Daphne Kalmar, 2010 MFA in WCYA
Kalmar is the author of A Stitch in Time (Feiwel & Friends, 2018), named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR. From MacMillan…
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Aaron Wyanski, 2015 MFA in Music Composition
Aaron's work, "Everything's Fine and Nothing's Ever Been Wrong,"
Amanda Laven, 2016 MFA in Music Composition
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…
Josh Koury, 2015 MFA in Film
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…
Emilie Upczak, 2015 MFA in FIlm
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…
David Bazis, 2018 MA in Art & Design Education
Bazis teaches Technology and Design to middle and high school students at U-32 in East Montpelier, Vermont. He says, “As an artist and teacher, VCFA…
Judith Walgren, 2016 MFA in Visual Art
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…
Heather Snyder-Quinn, 2018 MFA in Graphic Design
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…
Patty Crane, 2004 MFA in Writing
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.…
Donald Quist, 2013 MFA in Writing
Quist is the author of the linked story collection For Other Ghosts and the essay collection Harbors. He is a Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner and International Book…