Event Calendar

Students, meet with alumni in the FWT Office to have your digital portfolio and/or interviewing skills critiqued.

Several small music installations throughout Jennings: a composer’s installation featuring former faculty Vivian Fine and alumnae composers Betsy Jolas ’46, Joan Tower ’61, and Elizabeth Swados ’73; an exhibition by faculty Nick Brooke on electronic music including alumni Pril Smiley ’65; and an installation on the Black Music program created by faculty member Karthik Pandian and students.

With student guide.
Tour of the campus focusing on Bennington’s award-winning new and renovated spaces.

Drawn from the archives, this installation features black and white photographs from the 1930s of the Bennington Dance program.

An exhibition featuring the work of seven alumni artists who studied at Bennington from the 1940s up to VAPA’s opening in 1976. The show takes as its starting point the College’s longstanding attention to the language and possibilities of abstraction.

Videotaped performances from The Emergent Improvisation Project National Performance Network Tour (2006), which were recorded at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, Bennington College, and the Flynn Theater. On view continuously throughout the day. #VAPA40

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us in welcoming Alumi Naima Starkloff ’15 and Erick Daniszewski ’14 back to Bennington. Naima will discuss Digging Deeper into Bird Diversity, and Erick will discuss Building a Distributed Datacenter Operating System.

Tour of the student-run garden and farm led by student guides and members of the Bennington Sustainable Food Project.

With guest teacher Jaamil Olawale Kosoko ’05 This beginning dance technique class requires no previous dance training and investigates and explores our bodies as tools for making work. #VAPA40

With CAPA faculty member Erika Mijlin
In the midst of the heat and noise of an election season, we will pursue an inquiry into the deeply entangled, complicit, and often conflicted role of media in a democratic society.

With anthropology faculty member Mirka Prazak In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues.

With music faculty member Allen Shawn
This class explores and reviews notation and the rudiments of music through the act of composing small pieces for a variety of instruments.

With 3D Technician Michael Stradley

Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course covers a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling.

With architecture faculty member Donald Sherefkin
Tour of the campus focusing on Bennington’s award-winning new and renovated spaces.

Ian Dolton-Thornton ’11 will lead visitors in how to use the equipment in the Word and Image Lab to customize and bind their own copies of a brand new publication about the history of the Visual and Performing Arts center (VAPA).

Bennington Review, a national print literary magazine founded in 1966 by Laurence Hyman ’64, and then revived by editors Robert Boyers and Nicholas Delbanco in the 70s and 80s, is back after a 30-year hiatus. Laurence Hyman will be joined by past editors Robert Boyers, Peg Boyers and Alex Brown ’74, and current editor Michael Dumanis, in a discussion moderated by current managing editor Chelsea Hodson MFA ’17 about the past, present, and future of the magazine. The discussion will be followed by a reception, featuring readings by current students, James Allen Hall MFA ’00, and former Literature faculty member and current MFA faculty member April Bernard.

Tour of the student-run garden and farm led by student guides and members of the Bennington Sustainable Food Project.

Visiting visual arts faculty member Colin Brant will lead current students and families in an open live model life drawing class. Supplies and materials will be provided. No prior experience necessary. Note: There will be a live nude model at this session. Event location: VAPA B210

Bennington Review, a national print literary magazine founded in 1966 by Laurence Hyman ’64, and then revived by editors Robert Boyers and Nicholas Delbanco in the 70s and 80s, is back after a 30-year hiatus. Laurence Hyman will be joined by past editors Robert Boyers, Peg Boyers and Alex Brown ’74, and current editor Michael Dumanis, in a discussion moderated by current managing editor Chelsea Hodson MFA ’17 about the past, present, and future of the magazine. The discussion will be followed by a reception, featuring readings by current students, James Allen Hall MFA ’00, and former Literature faculty member and current MFA faculty member April Bernard.

Curated by five recent alumni, this show will include alumni and student work. Curated by: Marina Allen ’16, Fae Blackmer ’16, Olivia Brooks ’16, Duncan Bullen ’16, and Tayler Jones ’16. The event will take place at Sage Street Mill, North Bennington.

A kickoff reception for Reunion and Family Weekend and celebration of the relaunch of the literary journal with readings from former literature faculty member and current MFA faculty member April Bernard, James Allen Hall MFA ’00, and current students.

The opening of Sit Still with a Presence will coincide with the relaunch of the Bennington Review. Exhibition is curated by Paige K. Johnston and features the work of Cora Cohen ’64, Helen Frankenthaler ’49, Elana Herzog ’76, Patricia Johanson ’62, Constance McMillan ’46, Jo Ann Rothschild ’71, and Grace Bakst Wapner ’55.

Led by John Umphlett MFA ’99. This inflatable, experimental space was developed by the Field of Research of Closed Cells class, and will be illuminated by the projection of an eye. The event will take place at College Drive.

As dinner is not provided, take this opportunity to explore restaurants in town; suggestions for local businesses are provided in the downtown guide, and list of weekend discounts in your packet. Please enjoy the many restaurants in North Bennington, Bennington, and the surrounding Southern Vermont area.

Enjoy a bonfire with student organization Bennington Connects, who aim to provide a platform for all students to facilitate dialogue on emerging global and local issues.

Join Sam Clement '08, Nathaniel Reichman '98, and faculty member Nick Brooke for an engaging conversation on charting various kinds of paths in the music world.

Bill Scully ’94 will offer brief tours of the Vermont Tissue Hydroelectric Redevelopment, an environmentally groundbreaking project, the only hydroelectric plant in the country that improves water quality while harnessing a renewable resource. Right next door, sample complimentary spirits and have a signature cocktail (cash bar) such as the “End of the World,” “Secret Garden,” “Jennings and Tonic,” and “VAPA40” from the new distillery in town.
The event will take place at Spirits of Old Bennington Distillery + Vermont Tissue Hydroelectric Redevelopment, Route 67A, North Bennington.

Join Cori Olinghouse ’01, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko ’05, and faculty member Terry Creach to discuss launching your life’s work in the post-graduation world of dance.

Join Sam Clement ’08, Nathaniel Reichman ’98, and faculty member Nick Brooke for an engaging conversation on charting various kinds of paths in the music world.

Discussion of the process of independent filmmaking from funding, to casting, and distribution with SJ Chiro ’87, Debra Eisenstadt ’91, Brian Katz ’92, and Maria Rosenblum ’91, moderated by film/video faculty member Kate Purdie. An excerpt from Chiro’s upcoming film, Lane 1974 will be shown. Eisenstadt’s feature, Before the Sun Explodes, will be shown Saturday evening.

Discussion of the process of independent filmmaking from funding, to casting, and distribution with SJ Chiro ’87, Debra Eisenstadt ’91, Brian Katz ’92, and Maria Rosenblum ’91, moderated by film/video faculty member Kate Purdie. An excerpt from Chiro’s upcoming film Lane 1974 will be shown. Eisenstadt’s feature, Before the Sun Explodes, will be shown Saturday evening.

An open mic for alumni and current students, MC’d and facilitated by the Bennington Songwriters Circle. All talents welcomed! Sign-up begins at 8:00pm.

The Nektones are a Soul/R&B quintet with a musical palette defined by the landscape of the North East Kingdom of Vermont. With Matt Scott ’06, Sam Clement ’08, Nathanael Reynolds, Micha Carbonneau, and Peter Krag.

Uni  Ika  Ai (pronounced: oo-nee ee-kuh eye) is a new Brooklyn-based dream-pop band comprised of music veterans Maia Friedman ’09 (Bobby, Toebow), Peter Lalish (Lucius, Elizabeth & The Catapult), Tom Deis (Via Audio), and Dan Drohan.

Alumni gathering at Pangaea Lounge, North Bennington, hosted by Milestone Reunion Classes.