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An interview with composer and writer Sarah Gancher ’01 conducted and transcribed by Erin Mann ’28 and Lara Pascoe.
Pril Smiley ’65 reflects upon her experience at Bennington College, career as a composer, and her multi-faceted life.
Free virtual writing series offers prompts and prizes ahead of Young Writers Awards
Reshavan Naicker '22 is an emerging visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Brad Jacobs '77 Is Betting $900 Million on an $800 Billion Industry Tech Left Behind
How students and faculty brought art to the U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai.
A new study by physicist and visiting faculty member Dor Ben-Amotz '76, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), sheds new light on what dark matter is made of—and suggests that some of the universe's smallest galaxies may be hiding massive black holes at their centers.
When Rafe Churchill ’91 starts talking about Bennington, people unfamiliar with the College’s all-consuming nature sometimes ask, “what is it with you and that place?”
Juhee Kim '29 studies Politics, Political Economics, and Conflict Studies at Bennington College. For her summer 2026 Field Work Term, Kim is an intern for Bush Radio 89.5 FM, Africa's oldest community radio station, as part of the Tilting Futures Program.
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.
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.
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 Shards by Bret Easton Ellis '86 finds its streaming home on FX. The series will debut on August 5.
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.
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.
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.
