Molly Hood is Founding Director of Imaginarium. She has experience as an educator for the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia and the Waldorf School of Philadelphia. Her passion is curricula design. She can often be found wearing an apron in the kitchen making plant-based experiments. Interested parents can contact her at mhood@alumni.upenn.edu
She holds a Master's of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a Graduate Certificate in Reggio Emilia Studies from Antioch University, and a Certificate in Permaculture Design from Quail Springs. Her undergraduate degree in environmental science at Goddard College sparked her interest in self-directed education. She founded Viridity Environmental in 2007 and Imaginarium in 2020.
Ann Wright, earned a degree in English from Saint Joseph’s University where she participated in writing workshops. She has spent much of her career in K-12 literacy and professional development sales, and is an advocate for authentic literature in education. She has been a volunteer reading coach to elementary students for Reading by 4th and has been trained through the Philadelphia Mayor's Office on Literacy to support adult learners. She was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, moved with her family to post-soviet-era Czechoslovakia in 1991, and attended Canterbury boarding school in Connecticut. Ann lives in Philadelphia with her husband, son, and a multitude of overflowing bookcases. Ann can be reached at admissions@imaginariuminstitute.com
Jason was Senior Event Designer at Information Forecast Inc. ("Infocast") in Woodland Hills CA for 18 years. His roles encompassed primary market research, analytics, program development, and marketing strategy, applied across many tech innovation sectors.
He was the Operations Manager and Contributing Editor for the Brain/Mind Bulletin. At ConstructiveLabs, a metaverse startup, he wrote the business plan, and performed marketing and cultural R&D. He was marketing director at Elfnet. He has also been published in LAWEEKLY and other small press outlets.
Jason completed his coursework in the Visual Design Masters Program at UC Berkeley Wurster Hall, and has a BA in French Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He was raised by a scholar mom in Ankara, Turkey, and travelled across Eastern Europe, Russia and Uzbekistan in 1990. Jason can currently be found in cafes in Central LA, debating the latest cultural and intellectual movements, and writing a scifi trilogy inspired by Burning Man Festival.
Catherine Mueller (pronounced Miller) is an New York-based interdisciplinary artist/educator. Past performance work has been developed/presented by The Orchard Project, The Public Theater, The Kitchen, Ars Nova, Dixon Place, The New York Clown Theater Festival, FuseBox, Outlet Dance Project, among others. Image-based work has been shown at Goddard College (Plainfield, VT), as part of the SKIN Exhibition at Strathmore Mansion (Bethesda, MD), and in Self and Subject: Ideas in Contemporary Portraiture at Photoworks (Glen Echo, MD).
She has been a teaching artist/adjunct faculty at universities and arts programs across the country, including Drew University, Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College, UNI, Middlebury, Georgetown, UTKnoxville, Revolucion Latina and The 52nd Street Project. She was the Artistic Director and Master Teacher of the Orchard Project Core Company for three years, mentoring young artists in the development of their own work while leading their ensemble training and artistic apprenticeships with leading contemporary theater practitioners and the Co-Artistic Director of The Glass Contraption Arts Group, a 501c3 physical theater company, from 2004- 2012 (when it took its final bow), producing and performing in several original physical theatre productions and community-arts initiatives.
She is the founder/director of the Institute for Collaboration and Play (www.IFCAP.org) and the facilitator of its play-based creative lab the PLABORATORY. She apprenticed under Master Director and Teacher Christopher Bayes, currently Head of Physical Theater at Yale, and is one of only ten former students permitted to teach his Clown pedagogy. She is a NY-area representative for PAAL (Parent Artist Advocacy League) and has written about the parent-artist experience for the PAAL blog. Her work is featured in the book Mothers’ Days, edited by Lenka Clayton, as well as in the corresponding installation at the Arts Club of Chicago. Her longstanding artistic collaboration with John Borstel is documented at www.interdisciplinaryness.com. Additional information about Catherine’s work can also be found here: www.mywonderchamber.com. Education: BA in Theater, Minors in Dance and Creative Writing, Hofstra University. MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College.
Beckie Sheloske was born in Maine, and now resides in Montpelier, Vermont. Goddard College brought her to Vermont in 1997 where she focused on herbalism, horticulture and studied fashion design in Florence, Italy. She graduated with a B.A. Liberal Arts in 2001. She then sought a career in fashion and has worked in a variety of positions including pattern maker,assistant designer, bespoke clothing and tailor.The intersection of the fantasy behind fashion and the botanical world led Beckie to perfumery.Using the skills of independent study she gained at Goddard College, Beckie fully immersed herself in learning the art and science of perfumery in 2011. Since then she has owned and operated Rebel Intuitive Perfumerie, a line of natural perfumes, held the position of Creative Director with Curata Beauty where she designed and created their perfume, Dulceo, that went on to become a finalist for the Art & Olfaction Awards in 2019. Beckie’s perfume work is featuredon top industry websites including cafleurebon. comandfragrantica.com. Beckie Sheloske believes our sense of smell is by far the most fantastic of all senses with its ability to make time collapse and create or stir up emotional connection. One of the most exciting aspects of perfumery for Beckie is the opportunity to connect people with the natural world all the while providing the opportunity through scent to create new memories and enrich the invisible world around us.Currently she owns and operates Rarefied Aire, a custom fragrance development company,which she works together with brand directors and brings to life scented visions for skincare and home products as well as ambience with olfactive branding services.
TJ McGlinchey is a songwriter, producer, performer, and educator in Philadelphia. He received his MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of FIne Arts in 2019 and his MA in Education from Goddard College in 2017. He has taught instrumental, vocal, theory, and composition privately for twenty years and has been a K-8 General Music classroom teacher for the last five years.
As a singer-songwriter, he’s been performing as Reverend TJ McGlinchey since his independent debut release ‘Tell Me To Stay’ in 2012. TJ produces his own music as well as other artists including his side project Lovers League (Eponymous, 2013) and fellow songwriter Alec Stewart (Separate Ways, 2018). Rev. TJ released follow-up ‘Still In Love’ in 2019 and followed that with the release of ‘New Europe / Blasted City’ as Thelonious Jawn in 2020, both on GrindEthos Records .
TJ has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Camp Jam in the Pines, 2nd Street Festival, & World Cafe Live among other famous local and regional venues. He has been deeply involved with the Philadelphia Folksong Society and the Philadelphia Folk Festival all of his life and has been performing at the festival every year since 2012. Though teaching and parenthood have made touring less feasible, he maintains a regular performing schedule in the summer when not visiting his wife’s family home in Athens, Greece.
During the work week, he now teaches K-8 General Music in The School District of Philadelphia at Jay Cooke Elementary where he is currently building the school’s first piano lab. He previously taught K-5 General Music for 4 years at Odyssey Charter School in Wilmington, DE (a Greek language bi-lingual program). The ensembles he has directed include a Middle School Chorus, Elementary Strings Ensemble, and Summer Rock Band. His main instruments are guitar and voice, though he also plays and teaches piano, ukulele, electric bass guitar, and upright bass. TJ's teaching methods are student-centered, interest-driven, and based upon the work of Montessori, Dewey, Kodály, and Orff.
“An education is the one authentic power. Once you earn it, you keep it. How you earn it matters less than the compassion with which you use it.”
Jennifer Brennock taught college-level writing to advanced high school students, college students, and nontraditional students for a decade. She earned a M.F.A. in Writing from Goddard College, a B.S. in Anthropology from Southern Oregon University, is currently enrolled in the Historic Preservation program at Clatsop Community College. She is a certified Grant Writer and Grant Writing Consultant.
What Jennifer can help you learn: composition, academic writing, research, contemporary literature, world literature, American literature, historic preservation methods, historic structures assessment, poetry, playwriting, history of Pacific Northwest architecture, green building methods, ethnography, oral history, public speaking, college application essay, grant proposal writing, zine making, typewriters.
Faculty positions: Clatsop Community College, Clark College, Linn Benton Community College, Skagit Valley College, Drop Out on Orcas, San Juan Island Public Library, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Orcas Island Public Library
Award: Prose Fellow, Mother Foucault’s Airstream Poetry Festival
Published work, editing, leadership: Till, Involution, University of Nebraska Gender Programs, Line Zero, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, Bullwings, Actors Theater of Orcas Island, Orcas Center, Shark Reef, Pitkin Review, contributing to Rough and Rede 2011 to present, Drop Out on Orcas, Artsmith
“I love helping students become critical thinkers. It is how we become ourselves.”
Sarvenaz (SAr-va-nez) Moshfegh (Maw-sh-feg) Asiedu (Ah-sy-Edou), M.A. is a trauma-informed creative life coach/artist/facilitator/community activist and hypnotherapist. Her modalities include writing, painting, music, ritual and theatre.
Sarvenaz graduated in 2000 from Basel Conservatory (Switzerland) with a Lehr-diplom in classical cello and music pedagogy. After completing a Post-bacchalaureate degree in Fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine arts in 20001, she spent three years at the Lee Strassberg Institute for Film and Theatre. After returning from Ghana, where she worked in arts education, she completed a second undergraduate degree in Expressive Arts Therapies.
Sarvenaz holds a Masters in Psychology from Goddard College; the focus of her studies has been the psychological, spiritual, and societal effects of the systemic imprisonment of the human psyche and the use of embodied creative expression within the healing process. She is also a certified Hypnotherapist.
Moshfegh-Asiedu has been a facilitator and touring company director with the Survivor Theatre Project from 2014-2018. Survivor Theatre Project is a non-profit who's mission is to end sexual violence and support the healing of survivors through the arts. She directed and guided the 2015 Touring Company in creating "Called to Speak" which performed at the NELQUIT's Power of Women, the SANE Nurses Annual Conference, Latinas Y Ninos Program, the Office of Community Corrections, and other venues in 2015.
In 2016, in addition to directing the Touring Company, Moshfegh-Asiedu is facilitating a Survivor Theatre program at My Sister's House at The Dimock Center for survivors in addiction recovery. Moshfegh-Asiedu facilitated the STP Performance Project in Roxbury, MA and directed the Touring company in it's 2018 Ritual Theatre Process, The Survivor's Village: Reclaiming the Body as Home.
Sarvenaz has been working as a counselor with men and women in recovery from institutional and interpersonal trauma, addiction, and other emotional and spiritual challenges since 2012. Sarvenaz has led multiple workshops and presentations on arts in healing, including a workshop on at the 2017 Theatre of the Oppressed conference in Detroit.
Presently, Sarvenaz is living on a farm in Southern California, homeschooling her 10 year old and raising chickens. She practices hypnotherapy and trauma-informed creative life coaching. She supports Black Lives matter and LGBTQIA+ people.
Fundamentals of Creative Writing: Image, Shape and Sound
Topics in Poetics
Creative Writer as Critical Reader
Introduction to a Future Poetics
Prolegomena to Chaos and Control in Poetry
Hybrid Poetics
Introduction to Literature
World Literature
American Literature
Comparative Literature
Special Topics in English
Literary Masterpieces of the United States
Studies in the Novel
Understanding Language
Creative Writing
College Preparatory Writing
Expository/Applied Composition
Sarah was raised in the one-stoplight town of Poquoson, VA. After being very active in both theatre and choir in the Tidewater region, she attended Ithaca College where she received her bachelor’s in vocal performance. After graduation, Sarah returned to Virginia where she performed in several professional productions including Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun, and Babes in Toyland.
After relocating to Philadelphia, she began expanding into on-camera and voiceover work and has since lent her voice to hundreds of instructional videos and national advertising campaigns.
Her on-camera work has included featured roles in the independent feature Right Before Your Eyes as well as the historical film The Siege of Yorktown for the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. You've also seen her on television as a national spokesmodel for WeBuyAnyCar.com.
Her love for live theatre never died, and she has performed in the Philadelphia region in The Diary of Anne Frank, the title role in Amy’s View, Beauty and the Beast, and various concerts. Sarah lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and fellow actor Scott and their dog Watson.
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