Hi, I'm experiencing the same issue. Unfortunately I have no Idea what is causing this. @jalberts have you made any progress with this or just reverted to 1.1.0?

WP 3.9, Genesis 2.0.2, GSFCW 1.1.4

I'm actually still operating on a reverted v.1.0 copy. I'd kinda of forgotten about this specific problem; I'll see if I can at least narrow down the underlying cause.

jalberts, could you please help me find a v.1.0 copy because I havent been able to get one

I'm not precisely sure when this error crept in, but you can try the version from directly before the commit I mentioned above (select download zip).

If that one doesn't work, you could step back commits until you find one that does. You can access these previous versions by clicking on the Commits tab, and clicking on Browse code (below the button with the commit number). That's how I got to the commit I linked above.

This is an edit I made that allows me to work around this issue; until it is resolved.

widget.php:~1670

-- $taxonomies = GS_Featured_Content::get_taxonomies( apply_filters( 'gsfc_get_taxonomies_args', array( 'public' => true ), $instance, $obj ), 'objects' );
-- $taxonomies = array_filter( $taxonomies, array( CLASS, 'exclude_taxonomies' ) );
++ #my work around to issue 14
++ $taxonomies = get_taxonomies( array( 'public' => true ), 'objects' );

Thank you Travis.