Donald Sherefkin: Related Content

by Joseph Murray

In 1929, Bennington College was slated to look like Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia. The Boston firm Ames and Dodge had drafted an elegant colonial quadrangle for “the serious education of women,” centered around a grand lawn. Then the stock market crashed. The plans were shelved, and the young institution instead accepted the donation of 140 acres of working farmland outside town on what had been the Jennings Estate. Out of financial necessity, cow barns, chicken coops, and carriage houses were adapted to meet the needs of the young College.

If Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) architect Robertson Ward could have walked into the Usdan Gallery at 3:00 pm on Monday, October 12, he would have smiled. 

Exhibition considers the history and future of Bennington College’s iconic Visual and Performing Arts Center.

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty and staff offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

Lorena Fernandez Camba '25 studies Architecture and Drama at Bennington. She reflected upon her advanced work, favorite faculty member, and notable Field Work Term experiences.

Carlos X. Torres de Janon '14 currently lives in Seattle and works as an associate Landscape Designer at MIG, Inc. He shared how his Bennington education taught him to "wear many hats" in design and in life.

The Adaptive Framework 

by Ashley Brenon Jowett

Exhibition reveals the personal collections of Bennington College community members September 17–November 23. 

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty and staff offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

2019 will be an exciting year of transition across Bennington College’s campus.

Bennington’s College campus is known as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country. Now, the College has adopted an innovative and creative planning framework to guide change. The development of the framework and the resulting report are a reflection of Bennington College’s willingness to do things differently.

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty, staff, and students offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.