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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.
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.
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.
Faculty member Mariam Rahmani’s fiction debut, Liquid: A Love Story, has garnered significant attention as a Book of the Month Club selection, one of Oprah Daily’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025, and as an excerpt in New York Magazine.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the improvisational music genius of the Black Music Division
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.
Bennington students reflect on their winter 2025 Field Work Term experiences, honing and testing classroom knowledge in their independent projects and internships.
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 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.
Projects for Peace has released its 2024 annual view book, highlighting completed projects. Last year, 129 projects from 93 partner institutions were selected. One project was pursued by Bennington College's Hanna Anday '24.
Community Asked to Help in the Face of Recent Halt of Federal Funding
Students and alumni share the ways Bennington has brought more love into their lives.
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.
Cosmo Whyte '03's solo exhibition The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone is currently on view at the Arts Club of Chicago through April 2, 2025.
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.
Will Greer '24 is the Vermont State Representative for Bennington-2 State House District. He reflected on how his education shaped his path forward into politics, where he now advocates for the broader Bennington community.
Andreea Coscai '22 is a marketing lead at Tink Media and the founder and writer of the European podcasting newsletter Eurowaves. She shared how her time at Bennington College shaped her path in audio and podcasting.
Student-driven low-residency model and concentrations in Expressive Arts Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression set the new program apart.
Jessica Smith '23 is a second-year law student at Vermont Law and Graduate School. She reflected upon how her Bennington education prepared her for her professional path.
Elizabeth Richter Zimmer '66 is a freelance writer who has worked in numerous print and digital spheres throughout her career. She shared how her Bennington education prepared her for working in and writing for arts spaces and offers her advice to current Bennington students.
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.
Martha Siegel '72 taught cello at the United Nations International School for fifty years. She shared how her Bennington education and Field Work Term experiences inspired a lifelong passion for teaching music.
Carlos X. Torres de Janon '14 currently lives in Seattle and works as an associate Landscape Designer at MIG, Inc. He shared how his Bennington education taught him to "wear many hats" in design and in life.
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.