Program Faculty
Faculty & Program Directors
Below is a list of faculty at Goddard College. To filter this list by program, check the appropriate box.
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Danielle Abrams, MFA
My early work as a painter and installation artist explored the decomposing carnival as an emblem of postindustrial New York City. My imagery consisted of ferris wheels and junkies, fish being bathed...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Rick Benjamin, PhD, MA (Leave of Absence Spring 2013)
In her memoir, A Sketch of the Past, Virginia Woolf insists that making art means dropping into a collective mind-stream. “Shakespeare’s Hamlet, or a Beethoven Quartet,” she says, are some truth about...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Erica Eaton, PhD, MFA, MSW (Leave of Absence Spring 2013)
I value art for its ability to create a kind of knowledge. Art allows us to look at something in a new way. I do not set out to represent what is already known, but to look at what is there through di...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Pam Hall, MEd
I have been engaged as an artist for more than twenty years in a practice that includes visual art production, installation, writing, sound, book works, film and performance. This is how I make my liv...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Peter Hocking, MFA
Pete Hocking is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and teacher based in Providence, Rhode Island & Provincetown, Massachusetts.
His studio practice focuses on personal narrative and the constr...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Gale Jackson, MLS, MA
I am the first of the first generation of North Americans on my mother's side of a large extended family. I love language, poetry and story, and understand, from my earliest home, the power of narrati...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Port Townsend, WA
Seitu Jones, MLS (Leave of Absence Spring 2013)
Going to high school in the 1960’s, it was easy to get caught up in the rich mix of music, politics and art of the times. Those times shaped my world-view. I absorbed the tenets of the Black Panther P...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Port Townsend, WA
Petra Kuppers, PhD, MA, MA (Leave of Absence Spring 2013)
I am a performance maker and community artist, a witnessing critic and theorist, an educator and a disability culture activist. My journey as an artist emerges from a passionate exploration of perform...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Port Townsend, WA
Laiwan, MFA
I am interested in 'relationships' of things within phenomena or events. In discovering how relationships have brought us to where we are today, in this moment here and now, perceiving and moving in t...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
H. Lan Thao Lam, MFA
As an artist working with conceptualizations of history, I am committed to giving form to alternative histories, whether emerging from North America or Asia. I bring attention to detail, sensitivity t...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Port Townsend, WA
Ju-Pong Lin, MFA
This morning began with the careful placement of the last supporting “brick” on our 8-year old’s couch cushion fort and a conversation with my partner about the ingenious way our 15-year old has gotte...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Otto Muller, PhD
I believe that artwork is work and the art-worker a laborer who gives value to substance. The work that the artist does in the world to expand the vocabulary of human expression, to offer access to th...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Devora Neumark, PhD
Born in shadow of the Shoah, the stories about home repeatedly told within the culture of my youth emphasized the losses incurred during the Polish pogroms and the forced displacements of the Soviet G...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Kira Obolensky, MFA (Leave of Absence Spring 2013)
I’m primarily a maker of narratives—some are used in artists’ books, some become theatrical performances, some find their ways into short stories or puppet/object pieces. Often I find my ideas in hist...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Andrea Parkins
I am a New York-based composer, sound/installation artist and electro-multi-instrumentalist. My work is deeply rooted in audio/visual and audio/gestural interactivity, and is influenced by post-Cagean...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT, Port Townsend, WA
Cynthia Ross, MA
For me, art (whether it be the making of objects as in visual art, the shaping of feeling. experience, event into stories or poems, the participation in a musical event and the energy that is created...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Program Director in Port Townsend, WA
Michael Sakamoto, MFA
Whether creating an interdisciplinary performance to challenge stage conventions, photographing and writing about spirit mediums in northern Thailand, or presenting a lecture-demonstration on my combi...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Bonnie Schock (Leave of Absence from WA, Spring 2013)
I have been occupied with the creation of images and the birth of performances for the past 20 years. My work can be characterized in a variety of ways - I alternately call myself director, producer...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Port Townsend, WA
Sharon Siskin, MFA, MA
My work comes from a belief that art can be a powerful catalyst for intellectual inquiry and social change. Conceptually, I draw from the personal, with the intention of making the ideas and issues pu...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty in Plainfield, VT
Rachael Van Fossen, MFA
I am a polite Canadian and an unruly American--or is it the other way around? I live in Quebec and I am sometimes clumsy.
I am interested in bringing together diverse ‘truths.’ I am drawn to investiga...
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Program Director in Plainfield, VT
Ruth Wallen, MFA
My art work centers around story, place and community. I begin by listening carefully and looking closely, distilling my experience into a form that generally includes text, or sound, and image, and i...