Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews (IBA '09) is completing his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) from Goddard College this July. His thesis performance piece, CONES a solo show about vampires, vision loss, and ice cream, is a first-person account of living between the worlds of blindness and sightedness .

Morgan Andrews in CONES.

Morgan is also facilitating a Q&A session for people in Philadelphia about Goddard's MFAIA and Undergraduate Programs on May 23. Spread the word!

Early College student  Ada Bowman was accepted to the Parsons/Lang combined BFA and BA program at the New School. Ada will pursue a dual major in Journalism & Design (at Lang) and Fine Arts (at Parsons.) 

 
Siobhan Butler (IBA '15) was accepted into the Masters Program in Ethnochoreography at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Marcus M. Chatfield  (IBA '13) was accepted to the  Family, Youth and Community Sciences graduate program at the University of Florida. Marcus also self published a

book based on his senior study, a critique of the residential teen treatment industry.   

Nikhil Goyal (IBA '16) will pursue an M.Phil. in Education at Cambridge University. Nikhil's book, Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice, was published by Doubleday in February. 

 

 

Elliat Graney-Saucke (IBA '11) completed an MA in World Heritage Studies at Brandenberg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany (outside of Berlin) with a focus on UNESCO and US contemporary performing arts + critical heritage/cultural equity in storytelling. Elliat co-founded and organized a conference, "Innovate Heritage: Conversations with Arts and Heritage," which ran in Berlin in June 2014 with participants from 45 countries.

Elliat is also working on a documentary, "Boys on the Inside," about 'boy' identity in women's prisons in Washington State. A work-in-progress version of the film screened on May 15 in Seattle at the Northwest Film Forum. "Boys on the Inside" will premiere and tour in 2017.


Jay Masika (IBA '16)  is in their second year of the Judith C. Jones Fellowship for Trainers of Color - a program of Training for Change . The fellowship supports trainers in the U.S. and Canada in developing skills, practicing new training tactics, and getting co-facilitation experience, and is a part of an informal leadership pipeline within Training for Chang e.

 

Julian Pimiento (IBA '16) was accepted into the MA in Applied Theater Program at City University of New York (CUNY).

From Julian Pimiento's graduating presentation, "Becoming a Bridge: From Undocumented Immigrant to Theatre of the Oppressed"

 

Galen Passen (IBA '16) was accepted into the Global Musician Workshop, a project of Yo Yo Ma's cross-cultural music project,  Silkroad.   Thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign, Galen will be attending the Global Musician Workshop, which will be help at Depauw University in Indiana, June 19-25. 

 

Galen Passen (on right) playing sitar.

 

Vin Seadler's (IBA '16) Baltimore art collective, La Bodega Collective, was awarded a grant from the Grit Foundation. La Bodega Collective is a socially conscious collective that operates a multifaceted gallery that aims to blur the line between art and everyday life. The Grit Fund will allow capacity expansion of the space.                     

 

Bea Trumann (BAS '17)  was selected as  a Gulf of Maine Research Inst itute/  Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (GMRI/CINAR) Minority Fellow, supporting her work on the Casco Bay Aquatic System Survey project in Portland, Maine for the summer. 

 

Bea Trumann (3rd from left) with fellow student presenters at the  Maine Environmental Education Association's Conference

 

Bea also presented  a workshop on "Climate Change/Behavior Change" in March for the Maine Environmental Education Association's Conference.  Selected as a Maine Youth Leader, Bea spoke about diversity in Maine and within the environmental sector.

Ashia Copeland (IBA '17) is interning at Good Samaritan Haven, which provides an emergency shelter and other services for people without homes in central Vermont.

 

Caity Flanagan (HAS '15) launched her business, love & alchemy, which weaves together her work as a practicing herbalist, seasoned farmer, Reiki practitioner, meditation teacher, and life coach. Lots of love & alchemy workshops are coming up online and in New York City. 

 

Caity Flanagan

Katheen Pacella (IBA '08) founded an event planning and production business, Fancy Figs, which does event planning and on-site coordination for Maine weddings, celebrations, retreats, and galas.
 
Kyle R yan (BAS '15), whose senior study was about young and beginning farmers' land access in the Northwest, accepted a position as Production Manager in training for Red Fire Farm in Montague, Massachusetts.

 

Kristin Schwab's senior study presentation about food as a tool for social change.

 

Faith St. John (IBA '10) runs a web and graphic design company, Infinity Graphics, with her husband, Jason St. John (IBA '06, EDU '09)   

 

Faith created the Goddard Alumni Hiring Circle Facebook group "to encourage more interactions like the wonderful ones I have had with alumni who have become clients (Jerry Mintz, Gunner Scott and several others.)" The Facebook group is a chance for Goddard alums to learn about and support each others' businesses and services. Check it out! 

 

 

Adrienne Hessmiller-Trego (IBA '09)  recently accepted a promotion to become Education and Outreach Director for the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County in North Carolina. 

Adrienne Hessmiller-Trego

 

The Goddard UGP community is grieving the loss of Kathleen Bailey, a Health Arts & Sciences student in UGP2. Kathleen passed away on April 22, 2016. 

 

 

We will be honoring Kathleen and her life at the Fall 2016 UGP2 residency. Be in touch with Program Director Muriel Shockley if you'd like to be part of planning that ceremony.