See that land mass across the Puget Sound? That's the Olympic Peninsula, home of a couple of temperate rainforests, beaches that touch the Pacific, and Port Townsend. A cluster of us gather to work on an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with the west coast cohort of Vermont's Goddard College. The residency is held at Centrum campus on the grounds of old Ft. Worden.
I take the Keystone ferry from west Whidbey Island to Pt. Townsend. Upon arrival the last February, eagles were circling our quarters. We live in the old non-commissioned officers houses. There was a full moon. Deer were grazing on the green between our residences and where classes are held. Faculty, students and guest artists offer seminars during the eight days. The planetary weather will provide a lunar eclipse and full moon as we settle in for the week of classes, set up the "Considered Spaces" gallery, and begin designing study plans. I think of it as a school for nomads or a theatre. You arrive and set up, and then you strike the set and go home to work all semester.
Each semester has a focus. We have completed Person, Place and Practice. We have just wrapped up Liminal Spaces. Now we begin Sustainability and Social Justice: Our Presence in the World. I need to get back to packing!
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