Alumni News

Charlene Schwartz ’54 There’s Nothing You Can’t Learn

After more than seventy years, Trustee and successful business person Charlene Schwartz ’54 is still trying to bring the Bennington College magic that shaped her life to others.

Teresa Booth Brown ’85 Teresa Booth Brown ’85: Practicing Possibility

Teresa Booth Brown ’85 calls herself a Possibilitist. It’s a way of thinking and working that begins with simple but expansive questions: What can this be? What can we do with what we have right here? What’s the potential of this or that? That orientation toward openness has shaped her life as an artist and educator since she “ran away” to Bennington.

Image of Alcatraz prison library Reflections on Getting a College Education in Prison

Thomas Miles, a graduate of Bennington College's Prison Education Initiative at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, wrote about his experience earning his associate's degree while incarcerated.

Image of The Boy Who Couldn’t Say Goodbye cover Reframing Life's Transitions

Jan Hadwen Hubbell '78 recently published The Boy Who Couldn’t Say Goodbye, a picture book aimed at helping young children better cope with life transitions.

Gareth McCullough ’25 Gareth McCullough ’25 Takes on the World

Gareth McCullough ’25 combined his desire to experience the music of the world with help from Assistant Director of Career Development and Field Work Term John Holste to design a two year journey of living and working abroad.