Goddard Semiannual Sustainability Progress Report
January 16, 2013
Background
Blogs
Goddard College invited to speak at conference by Chronicle of Higher Education
Recent stories in the national press have explored whether the traditional college model still works, and if not, what can we do to address the affordability and relevance of a college education today?
January 2013 Accomplishments
FACULTY
Ryan Boudinot's Blueprints of the Afterlife has been named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The winner will be announced on March 29 at Norwescon, in Seatac, WA.
Liz Lerman to be Visiting Artist for MFAIA-VT Spring 2013 Residency
Choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, Liz Lerman, will be the visiting artist for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program's Spring 2013 residency.
Twinkling Genius
In July 2012, Neely Cohen (BA HAS ’12) reached the final round of Food Network’s “Sweet Genius”– a dessert competition.
Neely and the other remaining contestants awaited instructions on what mystery ingredients they would need to include in their dessert stand-off. The winner of the challenge would get $10,000 and national recognition.
Contemplation, Clarity, and the Poem
Complex thoughts distilled through plain diction, interactions with the natural world, and specificity of details can heighten imagery and evoke larger implications. This endeavor to make human connection through introspection, reflection and acute awareness of one’s environment is a prevalent style employed by many ancient Chinese poets. Within this seemingly simplistic approach, these masters arrived at discoveries, revelatory for themselves and the reader.
December 2012 Accomplishments
December was a big month for Goddard’s MFAW program with our alumni and faculty earning major kudos in the professional world!
Reading, Listening, and Making Poems
INTERsectionS
By Mary Sui Yee Wong, IBA Faculty
INTERsectionS was an interdisciplinary student exhibition that endeavored to invite cross-pollination, open conversation and dynamic exchange between creators and their community.
FLUXUS: Who Set you flowin'?
By Pamela Booker, IBA Faculty
This past fall residency, in partnership with two of my faculty besties, Otto Muller and Suiyee Wong (pictured below)—ever the motley crew in pursuit of frivolity—we realized a longtime vision of organizing and presenting a collaborative, Fluxus-based workshop.
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