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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bennington College alumni are publishing novels, memoirs, short story, non-fiction, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this winter.
Writer and medical technology executive Ciaran Cooper ’87 MFA ’04 has been elected to join the Bennington College Board of Trustees.
Bennington alumni shared their professional and personal accomplishments in 2024 and their goals and hopes for 2025.
Thirty-seven Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2025 Field Work Term.
Abby Neale '13 is a teaching artist in Boston public schools. They shared how their Bennington education has supported them through their career path.
Nancy Halverson Melvin '76 is a teaching artist who designs and produces clothing, teaches after-school enrichment classes in painting and handwork for children through adults at the Chicago Branch of the Anthroposophical Society, and documents her work with short videos. She shared how her Bennington education started her long and fruitful artistic career.
Alli Poirot '02 MAT '03 is in her 21st year as an educator and is currently teaching International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) History at Dwight School in New York City. She shared how her Bennington education and supportive faculty members inspired and shaped her own career path.
Marian Bull, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the fourteenth Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars.
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.
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.
Advanced Animation students reflect on their experiences at the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival.