 16th he was artist in residence for the Athens Arts Commission’s Public Art Planning… Continue reading December 2015 Community News and Events
Living Within Tension: Collaborative Learning in the Arts
In his essay, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Community,” Parker Palmer writes, “The most common connotation of the word community in our culture is intimacy, but this is a trap.” Too often I fall for the trap, avoiding a more complicated reality. Unlike intimacy, which is always a choice, and which requires reciprocity, in the… Continue reading Living Within Tension: Collaborative Learning in the Arts
November Achievements
FACULTY: Vermont faculty member Jan Clausen signed a contract with Seven Stories Press for the re-issue of her 1999 memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity. The Los Angeles Times called Apples and Oranges “a wonderful meditation on the nature of desire,” praising the book’s “intelligence, its good-humored, common-sense approach to life,” and the resulting “portrait of… Continue reading November Achievements
Story Threads: Gale Jackson
Poet Gale Jackson (MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts faculty) is actively engaged in work that involves storytelling as practice and conduit for research. She has helped develop Storyteller in Residence / Poet in the House Collaborative for public school students in New York City. Says Gale: “Storytelling is our oldest site of pedagogy, wondering, imagining, discovery, socialization,… Continue reading Story Threads: Gale Jackson