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Students walking by reportedly, "Feel fine."
Project is the first among several health and well-being initiatives funded by The Endeavor Foundation
From March 21–22, Bennington College celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the College’s influential, improvisational Black Music Division with a symposium of events, history, and music surrounding the 1974 beginnings of the groundbreaking program.
Nine students from high schools around the country and the world were selected as winners of Bennington College’s 2024-2025 Young Writers Awards.
Bennington College Celebrates Bennington Aces’ “Chapter of the Year” Recognition
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the improvisational music genius of the Black Music Division
Bennington College announces the launch of a brand-new college admissions application round for prospective students: Late Decision. This new admissions round responds to the evolving needs of prospective students navigating their college search in a remarkable time.
Community Asked to Help in the Face of Recent Halt of Federal Funding
Highly Accomplished Group of Admitted Students Form the Foundation for the Class of 2029
In celebration of Black History Month, Bennington College is compiling a spotlight of the community's favorite Black authors and favorite books by Black authors.
Student-driven low-residency model and concentrations in Expressive Arts Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression set the new program apart.
Nine Bennington College students–the largest cohort to date–have been selected as Frankenthaler Fellows for the 2025 Museum Fellows Term, a study-away program that provides participants with practical, professional art world internship experience working at a major cultural institution in New York City for five months.
Bennington College is pleased to announce it has been recommended for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The award will help fund the production of Bennington Review, a literary journal housed at Bennington College.
Writer and medical technology executive Ciaran Cooper ’87 MFA ’04 has been elected to join the Bennington College Board of Trustees.
Thirty-six Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2025 Field Work Term.
As we look forward to 2025 and reflect on the past year, celebrate all that Bennington College has accomplished with the 5 most-read stories from 2024.
A remarkable merger with University of the Arts dance. A class devoted to strengthening democratic discourse. Literary luminaries like journalist Michael Pollan '76 and poet and memoirist Safiya Sinclair '10 returning to meet students and families.
2024 brought notable alumni and artists back to campus and brought Bennington's aesthetic and influence to the world.
Dance Magazine highlighted the 36 BFA students, 20 continuing low-residency MFA students, and 13 faculty members from University of the Arts who have merged into Bennington College.
Bennington College is the only college Michael Pollan ’76 applied to. Pollan’s mother had attended Bennington in the fifties, and he remembered reading through her college papers, which were kept in the attic of his childhood home, and thinking about how extraordinary it was to have been taught, as she was, by poet Howard Nemerov and literary critic Kenneth Burke.
by Laura Walker
“The largest life lesson I got from attending Bennington was the sense of possibility,” said Brian Rogers ’95, cofounder of The Chocolate Factory Theater, an innovative space built by and for artists, in Long Island City. He can’t imagine making a career as innovative as his “had it not been for the Bennington experience.” (Read more on page 28.) So many of you echo that sentiment. Today, I am writing to ask you to translate those feelings into support for Bennington.
On Friday, October 25, Bennington College will host a Podcast Symposium for students, podcasters, writers, journalists, and anyone interested in learning about podcasting.
Classroom experience, public action, college theater, environmentalism, and LGBTQ friendliness set Bennington apart.
Poetry at Bennington, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to Bennington College for public readings and close work with students, has announced its Fall 2024 lineup of featured poets. All Poetry at Bennington events are free and open to the public. They take place in various locations on the College’s campus.
Housekeeper Michele Hurley is one of eleven children born and raised in Bennington. She started working at the College in the Fall of 1979, and four of her siblings—Mike, Nick, Jenny, and Tim—have all graced the staff roster at various times from the seventies through today. We sat down with her in Commons to learn more about her remarkable contributions over the last 44 years and counting.
Almost a century ago, under the looming threat of fascism, Franklin D. Roosevelt warned Americans about global conflicts pitting representative governments founded on individual liberty against emerging fascist dictatorships. Reflecting on John Dewey’s progressive education philosophy, FDR said, “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
Bennington, VT: Two Bennington alumni, both entrepreneurial leaders, have been elected to join the Bennington College Board of Trustees. They are Bryn Mooser ’01 and Eddie Ubell ’09.
The Dance and Drama programs at Bennington College are pleased to welcome director and artist Robert Wilson for a lecture and performance 7:00–9:00 pm Friday, September 20, at the Martha Hill Dance Theater in the campus’s Visual and Performing Arts Center. The New York Times has described Wilson as "[America]'s—or even the world's—foremost vanguard 'theater artist.'” The event is free and open to the public thanks to funding from the Peter Drucker Fund for Excellence and Innovation.