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Bennington College students are pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and problem-solving in CUPS: Introduction to Slip Casting and Mold Making.
Lindsey Leggett '27 completed a Field Work Term experience at the Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
A Bennington College team received certificates of appreciation from the State of Vermont for their work analyzing well-testing data in a PFAS contamination zone around former ChemFab Corp. factories in the town of Bennington.
Erin Racklin '26 studies Psychology and Anthropology at Bennington. During the winter, Racklin completed a Field Work Term experience at Resilience, Inc, which provides Social Emotional Learning (SEL) tools to K-12 schools.
Alex Bregy '26 studies Creative Writing and Film at Bennington. During the winter, Bregy completed a Field Work Term experience split between two sites: the Young Writers Project and the DREAM Program.
Shloka Shah '25 studies Drama, with a focus on acting and directing, at Bennington. During the winter, Shah completed a Field Work Term experience as a Creative Development Intern at Roy Kapur Films in Mumbai, India.
Annabelle Lisa '28 studies Drama and Communications at Bennington. During the winter, Lisa completed a Field Work Term experience at Vero Beach Theatre Guild in Vero Beach, FL.
Devan Spiro '27 studies interdisciplinary photojournalism through ethnographic research methodologies and curatorial practices. During the winter, Spiro completed a Field Work Term experience at SoHo Photo Gallery, one of New York City's oldest cooperative nonprofit art gallery spaces.
Jacqueline Walsh '26 studies Politics and Public Action at Bennington, with supplemental focus on Spanish and statistics. During the winter, Walsh completed a Field Work Term experience interning with the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter.
Bennington students reflect on their winter 2025 Field Work Term experiences, honing and testing classroom knowledge in their independent projects and internships.
Zen Spencer '27 has been selected by the Disability Justice and inclusive arts organization Embraced Body as a participant in its new national How We Move program.
Jen Nash '26 transferred to Bennington from Los Angeles Valley College. She shared her favorite experiences studying Drama at Bennington.
Marian Bull, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the fourteenth Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars.
Bennington students who have studied French filmmaker Alice Diop's work in class reflected on their recent opportunity to meet Diop, her editor Amrita David, and her translator Nicholas Elliott ’96 during their visit to campus in November.
Students present at the first International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference in New York.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, six seniors presented their senior theses in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT) to a packed CAPA Symposium.
Julie Gargiulo '27 studies Costume Design at Bennington. She spent her winter Field Work Term in New York interning with local seamstress, Mery Fernandez.
Yami Antonio ’25 studies Psychology and Anthropology at Bennington. She spent her summer Field Work Term in Kuala Lumpur and Penang as a student ethnographic researcher for the Consortium of Forced Migration, Displacement and Education.
In the class Examining Space, taught by Sculpture faculty member John Umphlett, students learned their way around iron forge and the glass studio at the Salem Art Works (SAW), just 25 miles from campus in Salem, New York.
Advanced Animation students reflect on their experiences at the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Over the summer, Annika Owenmark '25 completed a Field Work Term experience at Cal Shakes as the coordinator for the youth summer conservatory.
Over the summer, Roberta Martey '25 completed a Field Work Term internship in Kyoto, Japan, where she worked as an intern on a Social Kitchen project with the Africa Diaspora Network Japan.
At Bennington College, students have the opportunity to expand their education beyond campus by cross enrolling in courses at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Shadan Karimi '25 took advantage of this opportunity to participate in Design for the Pluriverse, a Williams College course dedicated to sustainability and community.
Coco Rohde '26 reflected on her Field Work Term experience at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre.
Constance and Grace, a play by Miriam Campbell '26, was selected for the 2024 New South Young Playwrights Festival at Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta.
Inspired by American democracy and its potential, his faculty members, and his fellow students, Abraar Arpon ’26, who studies Computer Science and Public Action at Bennington, built a website that aims to make voting in the upcoming U.S. presidential election easier for everyone.
At Bennington, Killion Knight '25 studies Drama, along with Creative Writing, Dance, and Philosophy. During the summer, Knight completed a Field Work Term experience at Advocacy Resources, Inc., a nonprofit working to connect queer individuals in need of support to mental and physical health resources.
Raelyn Smith '26 studies industrial-organizational psychology at Bennington, with coursework focusing on a combination of group psychology, social psychology, and political economy. During the summer, Smith completed a Field Work Term experience interning within the human resources department of the National STEM Honor Society.
Krithika Meenakshi '27 studies Performing Arts—including dance, acting, and singing—at Bennington. During summer 2024, Krithika completed a Field Work Term experience as a dance trainee with dancer Ronita Mookerji.
Julius Boxer-Cooper '26 studies Music, Linguistics, and Chinese at Bennington and is currently studying abroad in Taiwan. During summer 2024, Boxer-Cooper completed a Field Work Term experience at Ashé Records.