Visiting Artists are an integral, highly anticipated component of each residency. We welcome accomplished interdisciplinary practitioners to our learning communities at the Port Townsend and Plainfield residency sites.
Visitors join us for several days in examining questions relevant to contemporary practice, bringing diverse perspectives and lived ways of knowing into immediate dialogue with student inquiry. Visits regularly include artist talks, performances, intensive workshops and opportunities for informal and social interaction.
Upcoming Visiting Artists
Spring 2012 Port Townsend Residency: Shaun Peterson and Steve Brown - master carvers in northwest native wood carving
Shaun Peterson, Esha Hart Photography | Steve Brown
Spotlight on Alums
The MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts is proud of our alumni. Alums remain dynamic contributors to the IA community and we regularly invite them to share their creative and professional achievements with current students through presentations and workshops. Recent alum guests at the Port Townsend, WA and Plainfield, VT residency sites include:
Marilyn Freeman -
Her work is characterized by themes of identity, tolerance, faith and alienation.
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Karin Bolender -
Karin
Bolender’s life/art practice revolves around relationships between
rural landscapes (all the faunal, floral, and mineral forms that
inhabit them) and human acts of metaphor, memory, and imagination.
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Grounded equally in poetics and performance-art traditions, Karin’s
work explores the seams between our human selves and other beings, in
particular other species. Many of her past projects involve
collaborative journeys through the rural American South with two
American Spotted she-Asses, Aliass and Passenger. These journeys
include Little Pilgrim of Carcassonne, The Dead-Car Crossing, She-Haw
Transhumance and “Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?” MYSTERY TOUR.
Her ongoing performance series known as The Dive Rodeo playfully
subverts the breakneck speeds and dominance-over-livestock paradigms of
traditional rodeo events in search of slower and more contemplative
ways of being and knowing other creatures. Recently, Karin has
assembled her life/art enterprise and agricultural esoterica inside the
workings of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), headquartered on a
small, evolving farmstead in Carnesville, Georgia. Karin holds an MA
in Creative Writing from Hollins University and an MFA in
Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College (2007). She’s taught at the
University of Georgia, James Madison University and Gainesville State
College. Her essay,“’What You Gonna Do About Yer Ass’ (or, an answer to
Sun Ra via journeys in incarnated poetics and interdisciplinary-art
practice),” was recently published in the Cambridge Scholars Press
collection, Collision: Interarts Practice and Research.
Learn more at KarinBolender.com.
Meg McHutchison -
Meg
McHutchison is an interdisciplinary artist working with an integrative
practice at the poetic intersections of text, performance, video and
visual art. Read more
Meg's recent work includes exhibitions of monotypes and
mixed media (November 2009), experimental video (Jan 2010/June 2009),
broadside (Sept, 2009), and website (October-Dec 2009), as well as
guest curating a weekend of performance, and several performative
outings with collaborators in a practice of embodied drawing known as
redFred. Meg presented a solo show at the Tao Center in Portland,
Oregon in February 2010. Meg's professional practice as a creative with
Gigantic Planet suits her unique capacity to bridge mediums,
harmonizing video and multimedia with live program development and
direction. Meg is media independent content generator and producer who
applies an interdisciplinary practice to all aspects of her work. She
has made substantive contributions to many vital, high profile projects
over the last two decades including multiple projects for Cornish
College of the Arts, and the University of Washington, Pacific
Northwest Ballet, and Oregon State University. Earlier work includes
Teatro ZinZanni, the WOMAD USA Festival, and Bumbershoot Special
Projects Programming. Meg is thrilled to be living in Portland with her
beloved collaborator and husband, fellow Goddard Alum (2007), JC
Schlechter, and the Bodhi cat. She is delighted to be tending the roses
for the first time in her life. Meg completed her MFA through Goddard
College in 2006.
Learn more at megmchutchison.com.
Christine Toth
Christine Toth is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and
works in Portland, Oregon, and an ’07 graduate of Goddard’s MFA in
Interdisciplinary Arts program.
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Intrigued by the power of narrative and
poetry to shape our consciousness, writing and the realm of literature
inform much of her visual work. There is not one story, but many
stories, many poems to describe each of us. She is drawn to the elusive
task of uncovering the source of experience that generates language,
locating what takes shape before words are formed. A writer and a
visual artist, Christine works in a variety of media, including oil and
encaustic paints, digital photography, and installation.
Photo Credit: Christine TothLearn more at ChristineToth.com.
Neel Murgai
Neel Murgai is a multi-instrumental performer, composer and teacher from New York City. Learn more at NeelMurgai.com.
Beth Nixon
Beth is an interdisicplinary artist and performer who Beth has worked with Pig Iron Theatre and Spiral Q (Philly), Red Moon Theater (Chicago), Bread and Puppet Theater (VT), and Big Nazo Puppets (RI). Read more at RamshackleEnterprises.com.
