Alumni News

Image of Sofia Alvarez with podcasters To All The Screenplays I Wrote Before

Sofia Alvarez '07 joined an episode of the When Isabel Met Aviva podcast, discussing her journey from playwright to screenwriter and work on adaptations for To All the Boys I've Loved Before and Along for the Ride.

Image of Tata’ Xuan, shaman with the sacred Maya calendar of fiestas and rituals used in Maya ceremonies Exploring Lives and Cultures with Fran Antmann '69

Fran Antmann '69 is a documentary photographer, writer, and professor. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of the indigenous people of Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, the Dene First Nation people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada.

Daniel Pentlarge '80, Ron Cohen, and Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81 Reunion Find: Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81's tribute to faculty member in social science Ron Cohen

Over lunch on the Saturday of reunion weekend, October 4, Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81 remembered a letter she wrote to recommend her favorite Bennington teacher Ron Cohen for a teaching award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The letter reveals much of what it was like to be a student with Ron Cohen then and something of the faculty-student mentorship culture that endure today. The letter appears below along with Ron's humble and humorous response. 

Image of Joanna Pousette-Dart art studio In the Studio with Joanna Pousette-Dart '68

Art and Object takes readers behind-the-scenes into the studio of painter Joanna Pousette-Dart '68, who recently exhibited Centering at Lisson Gallery in New York.

Image of Stephen Michael Smith and Brian Stone Bennington Alumni Take Home Two of Three American Prizes

The winners of the 2025 American Prizes in Orchestral Programming have been announced, with Bennington alumni Stephen Michael Smith '72 and Brian Stone '92 claiming two of the three awards.