WEEKEND: Goddard graduates to host free fest of art, dialogue at Fort Worden State Park this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program will present “Emancipating Boundaries,” a two-day festival of new works and dialogue, on Saturday and Sunday on the campus of Fort Worden State Park.

Ten interdisciplinary artists from across the nation, students graduating from the low-residency master’s program, will be featured in art exhibitions, performances, community conversation and a commencement ceremony.

All events are free and open to the public.

Graduating students will collect donations to support Key City Public Theatre, the Centrum Foundation and the Northwind Arts Center.

Schedule of events

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The festival will begin with opening receptions for the group art exhibitions and installation-based performances at 3 p.m. in Building 204 and 4:30 p.m. at the chapel.

At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, artists will present a theatrical performance in the Wheeler Theater.

At 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the USO building, artists will engage in a panel discussion about their experiences in the program.

Commencement will be at 4:15 p.m. in JFK Hall.

Artists are Anjali Austin, whose career includes 13 years performing with the Dance Theatre of Harlem; Ayanna Bassiouni, who uses a variety of mediums in her artwork; Tia Browder, a sculptor and painter with a passion for physical adventure; C. Anthony Cole, a choreographer and founder of CAC Repertory Dance Theatre, a nonprofit dance organization in San Diego.

Also Ryan Conarro, a performance maker and teaching artist; Eliot Gray Fisher, who works in music, video, theater and new media; Leslie Goldberg, who explores connections between art and activism, humor, politics, writing, performance and visual culture theory.

Also, Nyela (Nashay Antoinette Jones), a visual and performance-based artist whose works center around questions of race, identity, history and culture; Constance Moore, an interdisciplinary teaching artist; and Sam Vance, a musician, painter and theater artist.

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