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C L O C K W O R K S Summer 2012

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Occupy! Goddard: Hundreds gather in Plainfield for a lively conference exploring the issues raised by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. » page 10

Design Center Redux: Built in the 1970s, Goddard’s Design, Painting and Sculpture buildings get a new lease on life as a regional arts center. » page 16

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Goddard in the WorldStudents, faculty members, and alumni bring their passions and talents into the community and out to the world. » page 13

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Mark GoffKris GruenDavid Hale Will Hamlin

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c lo c kw o r k s summer 2012

burst of color Summer breathes life into the Greatwood Gardens in Plainfield.

June3 Goddard college concert series: classical Pianist Ang Li, Plainfield, Vt.

11 Education & licensure Info session, seattle, Wash.

15-16 board of trustees Meeting, Plainfield, Vt.

22-29 MfA in creative Writing residency, Plainfield, Vt.

25-29 clockhouse Writers’ conference, Plainfield, Vt.

July6-13 bA & MA in Education & licensure residency, Plainfield, Vt.

10-13 Goddard Education Alumni retreat (GEAr), Plainfield, Vt.

13-17 8th Annual Progressive Education Institute, Plainfield, Vt.

13-21 MfA in creative Writing residency, Port townsend, Wash.

15 undergraduate Program open House, Port townsend, Wash.

20-27 MfA in Interdisciplinary Arts residency, Plainfield, Vt.

August3-10 MA in sustainable business & communities residency, Plainfield, Vt.

3-10 MA in Individualized studies residency, Plainfield, Vt.

3-10 MA in Health Arts & sciences residency, Plainfield, Vt.

17-24 undergraduate Program option 1 Residency, Plainfield, Vt.

» bA in Health Arts & sciences

» bA in Individualized studies

» bA in sustainability

september14-21 MA in Psychology & counseling Residency, Plainfield

21-29 MfA in Interdisciplinary Arts residency, Port townsend, Wash.

21-29 undergraduate Program residency, Port townsend, Wash.

» bA in Health Arts & sciences


» bA in sustainability

28-oct. 5 undergraduate Program option 2 Residency, Plainfield, Vt.

» bfA in creative Writing


OctOber5-6 board of trustees Meeting, Plainfield, Vt.

13-14 outreach Event: Wordstock, Portland, ore.

20 Discover Goddard Day, Plainfield, Vt.

26-28 outreach Event: tlA Power of Words conference, Philadelphia, Pa.

As summer approaches, the natural landscape around us teems with life. And life at Goddard is no different. We are in a period of resurgence, reinvention and reconnection with our history as a leader in progressive education at a time

when Goddard’s leadership is most needed.

Among this season’s accomplishments:

1 Two National Conferences Convened at Goddard. The Occupy! Goddard Conference (see pg. 10) brought activists from Occupy Wall Street’s front lines to campus, and labor leader/author Les Leopold spoke on economic inequality; the Interdisciplinary Arts Conference (see pg. 18) explored diverse and visionary art practices.

2 Academic Program Expansion in Port Townsend, Wash. Goddard brings the first low-residency undergraduate program to Port Townsend, one of the first in the entire Pacific Northwest (see pg. 6).

3 Bringing Academic Programs to the Community Level. Our EDU Seattle program, a collaboration with community members of urban Columbia City, meets the needs of dual-language early childhood educators (see pg. 14). This is an exciting innovation to our low-residency model.

4 New Concert Series. Launched by WGDR/WGDH, Goddard College Community Radio (see pg. 5). In October, Anaïs Mitchell, John Elliott and Jack Wilson played to a sold-out crowd and donated all proceeds from the show to Hurricane Irene recovery efforts.

5 The Arts at Goddard. The Plainfield campus is currently joining with local artists, arts organizations, and the Town of Plainfield to return the Painting, Sculpture and Design Buildings to studio, gallery and performance spaces to be shared by students and the community (see pg. 16). The Port Townsend site continues to collaborate with the Port Townsend Film Institute and Centrum Arts to bring community arts opportunities to Goddard’s students. With the concert series, last fall’s interdisciplinary arts conference, and recent generous donations of art, including the thousands of pieces representing the life’s work of Japanese-American artist and writer Hide Oshiro (see pg. 7), the arts are central to Goddard’s relationship with its neighbors, alumni and the world.

This time of exciting new activity in which we are returning to our experimenting roots coincides with significant milestones in Goddard’s history. We have many important anniversaries to celebrate in the year that lies ahead. 2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the Plainfield campus; the 50th anniversary of the adult degree program; the 40th anniversary of WGDR Goddard College Community Radio; and, most notably the 150th anniversary of Goddard College. As we celebrate this rich history, we are inspired to continue the Goddard legacy of leadership and innovation in education. We hope that you will join us this summer for the first 150th Anniversary event when Peter Schumann, founder of Bread and Puppet Theater, will receive the Goddard College Presidential Award for Activism.

I invite all of you to stay in touch, share your Goddard story and be on the lookout for plans for the 150th.

All the best,

Barbara Vacarr, Ph.D.

Departments 2 Events Calendar

3 From the President

5 College Briefs

20 Alumni Portfolio

22 Class Notes

27 In Memoriam

28 Faculty/Staff Notes

29 New Scholarship

30 TED Talks

Submit NewsSend your news and notes to Goddard College, Clockworks Editor, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, Vermont 05667, or to [email protected].

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KitChen welCOmes new Chef anD mORe ORGaniCs

Under the guidance of Paul Somerset, Plainfield’s

new executive chef, the kitchen increased its purchase of local organic food directly from farmers, the Two Rivers Center in Montpelier, and Upper Valley Produce in White River Junction. The kitchen staff now offers more gluten-free foods, bakes its own bread and desserts, and has significantly reduced

food waste. They plan to grow herbs, squash, greens, cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes and garlic in the Goddard garden.

In an effort to make the kitchen environmentally friendly, the staff removed two old freezers and combined two walk-in coolers into a larger one with a free air system that uses the cold outside air instead of a compressor to cool it.

Features 7 Life and Breath Japanese-American artist Hideichi

Oshiro marks his 100th birthday by donating his life’s work to Goddard College.

by JeffeRy LindhOLm

10 Occupy! Goddard Hundreds gather in Plainfield

for a lively conference exploring the Occupy Wall Street movement and the role of higher education in student activism.

by eLeanOR KOhLSaat (haS ’07)

13 Goddard in the World Students, faculty and alumni share

their talents in the community. by LaWRenCe gOOdman (mfaW ’08)

17 Redesign, Rebuild Design Center buildings prepare

for a new regional arts center. by geRaRd hOLmeS (ba ’89)

19 Art’s Conversation MFAIA program conference

delves into interdisciplinary arts. by debRa CaSh

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Mehret Mehanzel leads a dance during Goddard’s Bomba and Hip Hop Workshop in Seattle, Wash. The West Coast BA in Education Program hosted the event for the local community in February. Photographer and Goddard alumnus Gabriel H.L. Jacobs (BA RUP ‘51) attended and captured images from the day.

10 COnCeRt seRies beGins

In september 2011, the college and WGDR/WGDH

Goddard College Community Radio together launched the Goddard College Concert Series, featuring both local and international music and performance artists at the Haybarn Theatre. Meg Hammond, former proprietor of the Langdon Street Café in Montpelier, Vt., and Kris Gruen, director of WGDR/WGDH, have been instrumental in coordinating concerts.

This new endeavor brings the community back to the historical Haybarn Theatre, where such notable bands as Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath and Phish have played in the past. This year, we’ve had record attendance and sold-out shows for such musicians as Sessions Americana from Boston; Cumbancha recording artist Luisa Maita from Brazil; and local Vermont singer Anaïs Mitchell and her Transcontinental Revue, who performed as a benefit for flood relief and donated over $2,000 to Vermont farms damaged by the floods of Hurricane Irene.

» check www.wgdr.org for info on upcoming concerts.

full HousE brazilian singer luisa Maita croons to a sold-out Haybarn theatre.

pResiDent’s OffiCe mOves tO manOR

Our mission and academic quality are best served

when students, faculty, staff and administrators can interact and communicate regularly in person; for our Plainfield campus, this means working together in the heart of our academic campus.

Last fall, President Vacarr and senior administrators moved their offices in the Pratt Center on the South campus to the Manor on the Main campus. This allows

for more direct communication between the various groups, brings more visitors to the academic center of the college, and signifies a closer tie to the community.

The proximity of the president and senior leadership to the campus’ academic center emphasizes and reflects the primacy of our strategic plans to fulfill the academic mission.

tAkInG tHE cAkE Paul somerset, the new executive chef at the Plainfield campus, presents one of his creations, an upside-down graduation cake for the MfAIA program graduates.

cEntrAl locAtIon President Vacarr moved her offices to the Goddard Manor last fall to be closer to the heart of the Plainfield campus.

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Life and Breath

The life and work of Hide Oshiro lives on at Goddard College.

By JEFFERy LInDHOLM Art EDucAtIon

the daughter of an alumna explores the collection of art by Japanese-American artist Hide oshiro, now on exhibit at Goddard.

GODDaRD annOunCes new tRustees

Last october, Goddard announced the appointment

of Andrea Leebron-Clay as the new chair of the board of trustees. She succeeds Stephen Friedman, who served as chair of the board since October of 2010, and as a board member since 2000. Leebron-Clay is a Goddard alumna and vice-president and partner at Regency Pacific, Inc. Four new trustees, Suzanne Forsyth, John Hennessey, Carole Marks and Carl Taylor, were also elected to the board.

plans unDeRway fOR 150th anniveRsaRy

As we move toward the celebration of Goddard’s

150th anniversary in 2013, we seek to reconnect with the Goddard family and friends everywhere.

We invite you to share your Goddard College stories, and encourage others to share theirs! Submit stories to Dustin Byerly, alumni outreach coordinator, at [email protected]. Stay tuned for more information about upcoming 150th celebrations!

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aRt exhibits On Display at the pRatt CenteR

“the history of Goddard College Exhibit, 1969-1979” is currently on display at the Pratt Center Library until June 20. The exhibit documents the 1970s at

Goddard through photographs, films, and archival documents and focuses on the radical and innovative programs that were created as a natural response to the changes taking place in society. It is the fourth in a series of exhibits that will eventually document the entire history of Goddard. Another art exhibit, “Art and Breath: The Life Work of Hide Oshiro,” is also on display at the Pratt Art Gallery. This exhibit, on display through February 2013, features paintings, prints, poems and photographs of the late Japanese-American artist Hide Oshiro (see the article on page 7).

aCaDemiC pROGRams GROw On west COast

Starting in September, Goddard’s Fort Worden

campus in Port Townsend, Wash., will offer a Bachelor of Arts degree program in Individualized Studies, Health Arts & Sciences, and Sustainability, as approved by the U.S. Department of Education.

The residency site currently offers the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and MFA in Creative Writing; Goddard’s expansion into an undergraduate program on the West Coast provides new opportunities for working adults who need access to affordable and high-quality higher education.

“We did the research and found a real need in the Pacific northwest for the model of education that Goddard pioneered and still leads today,” said President Vacarr. “We are proud to be meeting a longstanding need in the region and beyond.”

For more information, please contact Erin Fristad, the Port Townsend campus director, at: [email protected].

Goddard’s new board chair, Andrea leebron-clay

collEGE lAuncHEs nEW E-nEWslEttEr

In November 2011, we launched the inaugural issue of our monthly electronic newsletter. It’s a mini digital Clockworks, right in your inbox! Last month’s issue featured video clips of a Sustainability student from Nicaragua; visiting author Francis Moore Lappé’s talk and book signing; and pictures and highlights of Goddard’s March 10 Occupy Conference. Make sure you receive the next e-newsletter.

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rAW MAtErIAl nude models pose for an art class in the Painting building, 1975.


There was art everywhere. There were paintings covering the walls of the apartment, stuffed behind the couch and under the bed. Still, Carol Curri (MA

PSY ‘97) kept looking. She was gathering together the art created by her friend Hide (pronounced Hee-Day)

Oshiro, who, at age 100, was donating his life’s work to Goddard College. Over the years, his wife, Catherine, had been putting pieces wherever she could fit them.

“I found one [painting] that she tucked up in the closet,” Curri says, laughing. “She was running out of space.”

Oshiro knew his life was ending, and “he was very aware that he wanted his art to have a home,” says Goddard curator and Alumni Outreach Coordinator Dustin Byerly. “He didn’t want it to get scattered in the wind or put in storage or, heaven forbid, thrown out.”

The collection includes 60 framed paintings, a deluge of unframed

paintings and drawings, and storage boxes full of calligraphy, sketches, scrolls, haiku and

many handmade books. Curri and Byerly agree

that the collection in total includes thousands of pieces.

Oshiro made it very clear to Curri that he wanted people

to see his whole collection, to have the opportunity to learn

from his process of creating art. “One morning I woke up,”

says Curri, “I literally woke up and I said ‘Goddard, why not

Goddard?’”Generally, the college only

accepts donations of artwork from Goddard staff, faculty, students

or alumni, or from Vermont-based artists. Oshiro, however, didn’t fit these categories. The college made an exception, Byerly says, because “the opportunity was just so huge.”

“Hide’s work so closely matches and mirrors the educational philosophy of the college—lifelong learning and trust in the process—that it really is a good marriage,” he added.

Goddard President Barbara Vaccar told the Kyodo News, “Hide said that the product is only important in how it uncovers for the viewer the process. Most artists who donate their work would be focusing on the framed paintings, the product of their work, and what was so central to what he talked about was the process of development.”

Now, with Oshiro’s work permanently displayed on

the Plainfield campus, students can reflect on Oshiro’s process and be transformed in their own art process and other disciplinary practices.

When she had unearthed and amassed a suitably large bundle of art, Curri loaded her black Jeep with 20 or so paintings and four or five boxes of other pieces and made multiple five-hour drives from Newburgh, N.Y., on the Hudson River, up to Goddard’s Plainfield campus. Although moving the collection from Oshiro’s Newburgh apartment was surprisingly low-tech, the multiple trips would prove physically straining on Oshiro, who rode along with Curri only when he felt up to it.

“Hide fell in love with Goddard on his first trip up there,” says Curri. “He was so impressed with the campus, the school’s philosophy, the staff and faculty, and especially with Barbara Vacarr.”

In Plainfield, Byerly spent hours with Curri, and sometimes Oshiro, going through the boxes, sorting and cataloging. “It was really a very Goddard-ly process of gradually getting the pieces here, and it was slowly building until the collection reached its final, and quite impressive, collection of work,” says Byerly.

Most of Oshiro’s framed paintings and a sampling of his other works have been assembled into an exhibit titled “Art and Breath: The Life and Work of Hideichi Oshiro,” which will be on display throughout 2012 at Goddard’s Eliot D. Pratt Library Art Gallery.

“He always talked about breath,” Curri says. “He said you are supposed to breathe in heaven and let the universe, the cosmos, inside you; then you breathe up the earth and blend these breaths with your own breath to be the breath of life.”

Much of Oshiro’s art reflects his dual Japanese and American citizenship. The formats are often Japanese—haiku, wood blocks, ink wash paintings. He had translations of Japanese poetry published and was the illustrator for a collection of haiku by Edo Period poet Matsuo Basho. But he also often worked American iconography—George Washington and flags—and patriotic phrases into his work.

“He was very loyal to this country,” said Curri. “‘Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ he would always talk about. They didn’t have those freedoms in Japan. Japan was very restrictive . . . back then.”

Oshiro was born in Hawaii in 1910 to Japanese parents who had immigrated to the islands to work on a pineapple plantation. As a first-born son, he was sent back to Japan to receive a traditional education, which included art training in etching, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, gold carving, sculpture, and brushwork, which

he learned from noted painter Gyokudo Kawai. As a high-school student, he was inspired by the haiku of Basho and wrote a haiku each day later in life.

To re-establish his American citizenship, Oshiro returned to Hawaii in the 1930s and was teaching Sunday school on December 7, 1941, as he and his students witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was sent to an internment camp for three months, then, as Curri says, “knowing his freedom was over,” he joined the Army, which sent him to Minnesota, where he taught Japanese to GIs. After the war ended, the Army sent him to Tokyo, where he interrogated high-level Japanese military officers.

After his discharge from the Army in 1950, Oshiro went to Paris, where he again studied with Gyokudo Kawai and other Japanese artists. He eventually moved to New York City, where he met Catherine Bullier, who was, ironically, French. They married in 1969.

Oshiro’s process, his daily routine, Curri said, was a morning meditation with a cup of coffee. Then he would begin to draw, write haiku and paint. “He wouldn’t eat unless you told him to. And sometimes, Catherine said he would work until 12 o’clock at night and she would have to tell him to go to bed.”

To the end, Oshiro kept working. “The day he came here to Goddard for his gallery opening, he wrote a haiku,” Byerly noted, “and he attached it to the piece of art he gave to President Vacarr. The piece wasn’t even done—he was still making it as he was showing up!”

This would be the final piece of artwork Hide Oshiro ever made; it now hangs in President Vacarr’s office in the Manor House at Goddard.

A few weeks after his attendance at the opening reception, held on Feb. 8 in Plainfield, Oshiro fell ill. On Sunday, March 11, at age 101, Hide Oshiro took his last

“Our minds are like a pond in which we are able to conceive any form, from the largest to the smallest, from a galaxy to an

atom, from the blue sky to a minnow.”- HIDEICHI OSHIRO

In tHE MAkInGHide oshiro stressed the importance of seeing art as it developed. Above, two of his completed works: top, “the bicentennial with Rip Van Winkle, 1976; below, an untitled geometric drawing.

breath, knowing that his life’s work now resides at Goddard, ready to inspire the next generation of artists.

“We feel so blessed to have been a part of Hide’s life, and part of his dream,” said Barbara Vacarr on his passing. “Hide’s dream was to make his life’s collection of artwork, poetry and books available to students so that they could study and learn from it. Goddard alumna Carol Curri made that connection back to Goddard, and we are so grateful.” cW

snAPsHots top, Hide oshiro as a young artist. Middle right, signing his drawing at the gallery opening at Goddard. right, a haiku he wrote for President Vacarr. Left, the president speaks with a guest at the opening.

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oCCuPy!GoddArd

During a lively spring conference at Goddard’s Plainfield campus, some of the forces behind the Occupy Wall Street Movement gathered with hundreds of “the 99%” to deconstruct OWS and the role of higher education in student activisim. By ELEAnOR KOHLSAAT (HAS ’07)

One of the most memorable and disturbing images of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is the video, captured last November, of a police

officer at the University of California-Davis casually dousing a seated group of peaceful student protesters with pepper spray.

On March 10, members of the Goddard community who aspired to a more constructive response convened “Occupy! Goddard,” a first-in-the-nation conference to explore issues raised by Occupy Wall Street and the responsibility of higher education around student

protest. The conference was the brainchild of President Barbara Vacarr, who said she was stunned when she saw the UC-Davis video.

“I was outraged and saddened to discover that some educational leaders turned to pepper spraying and calling the police on Occupiers,’’ Vacarr wrote in a national opinion piece. “Responding in fear as opposed to extending invitation for dialogue? Silencing the very voices that we want to develop and nurture?’’

In the piece, Vacarr called on her fellow college presidents to stop calling the police on protesters.

“Goddard’s history and heritage is at the forefront of

these movements,’’ she said. “We had to say something. It’s the role of academic institutions to support the development of informed activists,” she said.

So, the “Occupy! Goddard” conference was born.Held in the Haybarn Theatre, the event featured

panel discussions with educators, students, activists, journalists and others involved with OWS. The conference, which attracted more than 250 people, was also broadcast live on WGDR/H Goddard Community Radio and streamed live on UStream.tv.

Vacarr said she hoped the Occupy! Conference would “bring together into conversation people with a range of perceptions to exchange the kind of dialogue that’s always been at the heart of a Goddard education.”

She noted that many Goddard students and faculty are already going to demonstrations, but that it’s also important to stop and reflect on those experiences.

“This conference is really about trying to inform ourselves,” she said.

The event opened with a keynote address by Les Leopold, author of The Looting of America, who praised the Occupiers for re-focusing the national spotlight on economic injustice and the misdeeds of Wall Street.

“Thank you,” he said. “What you did was vitally important at a very critical moment.”

The next big challenge, Leopold said, is to expand the movement to include those who agree with the need for change but who aren’t prepared to camp out in public parks. “How can we express our outrage and support without sleeping on the sidewalks?” he asked.

For inspiration, Leopold hearkened back to the populist movement of the 1890s, during which thousands of community organizers traveled around the country educating farmers and other citizens about how the economy works. Leopold suggested Americans form modern-day “99-percent clubs” for the same purpose.

“We’re all getting a lot more financially literate than we were when the crash first happened,” he said, “but we have a long way to go.”

The conference included three separate panel discussions on the significance of Occupy Wall Street; where the movement should go from here; and how institutions of higher education can support activism rather than squelch it. Moderating the panels were Anne Galloway, a founder of VtDigger.org, and Shay Totten of Chelsea Green Publishing and former Seven Days newspaper columnist. In response to input from the audience, organizers decided midway through the conference to alter the format in order to allow for more Q&A between the panelists and attendees.

Shedding Light on Economic InequalityMany of those present agreed that one of the most

important achievements of OWS has been to bring attention to economic inequality in America.

“I think the genie is out of the bottle,” said Joseph Gainza, founding member of Vermont Action for Peace and a member of the Occupy! Conference planning committee. “At least now, it’s taken seriously to talk about the disparity of income and wealth in this country.”

“It was the first time I saw a lot of people who did not consider themselves activists really have their attention captured by something,” said panelist Molly Knefel, a writer, comedian, and internet radio show host based in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Activist organizer and panelist Jonathan Smucker agreed: “Somehow this managed to become the kind of catalyzing symbol so many of us were waiting for.” Smucker, who recently graduated from Goddard’s Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies Program, conducted his senior study on the OWS movement.

“Occupy Wall Street has been an incredible moment, an incredible paradigm shift,” Smucker said. “If you think back to early September [2011], the debate was on how to cut social programs to rein in the deficit. Now we’re talking about social inequality. There’s a

cIVIL DIScOuRSe A crowd gathered in the Haybarn theatre to listen to three panels; organizers changed the format halfway through the conference to allow for more Q&A between the panelists and attendees.

IMAGEs froM the MOVeMent Above right, documentary photographer David Garten poses in front of his occupy Wall street mural, a collage of photos he took at Zuccotti Park in october. Garten donated the mural to the college when he heard about the occupy!Goddard conference. Above left, attendees talk during a break between sessions.

Convening a National Conversation


new media narrative, a new common sense. It’s really significant.”

“I come [to the conference] with more questions than answers, but it’s heartening that Goddard and other schools are engaging with these questions,” Smucker said. “I’m glad to see Goddard taking the initiative to provide space for that conversation.”

Where Does Higher Education Come in?Speakers’ views differed on what higher education

can and should do to support the OWS movement and to address economic injustice in general. Some felt educational institutions need to break away from the existing model that requires students to take on a lifetime of debt in order to tailor themselves to the job market.

“Higher education should not be about preparing students for the world that was, or preparing them for the world that will be,” said writer and educator Dan Chodorkoff. “It should be about preparing them to change the world. As it exists today, I think higher education is coming up short.”

IBA faculty member and conference panelist Eva Swidler had previously expressed the belief that colleges and universities should not be “vo-tech schools” for the workplace. “We should take this chance to recapture the old-fashioned idea of a liberal arts education as cultivating a human being, not about skill production for an employer,” she said.

“The space of higher education—even at public institutions—has become about guessing what businesses and the marketplace want,” she said. “I don’t believe students should have to pay for that themselves.

Businesses should pay for training.”Vacarr noted during the panel discussion that

academic institutions, especially those like Goddard that do not have large endowments, are hampered in their ability to change the system due in part to such factors as accreditation. Instead, she said, higher education should be “a place where we can educate ourselves on what the issues are, so any action we take comes out of being informed.”

Several other concerns about the OWS movement and its future were raised during the program, including the need to encourage more involvement by women and minorities.

Yet despite contending viewpoints, most participants shared the belief that OWS has been a watershed phenomenon. Not only has the movement changed the prevailing subject of dialogue, speakers said, but also the model for dialogue itself. For instance, while communication traditionally relies on a top-down, hierarchical structure, the General Assemblies and their now-famous system of hand signals have empowered many more people to be heard.

“Part of what was so great about it was that it wasn’t strategized,” Swidler said. “It was spontaneous and unplanned. It only became a movement after it happened.”

“I have to admit, I was really skeptical at first about Occupy Wall Street,” said Smucker, who said he even wrote an article opposing the movement in its early days. “It was nice to be proven wrong. … This is an earthquake moment. It’s a moment not to hold each other in the boxes we’ve been stuck in.” cW

sIGn of tHE tIMEs below left, trees on the Plainfield campus are adorned with an original occupy Wall street banner, brought to Goddard by activists who attended the conference. below right, Michael Premo, the creator of Housing is a Human right, speaks during a panel discussion.

“We should take this chance to recapture the old-fashioned idea of a liberal arts education as cultivating

a human being, not about skill production for an employer.”EVA SWIDLER, IBA FACULTy MEMBER AnD COnFEREnCE PAnELIST

tHEIr oWn bEAt Goddard’s new seattle site hosted a bomba and Hip Hop Workshop for the local community in february. Above, musicians provide accompaniment for the dancers: left to right, Agnes figueroa (Goddard EDu seattle staff), ricardo Guity (percussionist), Adam rivera (percussionist and Grupo bayano music director), Angel “balancé” reyes (MA EDu ‘11). right, education faculty advisor sharon cronin bombas with Santiago crosby-Vega of Grupo Banyo.

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With the college’s mission in mind, students, faculty members and alumni bring their talents out to the community.

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(MFAW ’08)

It starts with a broad, general subject, say Medieval English. The student tells her faculty advisor that this is the topic she’d like to pursue to earn her Master of Arts degree in Individualized Studies, a unique Goddard degree where you design your own curriculum around

an issue of your choosing. In this case, the student loves reading Chaucer and finds the early development of the English language fascinating. When the student and her faculty advisor meet, she explains all this. The faculty advisor intently listens.

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“We want the student to have a historical, cultural and contemporary understanding of the issue,” says Ruth Farmer, director of the

MA in Individualized Studies Program. “We encourage students to engage in a practice that makes meaning in the larger community.”

Then the advisor will ask the student questions: what were some of the dominant social issues in Medieval England? How did the development of the language change the class system there? How prevalent was anti-Semitism? Which groups of people were depicted as monsters in the literature of the time? How did Chaucer react to this prejudice and stereotyping? It goes on and on. The faculty advisor and her student unspool all the ideas, concepts and notions packed into that phrase, “Medieval English.”

But really, they are only just beginning. Because next the advisor and pupil will begin to think about

contemporary themes related to Medieval English. What groups are stereotyped as monsters today? Which languages in the world are currently undergoing transformation or are under the threat of extinction? Can Chaucer be taught in classrooms to boost literacy and a love of reading? And, when all this questioning is completed, the student will consult with her advisor to figure out how to put her research into action.

She could offer a course on Chaucer at the public library. She could use what she knows about the

disappearance of Medieval language to help a Native American group preserve its native tongue so it doesn’t meet a similar fate. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake isn’t sufficient. The student

must put her knowledge into practice—use what she’s learned to better her community.

“Part of Goddard’s mission is to work in the world,” says Farmer. “We’re not just sitting down and talking. It’s about making a difference in the world beyond one’s self.”

The commitment to changing society and giving back to the community pervades all academic programs at Goddard. From its small campuses in Vermont and Washington state, the school’s impact spreads out across

the globe, because it wants its graduates to engage with the society around them wherever their travels may take them. No academic discipline exists apart from the larger society. Knowledge is most worthwhile when it’s turned into action. Goddard expects its students to effect change. If Goddard emphasizes self-transformation, it’s largely because the college believes that’s how social transformation has to begin: first the individual, then the community, and then, the world.

Bringing Programs to the Community LevelIn 2006, the Praxis Institute for Early Childhood

Education in Seattle, Wash., found itself with a problem. It had been working with a group of mainly Latino students who were interested in teaching early education. These students were working with low-income kids in the federal government’s Head Start

program, the state-funded Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, and other community-based programs. About five percent of Seattle’s population is Hispanic, but there is a shortage of Hispanic teachers working in the preschool setting.

“Children learn and develop to their fullest potential when they are in an environment that reflects who they are,” says Theressa Lenear, a faculty advisor in the education and licensure programs and a well-known early education expert in Seattle.

The problem was that these prospective teachers needed a master’s degree to meet the government’s requirements to teach early education. Praxis didn’t have the accreditation to issue degrees. It was at this point that the organization reached out to Goddard. Four years later, after much strategic thinking and development work, Goddard’s Master of Arts in Education and Licensure Program was born. The first residency was staged in Plainfield, but now the program also takes place in Columbia City, one of Seattle’s most ethnically- and racially-diverse neighborhoods.

The program is unique in that it trains students in bilingual preschool education. Students can focus on such areas as intercultural studies, dual language, early childhood, cultural arts, and community education, and then create their plan of studies for each semester.

According to Lenear, Goddard graduates are already beginning work at various Seattle preschool programs.

“We’ve got teachers who are already in the

the college’s mission: to advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration and life-long learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.

field, putting theory into practice and serving the community,” she says. The steady flow of new teachers from Goddard, she says, promises to change the way early education in Seattle is taught forever.

Using Art to Transform SocietyJu-Pong Lin, a faculty advisor in the Master

of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) Program, likens Goddard’s approach of integrating studies, work and the world with the philosophy of Allan Kaprow, a pioneering performance artist from the mid 20th century.

In the late ’50s and early ’60s, Kaprow wrote a series of essays that shook the art world. He rejected the idea of art as separate from the world around it, to be observed in a museum or admired for its beauty. According to Kaprow, an artwork should reach out and interact with its audience, breaking down the boundary between it and them. As a result, he said, the audience and artwork jointly create what he called a “habitat,” an entirely new space where “the surroundings, the artist, the work” and the viewer are all melded into one to create “an elusive, changeable configuration.”

Kaprow’s theories are more elaborate and complex than just this, but his insistence on erasing the divide between life and art informs Goddard’s MFAIA program. Students design their own curriculum and disregard the traditional boundaries between art forms to create new, genre-transcending work. The work doesn’t try to stand at a distance or separate itself from the audience and community around it.

“We see art as much more about engaging with the public,” says Ju-Pong Lin. “It’s about discussing the

issues that are most important in contemporary life.”Goddard students create ecological art that reflects

their concerns about the environment, or activist art that advocates for a social or political cause. Lin recently worked with a student who played the tabla, an instrument used in Northern Indian classical music that consists of a pair of hand drums, each a different size and timbre. The student was, of course, interested in improving his playing technique. But this was just the beginning. He researched the history of the tabla and its impact on Indian culture and society. He even explored the impact British colonialism had on the music. Lin says the student came to better understand how “the music is part of a whole spiritual philosophy. It’s a way of life.” He couldn’t just spend his time practicing the tabla because, as Lin points out, the instrument “is completely interwoven with the culture.”

Another of Lin’s students worked on a piece about environmental pollution, trying to drive home the impact plastic trash has when it is dumped in the ocean. His artwork partly consisted of placing plastic in a water container with a timer attached. It was a visual way of showing how infinitely long it takes plastic to break down in the ocean.

“It was funny and horrifying at the same time,” Lin says.

As part of his studies, the student also organized beach clean-ups in his community. His art turned into a much larger undertaking than simply creating a painting or sculpture. It became an entire worldview that wound up involving the larger society.

“Art can highlight environmental issues and stir people to action in a way scientific reports don’t,” says Lin. cW

“Part of Goddard’s mission is to work in the world. We’re not just sitting down and talking.

It’s about making a difference in the world beyond one’s self.”RUTH FARMER, DIRECTOR OF THE MA In InDIVIDUALIzED STUDIES PROGRAM

HAnDs onone MfAIA student created a work about environmental pollution and its affect on the ocean; as part of his studies, he organized beach clean-ups in his local area.

sHArInG rEsourcEsGoddard created a master’s in education and licensure program in columbia city, one of seattle’s most diverse neighborhoods. Prospective teachers can now earn their credentials close to home.

GEttInG cReatIVebelow left, bert Emerson, a student in the MfAIA program, developed a series of engaging exhibits and presentations to share his concerns about today’s environmental threats. below right, student Malley Weber demonstrates a Japanese technique for firing pottery during the MfAIA Art crawl last July.

read about two alumni who are sharing great ideas through ted talks.» pg. 30


Faculty and students in the groundbreaking Goddard Design Program, led by David Sellers and John Mallery, built five

structures on campus between 1971 and 1977. Three and a half survive: the Design, Painting and Sculpture Buildings, and part of a bridge that connects Painting and Sculpture.

The Design Program, in its short life, was the first institutional home of Design-Build, a local architectural movement that influenced architectural practices across the United States and beyond. The Design Program attracted, and produced, architects seeking hands-on, collaborative building experience, and builders seeking a thorough understanding of design principles.

“The students at Goddard were learning to approach architecture primarily as building, which gave them daily physical contact with the materials and methods of construction,” wrote Danny Sagan, Professor of Architecture at Norwich University. “The direct engagement with building met the requirement of experiential learning.”

When the Design Program closed, Sellers and Mallery moved on to distinguished teaching careers and architectural practices, as did many of their students. This migration seeded design-build practices widely. Meanwhile, for 30 years, the buildings in Plainfield were home to art studios, impromptu film societies, coffeehouses, exhibitions, plays and other performances. They were shuttered in 2002.

Interest in the buildings has grown since a 2008 exhibit at UVM’s Fleming Museum, “Architectural Improvisation,” highlighted Goddard’s place in architectural history.

David Sellers, who recently visited campus, is preparing plans to renovate the buildings, with detailed cost estimates by Russell Bennett, a respected

builder and founder of NorthLand Visual Design and Construction. The plans will employ 21st-century environmental standards.

Goddard has received small grants from the Walter Cerf Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation and the Preservation Trust of Vermont to support this effort. Other grant requests are pending. The buildings remain structurally intact and are, in the words of Devin Colman of the Vermont Department of Historic Preservation, “unique in the state and the nation.”

The Arts at GoddardWhen renovated, the buildings will serve as the hub

of a multi-use arts center. This will address a recognized lack of dedicated studio, gallery and performance space in central Vermont. It will also create something truly rare: shared space for college and community art projects. Students and conference participants will rub shoulders with local artists and community members.

A group of college staff and community members are meeting regularly to build a project plan.

Today, local artists are working in the Sculpture Building and a respected theater group, Shakespeare in the Hills, will use the Design Center for its youth summer camp. These, along with a new WGDR/H Goddard College Concert Series at the Haybarn Theatre, the recent donation of the life’s work of 101-year-old Japanese-American artist Hide Oshiro, and greater publicity for programs connected to residencies, have raised Goddard’s profile as a venue for exciting arts activities.

“The arts are an ideal means of strengthening ties with our neighbors,” says President Barbara Vacarr. “We want people to see Goddard as a part of the community, to think, ‘What’s happening at Goddard this weekend?’”

Creative CommunitiesThe 2000 census showed Vermont with the highest

proportion of writers and visual artists, per capita, in the nation. The area around Plainfield, in particular, was a “creative community” long before the term was coined. Sociologist Richard Florida and others have shown that vitality in the creative arts strengthens local economies. These “creative economies” support local businesses, attracting new industries, increasing tourism and jobs.

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, for example, was the result of a civic-college partnership. It transformed a defunct electronics plant into the region’s only indoor site for monumental sculpture, and turned its hometown, population 18,000, into a tourist destination. Smaller-scale efforts have turned unused farm buildings across Vermont into sites for art education, studio and gallery space, and performance, meeting the needs of their local arts communities.

For decades, Goddard has served as an arts-incubator, attracting generations of creative, self-reliant, and convention-breaking students and faculty, who founded the galleries, theater companies, cinemas, small publishers, galleries, and craft stores that support the artists, writers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, and craftspeople of central Vermont.

In 2010, when Barbara Vacarr became President of Goddard, a number of residents approached the College seeking space for the local arts community. The Winooski Valley Arts Coalition grew out of the meeting convened by President Vacarr in response to those requests. The College is providing space and staff to incubate the project, which partners local artists, art educators, business owners, Plainfield Selectboard members, and Goddard alumni and staff, to spark collaboration across the traditional town-gown divide.

Building Community Ties, Rebuilding Knowledge

Russ Bennett’s assessment and Dave Sellers’ drawings will clarify priorities and help us set renovation goals.

Immediate needs include repairs to the roofs, remediation of water damage, and other issues related to deferred maintenance. Funds raised from private and public sources, including alumni, will be matched by “sweat equity” from artists, in exchange for access to resources such as studio space.

Restoring the buildings will add about 25,000 square feet of new studio and performance space for use by the college and the local creative community. Residencies and conferences will benefit from dedicated arts space and materials. We also stand to gain a thriving community arts program, with new opportunities for creative partnerships between Goddard and its neighbors. This will provide a new, mutually beneficial model for college-community arts partnerships.

“The renovation will recreate the methods we developed in the Design Program,” says David Sellers.

Alumni and community members will be invited to help. We will seek partnerships with local groups that prepare Vermonters for careers in the building trades. It will set a new path for historic preservation projects, by engaging the community beyond fundraisers and plaques. By truly involving the constituencies that will benefit, and structuring the renovation as a learning opportunity, we will build knowledge while we rebuild these historic structures. cW

Built in the ’70s, Goddard’s Design, Painting and Sculpture Buildings are being recrafted into a multi-use arts center. By GERARD HOLMES (BA ‘89)

A Community Arts Partnership Begins

Redesign Rebuild

unlIkE Any otHEr According to Vermont’s Department of Historic Preservation, the Design, Painting and sculpture buildings are unique in the united states. All will be renovated using today’s environmental standards. Above, the Design center.

A HIstory of tHEIr oWnIn the 1970s, David sellers (bottom left) and John Mallery (bottom right) built the five structures that made up Goddard’s Design Program. three and a half of those structures thrive today. below center, sun patterns adorn the walls of the Design center.

“The arts are an ideal means of strengthening ties

with our neighbors.”PRESIDENT BARBARA VACARR

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Over the course of a rainy October weekend, more than 60 students, alumni

and colleagues came to Goddard’s Plainfield campus to explore the emerging shape of interdisciplinary art practices and their often unconventional results. The three-day conference, called Making, Meaning & Context: A Radical Reconsideration of Art’s Work, spotlighted art and media conversations, installations, and performances, from the environmental to the domestic.

Danielle Boutet, founder of Goddard’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program, noted that in the past, disciplinary categories in the arts were defined by their media—clay, paint, music, theatre, dance, film. Interdisciplinary art, in contrast, looks at the artist’s intention and the holistic character of an art experience.

“Artistic intervention is not decoration,” said Lynne Constantine, an MFAIA student and a faculty member in George Mason University’s School

of Art. “It’s a way of thinking.”The international array of students,

artists, and activists who convened at Goddard traced the shift from thinking of art as a solitary project focused on the production of objects to a consideration of art making as a social practice. More often than not, this practice responds to the needs and aspirations of a local community and draws on collective creation. At their best, such art experiences, whether created in a day, over a few weeks or even across many years, can change both the artist’s thinking and the larger community context.

“For many contemporary artists,” according to Ju-Pong Lin, a faculty advisor in the MFAIA program, “the idea of art for art’s sake is no longer a viable way to engage the public.”

Speakers zeroed in on the question of what role art should play in changing the society around it. In lively talks during session breaks, over meals and by firelight, attendees thought about how the

A Host of Exhibits and Performances Enliven the MFAIA Conference …

» A series of photo portraits of workers at a Newfoundland fishery, captioned with the name and hours each woman has worked, hung in the lunchroom of the fish processing plant.

» A drought-tolerant garden planted across three acres of the San Francisco dump.

» The “City Meditation Crew,” a fictitious city agency whose members encourage passersby to stop and pay attention to their surroundings, one moment at a time.

» An “orangerie” outfitted with dozens of fresh Florida oranges, a shelf of juicers, and equipment for closed-circuit surveillance.

» A woman compulsively washing the floor with spit – then asking members of her audience to turn to their neighbors to discuss how housework is divided up in their families.

Keynote Speaker Recalls Balancing Act of Early Days

pinG ChOnG is an aCClaimeD theatRe DiReCtOR, playwright, and installation artist, plus a pioneer in the use of new media in theatrical settings. In his Saturday afternoon keynote presentation, “All Islands Connect Under Water,” Chong shared his own story of growing up in Toronto and New York.

Descended from a long line of performers in the Chinese opera, he did not see Western theater until he was 17 years old. At the time, he was studying painting and film at New York City’s High School of Art and Design on 57th Street, negotiating the gap between the cultural forms of his ancestry and the emerging avant-garde of New York in the 1960s.

“When I went to art school,” said Chong, “the distance between Chinatown and 57th Street might as well be from New York City to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” His ensuing career often addressed

the challenges of how people create and express their social identities, how the past shapes our understanding and expectations of the present, and the history of violence.

“To tell is healing,” Chong said. His recent theatrical work, Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, co-written with Goddard faculty member Kyle Bass, is based on the firsthand experiences of the Congolese refugee community in Syracuse, New York, and their efforts to reconcile and build on their adopted community. It will have its world premiere in September. cW

skills and personal values that come with expertise in music, visual arts, theatre, dance, filmmaking and craft disciplines could be used to create beauty, shared experience, advocacy, and social change.

Goddard faculty member Ruth Wallen, an ecological installation artist, said these skills include the creation of metaphor and narrative and the ability to reflect, witness, and engage with others through deep and respectful listening.

“A good metaphor evokes a network of interrelationships and a layering of meaning,” said Wallen. “Metaphors help both to make existing patterns apparent and to envision new forms of interaction.”

Envisioning new types of interaction leads one to think about self-identity. Daniel Peltz, who teaches film, animation and video at the Rhode Island School of Design, said “the strategic use of these skills calls for dexterity and

playfulness with our own identity as artists, rather than something we have an untouchable investment in.”

On discussing global issues, one participant noted, we are living in the “age of the anthropocene,” where what we do, and what we neglect to do, has a wide-ranging and perhaps irreversible affect on the planet.

In addressing complex social challenges, artist and curator Janeil Engelstad said “most interdisciplinary artists know very well that today’s problems call for the kind of interdisciplinary solutions that will shake up dichotomies, realign systems, and envision interdependency.”

Overall, the conference was a rich manifestation of “shaking up dichotomies,” a longtime Goddard trait. It was also a true measurement of Goddard’s MFAIA program, the ongoing work of its academic leaders, and the program’s belief in the value of shared questions and joint exploration, all conducted within a culture of peer learning. cW

For more information about the Goddard MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program, contact program director Jacqueline Hayes at 802.322.1655.

Art’s ConversationA gathering of artists explores interdisciplinary art and its move from a solitary to a social practice. By DEBRA CASH

“For many contemporary artists, the idea of art for art’s

sake is no longer a viable way to engage the public.”

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the weAkness Of grAvity Maureen Tadlock (IMA ’10) In her search for home, family and love in a world that from the beginning felt alien, Maureen Tadlock explores the borderlands of inner experience, creative expression and the transcendent, mythical meaning of her life as a young woman.Authorhouse (2011), $16

An unquenchAble thirst Mary C. Johnson (MFAW ’02) Provocative, profound, and emotionally charged, An Unquenchable Thirst is the memoir of Johnson’s 20 years as a nun in the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Eventually, she left the church to find her own path—one that led to love and herself.Spiegel & Grau (2011), $15

imAginAry syllAbi Jane Sprague (MFAW ’04) Imaginary Syllabi is a collection of writings by different authors that investigates and spoofs the teaching of writing and other disciplines. The writings concoct and explore utopian syllabi for imagined or real classroom endeavors. Palm Press (2011), $20

shine Donnelle McGee (MFAW ’08) The story of a young hustler who navigates streets, sex, and family, only to discover that the light of the dark can be cruel. “Donnelle McGee’s powerful, poetic prose gives Shine a unique voice that is fresh, bold and completely seductive.” – Charles Rice-GonzálezSibling Rivalry Press (2012), $4.99 on Kindle

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the stAte Of kAnsAs Julianna Spallholz (MFAW ’03) “Spallholz utterly nails the way we find and create menace in apparently innocuous or homey things like bricks or piles of dishes or who really owns the cat. Her pithy pointed tales show that we’re all, despite our efforts to play nice, domestic terrorists.” – Rebecca Brown GenPop Books (2011), $16

the clArA Ann burns stOry Heidi Ann Smith (MFAW-WA ’10) The Clara Ann Burns Story is an expression of child abuse and neglect witnessed through a patchwork of short prose reflections, poems, one-minute plays, scholarly studies and photographs. Daring in both content and structure, it explores multiple genres and is courageously self-reflective. Monkey Puzzle Press (2011), $15

i wAs bOrn this wAy, hOw AbOut yOu? Doug Green (BA RUP ’62) The ’40s and ’50s were a tough time to be gay. In his new book, Green describes the pain experienced by all who were different, in any way, and he recalls Goddard College as an environment of sanctuary that gave many the encouragement to set their own course. Authorhouse (2010), $16

inherent vice Patricia Valdata (GV MFA ’91) In her debut poetry book, Valdata plays with the many meanings of inherent vice: how objects break down and self-destruct. She explores a range of things that disappear—a 1955 postcard, data from the 1930 census, Elvis—and yet she finds that beauty triumphs in the end. Pecan Grove Press (2011), $15

the rOAd hOme Wanda M. Pothier-Hill (MFAW ’07) In her debut novel, Pothier-Hill writes a fascinating story about a single mother’s struggles—from having it all, to finding her life has gone out of control, to finally confronting her past—and her ultimate journey home. You won’t put this book down until the last riveting page.Muse Publishing USA (2011), $15

pendOwski pArkJohn Menapace (GV MFA ’89) The coming of age of one-eyed, black eyepatch-wearing Stanley “The Torch” Pendowski, a sensitive guy looking for answers and experience. After zaney love affairs and hilarious sexual hijinks, and with his end looming on the horizon, Pendowski finally comes to terms with his life. Judmar, Inc. (2010), $14.99

whispers frOm the bAlcOny: pOems, shOrt stOries, And ObservAtiOns Constance Mitchell (BA RUP ’53) Whispers from the Balcony explores the many facets of life, from everyday living to the essential moments in one’s existence. You will enjoy the playful words and vivid imagination of the author. Dorrance Publishing Co. (2011), $14

A fresh fOOtpAth: my new life in pOetry George Chappell (MFAW ’11) In this collection of poems, Chappell writes about small things, like the pine needles on a path through the woods, and large things, like war and environmental degradation. He looks back at painful experiences and still renders them with love. CreateSpace (2011), $15

the nAncy whO drew Nancy L. Wait (MFAW ’02) Who hasn’t wondered why bad things happen to them? The Nancy Who Drew plants a seed of hope that our painful experiences can have a positive outcome when we are willing to see ourselves on more than one level. Wait offers an inspiring memoir about rising from abuse to become her soul’s intention. CreateSpace (2011), $15

the cApAble heArt Ann E. Michael (MFAW ’03) In a new book of poems, Michael takes inspiration from many sources, including her daughter’s love of horses and her own gradual acceptance of these large, beautiful creatures. She explores the long-shared culture of humans and horses and what it means to be domesticated through the bonds of love and coexistence.Foothills Publishing (2011), $10

summer On the hill Philip Zuchman (GGP MA ’73) Summer on the Hill is the first book devoted exclusively to paintings by Philip Zuchman. The book’s 37 paintings, as well as sketches and quotes from his notebook, beautifully document his two-month stay on Patten Hill in Shelburne, Mass. Abingdon Square Publishing (2012), $35

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1960spaul weiss (ba rup ’68) of Bar Harbor, Maine, is the founding director of the Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor. The holistic center, which offers a variety of services for the body, mind, and spirit, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. www.thewholehealthcenter.com

1970smark davis (ba rup ’73-’74) of New Haven, Conn., had an installation titled Icarus, 2001 at the Fuller Craft Museum’s Courtyard Gallery. The museum is New England’s home for contemporary craft, in Brockton, Mass. From 1988 to 1995, he was commissioned twice a year to do mobiles and sculptures for window displays at Tiffany’s on 5th Avenue, Madison Avenue, and SOHO in New York. He continues to make mobiles and sculptures.

anthony dirienzi (ma ggp ’79) of Philadelphia, Pa., was part of a two-person show at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, Ariz. www.tonydirienzi.com

patricia eakins (mfaw ’77) of New York, N.Y., gave two readings with Harold Jafffee in March, at Word Up Community Bookshop and Le Cheile in New York.

linda nemec foster (mfaw ’79) of Grand Rapids, Mich., published a poem on www.best-poems.net.

howard friedman (ba rup ’74) of Brookline, Mass., was honored by the Massachusetts Bar Association, receiving the Pro Bono Award for Law Firms at the Access to Justice Awards. His firm was honored for providing exemplary legal services to the public.

cheri gaulke (ma ggp ’78) of Los Angeles, Calif., showed two installations – Feminist Art Workers and Sisters Of Survival – in Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art, at Otis College of Art and Design in West Los Angeles. Her new installation, Peep Totter Fly, was commissioned and presented by LACE as part of Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California, 1970-83. http://cherigaulke.wordpress.com

lindy grossinger (ma ggp ’73) of Kensington, Calif., reports that her daughter, Miranda July, a

performing artist, musician, writer, actress and film director, produced and acted in The Future, a film that premiered in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

e. jean lanyon (ba adp ’74) of Wilmington, Del., had a retrospective show of poetry and paintings, As the Poet Paints, in April at The Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Del.

lorraine neal (adp ’76), who started CD&FS in 1974, is currently on a working sabbatical in New York City, serving as an integrated arts coordinator at Aaron Academy.

peter polhemus (ba rup ’73) of North Chatham, Mass., was recently featured in The Boston Business Journal for his long career in the design-build industry. He runs one of the most successful custom-home design and building companies in the Northeast.

anna sequoia (ba adp ’78) of New York, N.Y. married her long-time domestic partner, Una Fahy, in a triple wedding ceremony in Glen Cove, N.Y. The “Glen Cove Six,” three couples who are friends and neighbors, had casually promised

that if the New York State Senate passed legislation enabling same sex couples to marry, they would all marry in one festive ceremony. Thanks to the persistence of the New York State Assembly and the efforts of Governor Cuomo, what was once only a fantasy became a reality … to the beat of salsa music.

laurie stevens (ba rup ’70-’71) of Durham, Conn., is a candidate for the Durham Board of Finance.

edward tick (ma ggp ’75) of Albany, N.Y., is a psychoanalyst who specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder. He was guest speaker at the Jim Klee Forum lecture series at the University of West Georgia. His most recent work has involved leading pilgrimages by Vietnam veterans back to the country where they fought, meeting the native veterans and sharing their stories. He earned a Ph.D. in communications from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is an interfaith minister. He has written several books, including War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is being used as a guidebook for Soldier’s Heart, a group that welcomes home soldiers with compassion and understanding.

1980sglenn heath (ba gv ’85) of Cape Coral, Fla., was showcased in The Great Jobs Project, a special feature of The News Press that highlights out-of-work Floridians to help thwart Southwest Florida’s high unemployment rate. He has more than 22 years of experience in planning with regional and local governments, specifically in comprehensive planning, land use regulation, development review project management and environmental resources. He has

a master’s in oceanography and coastal zone management from Florida Institute of Technology. philip Kirsch (mfaw ’80) of Millburn, N.J., participated in a group reading called South Moutain Poets Return. South Mountain Poets holds bi-monthly workshops at the Millburn Public Library and has published three anthologies of New Jersey poets.

bill orleans (ba rup ’80) of Burlington, Vt., owner of PP&D Brochure Distribution and president of the International Association of Professional Brochure Distributors, presided over this year’s association meeting in Annecy, France.

salamah pope (ba adp ’80) of Perth, Australia, received a master's degree in teaching and curriculum, from Michigan State and lectured at the National University in Jakarta, Indonesia before retiring to Perth, Western Australia. She is the author of a book on spirituality and another on Indonesian cosmology. www.worldpattern.net

1990smargaret ahnert (iba ’97) of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., earned a master of fine arts degree from Goucher College in 1999. Her book, The Knock at the Door, was USA Book News’ “Best Book of 2007” and received the New York Book Festival’s 2008 award for best historical memoir. The book, which was born at Goddard, is translated into Armenian, Turkish, Italian and Spanish, with a movie script in the works.

thomas case (ba gv ’93) of Burlington, Vt., is beginning his tenth year at Arethusa Farm in the Intervale in Burlington. The farmers rent 20 acres from the Intervale

Center and are certified organic. The majority of their business is wholesale, selling vegetables to area restaurants and food stores.

judith Kelly (psy ’99) of New York, N.Y., received her doctorate in psychology from Northcentral University and was awarded the Dissertation of the Year Award for her research on “The Efficacy of Hypnosis for Comorbid Chronic Pain and Insomnia in Older Adults.” Judith maintains a privatecounseling practice in New York,N.Y., and is also as a social worker ata supported housing residence forformerly homeless seniors.

allison mann (ma gv ’90 and former faculty member) is the new interim director of Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio in Montpelier, Vt., where she also teaches.

elena papavero (psy ’99) of Jackson, N.J., received the Dissertation of the Year award two years ago for her dissertation on “Assessing the Relationships Between Person-Organization Fit, Moral Philosophy and the Motivation to Lead.”

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gary schiro (mFaw ’96) of Staatsburg, n.y., married Robert Burns in March in Rhinebeck, n.y. Gary (right) is the executive director of the Hudson Opera House, a multi-arts center in Hudson.

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ADP: Adult Degree ProgrambA: bachelor of Arts bA EDu: bachelor of Arts in EducationbA HAs: bachelor of Arts in Health Arts & sciencesbAs: bachelor of Arts in sustainabilitybfAW: bachelor of fine Arts in creative WritingG-c: Goddard-cambridge ProgramGEPfE: Experimental Program in furthering EducationGGP: Goddard Graduate ProgramGJc: Goddard Junior collegeGs: Goddard seminaryGV: Goddard five (all programs from 1981-1991)IbA: bachelor of Arts in Individualized studiesIMA: Master of Arts in Individualized studies

MA EDu: Master of Arts in EducationMA HAs: Master of Arts in Health Arts & sciencesMAt: Master’s in Art therapyMfAW: Master of fine Arts in creative WritingMfAW-WA: Master of fine Arts in creative Writing in Port townsend, Wash.MfAIA: Master of fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts MfAIA-WA: Master of fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts in Port townsend, Wash.Psy: Master of Arts in Psychology & counselingruP: residential undergraduate Programsbc: Master of Arts in sustainable business & communitiessE/sum: social Ecology/summer Programs


2000syasmin amico (ma edu ’09, mfaw ’12) of Hamden, Conn., gave two memoir workshops at the Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury, Conn., in February. She also read excerpts there from her play, Return to Thurgoodville, written for her Goddard thesis. She gave presentations on women and labor at the 12th annual Women’s Studies Conference and at Southern Connecticut State University. She is pursuing a doctorate in education.

lindsey bourassa (iba ’09) of Portland, Maine, organized and presented at a TEDx event. TEDx is a platform to celebrate innovation and

creativity in Maine through local events that bring people together.

christina desuno (iba ’09) of Bristol, Wisc., is in her second year as a doctoral student in the clinical psychology department at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. She was inducted into Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology.

reginald harris (iba ’09-’10) of Chicago, Ill., has danced professionally with the River North Chicago Dance Company, Dances Patrelle and Ballet Austin, performing works by Marius Petipa, George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp and other well-known choreographers. He was guest choreographer for the San Angelo Civic Ballet’s Evening of Dance 2011, which featured a special performance of Swan Lake.

marisa hayes (iba ’05) of LeBreuil, France, and Franck Boulègue are artistic directors of Company Body Cinema and the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, and were named cultural ambassadors to Hong Kong. They gave two lecture presentations at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts last October, and at a residency in Düsseldorf, they were commissioned to create a new version of The Rite of Spring. In November, they traveled to Vietnam and introduced the Hanoi Cinematheque’s first-ever screendance program with two evenings of lectures and screenings.

conrad herwig (ba ’03) of Somerset, N.J., has spent more than a decade “Latinizing” works by celebrated jazz musicians and composers. His Latin Side albums have been released on Half Note Records, including The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock featuring Eddie Palmieri and Randy Brecker. He has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell’s

Septet and Big Band, and the Joe Lovano Nonet, performing and recording with Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta II and Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet, Paquito D’Rivera’s Havana-New York Connection, and the Mingus Big Band. He is a professor of jazz trombone, improvisation and composition at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

sharon lajoie (mfaia ’05) of Concord, N.H., directed the premier of The Watercress by Paul Mroczka, at Plymouth State University’s Silver Center for the Arts. The Watercress is a drama about sisters Lizzie and Emma Borden, set in Fall River, Mass., in 1904, 12 years after the infamous murder of their parents.

linda lebrane (bfa ’09, mfaw ’11) of Port Townsend, Wash., gave a reading at the Northwind Reading Series, along with Lisa McIvor (mfaw-wa ’11, current ima) of Shoreline, Wash.

donnelle mcgee (mfaw ’08) of Turlock, Calif., had poems published in two literary journals, Two Hawks Quarterly and Ginosko. He also has an essay that will be published in a collection called Mapping the Line: Poets on Teaching.

Shokouh Shafiee-Azad (MA PSY ’09) of Bethesda, Md., is focusing her mental health practice on women immigrating from Iran.

lowell williams (mfaw ’06) of Nashua, N.H., reports that his play, Six Nights in the Black Belt, was the winner of the 2011 New Hampshire AACT Drama Festival and runner-up at the AACT Regional drama festival. It was also selected as a semi-finalist for the 2011 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

carolyn nur wistrand (mfaw ’07) of Flint, Mich., won the 2011 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political

Playwriting Contest for her play, Rising, which tells the story of American men and women, black and white, discovering the costs of freedom. The play received a staged reading at New York City’s Castillo Theatre and was featured in PlayLabs at the Great Plains National Theatre Conference in Omaha, Neb.

2010spaula altschuler (mfaw-wa ’12) of Park City, Utah, is organizing an expanded writing workshop for students aged 12-16 through Mega Genius Supply Store. The original three-week workshop was offered last year as part of her Goddard program and students asked that it be continued. Addressing a different technique each workshop will help students get a grasp on different writing styles, according to Paula, who said this year she wants to focus on revision.

aholaah arzah (mfaw-wa ’11) of Port Townsend, Wash., had a prose piece, “Ring Cycle,” included in the second issue of Longshot Magazine.

eileen brunetto (mfaw ’12) of Cornwall, Vt., had a chapter from her Goddard manuscript – Clean of Spirit – published in the Fall 2011 issue of The MacGuffin, a national literary magazine from Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Mich.

adam burk (ma edu ’10) of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, will be one of Maine’s ”Forty Under 40” nominees to be honored at a July 14 harbor cruise, with published profiles recognizing rising stars’ contributions. Recipients were nominated for their commitment to leadership, professional excellence and their communities. Beginning July 14, the Portland Press Herald will publish a profile of one honoree

per day for 40 consecutive days.

jo dery (mfaia ’11) of Providence, R.I., was selected to exhibit in the 2012 deCordova Biennial, an exhibition highlighting artists around New England. The show was held from January through April.

susan fagan (mfaia ’10) of Westerville, Ohio, had a solo exhibition titled Remembrance: Art Made at the Intersection of Horror and Hope. The collection bears witness to her experience of being at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The show was held in the Fisher Gallery at Otterbein University in Westerville.

donte felder (mfaw-wa ’12) and isla mcKetta (mfaw-wa ’10), both of Seattle, Wash., joined the board of directors of the Richard Hugo House, an organization in Seattle that fosters writers, builds community and engages the Pacific Northwest in the world of writing.

ron heacock (iba ’12, current mfaw-wa) of Portland, Ore., published a poem in the Spring 2012 Goddard Guidewords Journal and participated in a Guideword reading during the April IBA residency.

richard Kornak (bfaw ’10) of Schenectady, N.Y., is a copywriter at Virtucom Group in Syracuse.

deanna pindell (mfaia-wa ’11) of Port Hadlock, Wash., was awarded a 12-week environmental artist-in-residence project at the McColl Center, where she will be developing a public remediation artwork in urban Charlotte, N.C.

Kelly sheridan (mfaia-wa ’11) of Seattle, Wash., is a graduate advisor at Prescott College and an adjunct instructor in the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, teaching digital imaging.

mark smith (mfaia-wa ’11) of Tulare, Calif., an Iraq war veteran, was featured in an article by ArtsWORK Indiana, a group that seeks to increase arts related opportunities for people with disabilities. Mark works to facilitate expressive arts avenues for combat and hospitalized veterans.

craig thornton (mfaw ’10) of Watertown, N.Y., was interviewed by CNN recently for a national story on his docudrama In My Shoes. The play depicts real life stories of teenagers coping with parental separation from military deployment

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David berggren (mfaia ’09) and avelynn mitra (mfaia ’07) were married in Claremont, n.H., in David‘s hometown. Shortly after the wedding, David enlisted in the U.S. Army as a guitarist. In December 2011, they relocated to Colorado Springs, where David is assigned to the 4th Infantry Ivy Division Band at Fort Carson, and Avelynn is enjoying time off with her teenage son, Tristan.

morgan peters (aka mwalim) (mfaw ’06) of new Bedford, Mass., was recently honored with a proclamation from the Boston City Council in recognition of his 27 years as part of the Boston arts community, both as an artist and an educator. He also won the Best Male Jazz Artist category at the new England Urban Music Awards. Mwalim is director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where his specialties include dramatic writing, spoken word, Black theater and folklore, and digital media production. He is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and was a founding member of the tribe’s education committee.


in the Middle East. It had a successful run last June and was revived on Veteran’s Day Weekend. His thesis play, The High Cost of Heating, was selected for the New Play Festival at Penobscot Theatre in Bangor, Maine, last June, and he received a playwriting award from TANYS for his one act play, We’re a Close Family.

tyler whidden (mfaw-wa ’11) of

North Olmsted, Ohio, is part of the writing crew for the 36th Cleveland International Film Festival’s 164-page guidebook to 10 days of movie showings. His newest work, Dancing With N.E.D., is a dark comedy about cancer and remission that explores death, suffering and compassion. It debuted in March at Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland Heights.

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lida winfield (iba ’09, mfaia ’11) of Burlington, Vt., performed her one-woman dance-theater work, In Search of Air, as part of Lost nation Theater’s WinterFest in Montpelier and at the education residency in January. The piece tells the story of her early education dealing with dyslexia. Lida teaches dance classes at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and she is involved with the Flynn’s professional development program, Words Come Alive. This takes her to schools around the state, where she works with teachers to integrate dance and movement into their academic curricula.

Learn more about Lida Winfield’s performances at: www.lidawinfield.com

current studentsmary curtis (mfaw) of Los Gatos, Calif., had a poem published in the Boston Literary Magazine.

dana heffern (mfaia) of South Burlington, Vt., is a decorative painter, interior designer and former Broadway scenic artist. She is also a type-1 diabetic who shares her story of hope through art and mentoring, with Spectrum’s Youth & Family Services mentor program for type-1 diabetics. She received a scholarship from the Association on Higher Education and Disability to help fund a performance art piece, Antidote, on the difficulties of living with diabetes, which she performed at the MFAIA residency last July. Dana was one of the volunteers honored at United Way’s 2010 Hometown Hero Awards Breakfast.

maggie Keenan-bolger (mfaia) of New York, N.Y., has worked with a variety of populations – including LGBT homeless youth, LGBT elders and inter-generational LGBT groups – to provide a venue for self-expression and a voice to often-silenced communities. She works as an openly queer teaching artist in the New York City Public Schools, teaching theatre classes and running LGBT Pride Clubs at three high schools in Brooklyn.

michael Kinnie (mfaw) of

Sackets Harbor, N.Y., reports that his musical The Littlest Elf, which he also directed, was presented at the Lake Ontario Playhouse in Sackets Harbor, N.Y.

jake shore (mfaw) of Barrington, R.I., wrote, produced and directed an original play with Neil Ryan called The Tracks to Shepherd’s Gate, which sold out both of its performances in New York City’s East Village.

Kathleen smith (mfaia) of Foster, R.I., showcased her interdisciplinary graduate studies of dance, choreography and the arts in The Dance Faculty Concert, held last March in the Nazarian Center’s Forman Theatre. Her piece Dualing-Isms, which was chosen as a finalist at the American College Dance Festival in February, was also featured.

victoria Zolnoski (mfaia) of East Hardwick, Vt., and mark o’maley (mfaia) of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., received four awards at the American College Dance Festival, held at Muhlenberg College, for their short dance film, The Camera Betrays You. The awards included best camera, best production design and use of location, best editing and best filmic energy.

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todd andes (iba 1999-2001) passed away on July 22, 2011, at the age of 43. mildred h. baker passed away on Sept. 11, 2011, at the age of 90. Mildred attended the Goddard School for Girls. marcel joseph bisson (gepfe 1973-1974) died on Aug. 6, 2011, at the age of 83.

gary d. bowen (ggp ’75) passed away on Nov. 4, 2011, at the age of 69, after a long illness.

sister elizabeth candon, former trustee, died peacefully on Feb. 1, 2012, at the age of 74.

alice cardona (adp ’73), a lifelong advocate for women’s rights and bilingual education, died Nov. 1 2011, at age 81.

diane carter (ggp ’79) died in Lebanon, New Hampshire, on July 9, 2011, at age 57. hazel dayer fish (gv ’88) passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 3, 2012. edgar c. forsberg (ggp ’73) died on June 11, 2011, after a brief illness. richard f. gottlieb (ggp ’77) died Feb. 15, 2012, at the age of 76. tom grenier (rup ’75) died suddenly on Dec. 31, 2011. Tom was a painter, cartoonist, sculptor and conceptual artist. eleanor m. griggs (gepfe 1968-1969) died on Dec. 1, 2011, following a long illness, at the age of 77.

frances herman (adp ’68) passed away on April 12, 2011, at the age of 82. catherine ann hosmer (ggp ’75) died after a brief and sudden illness on April 25, 2011.

jennifer hill (rup ’69) died January 8, 2012, of lung cancer. Jennifer studied dance at Goddard, where she memorably appeared in Don Guy’s senior study, A Dance Film.

elna iversen (adp ’80) passed away on August 26, 2011. franklin c. jillson (rup ’52) passed away peacefully on Aug. 1, 2011, at the age of 89. lorraine “lanny” lasky (adp ’71) passed away on May 7, 2011, at age 84.

joan e. leach, former Goddard staff member, passed away Sept. 9, 2011, at the age of 75. alexis m. machado (g-c ’78) passed away on April 5, 2011, at the age of 61.

wanda “sandy” mcKinney (mfaw ’79) passed away on March 29, 2011. david mcneice (ggp ’80) died on March 20, 2012, at the age of 65. loralee K. moon (mfaw-vt ’05) passed away on Jan. 19, 2012. jeane lindelow moore (ma has ’08) passed away on Feb. 25, 2012, at age 84.

harold jerome mortimer jr. (adp ’70) passed away on Jan. 11, 2012. romi myers perkins (adp ’69) died peacefully in her sleep on Feb. 13, 2012.

john potthast (adp ’74) passed away on Nov. 16, 2011. margaret “peg” robb (adp ‘73) passed away on April 5, 2012.

anci slovak (ggp ’76) died Nov. 14, 2011, at the age of 65. marie lyn stefenhagens (mfaw ’99) died on March 7, 2012. nancy anne thomas (rup ’46) passed away on July 3, 2011, at the age of 85, following a long illness. Nancy met her husband, Charles W. Thomas, at Goddard.

Katy Zirbel, an mfaw-wa student, passed away in August of 2011 after a long battle with cancer.

Jennifer Hill (ruP ’69)

phyllis f. hirsch york (Rup ’69), a family therapist who cofounded the self-help program for parents called ToughLove, died on March 14, 2012, at the age of 74. In the 1970s, Phyllis and her husband, David, developed ToughLove, based on their experiences dealing with their own out-of-control teenagers. Phyllis york counseled parents: “When you say no, mean it. When adolescents begin acting responsibly, parents can again give tender, loving care.” ToughLove became an international movement popularized by the yorks’ books and manuals, interviews on Phil Donahue and other television and radio programs, an Ann Landers column, magazine and newspaper articles, and a 1985 TV movie starring Lee Remick and Bruce Dern.


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Kyle bass (mfaw) recently received a $25,000 MAP Fund support grant for a new multidisciplinary theater work he co-wrote with renowned theater artist Ping Chong. Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo is based on the firsthand experiences of the Congolese refugee community in Syracuse, N.Y., and their efforts to build community and to reconcile in their adopted community.

susan blickstein (sbc) consulted with two communities (Madison, N.J. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) on ordinances to incentivize green building and transit-oriented design in areas that are being redeveloped.

pamela booker’s (iba) panel, Of When, Where & How I Enter: Methodologies of Subversion in African-American Women’s Scholarship & Activism, was accepted for inclusion in the National Women’s Studies Association 2011 conference program.

Neena Bouchard (Office of the president) joined Goddard in March as the new senior administrative assistant and clerk of the board.

deborah brevoort (mfaw) won the Annual 2011 Wyoming National Theatre Essay Competition. The essay examines the complicated

relationship between political activism and playwriting.

heather bryce labor (admissions and current ma edu) married Eric Labor on May 28, 2011. A beautiful outdoor ceremony was held at Morse Farm in Montpelier, Vt.

walter butts (iba) gave a reading on Aug. 16, 2011, at the Walter Street Bookstore to read from his new poetry collection, Radio Time.

giovanni ciarlo (sbc) has begun consulting for Gaia Education, an international NGO and ecovillage education consortium, to create content and coordinate revision of their international curriculum on Design for Sustainability.

jan clausen’s (mfaw) essay on the larger political meaning of the upcoming presidential election was published by The Indypendent, New York City’s radical newspaper.

ann driscoll (sbc) was interviewed by the History Channel in bethe hagen’s (iba) sustainably constructed shop/studio in Kennebunkport, Maine. The interview was about vortex energies and Hagen’s work with spinners and the earth energies geometry.

charles eistenstein (has) delivered the commencement address, “The Healer in an Age of Transition,” at the Tai Sophia Institute 2011 graduation.

laurie foos (bfa) recently joined the faculty of the BFA in Creative Writing Program. Foos was a MacArthur Scholar (Most Promising Fiction Writer) at Brooklyn College where she received her MFA. She is the author of five novels, with two forthcoming this year.

Kenny fries (mfaw) received a grant from the Toronto Arts

Council to finish work on his new book, In the Province of the Gods.

deborah armstrong hickey (psych) recently joined the faculty of the MA in Psychology & Counseling program. She brings to Goddard 30 years experience as a clinician and over 20 years teaching in higher education, including deep experience with Expressive Arts Therapy.

seitu jones (mfaia) delivered the keynote address, “Seeding the Future,” at the September 2011 Imaginary America National Conference in the Twin Cities, Minn. One of his numerous public art commissions, Jones recently completed installation of an artist-designed drinking fountain on Main Street next to the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

michael Klein (mfaw) just had four prose pieces accepted for publication by Post Road.

petra Kuppers (mfaia) published two new books, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, and an edited collection of poets, performance and visual artists called Somatic Engagement, on the poetics, politics and publics of embodiment (Chain Links, October 2011). She also keynoted the 2011 Federation for Theatre Research conference in Osaka, Japan.

laiwan (mfaia) installed the 4th version of “PDA for your PDA,” her cell-phone poem written collectively with audience participation, at Britannia Library Gallery in Vancouver.

Kansas Poet Laureate caryn mirriam-goldberg’s (mfaw) article, “Poet Laureate of Limbo,” was published in the Huffington Post. The article documents the

political nature of maintaining funding for the arts in Kansas.

nicola morris (mfaw) gave two lectures in Cortland, N.Y. The first lecture focused on Maurice Sendak’s Jewish identity, and the influence of his Jewishness on his work as a children’s book author and illustrator. The second lecture looks at issues of civility, incivility and social justice through the complex relationships between text and image in his books.

victoria nelson’s (mfaw) story “Main Train Station” appeared in Raritan, her essay “Meat and Light” on the Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin, appeared in The Believer and her Paris Review Perspective introduction was published in Critical Insights: Pride and Prejudice, from Salem Press.

christine persico (admissions), joined Goddard in April as the Chief Enrollment Officer. She was formerly the executive director of enrollment management at Teachers College-Columbia University, and assistant vice president of enrollment management at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

wendy phillips’ (psych) photographs were recently exhibited at Photoplace Gallery in Middlebury, Vt.; Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico; Cantabria, Spain; and the Gallery of the Georgia State University Welch School of Art and Design in Atlanta, Ga.

rachel pollack’s (mfaw) novel, Unquenchable Fire, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, will be re-issued as part of Gollancz Books’ series, SF Masterworks. Gollancz is bringing out ebooks of Rachel’s published SF books, including her first novel, Golden Vanity, and the rare collection, Burning Sky, as part of the SF Gateway ebook series. www.sfgateway.com

rahna reiko rizzuto’s (mfaw) article, “Storytelling,” has been posted at She Writes, a community blog of and for women writers; Gender Across Borders; and Women Doing Literary Things. michael sakamoto (mfaia) has joined forces with an international team of dance and music collaborators in the development of The Empty Room: Manifesting the Democratic Body, a dance and music journey into consciousness in contemporary society.

richard schramm (sbc) helped establish the Local First Alliance in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire and is on the LFA Steering Committee. LFA is an organization of local businesses and community nonprofits seeking to strengthen the local economy, build community and protect the environment.

martha vanderwolk (sbc) has been working with the Vermont Community Fund on the development of a fund for the Northeast Kingdom.

neW VOIceScast members give a workshop production of cry for Peace: Voices from the congo, a theater work co-written by kyle bass (MfAW). the production will have its world premiere at syracuse stage in september and then transfer to new york’s la MaMa theatre in october.

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sharon siskin (mfaia) was featured in the cross-cultural exhibition, Diverse Visions of Harmony: An Interfaith Art Exhibit at the Islamic Cultural Center in Oakland last fall. Siskin’s piece, “Children of Abraham: Learn,” combines pages from Hebrew and Arabic children’s schoolbooks, including some she discovered years ago while serving as artist-in-residence at the San Francisco City Dump.

new sChOlaRship hOnORs miChael ChaRpentieR

A new spirit oF goddard scholarship in memory of Michael Charpentier, who

passed away in Montpelier, Vt. on nov. 29, 2010, was established thanks to the generous contributions of the Charpentier family.

Michael was born nov. 2, 1952 in new Bedford, Mass. He attended college in Boston, Atlanta and Cleveland. Over the years, he engaged with Jobs with Peace, The Institute for Global Ethics, the Humanity Foundation, Findhorn, the new Alchemy Institute, seminars on Future Thinking, and Peace and Justice.

He was a strong believer in sustainable and alternative business models and democratic values. He believed that engaging persons in dialogue rather than debate would create a more cooperative community with economic and social justice for all.

Michael would have been a great match for our MA in Sustainable Business and Communities program.

“He always expressed a keen interest in Goddard College,” his brother told us. The scholarship awards funds to Goddard students pursuing sustainability studies.

lIkE MInDED Michael poses with his nephew, remi, in the above photo.

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look at TED Talks. The website (www.ted.com) features short talks from leading innovators, creators and thinkers from around the world; it’s become a popular go-to site for those in search of new ideas.

TED started out in 1984 as a conference that brought together people from three worlds: technology, entertainment and design. Since then, its scope has become ever broader, but the basic goal remains the same: promoting ideas that are worth spreading.

A number of Goddard alumni have hitched their wagons to the TED star to help bring good ideas to a global audience. In fact, Adam Burk (MA EDU ’10) has been organizing TEDxDirigo in Maine since 2010. TEDx events are independently organized events that follow the TED mission of promoting “ideas worth spreading.” Dirigo comes from Maine’s state motto, “I lead.”

“I believe that Maine has a lot to teach the world – from modesty to stewardship to resilience,” says Burk, who is now TEDxDirigo’s

executive director. “TEDxDirigo represents the best of human potential.”

Since TEDxDirigo started in 2010, they have tripled in size each year, and their events have earned 300,000 views globally. This year the trend continues, and then some, with two full-day events and a new TEDxyouth in Maine movement.

Among the many presenters Burk has collected over the past few years, Lindsey Bourassa (IBA ’09) is also a Goddard graduate. An avid Flamenco enthusiast, Bourassa’s studies at Goddard motivated her to bring together a group of musicians, dancers and artists from Portland, Maine, to form the group Olas.

“My senior study consisted of a Flamenco-inspired dance and music performance based on a creative travel memoir I had written,” she says. “I wanted to create a project that combined my love of writing and my practice and study of dance, specifically Flamenco.”

This initial project quickly morphed into something larger, creating an ensemble who found great joy in creating music and dance

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together. Last year, the group spread their passion during Maine’s TEDxDirigo event.

“TEDxDirigo was a great experience,” Bourassa says. “We were all relatively familiar with TED Talks and were very excited to be asked to perform alongside so many wonderful artists and thinkers.”

She said the response from the audience was inspiring.

“We were really touched by the outpouring of energy and encouragement from TEDxDirigo attendees, both during and after our performance,” she says. “The energy in the room was inspiring and humbling.” cW

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Adam burk is executive director of tEDxDirigo.

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