Visual Arts: Related Content
![For Freedoms](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/For-Freedoms300x225.jpg?itok=AEVTXP46)
As part of Usdan Gallery’s participation in the For Freedoms/50 States initiative, Art New England highlighted the related work that director and curator Anne Thompson, artist Torkwase Dyson, and Bennington College students are pursuing.
![Nicole Donnelly](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Nicole-Donnelly3000x225.jpg?itok=e9bvLpet)
Nicole Donnelly '02 is combining her painting and papermaking skills with ecological and environmental awareness for her new public art installation in South Philadelphia's Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park.
![Asad Malik](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Asad-Malik-VR300x225.png?itok=34TnIK6x)
AdWeek selected Asad Malik '19 as one of its 2018 Young Influentials, a selective group of 31 media, marketing, and tech talents who are innovating in fields from AR to Activism, Data to Diversity.
![RYOT](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/ryot-innovation-studio300x225.jpg?itok=vnajB0EG)
RYOT, an immersive entertainment studio founded by Bryn Mooser '01, is opening up a physical studio space with a focus on cutting-edge media production technologies this fall.
![Monuments](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Monuments300x225.jpg?itok=IAq0HbLW)
Shortly after sculpture Maren Hassinger ’69 finished graduate school, she sat in her studio in Los Angeles and set the tone for her future.
![Team Gallery Exhibition](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Team-Gallery300x225.jpg?itok=38c1Lcz1)
Ann Pibal's exhibition LUXTC is on display at Team (bungalow) from June 24 to August 5, 2018. Team (bungalow) is located at 306 Windward Avenue in Venice, CA.
![Shires of Vermont](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Shires_of_Vermont300x225.jpg?itok=XudYZxbM)
President Mariko Silver and faculty members Anne Thompson, director and curator of the Usdan Gallery; Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of special programming and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum; and Dina Janis, artistic director of the Dorset Theatre Festival; spoke with the Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce about the region's arts landscape.
![Cosmo Whyte](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/CosmoWyhte300x225.jpg?itok=v87AruhH)
Cosmo Whyte '05 has been named a winner of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia's 2018-19 Working Artist Project Fellowship, along with artists Myra Greene and Krista Clark.
![Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/counternaratives-300x225.jpg?itok=D_bc0MaG)
October 9–December 15, 2017
Alexandra Bell is known for her “Counternarratives” project of supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender. Usually posted one work at a time around everyday locations in New York City, her “Counternarratives” prints appeared at Bennington as a series of four installed on building exteriors around campus.
![Resisting the Stitch](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Resisting-the-stitch300x225.jpg?itok=xvF-UIv7)
When students in Richard MacPike’s Resisting the Stitch unwrapped the silk scarves they had dyed using arashi and itajime techniques, they were surprised by the results they found.
![Soup Recipe](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/for-any_soup_full_300x225.jpg?itok=C8egvaEv)
How can food capture what makes a community distinctive? As a graduating senior studying Visual Arts, Public Action, and Dance, Isabella Poulos ’18 has devoted her time at Bennington to studying the intersection of food, art, and community.
![Terminal 3](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/terminal-3_asad-j-malik_300x225.jpg?itok=slLdEnzS)
"The next passenger should be coming in for secondary screening any moment now. You know the drill. Don’t take too long.”
![Animation in a Created World](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Animation%20in%20Created%20World%20300x225.jpg?itok=GovOl-Sd)
Minuscule fish, dogs, sunrises, and more have taken over unoccupied mailbox spaces in the Barn’s administrative office.
![Big Blue Circle Installation](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Big%20Blue%20Installation%20300x225.jpg?itok=4yPg-KlR)
On March 2, students from Josh Blackwell’s Intermediate Painting class installed Alexander Liberman’s Big Blue Circle outside of the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery.
![Art and Authority](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/gover_hb%20300x225.jpg?itok=-AhONwYn)
If Picasso doodled on a napkin, contemporary art lovers and critics alike would probably scrutinize it for signs of genius.
![Roots and Uprooting Gabriela Yadegari '21](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/polychrome-mag-background_300x225.jpg?itok=3t8w4kR_)
In a culture inundated with digital content, a print magazine might seem like an unusual focus for a new publication. However, Polychrome Mag., the first issue of which will be released in March, is a self-proclaimed iconoclast. Culture Editor Gabriela Yadegari ’21 is among Polychrome’s six founding collaborators, who will use the magazine to showcase creative people of color, reshaping how mainstream media and audiences view them and their work.
![Photograph by Sally Mann](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Sally%20Mann_A%20thousand%20Crossings.jpg?itok=HiuU_0nv)
The first major survey of celebrated photographer Sally Mann '73 to travel internationally investigates how Mann's relationship with her native land–a place rich in literary and artistic traditions but troubled by history–has shaped her work.
![Stanley Rosen](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/stanley_rosen.jpg?itok=n2adF_G0)
For her feature story in Ceramics Monthly about the influential work of Stanley Rosen, who taught generations of ceramics students at Bennington, philosophy faculty member Karen Gover interviewed one of Rosen’s former students, Josh Green ’81, executive director of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).
![students looking at the show in usdan gallery](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/MabeyJacqueline_Utopia-300x225.jpg?itok=FutKwS0M)
The Journal of Feminist Scholarship published an essay on curator Jacquline Mabey titled "Not Mine Alone, Nor Mine to Own: Some Reflections on the Young Girl."
![Image from the project - hologram overlay](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/holograms-from-syria_300x225.jpg?itok=v6u1Jm7Y)
Hyperallergic featured an article on work by artist Asad Malik ’19, who uses holograms to bring the Syrian conflict into everyday spaces.
![Jovita in the newsroom giving a thumbs-up to the camera](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/jovita_300x225.jpg?itok=i6k2Iwdn)
WSB-TV Action News anchor Jovita Moore ’89 was recently inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Southeast Chapter's Silver Circle, one of NATAS' most prestigious career awards for broadcast television.
![Olympic Threat](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Olympic%2BThreat_Sincerely%2BTommy_2017.01.jpg?itok=zDoUBOLt)
Bennington College presents an exhibition and lecture by critically acclaimed media artist Alexandra Bell. Bell is known for her “Counternarratives” project of supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender. Usually posted one work at a time around everyday locations in New York City, her “Counternarratives” prints will appear at Bennington as a series of four installed on building exteriors around campus.
![outside view of VAPA in the fall](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/vapa-fall_330x225.jpg?itok=GCK44n1E)
An exhibition of artist books by renowned publisher and book artist Gunnar Kaldewey opens with a reception on Tuesday, September 19, at 6:30-7:30 PM in Usdan Gallery. The exhibition, Gunnar Kaldewey Artist Books 2011-2017 marks the opening of the 2017-18 season.
![Image of the certificate](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Jon-Isherwood-Citizenship_300x225.jpg?itok=0Xxcru-q)
The City Council of Minucciano, Italy, has named faculty member Jon Isherwood an Honorary Citizen in recognition of his work promoting the region through an art and technology initiative he’s been leading for the past five years.
![The I-70 Sign Show](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/I70%20sign%20show.jpg?itok=rq1_PXR_)
Anne Thompson, director of Bennington’s Usdan Gallery, was interviewed on KCRW Radio about her public art exhibition, the I-70 Sign Show, which displays works of contemporary art on surplus interstate billboards along 250 miles between St. Louis and Kansas City.
![Three Bridges, Eight Hundred Steps](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/musco-three-bridges_300x225.jpg?itok=bWBvInju)
Lydia Musco ’01 installed a concrete outdoor sculpture on August 16 and 17 on the lawn between VAPA and the back of the Barn. Incoming director of Usdan Gallery, Anne Thompson, asked her about the piece in the following Q & A.
![Netflix: On Set and in the Writers’ Room image](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/17198940389_49df87ee42_b_1200px.jpg?itok=sbeqpHBu)
They put words in actors’ mouths. They move scenes seamlessly. They design iconic sets. Alums at Netflix develop the shows you can’t help but binge watch—and you likely didn’t know their names or how they do what they do, until now. By Sarah McAbee ’07
A new show at Usdan Gallery opens June 28. Vital Curiosity draws connections with other exhibitions in the region this summer, and marks the arrival of a new director and curator for the gallery.