Pam Hall with her project Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge, an impressive work made in collaboration with community members. Photos courtesy of Pam Hall. Towards An Encyclopedia Of Local Knowledge Now Online The Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge is a collaborative art-and-knowledge project …
Ruth Wallen. Exhibition flier courtesy of the artist. Solo Exhibition: Remember the Trees MFAIA-VT Faculty Advisor Ruth Wallen has a solo exhibition Remember the Trees: southern California’s changing ecology at Mesa College Art Gallery from March 12 to April 3, 2018. Over …
Stefanie Batten Bland — 41 times. Image courtesy of the artist. 41 times International choreographic artist and current MFAIA-VT student, Stefanie Batten Bland reflects on themes of racial profiling, unity and healing. In 41 times, a full-company creation for TU Dance …
New MFAIA-WA Faculty Advisor Jamie Figueroa speaking on Individual Identity as Portal to Collective/The Emergence of an Authentic Voice. Photos: Goddard College Indigenous Presence at MFAIA Residency The September MFAIA residency in Port Townsend featured a strong Indigenous presence and opened …
Presenting a world premier solo concert, Neel will perform his latest experiments in overtone singing and electronic looping along side his sitar and frame drum. From droning, experimental soundscapes to chants, ragas and rhythms, Neel will lead the audience in …
Top Left: The launch of Lutra, a rowboat built by Seitu Jones and MFAIA-WA students, with Goddard West Campus Director Joyce Gustafson and Stacy Dawson Stearns at the Fall 2011 Residency. Top Right: Students take Lutra out for a row during …
Images courtesy of Storme Webber. Storme Webber at the Frye Museum Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist and alumna Storme Webber (MFAIA-WA ’14) will present a reimagining of her city through experimental memoir, archival photographs, poetry, social history, installation, and performance. Meeting at the …
Sleeping Weazel presented “a convening in performance” in honor of Robbie McCauley’s life and work on last month, an event coordinated in collaboration with the Emerson College Performing Arts Department and Office of the Arts. The convening drew together a …
Image Left: Cease Wyss leads the MFAIA-WA through a walk through the forests of Fort Worden, as participants receive the teachings of northwest coast plants. Image Right: Patrisse Cullors leads participants through the ceremony of having each others’ backs in radical …
Image Left: Lisa D’Amour, Laurie Carlos, and Shay Youngblood in Austin. Image Right: Robbie McCauley, Daniel Dodd Ellis, Daniel Alexander Jones, Jason Phelps, and Laurie Carlos, in Minneapolis, 1997. Photos courtesy of Daniel Alexander Jones. In Memory of Laurie Carlos It is …
Photo courtesy of Daniel Alexander Jones It began with this picture. I walked into Rice Hall in the Main Branch of the Springfield Public Library, in the spring of 1985, charged with finding a monologue to perform in drama class …
Experimental Music Pioneer Pauline Oliveros, guest artist at the MFAIA-WA in 2009, spent time with students, with explorations in Deep Listening in the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden. Image right: Pauline with Monique Fleming (MFAIA-WA ’11) and Stacy Dawson Stearns …
Artist and amateur astronomer Tracey Pilch (MFAIA ’07) is an adjunct professor in the Liberal Studies Department of Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, where she was honored as outstanding adjunct this year. She is also active in annual art projects …
Hanna Satterlee and Eliot Gray Fisher, recipients of the Fall 2016 Goddard Alumni Art Project Awards. Photos courtesy of the artists Goddard Alumni Art Project Awards We are proud to announce alumna Hanna Satterlee (MFAIA-VT & WA ’16) and alumnus …
by JuPong Lin MFAIA faculty advisor Devora Neumark and I offered a group study in Decolonial and Indigenous Art practice last semester. The co-learning experience was truly collaborative, transformative, and inspiring in the depth of the work of co-constructing collective knowledge. …
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts advisor Petra Kuppers was featured on Detroit Public TV’s show, Detroit Performs, for her community art work about disability and dance at the Northville Art House. “Art is the transformation of everyday into something else,” she …
Diego Piñón. Photo credit left: Rafael Perez Evans; right: courtesy of Diego Piñón. Diego Piñón, Upcoming MFAIA-WA Guest Artist and Centrum Artist-in-Resident We are pleased and privileged to welcome internationally renowned movement/dance artist Diego Piñón as our upcoming guest artist for the …
Photos courtesy of Friends of Aiyyana Maracle. Celebrating the Life of Aiyyana Maracle Former MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts student Aiyyana Maracle (MFAIA-VT ’03-’05) was a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, and a great-grandma four times over; a sovereign Haudenosaunee woman. For half a …
MFA alumni transform their communities! Meet our alumni guests to hear about how the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts has made a difference in their careers and in their lives. We look forward to speaking with you and taking your …
This semester my colleague, Rachael Van Fossen, and I have been co-facilitating a group study titled Advanced Workshop in Performance Creation. While the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program is best known for offering a way for students to pursue self-directed …