Faculty

Program Director

David Griffith is assistant professor of English and director of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art program at Sweet Briar College. His work and teaching focuses on the intersection of the arts, technology and media. He is the author of “A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America.” He was the director of creative writing for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, where he taught for 10 years.

Creative Writing

Brandon Som was featured in Best New Poets 2007. He is the author of “If St. Augustine Were A Butcher Like My Grandfather,” winner of the 2009 Snowbound Prize, and his poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, McSweeney’s and Octopus Magazine. He has taught creative writing at New York University, University of Southern California and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts.

 

Visual Art

Kate Plows has led residence life and student services programs at the assistant  
director level or higher at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and  Humanities, Maryland Institute College of Art, and for more than a decade at the  Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. She currently teaches high school  ceramics and graphic design at Malvern Preparatory School in suburban Philadelphia. She also is an art instructor at Immaculata University and teaching faculty at the Delaware Art Museum. Plows earned her B.F.A. in painting from St. Vincent College, and her master's in teaching from The University of the Arts. In what little spare time she has, she enjoys  freelancing as a graphic designer, throwing pots and spending time with her animals — one dog, two cats and five horses.

Theater

Angela (Angie) Sweigart-Gallagher is assistant professor of theater at Lock Haven University and education director of Endstation Theatre Company. She has a doctorate in theater from the University of Wisconsin and has specialized in productions with young actors. Her recent directing credits include Euripides’ “Medea” and Marsha Norman’s “ ’night, Mother.”

Quick Facts

When: June/July 2014
Application Deadline: TBA
Where: Sweet Briar College
Credit: 2 hours of college credit
Tracks: Creative Writing, Music, Theater, Technical Theater, Visual Arts
Cost (includes iPad): $2,995* 

(*Scholarships and day student rates available)

Partners: Endstation Theatre Company, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts