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Audre Wirtanen '16 and L. Tuthall, co-founders of Hyp+Access, a disability-led nonprofit organization, spoke to Newsweek about the organization's effort to become a regulated health care facility, which would offer a more holistic model of care influenced by the lived reality of patients with conditions spanning multiple organ systems.

Jonathan Lethem '86 explores Harry Dean Stanton's performance in Straight Time (1978) for The Criterion Collection.

Less Than Zero, the debut novel by Bret Easton Ellis '86, published while he was a student at Bennington, is Vogue's next book club pick.

Sasha Cucciniello '01, artistic director of Telluride Theatre, and Jim Cairl '98, director of the company's Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V, spoke to the Telluride News about their collaboration.

The greatest prize of all is a life you love.

At Commons Dining Hall, Chef Josh Ruff uses produce grown at the campus’s Purple Carrot Farm. In this interview, he talks about how using the “localest” of local produce changes the menu and the vibe.

Dr. Caitlin Orner '11 spoke to GM Today about how her training in Dance and Chemistry at Bennington College has influenced her career in orthopedic surgery.

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis '86 finds its streaming home on FX. The series will debut on August 5.

Lauren Hunter-Venables '29 studies Film and Theater at Bennington College. For her summer 2026 Field Work Term, Hunter-Venables is a Vermont Film and Folklore Festival Intern at the Bennington Theater.

Rivera Sun '04 joined an episode of Clearing the FOG podcast, discussing how violence derailed the United States independence movement and ultimately contributed to creating the U.S. empire.

Learning to Channel Ambition

Midad Alkhafaji '28 studies Architecture, Design, and Sustainability at Bennington. For her summer 2026 Field Work Term, Alkhafaji is an architectural intern at Goldstone Architecture in Bennington, VT.

On July 1, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) visited Bennington College's Purple Carrot Farm to celebrate the success of the HUD grant and to speak with local community members about current issues.

Olivia Gerber '15, an MFA student in nonfiction, has been selected to be the seventeenth Residential Teaching Fellow at the Bennington Writing Seminars.

August Schnell ’26, from Minnesota, was attracted to Bennington for the ability to work across disciplines, specifically Public Health and Environmental Science. They ended up doing deep longterm work on the environmental contaminant PFAS and opening themselves up to intersecting studies in Political Science and Data Science.

Sofia Alvarez '07 will direct, adapt the screenplay, and co-executive produce the adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's bestselling novel Love, Theoretically for Amazon MGM Studios.

On the evening of Monday, May 18, more than 100 Bennington students and faculty packed the CAPA Symposium to hear 13 seniors present their Advanced Work in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT).

Welcome to the Fishbowl, directed and written by Sheryl Glubok MFA ’05, premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival.

On Saturday, May 23, 2026, three advanced architecture/design students presented their thesis projects.

Bennington students present at conferences across the northeast.

"A Green Thought in a Green Shade: Paint As an Expression of Movement and Biology," an article by Gracie Yaconelli '26 about a painting by Helen Frankenthaler '49, has been published by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on Nowscape, an online publication dedicated to sharing news and research supported by the Foundation’s educational initiatives.

Reshavan Naicker '22 is an emerging visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In Tidings of Magpies, Jasmin Darznik MFA '14 reflects on finding a portrait of her grandmother from 1960s Iran. 

The New York Almanack highlighted artist Caitlin Roben ’07 and her driftwood sculptures.

Katie Hibner ’20 trained Mexico City Police for the FIFA World Cup for the U.S. Department of State Virtual English Language Educator Program.

In-Between Country,” a poem by Alysse Kathleen McCanna MFA ’15, was featured on High Plains Public Radio’s program Poets on the Plains. 

More than 100 attendees participated in Bennington College’s first Bon Dance Festival on May 3.

The vibrant blue program audience members picked up from a music stand inside Greenwall Auditorium at The Bennington Balkan Ensemble concert last Wednesday night could not reveal the rich cultural experience in store.

Nothing exemplifies the Bennington educational experience like Plan Day.

Tom Sachs: Furniture is on view at New York City's Studio 94 through June 20.