VALS—Spring 2021

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance classroom activities of various disciplines in the visual arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art, these thematically connected presentations will build on each other, offering students the opportunity to explore ideas from multiple perspectives over the course of the term. The theme for this term is: Race, Representation, and Contemporary Art in the Age of Black Lives Matter. 

Race, Representation, and Contemporary Art in the Age of Black Lives Matter is a discursive framework for conversations with historians and artists whose work is deeply invested in questions of (political) representation, race, sexuality, gender, and class within the anti-racist praxes and historical and cultural awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Events are free and open to the public. This term, lectures will be held over Zoom on Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8:00 PM. Please see below for specific dates.