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Alumna Lida Winfield Explores the Gifts and Heartache Accompanying Learning Disability

On Monday, November 5, 2012, Lida Winfield (MFAIA '11) brought her one-woman dance and spoken word performance, "In Search of Air," to Brown University. This dance and theater performance, developed in part while a student in Goddard's MFAIA program, is based on her experience growing up with a learning disability, and relates the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read – which did not occur until her early twenties.

Character-driven Fiction: Toward Believabilty

The novelist Paul Auster has written, “As long as there’s one person to believe it, there’s no story that can’t be true.”

On Sandy and Natural Disasters: A Garbage Man's Perspective

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, Paul Gordon (MFAIA ’13) has published on the Huffington Post his reflections on cleaning up after a natural disaster. As a garbage man in Binghamton, NY during flooding in 2006 and 2011, Paul witnessed the damage, loss, and range of human reactions that emerged in the days and weeks after the floods. His experience provides way of considering what’s happing in many lives along the Atlantic coast today.

Writing Schedules and Inspiration

by Ryan Boudinot

An Integrative Approach to Crohn's Disease

Four years ago, Carina Rockland (BA HAS '13) was hospitalized for six weeks with an unknown diagnosis. She had severe abdominal pains and was malnourished, vulnerable to septic shock, and showing no signs of improvement. Just after Carina’s last surgery, weak and perilously underweight, a gifted acupuncturist visited her hospital room and helped Carina feel the first glimmers of healing.

Bricks and Mortar

It’s late 2012, and the long-promised death of print (predicted somewhere on a Mayan calendar, I’m told), has yet to happen. I live in Seattle, birthplace of Amazon and the Kindle (full disclosure: I worked for Amazon twice, once from 1998-2000, again from 2004-2007), and yet I still see people leaning against bus stop posts absorbed in paperbacks. I’m lucky to live in a town that boasts two large independent bookstores—Elliott Bay Book Company and University Bookstore—as well as a variety of smaller independents that cater to various neighborhoods and niche interests.

Dr. Barbara Vacarr's speech on Evayln Bates

Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

The stories that live in silence very often have the greatest power to transform our world and our understanding of it, when we are given an opportunity to share them and to listen to them.

Goddard at the AASHE Conference: A Leader in Sustainability

I had the privilege of representing Goddard at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) conference this October. I was invited to the conference in Los Angeles by the Chronicle of Higher Education to speak as one of a four- person panel about sustainability in higher education. Approximately 150 people--faculty, students, college presidents, sustainability administrators and trustees attended the session. Goddard was invited as a leader and innovator.

"Temporary Home:" A Residency Performance by MFAIA student, Misha Penton

Using one of the abandoned military bunkers on the bluffs of Fort Worden State Park, Misha Penton (MFAIA '13) created a site-specific performance during the fall 2012 residency for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at our Port Townsend, Washington site. Watch the beautiful video below.

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