Callie Newsom Doyle, 2024 MFA in Film
Meet filmmaker and class of 2024 Film candidate Callie Newsom Doyle, one of six recipients of our 2022 VCFA Center for Arts + Social Justice...
Alumnx & Student Stories
Our students and alumnx inspire us every day with their exhibitions, publications, screenings, performances, and teaching, bringing the magic of VCFA out into the world.
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Thammika Songkaeo, 2022 International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
“It’s important to inspire questions. When people ask questions, they inherently link a part of themselves to a topic. We need those connections to be...
Laura Obuobi, 2021 MFA in WCYA
In the fall of 2022, we spoke with author and alumnx Laura Obuobi (WCYA ‘21) about her 2022 picture book publication Black Gold, her upcoming...
Jen Gilomen, 2023 MFA in Film
In the summer of 2022, we interviewed Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellowship Grant recipient Jen Gilomen (Film ’23) on her film DELIVERING JUSTICE....
Kei Slaughter, 2013 MFA in Music Composition
“Art is change. Art is a catalyst for organizing and moving people to action. Art has the power to reflect / reimagine / articulate ...
Jane Pincus, 1993 MFA in Visual Art
Almost three weeks after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (the landmark 1973 ruling that conferred the right to an abortion) in...
Jane Houng & Heather Demetrios, 2014 MFA in WCYA
Years after graduating from the WCYA program in 2014, Jane Houng and Heather Demetrios are still finding ways to collaborate and use their collective voices...
Felice Gittelman, 2020 MFA in Visual Art
Growing up in New York, mixed-media artist Felice Gittelman’s interest in the arts started with weekly trips to the Brooklyn Museum. Frequent youth art classes...
Amber Rose Crowtree, 2017 MFA in Writing
In 2021, Writing alumnx Amber Rose Crowtree ('17) saw the publication of her debut chapbook, Harboring the Imperfect (Dancing Girl Press), and her...
Barbara Yontz, 2004 MFA in Visual Art
“One reason we have done the exhibitions, and I do personal work around these issues, is to humanize people who are incarcerated to those on...