From the Outside In
After an accident left him paralyzed at 42, August de los Reyes ’95, head of research and design at Pinterest, gained a valuable perspective that would reorient the focus of his work and challenge the paradigms of 21st-century design. By Brian Davidson
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.
International civil rights lawyer Gay Johnson McDougall ’69 and the story behind what it took to free South Africa from apartheid rule. By Jeva Lange ’15.
More and more employers are looking for internships on students’ resumes, and more and more colleges are requiring them as part of an education. But with so many internships unpaid, can students afford to do them? By Michael Blanding
Gail Hirschorn Evans ’63 worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon Johnson administration and was instrumental in the creation of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Decades later she is still challenging our biases. By Jeva Lange ’15
On the value of a Bennington intern, as told by the people who hire them.
Two classes, one big assignment: exhibit, catalogue, and archive black lives at Bennington in a multimedia performance exhibition in Usdan Gallery by Briee Della Rocca.
Alumni come back to campus throughout the year but in the last several years more alumni are returning to campus through programs the College has developed. These are some of the avenues alumni have used to come back.
“Mogelson gives a nuanced, empathetic look into lives irrevocably altered by conflicts.” The Nation
“Terrifically auspicious...Ms. Greenidge has charted an ambitious course for a book that begins so mock-innocently.” The New York Times
“[An] astute, restless debut...The novel glows with the malaise of the Bush years.” The New Yorker
“Her book exposes and implodes...façades.” People
“[Williams] sings for the vanished, for the haunted, for the tortured, for the lost, for the place on the horizon where the little boat of the human body disappears in a wingdom of unending grace.” The Best American Poetry
“Rich and mythic, heavy with the legacy of family and history, many of Safiya Sinclair’s poems are inspired by her childhood in Jamaica; a richness and density in the imagery conveys a lush beauty and danger...” 2016 Whiting Award Selection Committee
Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Amy Hempel was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters for literature in May.
Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Kaitlyn Greenidge won a Whiting Award for her debut novel, “We Love You, Charlie Freeman.” Whiting Foundation
Poetry Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Kathleen Graber won the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Visiting Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Phillip B. Williams won a Whiting Award for his debut poetry collection, “Thief in the Interior.” Whiting Foundation
Lee Clay Johnson ’07 was honored with the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Amber Caron MFA ’16 won a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her story “The Handler,” which was originally published in Southwest Review.