Join BFA-SEA student Copper Santiago as she presents her senior presentation “Soft Circus,” exploring the intimate, vulnerable side of the circus through hand-sewn fabric sculptures and performances. A moving blend of sculpture, costume, and performance reminding us of the circus community’s heart and purpose.
Join award-winning filmmaker and public policy expert Matthew Solomon for a special screening of his timely documentary Reimagining Safety, followed by a panel discussion about police reform and prison abolition here in Vermont. Shot entirely on iPhone, the acclaimed film reveals how Solomon harnessed simple tools of the trade to craft a powerful documentary catalyzing […]
Third World Newsreel (TWN) is the oldest film/video organization in the United States focused on the work of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color filmmakers and videographers, their stories, and communities. It promotes the self-representation of traditionally marginalized groups as well as the negotiated representation of those groups by artists who work in solidarity with […]
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. –Grace Lee Boggs A Shifting Landscape Amid pandemic the world is changing in ways that we are still learning to identify. Whether we are pixelated on screens, intertwined in global networks, […]
The current discussion about the future of democracy in the United States is, beneath its surface, also a conversation about the preservation of a settler-colonial project. It is about assuring settler futurity. Colonization is fundamentally achieved through the material theft of land and labor and the elimination and exploitation of people and culture. Educational institutions […]
August 9, 2019 The last time I sat at this table, it was a place where things got stuck: an expanse of oak in a stuffy room where we sat across from a president that sheepishly told us no action was possible, the recommendations of the diversity workgroup were unrealistic, of course he agreed in […]
July 5, 2019 Creative practice for collective liberation This is the beginning of a conversation about how art could be something different altogether. The Situation: These are times of rising fascism, ecological destruction, spiraling inequity, and a culture of collapse. We need art, because the systems of conquest and oppression are so pervasive that the act of […]
