February 2012
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“GIA is where I’ve always belonged and what I’ve always been looking...”
– Applications available now for GIA 2012 @ http://www.giv.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Summer-2012-application-FINAL1.pdf
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Honoring Vermont Women Artists →
The Chaffee Art Center’s celebration of Women in the Arts in Vermont will kick off with an opening reception on Friday, February 17 from 5 until 8 pm in Rutland.
GIA 2011 Guest 'Novalima' in the news! →
Check out NPR’s Profile of GIA 2011 Performance Series guest, Novalima. Rock.
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Applications for 2012 are now available! →
Our 2012 session runs from 2pm on June 24 to 5pm on July 8. Apply now! And remember… ability to pay is never a factor in the selection process. Scholarship funding and financial aid is available!
January 2012
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Winter Weekend deadline is January 20! →
GIV’s Interdisciplinary Winter Weekend is a super-intensive, accelerated weekend packed full of learning and fun! This February 10-12th, you can explore subjects you’re passionate about, gain exciting new skills and ideas, and make new friends from all over Vermont. Focus on Current Issues, Arts, Engineering, or Information Technology! All Governor’s Institutes are affordable for all...
November 2011
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elizabeth!'s CD is now available!
GIA Director Elizabeth (Dotson-Westphalen) Frascoia, who is an alum from 1994, has a new CD out! It’s full of original jazzy pop songs featuring her vocals and trombone playing, and was recorded in Brooklyn by her working band, whose credits include Sesame Street, Bjork, Norah Jones, Joshua Radin, Beirut, St. Vincent, Beyonce, and more.
Listen and buy it here, and get a free song by...
October 2011
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An animation from GIA faculty member Isaac Eddy... →
Isaac is a contributor to time.com and did this piece recently on the amazing story of Liberty Hill Farm and the VT community’s response to Tropical Storm Irene.
GIA Faculty Member Isaac Eddy has a cartoon in... →
Check out RA Laura Cannon's blog of her travels in... →
September 2011
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Wosene Kosrof exhibit in Burlington
Former GIA painting faculty member Wosene Kosrof will be showing his work at UVM’s Fleming Museum in Burlington! The exhibition is on now, and runs through December 16, 2011.
The opening reception is Thursday, Sept. 22 at 4:30pm. He’s giving a brief talk and then the official reception will begin. There’s no charge at the Fleming for the opening, thanks to IBM!
August 2011
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Yet another GIA alum on VPR! →
Check out Georgia Parke’s (‘11) awesome poem as part of the Vermont Young Writers Project on VPR. Rock, Georgia.
July 2011
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Another GIA alum on VPR! →
Check out Addy Campbell (‘11) on VPR’s Young Writers Project. Go Addy!
GIA Alum on VPR! →
This week’s Young Writer’s Project contributor is Izziey Woodward (‘10). Check out her fabulous poem by clicking above.
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Check out Aurora Berger's awesome "What is art?"... →
Cabaret 2: The Sequel ROCKS!
A capacity crowd in our green room turned performance space was treated to a night full of a wide variety of outstanding talent.
Here are just a few examples of the acts that wowed us all.
Colleen sings “Someone like you.”
Stephen’s killer stand up routine.
Justin belts out “I can go the distance.”
Fine Tuning
With the final performance drawing near, all of us at GIA are putting the finishing touches on our songs, sculptures, skits, solos, sketches, soliloquies and so forth. Check out a video of the AM Heads Up Musical Performance class practicing one of their songs.
That Chromatic Aberration
Here’s a new video of our parade last week, featuring our fantastic puppets and samba band!
How To Make A Basket
Check out our YouTube video of GIA basketry students showing how its done!
Love: A Work In Progress
Last night we enjoyed a wonderful night of performance by Jasmine Lamb and Aaron Jafferis, members of the GIA extended family.Jasmine was a long-time Director of Student Life at GIA and Aaron has been a member of the faculty. They presented both individual and collaborative works of poetry, spoken word and dance. Following the evening performance we proceeded to the Green Room for the second part...
Novalima en Vivo! at GIA
We’ve been enjoying spending time with the members of Novalima over the past few days, but now they are off to their next tour date. Here is a new YouTube video from the Novalima concert the other night!
GIA 2011 First Student Cabaret →
Ursula and Henry’s amazing beatbox/ukelele cover of MGMT’s “Kids” from our first student cabaret.
Fresh GIA Videos!
Check out our latest Youtube videos of singing at the parade and jamming out.
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NOVALIMA!
Last night we heard (and danced our pants off to) the amazing Afro-Peruvian electronic jazz band Novalima from Peru. Their music blends traditional sounds with contemporary beats. Listen to their music at their myspace site .
The Amazing Samba Parade! →
Check out the stellar parade we just put on for Castleton! All original puppets made by our students. It was a busy weekend but more pictuers are on their way….
June 2011
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Getting Down to Business...
With a few days of classes under our belts, everyone is getting into the rhythm at GIA. Here are a few shots of students collaborating or hard at work on individual projects.
Painters and Poets collide with a tin of a thousand words!
Students experimenting with color in Watercolor Painting class:
Experimental drawers give their pencils a rest and make some 3-dimensional paper creations:
Getting Digital
Check out some of the latest creations from the morning Tangible Digital class!
And We're Off!
Everything is in full swing here at GIA. Classes are in session in the mornings and afternoons. Students are exploring everything from making baskets with recycled materials to creating their own musical arrangements. Here are just a few snapshots of everything we’ve been up to:
We’ve also started preparing for our Fourth of July Parade! This year’s theme is Colors...
Yeee Haaaww! The Annual GIA Contra Dance
Each year here at GIA we kick off the institute with a community contra! Monday night was a lovely evening. We all enjoyed the live band while getting some seriously grass-stained feet. As you can see from the photos, it takes quite a lot of concentration to keep up with all those do-se-dos and a-la-main-lefts and spinning your partner in the right direction…
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Rocking Out
Things are off to a great start in the Stone Carving Studio! The morning and afternoon classes have been looking at different examples of carvings and planning their own designs:
Now it’s time to start carving!
During the 4 O’clock Block, students also made stone jewelry. Here are a few students sanding down their basic shapes to be polished later:
Welcome to GIA!
Our staff and faculty members are eagerly awaiting your arrival! See you this afternoon at the Castleton State College dorms!
If you have any questions, please call (802) 505-9442.
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Introducing GIA 2011 Faculty: Julia Morgan-Leamon
Julia Morgan-Leamon likes to think about time and memory and how truly bizarre they are. She makes sense of things by painting, making videos and taking her sketchbook traveling. Most recently she was painting in Egypt while a revolution was going on! She teaches a lot of fabulous young people in schools, colleges, and museums and now, Governors Institute on the Arts! Way back when, she...
ONLY 6 more days!
We’re now under one week from the beginning of GIA 2011. Woo-hoo! Registration opens at 2 pm and runs until 3:45pm on Sunday, June 26th. If you have any questions about registration, check out the procedure here, or drop us a line at giaofvt(at)gmail.com. Looking forward! —The Radministration
Introducing GIA Director of Operations: Sophie...
Sophie Wood (Director of Operations) is a clown, poet, dancer, director, puppeteer, piñata maker, letter writer and farmer. Born and raised in Vermont, she graduated from college with a degree in “theatre for social change with an emphasis on agricultural politics,” and promptly landed a job in her field. She writes, builds, directs, and performs a member of The Royal Frog Ballet, a performance...
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Introducing GIA 2011 Director of Student Life: ...
Corey Harrower is a dance artist and teacher. He is also the Director of Student Life at the Vermont Governor’s Institute on the Arts (GIA) and has worked with GIA since 2002. He performs his own choreography as well as working with various other choreographers in the US and Europe. Most often these include Bi-Product Performance, Skoveworks, and Sensdance. In NYC, he studies with...
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Introducing GIA 2011 Director: Elizabeth...
Elizabeth is a trombonist, singer, educator, and composer originally from Woodstock, Vermont. She has played and recorded music with jazz musicians (Matt Wilson, Kenny Wollesen, Chris Potter), indie rockers (St. Vincent, Escort, The Silent League, Jill Sobule), and pop stars (Michael Bolton), and has had the opportunity through music to travel the world. This winter she traveled to Russia to...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Malina Leslie
Malina Leslie is a red-headed giggle fest who recently graduated from the University of Vermont with a BA in English and Art. She fuses the two together to make comics, varying in length from one panel to entire graphic essays. She is currently interning with the great cartoonist Alison Bechdel and spends her summers working at a river/rafting and outdoor gear store in Pennsylvania. She has...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Audrey Kiely
Audrey Kiely recently finished her sophomore year at Wesleyan University where she is double-majoring in Theatre and Psychology. Audrey is so excited to be an RA at GIA for the first time this summer! After GIA, Audrey will work at Peter Gould’s “Get Thee to the Funnery” Shakespeare camp, and is happy to be one third of the starting team for the Funnery’s brand new...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Emily Climer
Emily Climer is a current student at Bennington College, where she studies dance with Susan Sgorbati, Terry Creach, and Dana Reitz, and also pursues work in education and mediation. Emily grew up in Athens, OH, where she began her dance training at Factory Street Studio. She has had important workshop experiences at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME and the Movement Intensive in...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Noah Mease
Noah Mease is a very recent graduate of Middlebury College where he studied theatre and Spanish. His play about Federico García Lorca’s visit to Vermont in 1929 was performed at Middlebury and excerpted in the local literary publication The Salon. He’s also done a fair amount of set design, some acting, and plenty of techy things. He’s spent the last four years writing, directing, and acting...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Karlie Kauffeld
Karlie Kauffeld was born and raised in Newfane, Vermont. As a wee one she enjoyed running through the woods and sitting on logs. Now, she enjoys music. In fact, she’s studying music education at the University of Vermont. She has vowed to read every Harry Potter book this summer because in elementary school she stopped half way through the fourth and now feels embarrassed. Karlie is quaking in...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Ericc Cram
Ericc James Cram enter’d the world in a hospital hallway in Machias, ME. Father’s youngest of three and number 4 of Mother’s litter of six, it was said he was born smiling. Raised with seals in Maine and hurricanes in the Carolinas, Cram settled and grew to fruition in a fluctuating family of many (pets included), in Springfield, VT. A lover of art + song since infancy, there...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Laura Cannon
Laura Oakes Cannon enjoys dabbling in many art forms, but values above all the art of being a person. She spends a lot of time playing music, specifically playing the trumpet and singing. Laura spent much of her childhood wandering along leylines in Woodbury VT and singing in the bathtub before attending the University of Vermont where she played a lot of music and learned about religion,...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Andy Gagnon
Andy Gagnon just finished his second year at UVM where he is a music education major. Andy attended GIA as a student in 2007 and is looking forward to his second year as an RA. Andy is excited to meet all of the GIA students! Andy this, Andy that. Andy wishes you could have a chance to tell him about yourself. And you will at GIA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Max Cantor
I was born and raised in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom (West Glover to be more specific), and although I haven’t spent much time in VT over the past few years, I am always psyched to return home. This will be my second year as an RA, my last appearance being at the 2008 institute. I recently graduated from The University of Rhode Island where I studied Political Science and...
Introducing GIA 2011 RA: Genevieve Coe
Genevieve Coe is from the greater Middlebury, VT area, where her family lives with a menagerie of collected critters. She is a senior at Mount Holyoke College where she is studying Psychology and Culture, Health, and Science while cultivating her reputation as Librarian Extraordinaire and Explorer of Abandoned Buildings. She is just barely returning stateside from a semester in Copenhagen,...