Field Work Term Sampler

Catherine McGath on her FWT at Projects Abroad (India)

The FWT and Career Development Office has listings for 500–1000 jobs during any given year, which are constantly updated; 40 percent of students choose to create their own jobs, seeking out organizations and businesses that fascinate and excite them. What follows is a sampling of the places where Bennington students have made an impact over the past few years.

• Abby Robinson, New York, NY
• Academy of American Poets, New York, NY
• Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
• American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA
• Austin Circle of Theatres, Austin, TX
• Avena Botanicals, Rockport, ME
• Bearwood Canoe Company, Ontario, Canada
• Beggars Group/Matador Records, New York, NY
• The Biological Field Station, Cooperstown, NY
• Bob Baker Marionette Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
• Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Roslindale, MA
• The Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA
• Buffalo Field Campaign, West Yellowstone, MT
• Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
• Capitol Records, Hollywood, CA
• Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
• Catholic AIDS Action, Windhoek, Nambia
• Cave Paper Inc., Minneapolis, MN
• Chastain Horse Park, LTD, Atlanta, GA
• Children’s Rights Council, Washington, DC
• China Care Foundation, Beijing, China
• City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Albuquerque, NM
• Compas de Nicaragua, Nicaragua
• CondéNast Publications/House & Garden Magazine, New York, NY
• Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
• Cyprus College of Art, Pafos, Cyprus
• Dalton School, New York, NY
• Dance Place, Washington, DC
• Diamond Head Theater, Honolulu, HI
• Democracy for America, South Burlington, VT
• Division of Law Professional Boards Counselling Section, Newark, NJ
• Drawn and Quarterly Publications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Ecosa Institute, Prescott, AZ
• El Instituto Internacional en España, Madrid, Spain
• Eugene Opera, Eugene, OR
• Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Capital Habeas Unit, Philadelphia, PA
• Flaunt, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Eric Corey Freed, organic architect, San Francisco, CA
• Frontier Nursing Service, Wendover, KY
• The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
• Habitat for Humanity, New Orleans, LA
• Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY
• Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA
• Hatchling Studios, Interactive Division, Portsmouth, NH
• Human Rights Watch, New York, NY
• Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guadalajara, Mexico
• International Foundation for Gender Education Waltham, MA
• Island School, Lihue, HI
• Ixtatán Foundation, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
• Lennen Bilingual School, Paris, France
• Jennifer Loomis Photography, Seattle, WA
• Jewish Music Institute, Harrow Middx, United Kingdom
• Jim Henson Company, Hollywood, CA
• L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, CA
• Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY
• Law and Order: Criminal Intent, New York, NY
• Marc Jacobs, New York, NY
• McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach, FL
• McSweeney's Quarterly Journal, San Francisco, CA
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Migrant Education, Region IX, San Marcos, CA
• Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
• MTV Communications, Santa Monica, CA
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• Museum of Science, Boston, MA
• National Economic Research Association, Inc., White Plains, NY
• National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
• NBC, New York, NY
• New York Aquarium, Brooklyn, NY
• New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
• The New York Quarterly, New York, NY
• Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP), Eugene, OR
• Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Boston, MA
• Office of the Manhattan Borough President, New York, NY
• RE/Search Publications, San Francisco, CA
• Reuters Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya
• Sally Dawidoff, writer/editor, New York, NY
• San Francisco Circus Center, San Francisco, CA
• Seventeen magazine, New York, NY
• Shidoni Foundry, Tesuque, NM
• Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, Atlanta, GA
• Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
• Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, NY
• Staatsoper Opera House, Germany
• Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
• Stave Puzzles, Wilder, VT
• Sundance Institute/Film Festival, Park City, UT
• The Boston Herald, Boston, MA
• TOKYOPOP, Los Angeles, CA
• Warner Brothers' Records, Burbank, CA
• WGBH, Boston, MA
• WorldFest-Houston, Houston, TX
• Yale University School of Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, CT
• Yo Gabba Gabba LLC, Brea, CA
• You and Me Puppets, Reading, MA
• Zoo New England, Boston, MA