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Faculty member Mariam Rahmani was the first Scholar-In-Residence at The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu, HI.
Faculty member Dina Janis will lead Labyrinth Theater Company (LAB), the award-winning New York City downtown ensemble devoted to creating member-driven new works, into its 33rd season alongside fellow Co-Artistic Director Neil Tyrone Pritchard.
Bennington College Faculty Emeritus Milford Graves is featured in NOW JAZZ NOW, a new book co-authored by music writer Byron Coley, baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, and iconic Sonic Youth guitarist/singer Thurston Moore.
Former faculty member Paul Feeley's sculptural works are on view in Paul Feeley: The Shape of Things at New York City's Garth Greenan Gallery through Saturday, October 25. The Brooklyn Rail highlighted the exhibition.
Former faculty member Brooke Allen reflected in The New Yorker on her time teaching in Bennington's Prison Education Initiative (PEI), which served incarcerated men at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York.
Bennington College welcomes MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling visiting faculty members.
This fall, Bennington College welcomes four new faculty members: Cristian Amigo, (Sound Recording), Audrey Devost (Psychology), Marios Falaris (Anthropology), and Abe Koogler (Playwriting).
Bennington College faculty members Mariam Ghani and Camille Guthrie were selected for 2025 MacDowell Awards in Film/Video Arts and Literature, respectively.
Jen Liu is a faculty member at Bennington who works primarily in video and painting, whose research-based work often involves collaboration with biologists and programmers to genetically engineer cells, build custom language models, and use dark encryption to hide information within her videos.
Six Bennington College faculty members have been named 2025 Whiting fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, which provides funding for travel that will deepen and expand their teaching and curriculum development.
Faculty members from Bennington College's BFA Dance Lab share their recent awards, accolades, and projects.
Greenwall Auditorium was full to busting when eight performers from Bread + Puppet Theater took the stage on the evening of Thursday, April 3. Students and community members filled the rows of chairs and the balconies along both sides and the back of the room. Students climbed steep ladders to catwalks high above the crowd and let their feet dangle.
Bennington College is excited to announce the launch of its groundbreaking ArtRX program, a pilot initiative designed to explore the transformative power of the arts on mental well-being. Inspired by the growing Social-Prescribing model, this unique program combines community-based arts events with social processing sessions to offer eight students a pathway to better mental health. The work is supported by The Endeavor Foundation as a part of a grant to the Endeavor Lab Colleges.
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Faculty member Mariam Rahmani’s fiction debut, Liquid: A Love Story, has garnered significant attention as a Book of the Month Club selection, one of Oprah Daily’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025, and as an excerpt in New York Magazine.
Bennington College President Laura Walker and the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance Donna Faye Burchfield joined City Cast Philly to discuss how Bennington saved the storied UArts dance program.
The Guardian covered visiting faculty member Maboula Soumahoro, whose invitation to speak as part of a European parliament event discussing equality and inclusion in the workplace was rescinded after attacks by the French far right.
The Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences (VAAS) inducted four new fellows for 2024, including anthropologist and Bennington College faculty member Miroslava (Mirka) Prazak.
Faculty member John Umphlett's latest sculpture, Bit Death; Life; He Blows on Them and They Wither, on view at the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS) at the Bennington Museum through November, takes the form of a cross with angled arms–and is designed, too, for Umphlett's own entombment.
Exhibition reveals the personal collections of Bennington College community members September 17–November 23.
Bennington College documented its observation of 2024 total solar eclipse, including a class about the eclipse with astronomy faculty member Hugh Crowl and a trip north to take students into the center of the path of totality.
On the second Monday before opening night, rehearsal for this term’s faculty production—Sweat by Lynn Nottage—started with a fight. Student actors executed a choreographed-but-believable series of punches and holds. They threw each other across the barroom set while the assistant stage manager and fight captain Tennyson Perkins ’26 took careful notes to deliver to the breathless actors at the end of the scene.
Then they did it again. And again. And again. Each time, they incorporated Perkins’s tweaks, and each time, the action was clearer and cleaner.
Five Questions with Astronomer Hugh Crowl
Hugh Crowl, astronomer and faculty member in astronomy and physics at Bennington, is teaching a class this term all about the total solar eclipse crossing nearby Bennington College on April 8. Bennington will experience a 97-percent eclipse, but the class is traveling north to Plattsburgh, NY, to be in the path of totality.
The Literature discipline at Bennington College has received a grant from the Winston Foundation to fund a new course and reading from 2024 Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer Jia Tolentino.
Susan Sgorbati, director of Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), shared her work with the Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network (TWIN) and their international cooperation to develop a new United Nations convention on conserving the river deltas (UNCCRD) with the Reporter Danielle M. Crosier of the Bennington Banner.
Nicholas Brooke, music faculty member at Bennington College, will bring his creative collaborators to MASS MoCA for a week-long residency culminating in a work-in-progress performance of his latest piece, Ten Transcendental Etudes, on March 1-2. The show will also run at HERE performing arts center in New York City April 4-7.
Bennington College science faculty member Tim Schroeder co-authored a journal article, “Mineral Carbonation of Peridotite Fueled by Magmatic Degassing and Melt Impregnation in an Oceanic Transform Fault,” that was published in the most recent issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Computer Scientist Darcy Otto studies the foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and AI ethics and is starting as a new faculty member in the spring term. He is eager to help students discover how to think like computer scientists and how deep questions connect seemingly disparate areas of study.