Faculty News

Dina Janis and Kirk Jackson were awarded grants from the Vermont Arts Endowment Fund for their upcoming work on a Dorset Theatre production and a one-man-show, respectively. 

Yoko Inoue's class addresses issues of hunger in the town of Bennington through public action, and fosters a new environment in which community between residents and students can develop. 

Following an article about Bennington’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), the Glens Falls Post-Star published an editorial calling the program “a model for inmate education.” The editorial cited US incarceration rates and argued “We cannot afford to write off that many people.”

Christopher Lewis and Yoshiko Sato were featured in the Berkshire Eagle for their Beethoven Sonata Concert Series, which presents its third and fourth installments this fall. The third concert took place at 4:00 pm on Saturday, August 27 at Park McCullough House. The fourth concert will take place on November 2, in the Deane Carriage Barn at 8:00 pm as part of the Carriage Barn Concert Series. These events are free and open to the public. The two aim to perform the complete sonata series over the course of the few next years.

Lady Day, the newest production from the Dorset Theatre Festival, directed by Dina Janis and with lighting design by Michael Giannitti, recently received an enthusiastic review in The Berkshire Bright Focus. The review praised both Janis and Giannitti's work, calling the show "as perfect a production, as keen a realization as any I've seen and will ever see."