Lindsay Gacad, 2019 MFA in Writing & Publishing
Gacad’s poem “White Hero” has been published in Issue 3 of Levitate, the literary and art magazine of ChiArts.
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Samuel Kolawole, 2019 MFA in Writing & Publishing
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....
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...
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
MOVING PARTS, written and directed by Upczak and produced by fellow VCFA alumnx John Otterbacher, was released on Amazon on January 21, 2020.
David Bazis, 2018 MA in Art & Design Education
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...
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...