Alumni Success Stories

Recent graduate Samuel Kolawole has won the 14th annual Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers from the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians.…

Kalmar is the author of A Stitch in Time (Feiwel & Friends, 2018), named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR. From MacMillan…

Aaron's work, "Everything's Fine and Nothing's Ever Been Wrong,"

Amanda recently landed scoring work for Battleground Productions’ multi-platform steampunk adventure serial BRASS and is scoring both the podcast (beginning with Episode 11) and the…

Koury is the director and editor of VOYEUR, a documentary film about Gay Talese’s reporting on motel owner Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on his…

Upczak is the writer-director and producer of MOVING PARTS, a full-length drama about immigration and human trafficking. From the film’s website: “After being smuggled into…

Bazis teaches Technology and Design at U-32 High School in East Montpelier, Vermont. He says, “As an artist and teacher, VCFA pushed me to work…

Walgren is a Pulitzer Prize winner in Photography, a full-time faculty member at Michigan State University, and a recent Director of Photography for the San…

Snyder-Quinn is faculty at DePaul University School of Design and co-chair of the AIGA Women Lead Initiative. She recently completely a residency at Frans Maserrel…

Crane’s full-length collection, Bell I Wake To, won the 2018 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and will be published in Fall 2019.…