College News

Image of Kim Cooper Kim Cooper Selected as Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars

Kim Cooper, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the ninth Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars

Image of commons facade Introducing the Bennington Staff Council

A letter to the Bennington Community from the Bennington Staff Council

at the river to quench my burns performance Dance Magazine: Is a Smaller College Dance Program Right for You?

Bennington College has been featured in the Dance Magazine article, "Is a Smaller College Dance Program Right for You?"

whiting award bennington review Bennington Review Wins 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize

The Bennington Review has been awarded the 2022 Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize.

Image of keep abortion legal billboard A Message on Roe v. Wade

On June 24, 2022, Bennington College President Laura Walker sent the Bennington Community the following message regarding the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Image of Bennington Commons Lisa Noble Named Associate Dean of Career Development and Field Work Term

Bennington College College President Laura Walker announced that Lisa Noble has been appointed as Associate Dean of Career Development and Field Work Term.

Image of Juneteenth header Resources for Juneteenth

Learn more about Juneteenth, the day that the US Army freed enslaved people in Texas, ending slavery in the Confederate States.

Image of painting Bennington College Receives Donation of Hans Hofmann Painting from Legendary Television Writer/Producer Norman Lear

Bennington College announced that it has received a major gift of art from renowned television and film writer and producer Norman Lear to benefit its Art for Access program.

Windham Foundation Logo Robert Frost Stone House Museum Receives Windham Foundation Grant

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College has been awarded funding from the Windham Foundation to support its upcoming season of public programs, including special programming in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” which was written in 1922 while Frost was living at the Stone House.

 

 

Commons at dusk Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Jericho Brown to Deliver 2022 Commencement Address

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2022. The faculty speaker will be Elena Demyanenko, faculty member in dance. The senior student speaker will be Sofia Pacheco Pardo '22.