Goddard MFA Alum Cheryl Heller Receives Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio

Goddard MFA alum Cheryl Heller received a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Cheryl, Chair of MFA Design for Social Innovation program at the School of Visual Arts, will complete a month-long residency in Bellagio, Italy, to advance her work on a book to be published in 2018. The Intergalactic Design Guide, a journey thorough… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Cheryl Heller Receives Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio

PEN USA Emerging Voices Scholarship

Next year Goddard College will offer a new MFA scholarship in partnership with PEN Center USA. The recipient of this $10,000 award will be selected from applicants who have previously been PEN USA Emerging Voices fellows. The scholarship is intended to encourage this remarkably talented, diverse, and deserving group of writers to take the “next… Continue reading PEN USA Emerging Voices Scholarship

The Transfiguration of Recovery and Creativity

by Brianna Johnson As my degree was conferred, I felt/I understood a quantum shift. The first, or first perceived, of a series of seemingly religious experiences. Saints and colors and relics and snags of bone. I spoke about bravery. And then, I found myself in a desert. Eight months out of Goddard and three months… Continue reading The Transfiguration of Recovery and Creativity

News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014

FACULTY Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014